The genesis of this collection of games is a luncheon conversation that took place at the 1997 Avatar Wizards Course in Orlando. Wim van den Brink, Sapirah Sasson, Bella Zabarski, and I were eating together, and someone expressed that it would be nice to have a set of games that could be used to expose children to the kinds of expansive experiences that are part of the Avatar Resurfacing Workshop. Wim then mentioned that he plays such games with his grand kids and the idea was born.

Although the original concept was to produce a collection that could be sold, I now realize that that approach was over-ambitious and that the better way to proceed is to make the collection available at no cost. By doing so, all sorts of copyright issues are being avoided, and the games can be distributed to the ultimate recipients - kids - much sooner in time.

The games in the collection were selected with the intent that playing them would stimulate awareness, creativity, imagination, cooperation, and/or memory, and that they would be fun for children to play. The Age Group designations should be considered to be estimates and I fully encourage parents to experiment with the age groups to extend the range of the games to other kids. Also, some of the games could be placed in more than one category. For instance, most of the games for very young players are group games, and some of the group games would be suitable for playing by very young players.

Two games, the Clothespin Relay (44) and Tennis Ball Twins (58), should appear with the Relay and Race Games group instead of with the Group Games. However, I discovered their misplacement after the final draft was printed and I didn't feel that re-printing was worth the costs.

I hope that persons who receive copies of the collection will be willing to pass on another copy to anyone they know who might be interested to receive one. Also, if you're shopping around to purchase a book of kid's games, I hope you'll consider one or more from the list in the Acknowledgements section. Those books are the source of most of the games.  A few of the games were developed by Wim van den Brink, Karina Knight, and myself.

Finally, this printing will terminate my active participation in the Awareness Games for Kids project, as I don't see that there's much else to be done other than distribute the games. Anyone who would like to receive a copy can contact me with address information and I'll be happy to send one.
Hubert Winston
14 MAR 98

Children's Party Games Michael Johnstone Ward Lock Limited, 1987 ISBN 0-7063-6611-5

The Cooperative Sports & Game Book Terry Orlick Pantheon Books, 1978 ISBN 0-394-42215-5

The Second Cooperative Sports & Game Book Terry Orlick Pantheon Books, 1982 ISBN 0-394-51430-0

Elementary Teachers' Handbook of Indoor and Outdoor Games Arthur Kamiya Parker Publishing Company, 1985 ISBN 0-13-260845-6

everybody wins Jeffrey Sobel Walker Publications, 1984 ISBN 0-8027-0712-2
Everyone Wins! Cooperative Games and Activities Sambhava and Josette Luvmour New Society Publishers, 1990 ISBN 0-86571-190-9 

Family Games Lincoln David Stein Macmillon Publishing, 1979 ISBN 0-02-613750-X 

Games (and how to play them) Anne Rockwell Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973 ISBN 0-690-32159-7
 

Indoor Action Games for Elementary Children David Foster and James Overholt Parker Publishing Company, 1989 ISBN 0-13-459124-0 

Kids Games Phil Wiswell Doubleday ISBN 0-385-23405-8 

The New Games Book Edited by Andrew Fluegelman Dolphin Books, 1976  @-ISBN 0-385-12516-X 

The Official World Encyclopedia of Sports and Games The Diagram Group Paddington Press Ltd., 1979 ISBN 0-448-22202-7 

Perceptual Games and Activities Margaret E. Mulac Harper & Row, 1977 ISBN 0-06-013103-9 

Reader's Digest Book of 1000 Family Games Reader's Digest 

the world book of Children's Games Arnold Amold World Publishing, 1972 ISBN 0-529-00778-9 

The World's Best Party Games Sheila Anne Barry Sterling Publishing Company ISBN 0-8069-6482-0 

The World's Best Travel Games Sheila Anne Barry Sterling Publishing Company ISBN 0-8069-6550-9
 

Honeybee - Tell me, little bee buzzing in my garden, did you come far? Do my flowers please you? What is your favorite color and flavor? Where will you take the nectar you have collected today? Will I ever taste the honey you are helping to make?
(If you listened' to the answers, did you learn' where the nectar was taken, how it is stored, and in what? Did the bee tell you how the honey is stored, and in what? Did the bee tell you how the honey gets from the hive into the jar that you buy at the store?)

Mother Bird - Busy little mother, do you ever get tired searching for food for your hungry crying babies? What is the best food for them? Where do you find it? Does father bird ever help you? How do you prepare the food for your babies to eat?

Caterpillar - Hi there, Mr. Woolly Bear, where are you going? have you come far? Does your fur coat seem hot in the warm sunshine? What kind of moth will you be next time I see you?

Kite - Hey there.kite, did you have fun up there in the air? Why were you pulling so hard at the string? Did you hope I would let you go free? Did you enjoy having the wind

3. Being Observant (Individual or Group Game)
Age Group: All
Description - How observant are you of the things around you? To find out how many things you notice pick an experience you had recently and write down as many details of the scene as you can remember. Include people, the weather, objects, as well as things that were said and done.
Group Variation - Pick an experience where all or most of the players were present. After each player has recorded their observations, compare notes to see how accurately each person recalled the scene.

4. Being Sensitive to Your Surroundings (Individual Game)
Age Group: All
Description - Describe what you might see, smell, taste, touch and hear at the following places or at some other place that you choose. A beach, a football stadium, a restaurant, a birthday party, a doctor's office, a zoo. If you can, give at least five examples for each sense.

5. Instant Artists (Individual Game)
Age Group: 5 to 8
Description - Each child is given a magazine picture that has been cut in half. The object of this activity is for the children to use their imagination to finish the other part of their picture. To do so, they glue the half picture onto a sheet of paper and then draw the other side as they think, it might look.

6. Partner Pull-Ups (Partner Game)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - Partners sit on the floor facing each other with knees bent and toes touching, keeping the soles of the feet flat on the floor. They reach forward, grasp hands, and pull each other up to a standing position before lowering themselves back down to a sitting position.
Variation - For added challenge, try Partner Pull-Ups with straight arms/bent legs, or straight legs/straight arms, or try pulling each other up by booking only index fingers rather than grasping each other's hands. 

7. Aura (Partner Game)
Age Group: All
Description - Partners stand facing each other and stretch their right arms out in front until the palms are touching. Both partners then close their eyes, trying to feel the energy

8. ESP Testing (Partner Game)
Age Group: 14 and up
Description - Clairvoyance is the ability to foretell a future event or perceive happenings at a distance, while telepathy is the ability to receive messages through impulses from others. This game tests for clairvoyant and telepathic abilities by using an ordinary deck of cards. The testing situation should be quiet and peaceful, with no distracting activity. The tester (ideally a person who has no preconceptions about BSP) and the subject to be tested are seated several yards from one another, facing in opposite directions. Each has a pad of paper and a pencil. The tester holds the shuffled deck of cards. To test for telepathy, the tester draws a card randomly from the deck. They look at it, concentrates on the suit, and writes the suit down on their pad. The subject concentrates on receiving the tester's thoughts, and when they think they know the suit of the card held by the tester, they write it down, and indicates the tester is to draw another card. This is repeated at least a dozen times. Then the tester's and subject's pads are compared.
 Since there are four suits, there's a one in four chance of the subject correctly guessing any suit randomly. So if twelve cards were drawn and guessed at, chances are that twenty-five percent, or three cards, will have been guessed correctly. Any significant departure from this of at least fifteen percentage points can be considered a tentative indication of telepathy. Further testing, of course, will tell more. Clairvoyance is tested for in a similar manner, but the tester does not look at the card thafs drawn until the subject has made a guess at the suit and written it down. Only after the subject makes a prediction does the tester glance at the card and record its suit.

9. Card Concentration (Partner Game)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - Shuffle the deck and spread the cards out on a table or the floor face down, making sure that no two cards overlap, the more irregularly the cards are spread, the more difficult is the game. The first player turns over any two cards. If the cards form a pair (two Jacks, or two 6's), the player removes them from their positions and places the pair in their private collection. A player can take repeated turns as long as they turn up a pair each time. If the cards don't match, they must be turned back over in the same position, and the next player takes their turn. When all the cards have been collected, the layer who has the most cards wins. This game can also be played by more than two players.

Variation - Young children can play the game with perhaps a half deck (two suits removed) and with an assistant (parent or older child) instead of an opponent.

10. Hot or Cold (Partner or Group Game)
Age Group: 4 to 10
Description - First, choose a layer to be "it" and, while "it" is out of the room the remaining players select an object and hide it somewhere in the room. After "it" is brought back into the room he or she searches for the object. The other players say either "hot" or "cold" as "it" moves either closer to, or away from, the object. After the object is found. another player becomes "it" and the game continues.
Variation - The game can. be played using "right" and "left," or "forward" and "back" as the guiding words. 

11. Twenty Questions (Partner or Group Game)
Age Group: 9 and up
Description - One player is chosen to be "it." "It" then selects an object, person, animal, or plant and provides a clue to the other players by announcing whether it is "animal," "vegetable," or "mineral." It must be one of these, but may not be a combination of two or more. For example, an automobile is made of materials that belong to at least two of the three; e.g., rubber tires (vegetable) and a metal frame, body, and engine (mineral). Every other player at their turn may then ask a single question that must be answerable by "it" with either Yes or No. If the other players are unable to guess what "it" thought of by the twentieth question, "It" wins and thinks of another object, person, animal, or mineral, after revealing what the winning item is. If any player guesses what "it" selected before the twentieth question,' "it" has lost and the player who guessed correctly becomes the new "it." 

12. The Ultimate Memory Game (Partner or Group Game)
Age Group: 12 and up
Description - This game seems like other memory games, but instead of simply stringing ideas together, this intriguing game gets you telling a story. The first player starts with a simple sentence@a sentence with no adjectives or phrase in it@something like, "I am an actor," or "I went to Alaska." The sentence should have a noun in it that starts with A. The second player repeats that sentence, but adds a phrase that contains the letter B. For example:
    Player #1: I am an actor...
    Player #2: I am an actor in Budapest....
    Player #3: I am an actor in Budapest, playing comedies...

And so on through the alphabet. Any player who cannot remember the story or continue it, drops out.

Variation - To use a different set of letters, start with some letter other than A. For example:

Player #l: I have a dream...
Player #2: I have a dream of eternity…
Player #3: I have a dream of eternity and freedom...

13. Murals (Individual or Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 12
Description - The organizer cuts out large pieces of paper for drawing on. Each player in turn is blindfolded, given a crayon, and asked to draw a picture on a piece of paper pinned to the wall. The subject of the picture is chosen by the other players - good examples are a house, a person, or some kind of animal. The artist feels the edges of the paper and has one minute in which to draw the chosen subject. When everyone has had a turn, the drawings can be judged by an adult or by all the players together.

14. Squiggle Game (Partner Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - Each player should have a piece of paper, and a crayon or pencil different in color from the other player's. Each player scribbles very quickly on their piece of paper - the more abstract the squiggle the better. Players then exchange papers and set themselves a time limit of, for example, two minutes, in which they must use every bit of the squiggle to make a picture. Ingenuity is more important than artistry, and a third person could be asked to judge which of the players used the squiggle more inventively.

15, Memory Hike (Individual or Group Game)
Age Group: 7 and up
Description - This game is played after a hike in the woods or a trip to the zoo or botanical garden. During the outing, players are told to observe everything very carefully so that they can make a list of all they have seen. Just after the outing ends, the leader hands out paper and pencils and the players begins their lists. The player with the greatest number of correct observations wins. Large groups may be divided into teams, the members of which conferring on their lists.
Variation - Hear, Smell, See is played during a break in the hike. Each player is given pencil and paper and is asked to write down all the different sounds, smells and sights they notice. After 15 minutes, the lists are read; each player gets a point for items noticed by others, two points for a unique observation. 

16. The Woollcott Game (Partner Game)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - Alexander Woollcott, the famous author and critic, has been credited with inventing this game. Your opponent keeps score and does the timing while you concentrate for 60 seconds. During that minute, you must think up all the words you can that start with

17. Psychic Experiments (Partner Game)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - Select a magazine and open it to an illustration, but keep the picture hidden from your partner. Then ask a specific question about it, such as, "How many people (or animals, or houses, or windows) are in the picture I'm looking at?" Now concentrate as hard as you can on the picture while your partner tries to clear his or her mind and allow the picture to come through. The answer you get may be right or wrong, but in either case go on to another question. Don't make a guessing game out of it. If the answer is wrong, just say, "No, there are two people. Now I'm going to concentrate on what one of them is doing. Try to tell me what that is." And then go on to other questions. If you don't seem to be getting anywhere, change roles and let your partner choose the magazine and illustration, and "send" the picture out to you. Sometimes it works better one way than the other.

18. Mirrors and Shadows (Partner Game)
Age Group: 4 to 7
Description - Choose partners for Mirrors and decide that one will be the mirror and must copy everything his or her partner does. The players must face each other, but they can be standing still or moving around as long as they stay together in the "mirror" position. In Shadows, one player is behind his or her partner, following every move. 

19. Lead On (Partner Game)
Age Group: 4 to 7
Description - Set up obstacles in the play area-''mountains," etc. Have the players choose partners. Then they pretend that they are on a long journey and that one of the pair has been temporarily blinded and must be led to safety, over and under any obstacles. When the pair finally makes it to safety at the end of the play area, the blinded player can see again, but the sighted player is now blinded. So they switch places and go back again, until everyone is home and both players can see.
Variation - Try using some of the other players as obstacles to be avoided. 

20. Dress Me (Partner Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - One player wears an old shirt that is very big, and holds hands with a

21. Wring the Dishrag (Partner Game)
Age Group: 5 and up
Description - The players face their partner, holding both hands. Then one player brings one leg over the connected arms, and the other player does the same thing on the same side. The players are now back to back and still holding hands through their legs. Now they bring their other legs over and say "howdy" to each other-they are now once again in the starting position. They have "wrung the dishrag."

Variation - Facing their partner and holding one hand, the two partners try to turn around without letting go. If they can accomplish this, have them try it while holding both hands.

23. Simon Says (Group Game)
Age Group: All
Description - The group leader gives the group instructions such as: pat your head, stand up, shake your neighbor's hand, etc. The group members must follow only those instructions that are preceded by the phrase "Simon say," otherwise they ignore the instruction. The person making the fewest mistakes in any round becomes the next group leader.

24. Telephone (Group Game)
Age Group: All
Description - Just sit in a line, and choose a player at one end to make the first "telephone call." They think up a funny message, short or long, and whisper it to the player next to them. The next player, in turn, whispers the message to their neighbor, and so on, down the line. When the message reaches the last player in the line, they say it out loud. Somehow, the message always gets garbled along the way so that the player who made the call

25. Not Seeing is Believing (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 7
Description - By turns, each player names something that's invisible and tells at least one way that the thing can be detected even though ifs invisible. Examples are: the wind, and the way it blows leaves around; thoughts, people thinking them; gravity, and the way things fall to the ground when they're dropped; music, and the way it sounds when we hear it; time, and the way it passes; numbers, and how we use them to count; love, and the way people feel when they experience it. The player who names the greatest number of invisible things is the winner.
Variation - The group picks one invisible thing and by turns each player describes a way the thing can be detected. The player who names the greatest number of ways of detection wins the round and selects the next invisible thing.

26. Finding Shapes (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - The group selects a shape to be found; for instance squares, triangles, rectangles or circles. By turns, each member of the group points out an object in the room that has that shape. Once an object has been pointed out, it can't be used again during that round. The player who finds the greatest number of objects selects the next shape. When older children are playing, each round is played for five minutes and each child makes a list of objects both from inside the room and from anywhere else they can remember.
Variations - Many variations of this game can be created by having the players select types of an object, for instance cars, trees, two-legged animals, etc. 

27. Find the Leader (Group Game)
Age Group: 7 to 10
Description - One player is selected to be the "Guesser" and leaves the room. The remaining players form a circle and select a "Leader." After the Guesser returns, the players forming the circle follow all the movements and gestures of the Leader.  For instance, if the leader puts her left hand on top of her head, all the other players try to duplicate that motion at the same time.

Standing in the middle of the circle, the Guesser has three chances to figure out which player is the Leader. Each player in the circle should try not to look directly at the Leader as this will give the guesser clues about who is the Leader. After the Guesser finds the Leader, or after three wrong Guesses, select a new Guesser and Leader.

29. What Am I (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - From the group select two or three actors. The actors then quietly select an animal to imitate in front of the group. After the group guesses the name of the animal, new actors are selected and the game continues. With older children, the actors can decide to imitate any object, animal, or person they like.

30. Fun with Nonverbal Communication (Group Game)
Age Group: 8 to II
Description - With this game, either the activity leader or the group chooses a type of communication that can be made nonverbally (a list of communication types follows the Description). Each member of the group then gives an example that illustrates the communication type. For instance, when "greetings" is the communication type, examples could include a hand wave, a nod of the head, a thrown kiss, or an eyewink. When no one can think of additional examples, a new communication type is selected and the game continues. Communication types might include: commands, approval, disapproval, absolutely no, yes, I don't know, calm down, hungry and thirsty, tired. I'm happy, and be quiet.

31. Draw a Song (Group Game)
Age Group: 7 to 12
Description - The group is given a large sheet of paper and a marking pen. A player then chooses one of several slips of paper on which the leader has written the titles of well-known songs. The leader then brings the paper back to the group and, without speaking, draws clues to the song on the paper. The remaining children try to guess the song title from the clues. When someone guesses the right song title, the entire group stands up, joins hands, and sings the song. A second person then chooses the title of another song. 

32. Nonverbal Birthday Line-up (Group Game)
Age Group: 7 and up
Description - The players are asked to line up according to the month and day of birth

33. Group Pull-Ups (Group Game)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - Players begin in a seated circle of four, facing outwards. Grasping hands or arms, they try pulling up to a stand as a unit. If successful, they can try a circle of six or eight people. The more people added, the more difficult the challenge becomes. Group members can experiment and discover workable ways to get up. Some possibilities include linking elbows with the people on either side or linking wrists with the people on the other side of one's immediate neighbor.
Partner Variation - This game can also be played with two or three players.

34. Blob (Group Game)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - The Blob begins as an individual player playing a game of tag. As soon as they catch someone, the new member joins hands with the Blob. Now the Blob'has two players and they set-out hand-in-hand, in search of more players. Everyone the Blob catches (only the outside hand on each end of the Blob can tag other players) joins hands with it and becomes part of the lengthening chain, and thus the Blob keeps growing. The Blob continues chasing the other free players around the field (You'll have to agree on boundaries for this game) until everyone is a part of the Blob. You can have the last player caught start the Blob for the next game. 

35. Pin the Tail (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - Tape an animal picture to the wall at about the players' eye level. Give a tail to each of the players, and have them line up to take turns. Each player in turn stands directly in front of the picture from 5 to 15 feet away. They're blindfolded, and perhaps spun once or twice to disorient them. They then do their best to walk toward the picture and touch the tail to wherever they think is the appropriate spot. The tail is taped or pinned at the spot that was selected. After all the players have had their turns, the player who pinned their tail the closest to the right place is the winner.

36. Cooperative Pin the Tail on the Donkey (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - In the cooperative form of this game, all the players play together to direct the player who is blindfolded. The object is to get all the donkey's tails pinned onto the right place. The onlookers shout "A little higher!" "No, NO, the other way!" etc., and playing together, everybody wins

38. Consequences (Group Game)
Age Group: 8 to 14
Description - Each player is provided with a pencil and a sheet of paper. The objective is to write as many stories as there are players, with each player contributing to each of the stories. Each story will be outlined as follows:

1. His name
2. Her name
3. Where they were
4. What they were doing
5. What he said
6. What she said

3) "at....beside....in..." (the players may choose any location);
4) "he said.....";
5) "she said....";
6) "the consequence was....";
7) "and the world said....." 

39. Pass the Orange (Group Game)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - Players divide into teams with the same number and each team forms a line. The first player in each line tucks an orange under their chin. To start, the orange is passed from one player's chin to the next without the use of hands. If the orange drops to the floor, or if a player uses their hands, the orange is returned to the leader to start again. The first team to successfully pass the orange down the line wins.

40. Follow the Leader (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - Players line up, one behind the other, without touching or holding one another. The first in line is chosen by lot. All others are required to follow them wherever they go, doing exactly what they do and imitating their every gesture. If they hop, everyone hops, etc. Any player who fails to "follow the leader" is out of the game. It is best to play each "turn" of this .game for a predetermined time period, at the end of which a new leader is chosen. Those players win who remain in line at the end of each round. 

41. Cooperative Tale (Group Game)
Age Group: 4 and up
Description - The leader starts a story by telling a few sentences, e. g., "Once upon a time I went to the zoo...." Each following player, in turn, adds whatever they wish to the last player's sentence, e. g., 'The keeper had left a cage door open...." "And so, just as I got there; a bear walked out....." and so on. 

42. Observation (Group Game)
Age Group: 7 and up
Description - All players remain outside the room while the leader, chosen by lot, or a parent, places a number of objects on a table inside the room. The number and variety of the objects to be arranged depend on the ages and experience of the players. The players then return to the room for an agreed length of time, looking at the heaped objects on the table. The players then leave the room, or the objects are covered, and each player writes down a list of all the objects they remember having seen on the table. The player or players win who can accurately remember, name and describe the greatest number of objects on the

43. Grin or Bear It (Group Game)
Age Group: 4 and up
Description - One player is chosen to be "it" for the first turn. The remaining players line up facing them. The object of "it" is to make any other player grin or laugh. The lined-up players try to keep their faces completely immobile and serious. The first player to smile or laugh at "ifs" antics becomes the next "it." Play continues until players tire of the game.

44. Clothespin Relay (Group Game)
Age Group: 6 and up
Description - Divide the group into one or more teams of three or more players each. All teams are seated on the floor or ground in straight, parallel lines. The players of each team are seated one behind the other, each an arm's length apart. The first player of each team takes four clothespins and places each between two fingers of the same hand. On the word "Start," the first team member passes the clothespins to the next team member, who must take the pins with either hand and hold them in exactly the manner the first player held them - one each between two fingers of the same hand. While transferring the clothespins, each player may use only the hand holding the pins and they must hold the other hand behind their back. Whenever a clothespin is dropped, or when a team member uses two hands, all clothespins of that team. must be handed back to the first player in the line and the game resumes as before. The team whose last player first receives and holds the four pins wins. If only one team is playing, the team tries to improve the time it takes to transfer the pins to every member. 

45. Heads, Bodies, and Legs (Group Game)
Age Group: 6 to 10
Description - Divide the players into groups of three. Each group receives a sheet of paper folded into three equal parts and a pencil or crayon. Without the other players seeing what they're doing, the first player of each group draws the face of a person or animal on the top third of the paper, carrying the lines of the neck a little past the first fold. They then fold back that third of the sheet so that it can't be seen by the next player. The second player receives the sheet and, without looking at the head drawn by the first player, adds torso and arms of any person or animal they choose, using the neck lines indicated by the first player as a guide. They stop a little below the next fold, fold the paper again so that neither the head nor the torso can be seen, and pass the sheet on to the third player. The last member of each group draws the legs of any person or animal they wish, starting with the lines left by the second player. When all players on the group have finished their drawings, the sheet is unfolded and the creature invented by all three is revealed. 

46. Outlines (Group Game)
Age Group: 6 to 10
Description - The group sits in a circle and each player starts with a sheet of paper and

47. I Saw (Group Game)
Age Group; 5 to 10
Description - Have the players form a circle with one player in the center. The player in the center says something like, "At the zoo, I saw..." or "On vacation I saw...." or "While I was walking to school I saw...." and then imitates what they saw. The other players guess what was seen. The one guessing correctly goes to the center and the game continues in the same manner. If no one guesses, the one in the center tells what they were imitating and then selects someone else to take their place.

48. Detective (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - Divide the group into two equal teams. Teams line up two to three feet apart, facing each other. One team is chosen to be the detective team and has sixty seconds to closely observe everything about their respective partners from the other team. After the time limit expires, the members of the detective team turn around and shut their eyes while the other players change one thing about their appearance (untie one shoe, move a piece of jewelry, untuck shirt, etc.). When everyone is ready, the detectives turn around, and one at a time try to identify what has been changed on their partner. The game can be played just for fun, or a score may be kept counting each correct response as a point. The teams reverse roles and the game continues.

49. Group Juggling (Group Game)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - Have the players form circles with about ten players in each group. One player begins by tossing an object to someone else across the circle. They, in turn, toss it to someone else, and so on, until each person has received a toss. The last player tosses it back to the starter and thus a pattern has been established. The sequence is repeated and each player tosses to the same person each time. Then a new object is added (it chases the first object through the pattern) and the fun begins! Next a third object is introduced into the pattern, then another, until five or more objects are in flight at once. The activity takes concentration and lots of teamwork! 

50. Two Minute Walk (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 and up
Description - Players line up along one wall. On the word "Go," they set off across the room. Without using a watch or clock, each player tries to reach the other side of the room in exactly two minutes. The organizer times the players' walks. When all the players have finished, the player whose time was nearest two minutes wins.

52. Number Parade (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - Single digits from zero to nine are drawn on separate pieces of paper. The digits should be several inches high. There may be one or two cards for each player, and each team should have the same set of digits. In addition, a list of numbers using the digits available to each team is drawn up. The teams form two lines and each player is given either one or two of the cards. The organizer calls out a number - for example "469." Immediately, the players on each team with the digits 4, 6, and 9 rush to the front and line up holding their digits so that they read "469." The first team to parade the numbers correctly scores one point. Players return to their teams and another number is called.
Variation - To make the game more challenging, the organizer calls sums of numbers that each team must solve and parade. 

53. Double Pass (Group Game)
Age Group: 7 and up
Description - Identical piles of objects are collected, one for each team. Alternatively, a deck of cards may be divided between the teams. Players divide into teams and sit in a line to the left of their leaders. One pile of objects is placed beside the leader. On the word "Go," the leader starts passing the objects, one after the other, down the line. Only right hands are used until the object reaches the end of the line, then only left hands are used to return the objects behind the players' backs. As objects arrive back at the beginning again, the leader makes a pile of returned objects. The first team to return all the objects wins.

54. Coffeepot (Group Game)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - One player is selected to be the guesser and leaves the room while the others choose a verb or participle describing any activity - for instance "laugh" and "eat" or "laughing" and "eating." The guesser then returns to the room and tries to guess the activity by asking questions in which the word "coffeepot" is substituted for the unknown word. In turn, each player is asked a question, something like, "Do you often coffeepot?"

55. Blind Man's Bluff (Group Garnel
Age Group: 7 to II
Description - Players are scattered around the playing area. One player is blindfolded and is turned around in place three times. The blindfolded player then goes searching for the other players, who are not allowed to move their feet, but may twist their bodies around to escape being touched. When the blindfolded player does find another player, they touch the player's face and clothing and tries to identify the player using one guess. If the player is identified correctly, that player takes the blindfold. If not, the blindfolded player must catch someone else and try again. 

56. Team Ball (Group Game)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - The playing area resembles a football field. The object is for each team to move a large ball ball to the other team's end zone by passing it from teammate, to teammate, however, the player holding the ball cannot move. Only those without the ball can move and set themselves up for passes. The team without the ball plays defense, trying to intercept the passes and recapture the ball for their team.
Variation - Try the same thing with a Frisbee - this is Ultimate Frisbee.

57. Spokes (Group.Game)
Age Group: 5 and up
Description - All the players stand sideways in a circle, as close as possible to their neighbors and one behind the other. The circle should be small enough so that all the players can hold hands in the center. They reach into the circle with their inside hand, so that everyone's hand is touching. With their outside hand, the players point outward. Now all the spokes are set for a ride. Try to keep the wheel intact while moving in a circle. 

58. Tennis Ball Twins (Group Game)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - The first and second player on each team hold hands and face each other. The host puts a tennis ball between their foreheads. They have to keep it there as they run to the far end of the room and back. If the ball drops, they have to go back and start again. When the first couple have successfully completed their run, the ball is put between the second pair's foreheads, and then the third, and so on. 

59. Slap Happy (Group Game)
Age Group: 10 and up

60. Pass the Mask (Group Game)
Age Group: All
Description - With everyone sitting in a circle, one player turns to the next, looks right into his or her eyes, and makes a funny face. The second player passes on the face to the third, and so on around the circle. At the same time, the first player has turned to the person o the other side and made a different funny face, which is passed around m the other direction. Continue until both "masks" have reached the first player again, or until laughter has stopped the game. 

61. Knots (Group Game)
Age Group: 7 and up
Description - At least five players stand in a small circle and place their right hands out in front of them, thumbs up. With the left hand, each grabs someone else's thumb, but not that of anyone next to him or her. The object of this activity is to untangle this knot by stepping over, crawling under, or turning around, anything is permitted except letting go. If the players really get into a dead-end situation, they can always apply "knot aid" - allowing one player to let go and untangle, after which they all join hands again. But don't let them give up too easily; most knots can be untangled with a little patience and plenty of togetherness. Don't let two players grab one another's hands, or all the two will do is to stand around and get in the way as everyone else tries to untangle the knot. The knotted players will usually be untangled into one large circle, or occasionally into two small ones. Once in a while the tangle will be irresolvable without breaking hands. 

62. Roll the Balloon (Group Game)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - Pairs stand facing each other, a balloon squashed between them at waist level. On 'Go!' everyone has to turn around three times, keeping the balloon between them. If it falls to the floor or bursts in the frantic attempts to keep it in place, the couple responsible leaves the game. In the next round everyone turns around four times, then five, then six and so on, until there are only two couples left spinning round and round and one of them lets go or bursts the balloon. The couple with the last balloon still intact is the winner. 

63. ABCDFGH (Group Game)
Age Group: 10 and up

64. Ghost (Group Game)
Age Group: 8 to 12
Description - Three or more players sit in a circle and one begins by saying any letter of the alphabet. The next adds a letter. Each player must add a letter but each tries not to complete a word. (Two-letter words don't count). Any player who completes a word becomes a half-ghost and no one may speak to them. Half-ghosts can go on playing, and they try to trick the others into speaking to them. Anyone who speaks to a half-ghost, or answers one, becomes a ghost. Any half-ghost who competes a second word becomes a whole ghost,  ghosts  are out of the game. The winner is the last player left. 

65. Ping-Pong Toss (Group Game)
Age Group: 6 and up
Description - The players toss a Ping-Pong ball back and forth, trying to catch it with the cardboard tube that held aluminum foil, waxed paper, or even toilet tissue. It’s harder that way, but also much fun.
Variation - Try tossing a ring back and forth from one player to another, catching it on a stick. 

66. Create a Song (Group Game)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - The group is divided into two teams of equal size. More teams are formed if the group is large. Each team goes to a separate room, and together the team members contribute to composing an original melody and lyrics for their song. No musical instruments may be used. After a specified time limit, each team returns and sings their song for the others. Specific stipulations can be added, such as theme, length, or content. 

67. Why? Because! (Group Game)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - Each player writes a designated number of "why" questions on slips of paper, with "because" answers on separate slips. All the "why" slips are placed in one container, and the "because" slips in another. Players pass the containers around the room, taking turns drawing on "why" slip and one "because" slip, then reading the two together to form a question with its "logical" answer. The person reading the questions and answer can change the pronouns, verb tenses, etc., to make the answer correspond to the question.

69. Down the Hole (Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 8
Description - Cut a small hole in the center of an old sheet or bedspread, just big enough for a ball to fall through. Players hold the edges of the sheet and try to get the ball to go through the hole.
Variation - Instead of trying to roll the ball to the hole, players try to roll the ball all around the edge of the sheet, first in one direction, then in the other.

72. Lap Sit (Large Group Game)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - This game requires at least eight or ten players to work properly. A group of players form a tight circle by standing shoulder to shoulder, and then all turn to their right (or left). Each person grasps the waist of the one directly in front of them and takes one side step toward the center of the circle to tighten it. The players then attempt to sit on the knees (not the thighs) of the person behind them, creating a sitting circle. The real fun of the game begins after the sitting circle has been formed, through a variety of collective actions suggested and attempted by the players: having arms out to the side, clapping three times, touching the floor outside the circle, taking three steps forward, taking three steps backward, etc.

73. Catch the Dragon's Tail (Large Group Game)
Age Group: 12 and up
Description - You'll need a good sized area for this game. About eight to ten players line up, one behind the other. Now, everyone puts their arms around the waist of the person in front of them. The last person in line tucks a handkerchief in the back of their belt or back pocket. At the signal, the dragon begins chasing its own tail, the object being for the person at the head of the line to snatch the handkerchief. The tricky part of this game is that the players at the front and the players at the back are dearly competing, but the players in the middle aren't sure which way to go. When the head finally captures the tail, the head dons the handkerchief and becomes the new tail, while the second from the front becomes the new head,
Variation - If more than twelve players are available, form two or more dragons with each trying to catch the other's tail.

74. Three Legged-Soccer (Large Group Game)
Age Group: 12 and up
Description - Set up for a regular game of soccer: teams, goals boundaries, etc. You might want to make the field a bit smaller than usual, though, and have about twenty players on each team. The only modification on regular soccer rules is that the players on each team have to pair up and tie their ankles together in three-legged race fashion. You can kick the ball with either your free foot or the "big foot." The goalie might be comprised of two players tied back-to-back at the waist.

76. Skin the Snake (Large Group Game)
Age Group: 12 and up
Description - This game can be played cooperatively with one team or as a competition between teams. Each team should have about 20 to 25 players, lined up one behind the other. Now reach between your legs with your left hand and grab the right hand of the player behind you. Meanwhile, the player in front of you is reaching back to grab your right hand. Once the chain is formed, you're set to go. At the starting signal, the last player in the line lies down on their back. The person in front of them backs up, straddling the first player, and lies down on their back right behind the first player (They're still holding hands, of course). This continues as the whole team waddles backwards down the growing line of prone bodies and slips into place. When the last player to lie down has touched their head to the ground, they get up and starts forward again, pulling everyone else up and along. What just got done gets quickly undone as everyone "Skins the Snake." When the last player is back on their feet and everyone is in the original chain, still holding hands, get set to run. The winner is the first team that gets all its members across the point where the head of the line started. If anyone breaks hands during any part of this process, you must stop, go back to that point, and reconnect before proceeding.
Hints - You'll be less likely to trip over your teammates if you all take off your shoes. When the line is backing up to lie down, bunch close together so you're all touching. Lie down as close to as you can to the person in front of you and put your feet close to their sides with your toes pointed in. The last person to lie down should touch their head to ground for just an instant, roll back up, and start pulling, being careful not to break the chain. The last person to get up has to be fast and agile and have a really good grip.

77. Streets and Alleys (Large Group Game)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description – Let’s assume we have twenty-seven players, although any number can play. Have all but two of the players form lines of five, holding the hand of the person next to them. The lines should be arm's length apart. The other two players are chaser and "chasee." (Of course, you will adjust the number of players in the lines according to how many are in your group, but try to form even lines if possible.) The "streets" are formed by the players' arms. Now the chaser chases the chasee. They run up and down the lines formed between the players' arms. When the leader (or, if you choose, the chaser) calls out

79. Three Person Walk (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 7 and up
Description - Three players are selected to start the activity. While they're standing in a line shoulder-to-shoulder, gently tie the legs of the inside player to the adjacent leg of the player standing on-each side. Now the group attempts to walk until they can do so with ease. Select two additional players and tie their legs to the unbound legs of the outside players. The five person line now attempts to walk until they can do so with ease. Continue adding players to the line until the entire group can walk as a unit.
Variation - Divide players into teams and have the teams race to the designated finish line with their legs tied. For more fun, make the start and finish lines the same and have go out and back along the same path. This means the teams will have to figure out how to turn around at the half-way point.

80. Wheelbarrow Race (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - Set up the starting and goal lines about 30 feet apart. Players choose partners, and the pairs line up at the starting line. One is the wheelbarrow and must walk the race on their hands, while the other is the wheelbarrow driver, and holds their partner's two legs as though they were the wheelbarrow handles. On the signal GO!, the layers lumber forward, the "wheelbarrows" lurching along on their hands, the drivers holding on to their "handles." When the teams reach the goal line they switch positions, the driver becoming the wheelbarrow and vice versa. The first team to get back to the starting line wins.

82. Relay Ball (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - Set up the start and goal lines at least 30 feet apart. The group is divided into equal size teams and each team is divided into partner pairs. One player in each team's first pair is given a ball. At the start signal, the first pair for each team races towards the goal line, tossing the ball one to the other. On reaching (touching with one foot or crossing) the goal line, both partners of each pair return to the starting line, continuing to pass the ball between them as before. The ball must be passed at least four times on each lap." When each pair returns to the starting line they give the ball to the next pair on their team, who continue the game as before. The team whose pairs complete the course first wins.
Variation - This game can be played so that the ball is kicked between players, but never touched by hand.

83. Snowshoe Race (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 5 to 10
Description - Form teams of six to ten players. The teams line up in a single-file line at one end of the room. Place one chair for each team at the other end of the room. At the signal, the first players put their feet on the "snowshoes" made from paper plates, box lids, or sheets of newspaper, and shuffle across the room to the chair, around it, and back. Then a teammate puts on the snowshoe and repeats the journey. The first team to finish is the winner.

84. Giant’s  Footsteps (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 8 and up
Description - The first person on each team is given two sheets of paper, both just big enough to stand on. They have to go from one end of the room to the other and back again, putting one foot on the first sheet of paper, then placing the other sheet a step in front and standing on that in turn. Now they have to balance on one foot, turn, bend down to pick up the first sheet and put it down in front of the second, and so on. Anyone whose foot touches the floor has to start again. The sheets are passed to the next one in line and the fastest team with the fewest faults wins

86. William Tell Race (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 7 and up
Description - Divide the group into two or more teams with an even number of players, and set a starting line and a goal line about twenty feet apart. At the starting signal, the first player on each team balances an apple on top of their heads and walks to the goal line and back without touching the apple after they start. If the apple falls off, the player must return to the starting area to begin again. After each player traverses the course successfully, the apple is handed to the next member of the team and the game proceeds. The first team to have all its players finish the course wins. 

87. Sugar and Spoons (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 10 and up
Description - Players divide into teams and sit in a line next to their leaders. Every player is given a spoon, which is held in their mouths, and each leader is given a sugar cube. On the word "Go," the leaders place the sugar cubes in their spoons and then pass the cubes to the next player without using their hands. If a cube is dropped, it is returned to the leader to start again. The first team to transfer the sugar cube to each player successfully wins.

88. Couple Hobble Relay (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 8 to 12
Description - Teams line up in pairs behind the starting line. A turning line is marked thirty feet away. The lead players stand side by side. Each places an arm around the partner's waist and lifts the knee of their outside leg close to the back, gripping the foot with the outside hand. On signal, each lead pair hops toward the turning line and back. The lead pair is immediately followed by the second pair and so on until the cycle is finished. Any pair that touches the ground with an outside foot must return to the starting line. The team that finishes the cycle first wins. 

89. The Balloon Race (Race/Relay)
Age Group: 6 and up

91. Leapfrog (Very Young/Group Game)
Age Group: 3 to 8
Description - Several players stoop in a line in a squatting position, with their heads tucked down. Now the first in a line of leapers vaults over each frog, followed by the others. At the end of the line the leaper becomes a frog and when the last leaper has gone down the line, the end frog becomes a leaper. This continues until the frogs have turned into princes and princesses.

92. Alphabet Ball (Very Young/Group Game)
Age Group: 3 to 7
Description - Pass a ball around the circle. As each player passes it, he or she says a letter. Go through the alphabet this way.
Variations - 1. Pass any object. 2. Say the letters together as a group. 3. Cooperative Counting - Start counting with each player saying a number in turn or try to count in unison. Go as high as possible. 
93. Yarn Figures (Very Young/Group Game)

Age Group: 3 to 8
Description - Give each small group of players a supply of different pieces of yarn in various colors. The first player puts one piece down on the floor. The next player adds another to the picture. This continues until all the yarn is used up and there is a yarn picture.
Variation - Give one player a ball of yarn or a ball of string to unravel on the floor, making a design out of it. After a short time, the next player takes over, and this continues

94. Animal Parade (Very Young/Group Game)
Age Group: 3 to 6
Description - Have the children form a circle. Choose one person to be the leader. The leader calls the name of a child and names an animal. The child does an imitation, of the movements of the animal named. After everyone has had a chance to imitate an animal, all of the players form a line for an "Animal Parade" led by the leader. The group moves around the room imitating the animal he or she represents. 

95. Balloon Bop (Very Young/Group Game)
Age Group: 3 to 8
Description - Players may stand or sit to play this game. Form the group into a circle and toss an inflated balloon to one of the players. The object is to keep the balloon in the air for as long as possible by tapping or hitting the balloon, but without throwing or catching it.
Variations - Have the players count aloud the number of times the balloon is hit without touching the ground, or have players use their feet instead of their hands to keep the balloon in the air.
Group Variation - Divide the group into teams and have several teams compete at the same time. In this case, each time the balloon hits the ground, score one point against the team that failed to keep the balloon in the air. The team with the lowest score at the end of the given time period wins the game. 

96. Pat-A-Cake (Very Young/Partner Game)
Age Group: 3 to 6
Description - The game is played by two players, often a parent and young child, seated facing each other. The rhyme sung by both players as they clap their hands in rhythm goes like this:

Pat a cake, pat a cake,
Baker's man
Bake me a cake
As fast as you can
Roll it and pat it
And m ark it with a "B"
And put it in the oven
For baby and me. 

1. Clapping your own two hands together
2. Clapping your two hands against those of your partner
3. Clapping your right hand to that of your partner
4. Clapping your left hand to that of your partner

97. Ring Around the Rosies (Very Young/Group Game)
Age Group: 3 to 6
Description - The children join hands forming a circle, then begin dancing in one direction while singing the following verse:

Ring around the rosies,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down! 

The king he sent his daughter
To fetch a pail of water,
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down!

The wedding bells are ringing.
The boys and girls are singing.
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down!

The bird is in the steeple.
He's singing to the people.
Ashes, ashes,
We all fall down!

Variation - Some children like to play this game such that the first time through the song, they fall down at the end of the first verse only. The second time through, they fall down at the end of the second verse only, and so forth, falling down at the end of the next verse each time they sing through the song. The point is for players to remember when to fall down and when to keep dancing.

98. The Farmer's in the Dell (Very Young/ Group Game)
Age Group: 3 to 6
Description - This game requires eight or more players, select one child to play the part of the farmer. The other players join hands forming a circle around the farmer, and begin dancing in one direction while singing the following song:

The farmer's in the dell.
The fanner's in the dell.
Heigh-ho-a-dairy-o,
The farmer's in the dell.

The wife needs a child.
The wife needs a child.
Heigh-ho-a-dairy-o,
The wife needs a child.

The child needs a nurse.
The child needs a nurse.
Heigh-ho-a-dairy-o,
The child needs a nurse. 

The nurse needs a dog.
The nurse needs a dog.
Heigh-ho-a-dairy-o,
The nurse needs a dog. 

We all pat the dog.
We all pat the dog.
Heigh-ho-a-dairy-o,
We all pat the dog. 

99. Push Piggy to Market (Very Young/Group Game)
Age Group: 3 to 10
Description - This is a game with teams. There should be at least four players on each team. Mark the starting and finish lines with about ten or fifteen feet between them. Give each team an empty soda bottle or can and a yard stick or meter stick. Blow a whistle or say, "On your mark, get set, GO!" At this signal the first player in line on each team starts to roll the bottle, or "piggy" to the market line with the stick, holding one hand behind behind their back at all times. As soon as a player reaches the market line, they must turn around and push the piggy back to the starting line. They then give the stick to the next player on

100. The Ball Goes Round and Round (Very Young/Group Game)
Age Group: 3 to 6
Description - In the traditional form of this game, a ball is passed around the circle and this verse is sung by everyone:
The ball goes round and round
It stops at every town
And when it stops it stops at
Y-O-U! The whoever is holding the ball at the end is eliminated. But there's a better way. Just keep playing the game with no eliminations. Start with two equal circles fairly close together, and when the ball in each circle goes round and round, have the eliminated players join the opposite circle. This way play continues with no one forced to sit and watch; there is total participation.