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Show Page 18 The Ogden Valley News Volume I, Issue X July 1999 TEN SUMMERTIME TRAVEL GAMES FOR LITTLE KIDS 1. This Is My Foot: One player is “It.” That player touches his or her foot and says, “This is my nose.” The next player touches his or her own nose and says, “This is my ear.” The next player touches his or her own ear an says,”This is my elbow.” The game continues until one player is tricked into actually saying the part of the body that person is touching. Each player has 10 seconds to complete his or her turn. 2. Tear It Long: Each player gets a piece of paper or newspaper equal in size. Each then tries to tear the longest continuous piece of paper without tearing it in two. Tearing in a circular fashion is one way to make one long piece of paper. Time each player. The person with the longest piece in one minute wins. players dropping out as they are unable to come up with a word for their letter. Variation: One person goes at a time and the fastest player through the alphabet wins. Someone must time each player and no answer can be repeated. 7. Where’s Your Next Stop? What Will You See?: One player asks, “Where’s your next stop?” Another player must answer by choosing a word that begins with the letter “A”, perhaps “Alaska.” The player is then asked, “What will you see?” He or she must answer with another word that begins with an “A”, such as choosing “airplane.” Another player is asked the same two questions, but must answer by choosing a word that begins with the letter “B.” The players continue through the alphabet. Any words beginning with the correct letter can be used as answers. 3. Puzzle Time: Take a piece of paper and draw five to ten zigzag lines on the paper. Now carefully cut or tear the pieces and give them to 8. Lines and Circles: One player thinks of another player. Time that person to see how an object he or she has seen on the trip and describes it for the other players to draw. The quickly he or she can put the puzzle together. “catch” to this game is that the person describing 4. Human, Net, Butterfly: All of the players the object may only use lines and circles in the count to three. On the number three, each person description. For example, the description of a makes one of the following signals: fence might be “Make one line going from one · Human (pretend to look through binoculars end of the paper to the other, right to left. Make by making two circles with the thumbs and index the line straight. Now make lines cross that line fingers. several inches apart going close from the top to · Butterfly Net (make a big circle overhead the bottom of the page.” The result should be a fence or other object the player has described, with the fingertips touching). but often what shows up on the page is · Butterfly (extend forearms out to the side hilariously different. like wings). 9. Time’s Up: One player uses a watch to time “Human” beats “Net”, “Net” beats the one minute and begins by saying “go” at the “Butterfly”, and “Butterfly” beats the “Human.” beginning of the minute. The other players Score one point for each signal which beats cannot see the watch, but may say “Stop” at the moment they believe a minute is up. The player another. Ten points wins the game. who gets closest to a minute without exceeding 5. Board Soccer: Use a magazine or piece of the time limit wins. cardboard to create a “playing field” that sits between two players. Each player then uses a 10. Matching Numbers: Everyone writes the straw to blow a wadded piece of paper off the number 1 through 10 all over their blank sheet opponent’s side of the board. No one can touch of paper. Next they write the numbers on the the wadded paper. Score one point each time paper again, in different places away from the first set of numbers. Players then exchange the paper is blown off the opponent’s side. papers and see who can match up the numbers 6. The Alphabet Game: All players start with first by connecting them with lines. The first the letter “A” and one at a time name out loud player to match all the numbers is the winner. an object they see (or have seen ) inside or outside the vehicle that begins with that letter. “TEN SUMMERTIME TRAVEL GAMES FOR For example, one player starts with “A-animal.” LITTLE KIDS” Provided courtesy of Pete Bealba The next follows with “B-billboard,” etc. The of Mansell & Associates, 745-8800. game continues through the alphabet, with Senior Meals Provided at the Ogden Valley Library July 22nd: Barbecued Pork Chop, Baked Beans, Zucchini and Yellow Squash, Carrot and Pineapple Salad, Cherry Cottage Cake, and Potato Roll. July 29th: Dinner Steak, Baked Potato with Sour Cream, Mushrooms and Onions, Pineapple and Apricot/ Yogurt Dressing, Chocolate Pudding, and Dinner Roll. Aug 5th: Turkey Tetrazinni, Spinach, Cottage Cheese and Tomato, Fruit Cocktail Cake with Whipped Topping, and Buttermilk Roll. Aug 12th: Spaghetti and Meat Sauce, Parmesan Cheese, Steamed Peas, Tossed |