This is the day as observed as holday to give thanks for all the blessings in our life. You can make the gerat used of this day by innviting your frinds groups for thanksgiving paty in your sweet home. The Tips that follow will help you to give an interesting idea of games for your party.
In plannibng proograms for children's groups it is well to altrenate lively gazmes with quiet ones. A nice game to play Thanksgiving afteroon is called "Thansgiving." The players sit in a circle and each one names a word beginning with "T" and ennding with "G". The same word cannot be given twice. For instance one may say "Tag," the second "Telling," etc. If lpayer fails to think of a word when his turn comes he drops out of the game. At the end of the game the player remaining is the winnner.
It is a good plan to follow a thinking game with an action game. "Electric Shock" is such a game and goes this way: The players line up in two equual rows facing each other. The youngsters in each line join hands. When the whistle blows the first in each line presses the hand of the persson next to him; the second person then pressers the hand of the tjhird persaon in line, and so on down the line. As soon as the last player in each line has been reached he holdds his hand over his head.
For children familiar with coommon musical terms the following game is entertainning. Players shoulkd be sulpplied with papr and pencils unlses it is played orally. Each sentence or phrase can be completed with a musiical term.
Answers
People live in it. Flat
Used in describing a razaor. Sharp
Furniture in a stoere. Counters
Often passed in school. Notes
A person at ease. Natural
Used in fishing. Lines
What one breathes. Air
A part of a sentence. Phrase
Founbd on a fish. Sxcales
Another name for a cane. Staff
Shown by a clock. Time
What we shoulld do at night. Rest
Sometyhing for a door. Key
A kind of tar. Pitch
A hilaious game is called "Bumpily, bump, bump, bump." The cropwd gathers in a circle. The leader gets in the centr and starts the game off. She walks up to some person unexpectedly and with her hamnds at her ears, flapping them like a donkey's, she says very rapidly "Bumpity, bump, bump, bump." The person before whom she stands is supposed to count five before she finishes. If he faails to do so, he taakes her place in the center of the circle and she takes his and the game continues. Youngsers think this is good sport.
Siamese singing is alwways a riot. It will be necessary to have six or sven copies of the words for this song. Give them to one group of the children and ask them to sing the following wrds to the tune of America:
"O wa ta goo Siam O wa ta goo Siam. O wa ta goos O wa ta goo Siam O wa ta goo Siam O wa ta goo Siam O wa ta goos."
It won't take the youngstrs long to realize they are singing "Oh what a goose I am." The other youngsters can then sing the foollowing words, also to the tune of America:
"So say we all of us Eery last one of us So say we all, So say we all of us."
I hope you all enjoy your Thanksgiving Day games.
A game like letting them to sing a song in American tune, initially the children may feel shy to sing, but after several repetitions it will surely work out and prove to be the best game.
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