Hobbies And Interests
Build a Burger
"Pin the Tail on the Donkey" is a classic kids' party game. "Build a Burger" is similar. The children divide into teams. Provide each team with a blindfold, felt-covered bulletin board and the makings of a hamburger cut out of felt. Include a bottom bun cut from beige felt, lettuce leaf from green felt, tomato slice from red felt, mustard from yellow felt, hamburger from brown felt and ketchup from red felt. Blindfold the first team member. He attaches the bottom bun to the bulletin board---felt sticks to felt. The second team member then tries to place the lettuce leaf on the bun, the third the tomato slice and so forth. The winner is the team who finishes first.
Remember the Hamburger
Hamburgers have lots of yummy toppings from A to Z, and that's what this game is about. Each player adds a topping with that begins with the next letter of the alphabet after repeating all the previous ingredients. For example: The first player says, "I'm making a hamburger, and it has avocado." The second player says, "I'm making a hamburger, and it has avocado and bacon." The third player says, "I'm making a hamburger and it has avocado, bacon and cheese." All ingredients have to be edible, but they don't have to be normally eaten with a burger. The winner is the player who remembers all the ingredients in the correct order. If kids get stuck on the letter "X," give creative hints or let them skip it. It's only two letters away from the end of the alphabet.
Burger Puzzle
Put this burger together first and you win. Download a photo of a hamburger with all the fixings. Print the photo out on 8 1/2-by-11-inch paper. Glue the paper to card stock. Using a store-bought puzzle as a guide, cut the card stock into puzzle pieces. Each child receives a puzzle. The first one to put it together wins. An alternative game is to switch one of the puzzle pieces out with another puzzle, so no puzzle has all the correct pieces. The players have to cooperate with each other by trading pieces until they find the one that fits their puzzle.
Online Games
There's a bundle of burger games to be played online for different age groups. Borrow a few laptops with wireless connection. Set them up for the children to play by themselves during quieter times. "Turkey Burger" has children filling orders according to customer requests. They have to do it before time runs out. "Burger Point" has kids look at a list of ingredients that then disappear. They are asked to build a burger based on some of the ingredients. If they get the list right, they win. "Burger Run" is another burger-building game based on ingredients and time.