Kid's Riddles and Games

Conductors Train Ride

Ages 7 – 11 / Players needed 8 – 18

• Sit in a circle with your guests.

• Explain the game as follows: "You are going on a train trip. Everyone wants to go on the trip but no one can go unless the Conductor says they can join the club and have what they need for the trip. If you have what you need you can board to train for the trip but if not you have to wait until your next turn to tell what you would bring. There is a trick connected with what he would like to have you bring but I can’t tell you that until the end of the game. If you listen carefully you may be able to figure it out." (The trick is that each person must bring something along which begins with the same letter of their name…to make it more challenging you may have them use first and last name initials and bring two objects.)

• Begin by telling your guests what you would bring on the trip. Don’t hint that it has anything to do with your name. If your name is Jerry Smith, say "I’m going on a train trip and I’m taking a "jacket" and a "suitcase". Encourage one-word answers such as "cake" rather than "a piece of cake."

• Go around the circle counterclockwise, asking each child in turn what he/she would bring. If someone uses your answer, but has different initials, explain that you can go on the trip but the Conductor won’t let them on the train with the same items. Someone may guess correctly purely by accident. Capitalize on that guess by repeating: Bobby can bring a "basketball", Scott can bring a "soda", and Amber can bring an "apple", what can you bring?

• If the game drags on with no correct guesses, try this: Shane just guessed a "flashlight", he can’t get on the trip, neither can Eddie, but Frank could go with a "flashlight".

• The trick will soon become clear to the majority of your guests. Suggest that they explain it to those who still don’t understand.

• Variation – For Halloween have them join the Witch’s broom trip, at Christmas the Santa sleigh ride, at Easter the Bunny’s road trip.

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Railroad Crossing

• Sit in a circle with your guests.

• Tell them you are going to ask them to say something. Also tell them there is a trick to the game.

• Say "Railroad crossing lookout for the cars - can you say that without any R’s" do so without emphasizing any of the words. Ask the guest to try what you told him. Go right around the circle.

• If someone says the phrase correctly, indicate at the end who it was. (The trick is that you are telling the guest to say that without saying anything else. Thus the only correct response is just the single word "that")

• If no one said the phrase correctly, go around the circle again. Most children will try to imitate an inflection in your voice. Or perhaps they will try to copy the position of your feet or hands.

Animals Fly

Ages 5 - 6  / Players needed 6 - 15

• Have the children stand or sit in a semicircle facing you.  Explain that you are going to call out an animal - something like "robins fly" and that every child must flap his arms like wings. However, you may say "elephants fly" then no one should wave his arms (because elephants can't fly).

• Practice a few times, using the names of animals that do or do not fly, until you think the children understand what to do.

• Then announce that the game is starting. From that point on, any child who does not wave his arms when you mention an animal that can fly is out. Any child who waves his arms when you call out an animal that cannot fly is also out.

• Call out the animals' names as rapidly as possible. Continue playing until only one child is left. This child is the winner.

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