Saturday, May 06, 2006

Who wants to play Rocks!?!

Yep that's right, I created a game yesterday at work called Rocks. Now I'm sure you are dying to know what this wonderful/exciting game could be so let me just explain, but first how I was inspired to create such a game: yesterday I had 10 kids (4-5 yr old) and we went down for lunch. When the kids are done with lunch they get really rambunctious and hard to control, so I try to have them sit by the "white wall" but they still seem to spread out in the multi-purpose room and then some of them start running around or spinning around and are just hard to control, so I was thinking about how I could get them to stay relatively still... and so Rocks was created!!! I have the kids sit by the wall and pretend to be a any kind of rock that they want to be, some of them group together and great large rocks or some of them lay flat and make smooth rocks. Does this game actually work, hell yeah it does!! The kids just think they are having a fun time when really I just want them to sit still. This game only goes on for about 3 minutes, just long enough for me to clean the tables and get everyone ready to go upstairs. After that is taken care of we play red light green light, so they eventually get to run around. Anyway it is a great game and the kids seem to enjoy it, I know I do ;)

4 comments:

Steph said...

Rocks made me laugh. I like the idea for trees next time.

emily said...

i think you are the most brilliant person i know. i want you around when i have kids

Sara said...

you are brilliant and you are amazing with kids...

Adriane said...

you go girl! will you plan my kids' birthday parties?!