Here is a fun game to play around the campfire - Category Hot Potato Game. You will need one marshmallow for your "hot potato". Download Category Games or the Category game freebie. Cut apart the category cards.
How to play:
1. One person is IT and holds the marshmallow. Pass the marshmallow to the person on the right.
2. Pick a category and start to pass the marshmallow to each person around the fire.
3. The person who is IT has to think of three items related to that category before the marshmallow makes it all the way around the campfire back to him/her.
To make it harder: pick a category and a letter. Start with the letter A. The person who is IT has to think of three things in the category that starts with the letter A. For the next round move on to the letter B.
To make it easier: pass the marshmallow around the campfire twice while you think of three items from the category.
To add in some tasty fun: The player to the left of the person who is IT, has to eat the marshmallow to end the round. Therefore, the person who is IT can continue to name things from the category until the marshmallow makes it around the campfire and the last person eats and swallows the entire marshmallow.
Here are some more games to play while you sit around the campfire.
Word association is a simple word game to play while waiting in a restaurant, on a long road trip or sitting around the campfire. All you need to do is to start with one word and then say the first word that pops into your head. The next person says the first word associated with the previous word. Continue this pattern until a set number of words (ie 100 words or everyone takes 5 turns). For example, if player one says CLOUDS, player two says the first word that pops into his/her mind ie SKY, next player says BLUE, next player says RAIN, next player says RAINBOW - POT OF GOLD - LEPRECHAUNS - ST PATRICK'S DAY - GREEN - GRASS and so on.....
For word dissociation, just change the rules and state the first word that pops into your mind that is NOT associated with the word. For example, the starting word is FIRE - WATER - LIGHT - DARK - RAINBOWS - STARS - EARTH'S CORE - OUTER SPACE and so on....
Try it yourself. Creating word associations is much easier than creating word dissociations.
Waiting Games is a 22 page download of twenty games to play while on a road trip, waiting for an appointment or sitting around a campfire. This collection of activities encourages children to develop self-regulation, creativity and communication skills while they wait. Get more information here or add to cart below.
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Need a last minute game around the dinner or restaurant table for some family fun? Or maybe a birthday party is getting a little out of control and you want to settle the children down. Try playing a quick game of "Who Has the Spoon?" Here is how you play:
1. One person is the "GUESSER" and closes his/her eyes tightly throughout the entire round.
2. Everyone else passes a spoon around the table.
3. One person keeps the spoon. That person makes a sound with the spoon. For example, gently tap on the table, clink a glass or smack it on your hand.
4. The guesser has to determine who is making the sound with the spoon.
Want to make it more difficult? Pass around a sugar packet and shake it (much harder to hear).
If someone keeps cheating by opening their eyes (and as parents we all know this will happen - haha) change up the game. One person can still be the guesser but keep his/her eyes open. Pass the spoon under the table to different people. After 10-20 seconds, the guesser has to determine who is holding the spoon. Make sure people are fake passing the spoon to confuse the guesser.
Want to make it more difficult? Pass around a spoon and a sugar packet. The guesser has to determine who is holding the spoon and who is holding the sugar packet.
For either version, everyone must play the game quietly so the guesser can hear the sounds and concentrate.
Waiting Games is a 22 page download of twenty games to play while on a road trip, waiting for an appointment or sitting around a campfire. This collection of activities encourages children to develop self-regulation, creativity and communication skills while they wait. Get more information here or add to cart below.
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Waiting Games is a 22 page download of twenty games to play while on a road trip, waiting for an appointment or sitting around a campfire. This collection of activities encourages children to develop self-regulation, creativity and communication skills while they wait.
This packet includes games such as 60 Seconds, Reverse 20 Questions, Let's Debate, Outside the Box and more!
This is an electronic document so immediately following payment you will receive an email with the link to download the book. You can print it and toss it in the car so you have something to rely on during those times when the kids start to get antsy. If you don't want to print it, just save the PDF to your smartphone or tablet and take it with you to reference wherever you are.
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This is currently one of our favorite go to games while on a road trip or waiting at a restaurant. Here is how you play:
This is a twist on the classic waiting game. Instead of spying something in the room you will spy something from memory.
For example, you will describe an item that you spy in your mind’s eye from your kitchen, a bedroom, your backyard, etc. For example, you might say “I spy with my little eye something hanging on the wall in our kitchen”. Everyone then guesses objects that are hanging on your kitchen wall. If no one guesses it, give an additional clue ie “I spy with my little eye something blue that is hanging on the wall in our kitchen”. Continue play until someone guesses the object.
Try describing other objects from a favorite book, play or movie that everyone is familiar with.
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Waiting Games is a download of 20 games to play while you are on a road trip, waiting at the doctor's office or restaurant or sitting around the campfire. The games do not require any equipment just creativity and imagination.
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