s A Courier sun SPECIAL Section Father’s Day Guide GREAT GIFT IDEAS IT’S ALL A GAME By Ronda Addy Looking for some games to play on Father’s Day? Here are some that can be played at a party at home or a celebration at school. For this game, you need a pencil or stick on which you can hang a congratulations card or photo. Divide players into two teams and have each team sit on opposite sides of the table. Then instruct the teams to pass around the stick using only their lips. The first team to do so wins. For this game, you need 15 different colored pingbong balls or peas. Toss the balls or peas around the room and then have players gather as many as possible with a scoop and bucket in the time allotted. The player with the most when time is called wins. For this game, you need nothing but a good memory. Have players sit in a circle. Select one to go first and ask them to say, “My dad is leaving for a business trip to” a city or country beginning with the letter “a.” The next student must repeat the sentence with the location named and add one of their own starting with the letter “b.” Play continues with each student adding a new location beginning with the next successive letter of the alphabet. Any student who forgets a location is out of the game. For this game, you need to select someone to play Dad and establish a start and a finish line. Ask the person playing Dad to stand at the finish line, while the other players stand at the start line. Then instruct the players one at a time to ask the question, “Father, may I take three giant steps?” Dad should respond with a yes or no. If Dad says no, the player must wait until their next turn to ask Dad again. The first player to cross the finish line wins. For this game, players must bring a color photograph of their dad and a brief description of how he looks in the photo. You should collect the photos and hand them out to the players, making sure no gets the photo of their dad. Select someone to go first and instruct them to ask a player, “Have you seen my father?” That player should respond, “I don’t know. What does he look like?” The player should then read the first sentence of their description. If the player thinks they have the photo of the dad being described, they should say so. If not, they should ask for further description until they know for sure. Play continues this way until a player locates the photo of their father. That person wins the game. For this outdoor game, you will need some flowerpots and buckets of water. Set up the pots at one end of the yard and the buckets of water at the other. Then instruct the players to line up by the flowerpots, and on the word “go,” to race to the buckets and bring them back to water their flowers. The first player to do so wins. For this game of miniature backyard golf, you will need some cans to use as holes, toys to use as obstacles, ping-pong balls to use as golf balls and some PVC pipes to use as golf clubs. Set up the golf course and then instruct the players to have at it. The player with the best score wins. Father’s Day is a time for doing things together. At no time does that happen more often than when everyone is playing a game. Get out there and have some fun.
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