Waiting, it is so boring or is it?
Have you and a friend ever had to wait on an adult while they ran an errand? Maybe you have had to sit and wait in a waiting room while the adult is inside an office for a brief meeting. Once they are done, there are plans to go to the park, pool or any number of fun places, but first there is the waiting.
Playing quiet games can make the time go by faster!
What kind of games can you play in situations like this?
- I spy! Someone says, "I spy something . . . (of a certain color).
- The other person/s guess what the item is.
- Name that tune!
- One person hums or whistles a tune, while the other person guesses the name.
- You can also discuss ideas, make plans for things that you want to do later.
- You can share secrets or tell stories . . .
Many on Castle Land enjoy the TV show Wheel of Fortune.
Often Chance and Tally, brother and sister cub bears, who live in the Village, located in the center of Castle Land, have to wait on their papa bear when he has to tend to things in the Village Bank. This often happens on Saturday mornings before they leave for one of their adventures in the woods. The two cub bears wait sitting at the picnic tables in the Village Square. Chance takes out his tablet and Tally takes out her favorite heart pencil and they begin to play Chance's version of Wheel of Fortune.
Since they have no wheel their method is different, but they find it to be just as much fun, and equally challenging of their spelling skills.
They take turns thinking of words. One of them puts as many lines on the piece of paper as letters in the word/s. The other picks out the letters. The right ones are written on the lines in the correct space where they belong in the word.
The wrong letters are listed off to the side. Each wrong guess adds a circle to their bear.
As soon as the word is recognized they say what they think it is. Their bear of circles is their score keeper; Chance calls him Blue Bear; too many wrong answers results in someone being blue. If the bear is finished before the word is recognized somebody loses.
The one with the most correct words when papa bear arrives, gets to decide which path they take into the woods that day. If they win all the games played, then they get to decide which turns, left or right, they will take at each of the paths they come to on their adventure. They do this hoping that Papa bear always knows where they are. Once he didn't and they got lost, but that is a story for later.
Eight circles for single words; note the light blue circles . Twelve more circles are for phrases; note the black circles.
Twenty chances in all!
Cassie the mouse's favorite waiting game is Tic-Tac-Toe, but sometimes her friends don't want to play that game, because she always seems to win.
So Cassie suggest instead, Boxes!
On a piece of paper Cassie makes ten dots about a half of inch apart across, and then ten dots down, from their she adds more dots until she has ten rows of ten dots.
X
0
C
Once Cassie finishes making all the dots, she and her friend take turns drawing lines, connecting the dots.
When a box is formed they get to write in their initial, and take an extra turn.
The one in the end (when all the dots are connected) with the most boxes with their initial inside, wins! Cassie is good at this game but she does not always win.
What about when you have to stay inside and there is no power, what games do you play? Have you ever tried a reading round, taking turns
reading a story, or creating a story?
Do you have favorite games you play when you have to sit and wait? Share them, by sending them in an e-mail. You may see yours posted here!
Coming are more favorite games played on Castle Land!
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What if you have a pencil and piece of paper; What games can you play?
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