The Book of Ideas

              Let's Find Out-In advance~ prepare a list of Fun questions suitable to the occasion. Have two decks of cards. The Leader holds one deck~ the other is dealt to the participants. Leader reads the first question and turns up a card of the deck she holds. The one holding the matching card must answer the question. Continue in like manner. Song Contests-Write words of songs on paper plates; tear plates into four pieces and give each person one. The four find each other and are called on to sing their song. Give groups one line of a song, they compose lines to complete it and sing it. Act out Nursery Rhymes. Select a Nursery Rhyme and write for it a new original funny ending. Nursery Rhymes-Divide into groups and give five minutes to work out the answers for (1) Who took a journey to visit Royalty? (2) Who practiced horticulture with amazing results? (3) Who~ at a festive season~ exhibited wondrous pride in his own virtues? (4) A triumph in culinary art? (5) Shows that musicians are born, not made. (6) One who was lazy and neglected call of duty. (7) One of nervous temperament who while having light refreshment, was rudely interrupted. (8) One who lost sight of her belongings. (9) A genial old gentleman with musical tastes. (10) A variety of tastes, and no waste. (11) A sad tale of poverty and a kindhearted old soul. (12) A sad climbing fatality. (13) One who went in for ath1etics~to the amusement of his audience. Hat Contest-Decorate old hats with materials in a bag of assorted lace, ribbons~ flowers~ etc'~ etc. Newspaper and Magazine Contests-Divide into groups and each group makes a dress from newspapers withou.t Jlcissors or pins. Identify

magazine advertisementsfrom pictures.
Sentence-Write

a sentence in which every word contains only three

letters. Pencil Fun-Make the funniest sentences you possibly can using all these words: 1. landlord~ rent, shot~ pants~ pawned~ ballyhoo. 2. onions~ radio~ baked~ mule~ soapflakes~ nailfile. 3. calendar~ puppy, letter~ big toe, elephant~ mosquito. 4. magazine, traffic cop, bullfrog, telephone, hairdo, policewoman. 5. radar, wheelbarrow, tomato soup, hatchet, horse race, whiskers. 6. shoestring, button, floorwax, pancake~ gravy tent. 7. alarm clock~ track, woodpile~ goose~ coffee~pin. 8. nailfile, broom~ nurse~ doughnuts, grass~ sandwich. 9. cabbage head~ poIat' bear~ love letter~ candy box~ toothpaste. 1O. sausage~ detective~ rowboat~ monkey~ salad dressing, telephone. Sherlock Holmes-He said~ "You see~ but you don~tobserve." Answer the following: (1) How high is a dining table? (2) How many wavy lines in a post-mark cancellation? (3) What is your car license number? (4) In all standard playing cards~ there is a king without a mustac~ which one? (5) How many keys on a standard piano? How many spades shown on a King of Spades? (7) What is the dimension of a standard brick? (8) When you open a door~ do you turn handle right or left? (9) What is the lowest recording on a clinical thermometer? Apple Peel Contest-Each contestant peels an apple, Prize given to . the one with longest strip of peeling in one piece. 66