Spicing up games



The beauty of games



Hello there! So one thing I love to do when I am bored is play games.

 I grew up on board games and card games, so it is a wonderful pastime. Sometimes it gets a little boring just playing "normal" games so it can be fun to spice them up a bit.



Apartment Twister

 Example A: Apartment Twister. This is how you play it; get a Twister set... or rather the spinner you use to land on a color. Spread colors around your apartment, house, or room. Gather friends and start spinning a color. Instead of using the sheet of circle colors the players use colors they find around the apartment to put their feet or hands on, the rest of the rules are to be followed the same way. If you fall over you lose, if you take a hand or foot off a color,you lose. This game is great fun!

Telephone Pictionary

Example B: Telephone Pictionary. Most people have played telephone and most people have played pictionary, now combine the two. This is one of if not my favorite games. This is how you play: everyone playing gets a piece of paper. Everyone first writes a sentence; it can be a random sentence, it can be a lyric, whatever you want it to be. Then everyone passes their paper around the circle to the next person and the next person draws a picture from the sentence. They then fold the sentence and pass the picture around the circle to the next person. The next person has to write the first thing that comes to their mind that they think the picture is and then they pass it to the next person after folding the picture, and the next person draws a picture. This continues until you get your paper back. It is great fun and super silly. I now have a huge binder of wonderful telephone pictionary games.

Example C: Squirrel tag. I have friends that like to play tag... with squirrels. They try to trap the squirrels and tag them... they do not really succeed but it is very entertaining to watch. When I partook in this game I was afraid that I would get bitten and get rabies, but it was still fun.

Example D: Campus tag: Tag someone on your campus, start running and hope that it causes a huge chain reaction.

Example E: Duck duck goose... A lot of times when I see people standing in circles I like to just start walking around that circle and tapping them on the head and playing duck duck goose, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't but it is great fun when it does.

These are just a few wonderful pastime games. If you are bored and have friends gathered I urge you to try a game out or if you want to try something goofy at school try out one of the big group games.

Enjoy!

The Doodle Wall

The doodle wall

Hello all of you cool cats out there. How are you feeling on this Wednesday evening? Are you a bit bored and need a little pick me up to help you get through the rest of the week?

Well I have just the task for you... it is called "The doodle wall". This wall is magical, it holds the key to all that is colorful and fun. What is the wall you ask? Well just hold your horses I am about to tell you.

This is what the doodle wall is: it is a glorious wall made of paper and it is where you and all of your friends can gather together to make doodles!

Yes I know it is very exciting. For this you are either going to have to find big roles of paper or lots of paper and cover a wall with it. My roommate and I use crayons for our doodle wall. If you use markers it may get on the wall and that would not be good. Pencils do not show up that well. So crayons are the best option.

When you don't know what to do you can simply go into your room and color. If you need a break you can go and color. Coloring is a good stress reliever. If your friends are over and you are bored go and use your doodle wall! Are you catching on to the fact that this is a wonderful idea? Because you should by now.

If you have a doodle wall it is challenging you and your friends to be creative... you can literally doodle anything and it is a lot of fun.

So I challenge you oh loyal viewer to go and make your very own doodle wall because you can have hours of fun and a new decoration for your wall!

The beauty of sculpting

Our tree hugger

Hey! Just in case you have not noticed, it is cold outside. Why is it cold outside? Because it is winter in Iowa duh! And what normally comes with winter? SNOW!

If you are like a normal human being, there is probably a good chance that every once in awhile you get fed up with snow or even HATE it.

Well calm down you. Instead of seeing the bad in that white wet fluff, look on the bright side. You can do amazing things in it. My personal favorite is the art of sculpting!

I have a good friend here at school that likes to leave little sculptures in the snow around campus come winter time. It is such a pleasant surprise to see her beautiful work, it brightens every ones day.

A couple of years ago that friend and I sculpted a 'tree hugger' it was pretty fantastic if I may say so myself. She submitted it to National Geographic, and it got published!.



Our dinosaur



This past Sunday it was beautiful out so a couple of my friends and I sculpted a dinosaur in front of the library on campus. It was beautiful! I have heard a lot of positive feedback on the sculpture and I think it has made a lot of people happy.

Our 10 foot tall snowman

Last year my friends and I constructed a 10 foot tall snowman that was simply glorious. That same night we put a snowman in front of our pastors house. He woke up the next morning to a pleasant surprise in his yard and it completely made his day.

So the moral of the story kids is that snow CAN be fun and you can make people HAPPY by creating beautiful things out of it. So do not just sit there. Go create!

While you were gone... I revamped your room

Streamer fun!

What could possibly be more fun then revamping a friends room while they are gone? The correct answer is... not very much.

I want to tell you about the gloriousness known as decorating a friends room while they are either A. Working at camp with you and you decide it would be fun to play a bit of a joke on them. B. Gone for the weekend on a cross country meet. or C. Off on a wonderful trip in California.

I am about to tell you of three stories of me, your lovely author getting bored and deciding to have a bit of fun and let her creative side overflow into room decorating.

The boom boom room

Victim #1: My first summer at Wesley Woods I got bored one night and I decided it would be a bit of fun to blow up a lot of balloons and make signs and empty them into what is known as the "boom boom" room. The boom boom room is a room that consists of 8 boys every summer. It is always the messiest (and possibly smelliest) room out of all of the counselors at camp.

One night near the end of the summer I blew up balloons inside of a fort that I made in our lounge and while all of the boys were off a friend from camp and myself emptied the balloons into the room. I also made signs for the room such as "pretty pretty princess", "beware", and other silly signs and put them up everywhere. The boys were very surprised when they came to their room and could not figure out who filled their room with balloons, they even kept asking me to help  them figure out who did it.

At closing I finally revealed to them that it was I that filled their room, and it was glorious.

poor gnome

Victim #2: While my friends were off at a cross meet one weekend last year my friend and I decided that it would be fun to make lots of signs, break into their room, and decorate their room for them.

But the scheming did not stop there. My best friend whose room we went into loves gnomes so we decided it would be a good idea to write a ransom letter for his gnome and leave it on his desk... we required that we receive cookies in return for his gnome. It was a bit difficult to break into their room, we had to break in through a window with our mad ninja skills.

We eventually made it inside of the room, took pictures on my friends camera, and left quietly. They returned home from their meet with a new room and very confused questions as to how we broke in. Of course when my friend went to bed that night to feel dirt in his bed from our shoes and a breeze from his window he easily figured out how we broke in.

The beauty of decor

Victim # 3: Victim number three actually just happened this past Sunday. My friend who works out at camp (Wesley Woods) went to California for a week. So my roommate, one other friend, and myself decided that it would be a grand idea to go and decorate his apartment for his return.

We filled it with streamers and signs. We also wrote all over his mirror. It was simply beautiful... or so we thought. When he returned he was pretty much in awe of our masterpiece... actually I think he just laughed a lot. For some reason he knew it was me right off the bat and called me. However it was a surprise that he was not expecting upon his return and he thanked me.

So I urge you oh faithful reader to go and decorate someones room while they are gone. They will return to a pleasant surprise and be very happy that you were thinking of them. Of course in some cases your victim will get you back and make a you a victim of a different prank (which will be discussed in a later blog) but it is well worth it.