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Stephanie from Blogging in the Bathtub goes on a mini-rant about heelys and I’m sure many mothers share her opinion.
What do you think of them?
And Contest for Moms has an interesting summer cool down idea for your kids.
I thought most of the heat from your body emanated from your head… but maybe its different for kids ;)
And now, on to the Classic Game –
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Cardboard boxes were always the best part of getting new things as a child.
The good folk at Fold School know this and provide Cardboard Folding Patterns for building your own cardboard furniture.
And for those of you that missed it, we are running a Group writing project with over $250 worth of items to give away to those that participate. We look forward to your post!
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All players form a ring, joining hands, except one called the Mouse, whom they enclose within the circle, and one who is on the outside who represents the cat. They then dance around, raising their arms at intervals. The cat watches the chance to spring into the circle at one side, and the mouse dashes out at the other – public sympathy being with the mouse, his or her movements are aided when possible. When the cat is in the circle, the players lower their arms so as to keep the enemy prisoner. The cat goes around meekly, crying “mew,” while the rest dance around her. With a sudden “miaou!” she tries to break through any weak place in the chain of hands.
As soon as she escapes she tries to catch the mouse, who runs for safety into the ring again, hotly pursued. If the cat is so near as to follow the mouse into the ring, before her entrance can be prevented, or if she catches the mouse outside the circle, the mouse must pay a forfeit. Two more players are then named by the cat and mouse to succeed them.
Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain
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I’d like to apologize in advance for the grief that you may experience from your children begging you to play this game with them to no end or from them playing it themselves for hours and hours.
The cup game is a rhythm game played with plastic cups.
To play, the group plays a special beat with their hands and their cup. At the end of the “song” their cup is passed to the person to their right and it all starts over again slightly faster. Everyone continues to play trying to go faster and faster together
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We love all sort’s of games here, and as you grow up you collect an interesting assortment of games, house-rules, and idea’s for ways to play. Eventually you pass some of these on to your own children and the whole process starts again.
This project is about sharing those games with a wide audience of fellow bloggers, and as an added bonus, we have 6 prizes that have been generously donated to be given out to 6 random people who participate.
Your task is to write a new post explaining ‘How to Play my Favorite Game.’
What we are looking for is some sort of post that explains a favorite game that you or your children like to play. What game is entirely up to you. You could write about a classic game that you played as a child, a funny game that your children made up themselves, or even alternative rules for a popular game.
Once you’ve written your ‘How to Play’ post simply follow the process for participating outlined below. Please note – to be eligible for the gifts from our sponsors you need to follow the guidelines below.
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First a postmaster-general must be appointed, whose duty is to write down the names of the players, and the names of the cities they have chosen to represent. The postman is blindfolded and led to the middle of the room, whilst the other players are seated round it. The postmaster-general then begins to announce that a letter has been sent from one town to another, say from Denver to Chicago. The two players who have taken those names must rise up silently and change seats.
The postman’s duty is to try and seat himself in one of the vacant chairs; the player who loses his chair must become the blind postman.
Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain
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This is another way of playing Blind Man’s Bluff, and is thought by many to be an improvement on that game.
The player, who is blindfolded, stands in the centre of the room with a ling paper wand, which can be made of newspaper folded up length ways, and tied at each end with string. The other players then join hands and stand round him in a circle. Someone then plays a merry tune on the piano and the players dance round and round the blind man, until suddenly the music stops; the blind man then takes the opportunity of lowering his wand upon one of the circle, and the player upon whom it has fallen has to take hold of it. The blind man then makes a noise, such as, for instance, the barking of a dog, a street cry, or anything he things will cause the player he has caught to betray himself, as the captive must imitate whatever noise the blind man likes to make. Should the blind man detect who holds the sticks the one who is caught has to be blind man; if not, the game goes on until he succeeds.
Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain
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The best way to play this game is for the players to divide themselves into two groups, namely, actors and audience. Each one of the actors should then fix upon a proverb, which he will act, in turn, before the audience. As for instance, supposing one of the players to have chosen the proverb, “A bad workman quarrels with his tools,” he should go into the room where the audience is seated, carrying with him a bag in which there is a saw, a hammer, or any other implement or tool used by a workman; he should then look round and find a chair, or some other article, which he should pretend requires repairing; he should then act the workman, by taking off his coat, rolling up his sleeves, and commencing work, often dropping his tools and grumbling about them the whole of the time.
If this game be acted well, it may be made very entertaining. Sometimes the audience are made to pay a forfeit each time they fail to guess the proverb.
Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain
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Fun Play Dates also has some interesting ideas for Paper Craft on their site, Jungle Gym Kids Paper Craft on their site, check it out.
Cut from colored cloth or paper a number of petals for forming wild roses, using pink material; Marguerite daisies of white material and pansies of purple. Five petals for each rose, five for each pansy and ten for each daisy.
Have the children site around a table. Provide each one with a sheet of plain paper, three pins having the heads covered with yellow tissue paper and mixed petals enough to make one of each kind of flower.
At a signal the children begin to make the flowers by sticking the pin through the point of the petals and pinning each flower to the sheet of paper. A prize may be given to the child finishing the flowers first of the child making the best looking flowers.
Games for All Occasions by Mary E. Blain
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Make Your Children Healthier by Feeding Them More Sugar
May 7th, 2007"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."--Aristotle
Top 5 great ways to “healthy up” your children by increasing their sugar intake.
Its every parents dream – No more fighting about eating too much sugar. If only there was an already prepared solution that you could quickly give to your children…
These miracle products aren’t new, but it’s easy for people to forget how much children love them and how easy they are to prepare to satisfy the horde.
Thank you to Problogger.net for running this Group Writing Project.
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