A boy who lived on the twenty-first storey used to go down in the lift each morning to go to school and when he came home he would take the lift up to the tenth floor and walk the rest. Why? NEXT > by
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Common Phrases Quiz
Here’s a quiz for children and young people that you use any time of the year. How many phrases, nursery rhymes or books can you recognise from just the first letter of each word? e.g. “7 D in a W” would be 7...
Sit down if you…
Simple game, get everybody to stand up at the start (put their hand up or some other way of signalling if they have disability). Then proceed to ask a series of questions. If any of the audience can say yes, they remain standing… Useful way to whittle down and...
Noisy Story Game
In advance: Write a story that incorporates as many sounds as possible. Play: For each sound used in the story arrange to have a group of children make that sound. As the story is read out each group makes his or her noise as the appropriate moment. Telling a...
Imagination
You’ll need a variety of different household items, etc Presenting one prop at time either have Each player use their imagination and act out as many alternative ideas for the prop they have been given, Pass the same object around players in a circle and see what each player...
Heads Down, Thumbs Up (for audiences)
Requires 3 children/players to be able to move around among the other children. So not suited for audiatoriums where seats are close to each other and little room for movement between those seated. 3 or 4 players are selected and stand to one side or one the stage. On...
Zig Zag Ball
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 2 teams each with a ball. Teams stand in two lines so that opposing team members are spaced alternately down the line. Second line is parallel to first, but starts with a member...
ib-dib
Came across this game at a children’s party the other day and picked a suitable name at random for it. It’s sort of a cross between the game NEWS and the game Runaround (used in the old children’s TV gameshow Runaround of the same name). You can either decide...
Bash ball
A lot of fun and used to be a youth club favourite. Needs a fair number of players to make it work though (minimum 8?). The maximum number of players is more or less determined by what space you have and how far players can roll or punch the...
Simon Says…
An old one, very simple, but still good to have up your sleeve, that I was reminded off at football training today. It’s a nice one for parties and works better for younger children, but older children/teenagers will probably appreciate the more challenging variations. Nominate one person to be...