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Bed Sheet Ping Pong

Form two teams. Each team holds an opposite end of a bed sheet. A ping pong ball is placed in the middle of the sheet. The object is to get the ball to fall off of the other teams side, for a point. The sheet can be raised and lowered as needed but remind the players to be careful not to "launch" the ball as they will be very inclined to do so.

Pencil in the bottle

This is a hilarious game and can either be played one-by-one or in a team relay. Tie string around a pencil. Kids then tie the string around their waists so that the pencil hangs down behind them about six inches. On ‘go’ the must then stoop down and insert the pencil into a plastic bottle.

Celebrity Bingo

Cut out enough pictures of different celebrities from magazines to fill up a few bingo boards. One picture in each box. Then use copies of those same pictures in a box to call out the "bingo".

Charades down the lane

This is a comination of Charades and Whisper Down the Lane (some people call it Telephone).

Three people leave the room. The rest of the group makes up a short story and picks one representative to act the story out. The first person enters the room and the actor acts out the story. The first person of course has no idea what the story was about, they can only imitate the actions that the actor/story teller did.

It is now this first person's job to communicate the story/actions to the second person who has been outside. You can cut the game off now and have the second person guess or make it even harder and have them act out this watered down version to a third person. The third person must explain what they think the story is. This is very amusing for all. It is also interesting to see what the middle people had interpreted and tried to communicate.