Clothes Pin Seven-Ups
Give each person 7 clothes pins. On ‘go’ each person must get rid of their clothes pins by pinning them on someone else. Only one pin per person The game continues for about 5 mins, or more depending on how much fun you’re having.
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Pigs Fly
The children should stand in a group facing the leader. Each child should have enough room to make full flapping movements with their arms. The leader calls out Ducks Fly , Owls Fly , Pigs Fly …and so on. If the animal that is called out really does fly, the children should continue flapping their wings . If the anilmal is the type that does not fly, then the children should stop flapping.
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Silly Symphony
The purpose of this game is to discover the beautiful sounds that can be created by the natural objects in our environment.
Each player is given 10- 15 minutes to find objects in nature that make a noise when banged together, or blown on, or rubbed together. Players bring back their ‘instruments’ and a conductor is chosen, who organizes the group into a semi -circular orchestra.
Each musician is allowed to ‘tune’ his instrument, so the rest of the group can hear the different sounds. If a player can play more than one instrument at the same time, he is welcome to do so. The conductor can then choose a familiar tune with an easy rhythm, and lead his orchestra in song. Let the players make requests for songs they would like to play;
give musicians the opportunity to work on ’solos’ that they can perform for everyone.
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Balloon Baseball
Players are divided into two teams. Each team designates a pitcher who pitches to his own team. Each batter gets two pitches to hit a balloon with his fist. If the ball is hit, the fielding team tries to blow the balloon to the ground before the batter runs around the bases. If they do not, a run is scored. Play continues until everyone on the batting team has been up to bat . Then, the inning is over and teams switch places. The game continues for a specified number of innings.
