Children's old-fashioned games

 So this game is for children who can spell. It goes: "I love my love with an A Because she's Attractive She eats Apples She drives an Audi And she lives in Australia"  Next person: "I love my love with a B Because he is Beautiful He eats Bagels He rides a Bicycle And he lives in Botswana." You make up your own categories of course, and we usually skip out X (but not always!)

 So you sing something like: "You are my sunshine/ My only sunshine-- " Here you break off and say, okay, I'm stopping on the word "sunshine". The children have to think of a song with the word 'Sunshine' in it. (eg Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy). So the person who chose that, stopped on the word 'happy' . So the next song must contain the word and so whoever thinks of "If you're happy and you know it clap your hands " wins and then the winner thinks of a song with 'hands' in it and so on. You can change the rules of course:  I like songs from different countries, or songs from American states ("Kentucky Blues? West Virginia? California Girls?) then the one who can't think of a song loses. 

 With very little children who can't spell, let them play by choosing something they can see inside the car (not out, because you drive past too fast!) and telling you the colour. So  CHILD: "I spy with my little eye something the colour of Black and Silver" YOU: "Rearview Mirror?" CHILD: "No!" YOU: "Steering Wheel?" CHILD: "Yes!" YOU: "My turn". With older children the words go: "I spy with my little eye something beginning with F" ... and it could be a fence or a field, something that isn't seen in a flash, that is.