Fruit Basket
Many thanks to Margret Jones who posted this to the Guide Mailing List!
Everyone has a chair in a circle (or could have a circle within another circle - as long as chairs in the inside circle were not put too close to each other). You can just ask girls to pick (choose) a fruit (e.g., apples peaches pears or plums) or you can go around the circle and assign each one a fruit (but when you have lots of players this might take too much time). The fruit they pick is the fruit they are for the entire game.
Then someone in the center calls out one fruit name - all the girls that have chosen that fruit stand up and must change places (and NOT to the chair next to them). Meanwhile the person in the center tries to sit down on an unoccupied chair. So - you end up with one person left with no chair - they then are in the center and call out another fruit! Once the game is clear, call out more than one fruit at a time - or FRUIT BASKET - which means EVERYONE must stand up and run around to find another chair.
Please note: "Fruit Basket" is from the book "New Games for the Whole Family" by Dale N. LeFevre (Perigee Books published by Putnam Publishing Group New York 1988) The games in it are great!
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