Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Games people play
It so happened that this week I had to throw a party for my daughter who turned 9 on Friday (they seem to expect it) and the big demand was for GAMES.
I may be alone in this but I have a particular loathing for Pass the Parcel and I was bored of playing the toddler standards of Musical Statues/Bumps/Chairs so I felt the need to seek out new games to play.
The internet delivered and we played some new games (at least to me) including Hot Potato (an anti-pass the parcel since the aim of the game is to *not* hang on to the 'potato' ) and Human Marble Run which involved passing a marble down a line and back using tubes cut in half which crucially were not allowed to touch.
After the party I got talking to other parents about games and recalling schoolyard faves like Up Jenkins. These games seemed to involve little more than a bit of string, or some coins or a few marbles.
I fell to wondering if there were games out there in HOL land that people played as kids that seem to have been forgotten or, as our members come from all over the country and indeed globe, games and variations of traditional games that people would like to share. I'm told for example that German kids play Pass the Parcel differently from English kids and it involves a knife and fork?
Care to share your favourite kids games?
BTW Who knew you could have so much fun with some cotton wool balls and a tub of vaseline?
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Permalink Reply by Lesley G on
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Hi Liz, this is how we played the knife and fork game when I was a kid in the 70s. As far as we know (in this half German household) its not German in origin.
http://www.wikihow.com/Play-the-Knife-and-Fork-Chocolate-Game
The gloves were always adult size, to make handling the knife and fork more difficult, and you had to cut through the paper and foil of the (large) chocolate bar. You had to cut off a square at a time before you could eat it, you weren't allowed to cut off a quarter of the bar and stuff it in your mouth!
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Permalink Reply by Angela on
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Kim's Game was quite popular at my daughter's party a couple of years ago - best of all,it's minimal effort for the adults!
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Permalink Reply by empyrean_aisles on
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A variation on the knife-and-fork chocolate game (played at all the best children's parties in Sydney some decades ago) was the chopsticks-and-jaffas game. I don't think jaffas exist over here - they are a little smaller than Maltesers, and taste like orange-flavoured chocolate - but you could totally play it with Maltesers or similar spherical lollies sweets.
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We played a version of the knife and fork game - make a cake of flour by turning a bowl packed tight out (essentially you've made a sandcastle of flour); balance a square of chocolate on top; take it in turns to cut a slice off the cake , making sure you don't knock the chocolate off; the person who knocks the chocolate off has to get it out of the flour using only their teeth.
They're then out, and the game continues until there's one person left, who wins a whole bar of chocolate.
You will be hoovering up flour for weeks, though...
At my daughter's parties we still play Pin the Tail on the Donkey, adapted for whatever theme it is (so last time it was Pin the Eyepatch on the Pirate).
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