Dangerous Games...

Thinking about dangerous kid games makes me initially think of Dangerous Minds with Michelle Pfeiffer. I know that's not exactly on topic, but it's where my mind took me. After all, isn't teaching a dangerous game???

Then I think of Connell's short story "The Most Dangerous Game." General Zaroff did indeed create a dangerous game... hunting the hunter. I wish I was as kick-ass as Rainsford.

I also think of the Jack Gantos story we read yesterday during Dr. Dixey's demo on teaching boys. Jack Gantos could probably come up with a million thousand dangerous kid games. I'm not that creative. I've been thinking and no original game comes to mind. Maybe I'm not as twisted as I thought I was. So, I think I'll just come up with variations on existing kid games...

Marco Cake -O - Blindfolded, knife-wielding kids attempt to find the cake in a crowded room of children and cut it. (This idea comes from a story my dad tells of his childhood when my Uncle Charlie stabbed him with a butter knife because my Daddy wouldn't cut him a piece of Grandma Bessie's German Chocolate cake. Crazy, huh?)

TAG! You're BURNED! - Kids engage in a game of tag, carrying mini versions of welding equipment strapped to their backs. When they tag someone, they literally "tag" them... by marking them with whatever sign they've chosen as their signature. Kid with the most burned "tags" wins.

Operation - Kids play simultaneous versions of the game Operation - using the board game as a guide, the doctor performs appendectomies and frontal lobotomies on his or her patient. Rock, Paper, Scissors should be used to determine who is "Doctor" and who is "Patient X" as it is the most fair way to determine superiority in children under the age of 13.

Heads Up, Seven DOWN - All but seven players sit at desks or tables and put their heads down. Seven select children tiptoe around the room and tap one child each on the head. When all seven players have tapped a child, the seven tapped stand up. They get to guess who tapped them. The catch? All seated kids are armed with Uzis. If they guess correctly, it just might be Heads Up, Seven DOWN.