🐰🐺🐒 Rabbit, Fox, Monkey — The Animal Game
( If you've ever played Paper, Scissors, Rock - You'll love this adaption!)
How to play:

• Rabbit beats Monkey
• Monkey beats Fox
• Fox beats Rabbit

What to do:
1.    Players count to three and show one of the three animals using hand gestures:
   Animal
How to Show It with Your Hand
Rabbit
Make two fingers up like rabbit ears 🐇
Fox
Make a hand shape like a fox’s snout 🦊 (thumb and index finger forming a muzzle shape)
Monkey
Make a fist and wiggle your thumb like a monkey’s tail 🐒
2.    Compare the two animals shown.
3.    The winner is decided by the rules:

• Rabbit beats Monkey (Rabbit hops away from Monkey)
• Monkey beats Fox (Monkey climbs over Fox)
• Fox beats Rabbit (Fox chases Rabbit)

4.    If both players show the same animal, it’s a draw — play again!
 

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Easter Pass the Parcel
A variation on the well known game.
This is played in the same way as at children’s parties except you have a number of parcels circulating according to the size of your group (say one parcel per ten children).
Get everyone into a large circle and give out the parcels with an even number of people between each. Then as the music is played, the parcels are passed around the room from one person to the next as quickly as possible.
When the music stops the people holding the parcel can unwrap one layer of paper. Make sure each parcel is unwrapped to exactly the same point. This way the game will finish with the three or four people getting to the centre at the same time.
For Easter – Between the layers place: a palm cross (talk about why we have a cross on the top on hot cross buns or why people wear crosses around their necks) , an Easter card( What would you write about Easter in a card to a friend ?), a large nail (Jesus didn’t deserve to die -crucifixion), an easter egg (tomb), a clean sheet of paper (nothing on it- Jesus forgave our sins) . The gift could be a a small box of chocolates (celebrate that Jesus is alive).
Use the items to recap the Easter story.