Hobbies And Interests
Desert Islands
Similar to musical chairs, Desert Islands requires that all players stands in a circle in an open area. Before play begins, grab various pieces of card stock or construction paper and tape them to the floor or secure them with rocks in the grass. You'll need one less piece of paper than the number of people you expect to play. A pre-designated DJ starts the music, and participants stroll around the circle, behind the papers. When the music stops, players must make it onto a "desert island" to prevent them from "getting swept away into the ocean." Begin starting each next round of play, make sure you take away one more "desert island" so that there are consistently one less island than game participants. The last player standing on his own island wins.
Musical Statues
Musical Statues is a fun, active game enjoyed by kids both younger and older. It is appropriate for small and large groups of players. Make sure you have ample open space. Before starting play, select music that is lively and will encourage kids to keep moving. Pop music is the best option. Also, designate an adult or older youth to be "DJ" and have her hide the music player out of sight of the kids, so they can't watch her switching the music on and off. To start the game, all participants stand arm's distance apart from one another and the DJ plays the music. All the kids must jump, dance, hop, skip and run around as long as music play continues. Whenever the DJ stops the music all kids must immediately freeze in a statue position. The first person to move out of her statue pose is out. The last player left successfully standing in statue position after multiple rounds of musical play is the winner. Consider giving out a kid's party music CD as a prize.
Freeze Dance
Have a music player and lively pop music on hand for this game. If you're entertaining preschool age kids and interested in using traditional nursery rhyme tunes, select a CD that puts a modern, hip twist on it so the music encourages dancing. To begin play, all participants take a spot in the middle of the open play are, leaving some distance between himself and the other players. While the music plays kids dance around, keeping their bodies moving and shaking. When the music stops players must freeze in a specific position. Consider putting a certain theme on each round of play-for ex., all players must freeze as an animal in round one, as a piece of furniture for the second one and as their favorite toy shape in the third. The last person to make it into an appropriately frozen form according to that round's suggestion is out. Play continues until one person is left standing.