This game is enjoyed by grown-ups as well as by children. Get ready
the cards with the tasks beforehand. At the party suggest your guests to
travel by "the merry train". All the guests who sit at the table are
passing the envelope with the cards around the table. While passing the
envelope they all together recite any poem about the train. As the rhyme
finishes, the guest who has the envelope in his/her hands must take a
card with the task out of the envelope.
Samples of tasks for children:
- Sing a song.
- Say to the player next to you on the right: "What wonderful ears you've got!"
- You are a kangaroo. With the small box between the knees jump around the table.
- Draw a horse, being blindfolded.
- Say any tongue twister 3 times.
- Sit on a stool. Grab a small box which stands at one of the hind legs of the stool with the teeth. (Do not touch the floor with the hands and feet!)
- You are a butterfly. Show how you fly!
- You are a bird. Show how you brood, how you fly for the feeding, how you feed the nestlings.
- You are a rooster. Show how you dig the ground, find the corn and call the hens.
- You are a train. Show how you get in and depart.
- Put three candies into the mouth. Eat them!
- Receive a prize!
- Tell a funny thing.
- Perform a dance of little swans ("Swan Lake")
- Sing a song.
- Kiss the guest next to you on the right.
- Perform a lezginka dance sitting on the chair.
- Pay a compliment to a hostess.
- Persuade the guest next to you on the right to drink a glass of wine.
- Organize a choir out of all the guests. Sing a couplet of any song in a choir.
- Make an appointment for any of the guests.
- Give a smile to all the guests.
- Eat lemon slices smiling!
- Drink a wine-glass of tea with pickled cucumber and say how tasty it is.
- Propose a toast to all the present guests.
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