Fishes in the Sea
Many thanks to Jenneth Curtis, who posted this game on the Guide Mailing List!
Each girl gets a chair and places it in the circle so that the chair backs are on the inside and the girls sit facing out. The names of three fish are chosen such as: cod, herring, salmon, assign the girls each one of the fish names so that they are divided about equally among the names and not all the cod, for example, are sitting beside each other. Now, a leader calls out instructions and the girls follow them like this:
Leader: the cod are swimming (the "cod" get up and walk around the circle in one direction) Leader: the herring are swimming (the "herring" join the cod walking around the circle) Leader: the sea is getting choppy (the girls walk faster) Leader: the sea is very choppy (girls run around the circle) Leader: the tide is turning (girls change direction and walk the other way) Leader: the sharks are coming (girls sit in the nearest chair)
When the girls are moving in the circle one chair is removed, as in musical chairs, so that when the sharks come someone is left without a chair and she is "out", then the game continues with the leader calling out instructions as she chooses, and removing one chair each time until one girl is left as the winner.
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