Most people who have been in a play or, indeed, played with children, will know the game ‘Zip, zap, boing’. Basically, you stand in a circle and pass a ‘zip’ to the person next to you. You can ‘zap’ across the circle or ‘boing’ to send the zip the other way. The aim is to get the group focused and energetic, passing zips and zaps in the blink of an eye.
Once you’ve mastered that, you can add in your own. These are some of ours:
- ‘High five’ – high five the person next to you and carry on round the group.
- ‘Ho-down’ – everyone does a little jig to banjo impressions.
- ‘Penalty’ – instead of a ‘zap’ you kick an imaginary ball across the circle to a person who has to catch it.
- ‘How do you do?’ – another ‘zap’ alternative, this time you switch places with the person you’re addressing and shake their hand as you pass.
- The Rugby Tackle – does what it says on the tin. You rugby tackle someone else in the circle instead of a zap.
- ‘Whee!’ – you spin in a circle saying ‘Whee!’, then everyone else has to do so too.
The possibilities are endless – we came up with these – what would you propose?
Posted on December 22nd 2009 in Uncategorized
