The Olympics may be over but it needn't stop your club enjoying games with an international flavour. With these fun ideas you can get your group globe-trotting without even leaving the playground!
Statues (US)
One child takes on the role of a tourist and a second becomes the tour guide. While these children leave the room everyone else strikes a statuesque pose, pretending to be statues in an historic home.
The tour guide is signalled, and they then bring the tourist in and role play showing them around the grand home. Together the pair peer at the statues (they cannot touch them) and the tour guide makes up funny things to say about them. For example, on noticing a child posing with one arm in the air the tour guide may say, 'This is a wonderful statue of a tennis player who lived here 100 years ago; he only wore clothes with stripes on and liked to play tennis in his pyjamas.' If a statue moves, talks or laughs, they too become a tourist and go around peering at other statues, trying to make them laugh.
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