Booty Spell
No, this isn’t some kind of magic spell cast on my fat butt. It is one of the many “games” played at Falls Creek. After all, you have to have some things planned for kids who have no access to computers, cell phones, Ipods, Nintendos or televisions. They actually had to communicate with one another and with the adults present. To keep them out of trouble and occupied our youth minister had games planned for some of our time in the cabin. I must admit that some were hysterical and some made me gag. The funniest was the “booty spell”. When a camper would get some mail they would be called to the front of the room and have to spell out a word using only their booty. You know…..pretend you have a pencil stuck in your crack and you are writing a word. You know you want to try it. Go ahead…. I’ll wait…………………………………………..Okay, now wasn’t that fun? It was also hilarious.
Another one that wasn’t so fun, at least from my perspective, was the Alphabet game. The youth director opened about 20 cans of Alphabet Spaghetti-o’s and poured them into a big pan. Each team had to select one member of their team to participate. That team member had to put their face in the spaghetti-o’s and get as much in their mouth as possible and then run to their teams table and spit it out. The team then had to move the alphabet letters around and spell as many words as possible. It not only looked disgusting but smelled worse. I think we had a few kids and one sponsor who had to leave the room.
Then we had the one that required the most muscle and resulted in the most laughter. It is called “Aw Snap”. You may have seen this on the Ellen DeG. show. They take one team member from each team and put them in a life jacket. Two life jackets are attached to one another with a bungee cord. The two contestants face opposite directions and must get to an apple on a stick and get the apple in their mouth and put it into a bowl. There is just one catch – the bungee won’t stretch far enough for them both to reach their apple so there was a lot of tugging and pulling and laughter.
These were not games that adults would enjoy but the kids loved them and it’s all about teamwork and building relationships.
Okay, now I know that some of you didn’t try the booty spell at first but you know you want to. Go ahead………..spell….I LOOK RIDICULOUS!
I think you will NOT be in charge of the games at our next family gathering. But…on second thought…..I think we should play booty spell while we play dirty santa. That would be veeeerrryyy interesting. LOL
btw, I hope you didn’t get any mail because I’m getting this mental of you spelling with your booty. hahahahaha
No I didn’t get any mail but Lisa and I went into the kitchen and tried it. I showed it to my grandkids and they have had a ball with it. Actually I think our family reunions could use a bit more laughter.
I don’t like this game – I only had a mechanical pencil handy and this dang thing is dangerous – I’m not even gonna tell you what’s happened to the eraser. Please come up with a better game quickly; it’s just too difficult to use w/my laptop. Dang. Ouch. WTH did I just eras
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You silly girl…..I said “pretend” you had a pencil stuck in your butt! Hee-Hee The mental picture I have is worth a million!
What do you mean adults wouldn’t like them? I totally want to play Booty Spell. I think in our house we could have a Booty Bee and spell all kinds of disastrously long names. Spell a word wrong and you get a pinch! Yeah! An adult game!
I LIKE your idea! Booty Bee…….maybe you could have to spell a word and your team mates would have to “identify” it without knowing what the word is. I think we are on to something.
*eye roll* Ugh. I hate camp games. I am so not a joiner. I love games, just not these “how can we make people look as ridiculous as possible” ones. I am so glad everyone there enjoyed it, but I’d be hiding somewhere far away. LOL
The kids didn’t seem to mind it. I’m like you in that I don’t want a lot of attention placed on me so I wouldn’t have been real happy to get mail.
Just a note here. Since posting this I have received dozens of “Spam” comments about Viagra. Go figure!