Hobbies And Interests
Charades Down the Lane
This game is a combination of Charades and Telephone. The instructor should remove three students from the room and have the rest of the kids create a story, which one of them will silently act out. You can also provide the kids with a story to act out if you wish. One of the three students will be brought back into the room and will watch as the story is acted out in front of them. The second removed child will come into the room and the first child will then act out what he or she just watched. The same will be done with the third child. It will then be that third child's turn to tell the group, what he or she thinks the story was. This game can be done multiple times and is guaranteed to get laughs from your kids each time.
Fairy Tale in a Minute
Most kids are familiar with fairy tales, so this is a good genre to work with. The kids will be given a fairy tale, like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, or Hansel and Gretel. If you have trouble thinking up fairy tales, think Disney movies. Give the students a couple of minutes to think about how they would act out the story in one minute. Have them act out the story, and time them, so they are cut off in exactly sixty seconds. Then, to add to the fun, tell them they now have to act out the story in thirty seconds. Then after they have acted it out in the shortened time span, tell them to do it in ten seconds. The kids will have a lot of fun compressing the fairy tales down into shortened times.
Wink Murderer
One person goes out of the room. The rest of the group decides who is going to be the "murderer." When the person returns, she will stand in the middle of the group. The murderer will wink at people, killing them, while the person in the center tries to guess who it is. The kids will have a great time pretending to die horrible gruesome deaths very dramatically. You can have some people wink who are not the murderer as well, to try and throw the person in the center off. Once the murderer is guessed, he will then leave the room for a new round.
The Dream Game
This is another game in which several kids will have to leave the room. The number of students who need to leave will depend on how big your group is, but three is usually a solid number to start with. The students who remain will pretend to create a dream they had last night; in reality, they are doing nothing. When the kids sent out of the room are brought back in, they will ask the group 20 yes or no questions. The group will respond "yes" to any question ending in a vowel such as, "Was your dream about cheese?" and "no" to any question ending in a consonant, such as, "Was I in the dream?" After asking the 20 questions, the group of kids asking the questions will then have to act out the dream.