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I’m always looking for games to keep kids entertained in waiting rooms, on airplanes, and during unexpected delays. This fun and simple drawing game is one Mike’s mom used with him as a kid, and it has become our favorite waiting room game for kids.
It’s simple! Take a sheet of paper and a pen/crayon/marker. Fold it in half. Without letting the other person see, draw half of something, like this:
Extend the lines slightly past the fold, and pass the paper to the other player, with the side you extended the lines onto facing up. Their job is to extend those lines into something of their own choosing, like this:
And so, you get the entertaining sheep-duck featured at the top of this post! Here are a few other favorite creations:
Did you ever see a chicken cow?
How about a goat clown? Or an airplane blimp?
What are your favorite ways to entertain kids when they have to sit and wait?
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These are fantastic!! We play I-spy and rock-paper-scissors. :)
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Cute! We play I Spy a lot. We also play “person, place, or thing”. I’ll try this.
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Such a cute idea!!!
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How neat! Our favorite is a “guessing game” where the objective is to ask questions to figure out what the other person is thinking of.
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Awesome drawings!
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Cute idea!
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I keep small toys in my purse. I’d forgotten about this idea
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What a cute idea! JDaniel will love this!
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I loved your idea! I’ll be trying this with my kids, maybe even today. :)
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We do eye spy with my little eye and a few others when we’re stuck waiting.
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This is such a great idea! So easy and fun!
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What a fun and engaging game! I must try this with the kids – they will love it. And I won’t even wait for waiting room situations! Thanks, MaryAnne!
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That looks like fun! We will have to give it a try. I always keep a few crayons in my purse for emergencies. My daughter likes to make up and tell her own stories to pass the time. Or we play the Alphabet game where you pick a category and go through alphabet trying to think of things that start with each of the letters (i.e. Animals — Ape, Bear, Cat …)
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LOL — I do this with the kiddos too!! Fun!!!
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I LOVE this idea! Our favorite in-line game is face making: I do things like smirk, wink or snarl and see if the kids can replicate them. Once they learn to wink, we play “sneak a wink” – I try to wink at one person without the others seeing and then they try to do the same etc. These are my favorite because they giggle a lot but don’t talk because their face is busy. I also love to hand out gum and try to teach them to blow bubbles. It takes a while since you have to dissolve the sugars in the gum so I love it for longer waits. Once the older ones can blow bubbles, they teach the younger ones while you read a magazine1
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maryanne Reply:
December 30th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
Great, time-consuming suggestions! Thanks!
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That’s a great game! I love that it also helps get kids out of the right/wrong mindset into the funny mindset.
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I remember doing that as a kid! I like the goat clown, nice.
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Love this! Growing up we liked to play the easy game “Squares” connecting dots with lines to form squares.
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maryanne Reply:
December 30th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I played that game growing up, too! So much fun!
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Great idea – love the simplicity and flexibility!
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What a great idea. A perfect waiting room game :)
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That’s a fun game. We sometimes do simple mazes that I draw for Logan. We were there right before Christmas so we did Santa to the house.. really simple sketches. older kids could even draw them and trade to solve.
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Great creative thinking activity! Thanks for sharing.
Jen
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This looks like a great way to pass time!
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maryanne Reply:
April 26th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
It’s always a hit with my kids!
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