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- From: macman@bernina.ethz.ch (Danny Schwendener)
- Newsgroups: rec.scouting
- Subject: Re: Christmas Games
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.000116.248@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:01:16 GMT
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- Organization: Peppermint Software Inc.
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- John_Morgan@mindlink.bc.ca (John Morgan) writes:
- >Does any one out there have any games to play at a Christmas party? The
- >games must have some sort of Christmas theme to them so tag, dodge ball etc.
- >are out for this once a year occasion.
-
- Well it all depends on whether you plan to do it indoors our outdoors.
- Here are a few ideas, but keep in mind that they're coming from a
- country where a consistant plot (a 'fil rouge') is a crucial point
- in every scouting activity.
-
- I would embed the games into a Christmas story. For example about a
- little angel who has neglected his duties, and preferred to play aureola
- frisbee and cloud soccer with the little devils instead of doing his
- daily good actions (games: play frisbee with a frisbee ring, and soccer
- by having the teams blow on a cotton wool ball over a table).
-
- The case came to Petrus who decided to send the little angel on a
- penitence mission in the world of darkness and the world of silence.
- Describe the kids how the angel felt desperately lost and alone in these
- worlds; How he meets a blind boy in the world of darkness, and a deaf
- boy in the world of silence; How these two kids show him that they can
- get along very well in their respective worlds despite their respective
- handicaps, by using the remaining senses -- odor, hearing and touch in
- the world of darkness / sight in the world of silence --.
-
- Make heavy use of Kim and trust games in the world of darkness, and of
- pantomime games in the world of silence. Tell how the angel is marked by
- these two encounters, and how he decides to help the people lost in one
- of these worlds. End the story by telling that Petrus, seing the angel
- at work and his quest now over, called him back to paradise.
-
- Okay, I made that story up while writing this E-mail, so there are still
- a few details to polish, but all in all, you have here largely enough
- material for a whole afternoon. By including one or two wide games, you
- could even use it as base for a cub scout weekend.
-
-
- -- Danny Schwendener macman@bernina.ethz.ch
- Wolfsmeute Nidau/Glockenhof, Sihlstr. 33, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
- m.h.c. Troop 14, San Francisco
-