{"id":389,"date":"2011-02-21T02:41:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/musical-games-for-your-family-reunion-or-party\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T02:41:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T02:41:45","slug":"musical-games-for-your-family-reunion-or-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/musical-games-for-your-family-reunion-or-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Games for Your Family Reunion or Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you plan your family reunion, consider planning a few musical games and activities. \u201cMusical Chairs\u201d is a fun game if someone doesn\u2019t have to go to the emergency room.  I\u2019ve never played a \u201cfriendly\u201d game of \u201cMusical Chairs\u201d. A calmer version of the game is \u201cMusical Island\u201d. To get the wiggles out, try a little \u201cDice Dancing\u201d, and for a new twist on \u201cCharades\u201d try \u201cSong<\/i><\/b> Charades\u201d. Make sure you plan for my favorite<\/em> musical activity, \u201cThere\u2019s a Spider On My\u2026\u201d it even works around the campfire.<\/p>\n

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Song Relay<\/b><\/p>\n

This is a fun and simple game to play while you\u2019re waiting for an activity or event to begin. Choose a familiar song that all the players know like \u201cRow, Row, Row Your Boat\u201d. Sit in a circle and determine the order of singers. The #1 singer sings the first line of the song and passes the song on to the #2 singer who continues with the second line of the song with NO break in the rhythm. Keep passing the song to each singer until the song is completed. As you get a little experience try more difficult songs or try singing each WORD individually.<\/p>\n

For example: Singer #1: Row
#2: Row
#3: Row 
#4: Your 
#5: Boat 
#6: Gently
#7: Down 
#8: The
#9: Stream <\/p>\n

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Dice Dancing<\/b><\/p>\n

You\u2019ll need a dice for this game. Designate six spaces on your dance floor as space #1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Put up simple signs for each area or use numbered hula hoops. While music is playing, have the kids dance around the dance floor. When the music stops, the kids should move to one of the six spaces. Roll the dice, and the kids at that number are out. (I have a large 3- inch die I like to use) Start the music again and continue until you have one or two children left- they are your winners.<\/p>\n

Hint: When you get down to 10 dancers tell them that when the music stops there can only be two children on a number and when you get down to 5 dancers tell them they may only have 1 person on a number. (Sometimes I tell them that if I roll the number \u201c1\u201d EVERYONE is back in to start dancing again- they love that!)<\/p>\n

Hint: You can also play this in a private swimming pool. Participants swim around until the music stops and then they have to quickly swim to a number.<\/p>\n

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Song Charades<\/b><\/p>\n

\"clip_image006\"<\/a>Play song charades with your party guests. Divide the group into two teams. One person from one team is it and thinks of a song. He acts out that song, without using words, just as in normal charades play. If no one can guess what song he is trying to act out after one minute, he has the option of allowing the other team to guess and get a point or by humming the tune of the song, hoping to get his team to guess and receive the point. Play alternates back and forth until one team gets to a predetermined number of points. <\/p>\n

Musical Island<\/b><\/p>\n

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Play this game like Musical Chairs. Put a carpet mat or piece of laminated poster board on the floor- that\u2019s the island. All the players walk around in a circle, and as they go round, they must step on the mat. When the music stops, the player on the mat is out. <\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a Spider on\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

(Sung to \u201cIf You\u2019re Happy and You Know It\u201d Uses the chords F, B flat and C7)<\/p>\n

This is my favorite group sing-a-long song. Give everyone a spider to sing with. Kids of all ages have fun with this music activity. Older groups will want to make up their own verses)<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a spider on the floor on the floor
There\u2019s a spider on the floor-
He just walked right through the door
There\u2019s a spider on the floor on the floor<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a spider on my toes
And he\u2019s wiggling his nose <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a spider on my knee
And he\u2019s really scaring me<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a spider on my thigh
And I think I\u2019m going to cry<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a spider on my belly
He\u2019s eating strawberry jelly<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a spider on my neck on my neck  \"image\"<\/a>
I feel just like a wreck
(OH MY HECK)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a spider on my ear
I\u2019m afraid and I\u2019m afear
(OH MY DEAR)<\/p>\n

Now the spider’s on my face, on my face!
Oh, what a big disgrace <\/p>\n

Now the spider’s on my head, on my head!
Oh, I wish that he were dead. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a spider on my back on my back
I\u2019m having an attack<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a spider on my toosh
He\u2019s looking kind of sqooshed<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Musically Yours,<\/p>\n

Aunt MO
www.familyreunionhelper.com<\/a>\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThose who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.<\/a>\u201d \"\" Angela Monet <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you plan your family reunion, consider planning a few musical games and activities. \u201cMusical Chairs\u201d is a fun game if someone doesn\u2019t have to go to the emergency room.  I\u2019ve never played a \u201cfriendly\u201d game of \u201cMusical Chairs\u201d. A … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,155,6,69,131,20,152,154,153,150,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}