Magic Carpets Game
by Elaine
(Manitoba, Canada)
Magic Carpets - A Game Of Cooperation And Giggles!
Tell the girls they are princesses heading off for a magic carpet ride around the country side but someone keeps stealing the magic carpets.
The game is played simular to musical chairs only using pillows/carpets samples. Size them according to the number of kids you have, make it a challenge but not impossible. Start with one less "magic carpet" then you have kids, when the music stops every child needs to get completely on a carpet (no feet on the floor), the odd one out has to share with someone. Start the music again, this time you'll either have two people sharing carpets or one carpet with three kids. Continue this way until there is only one "carpet" left, now ALL the kids need to get at least one foot on the only "carpet" and remove the other foot from the floor. They need to help one another to see if they will all be able to fly away on the lone carpet.
Eventually they just end up in a mass of giggles on the floor.
This game is easily modified to other themes - For Mermaids tell the kids they are swimming and when the parent yells "shark" they have to climb on the "back of a turtle/a rock"... you need to share, because you don't want your fellow mermaids to be eaten by a shark.
For Pirates/cast aways - call it rocks or rowboats.
For Cowboys - bandits are chasing you the pillows are horses.
etc.
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