Charades

Setting up the game:

• Divide into teams. Each team does the following.
• Think of a bunch of titles to be acted out and write each title on a slip of paper or use the samples below.
• Put the samples in a hat.
• Give these papers to the opposite team.
• The teams take turns, and each team picks one of the titles from the other team on its turn.

When it's your turn:

• First, indicate to your team whether you're going to mime the title of a movie, book, etc.
• Next, indicate how many words are in the title. (Hold up the right number of fingers.)
• Now, Have Fun and Good Luck!

Getting your point across:

• To indicate a:movie, pretend to crank an old fashioned movie camera.
• To indicate a book, pretend to be reading.
• To divide the word into syllables: lay down x number of fingers on your forearm (where x is the number of syllables.)
• "big word, little word":place your hands far apart, or close together
• "sounds like"--cup your hand around your ear
• "little word"bring your thumb and index fingers close together. The people guessing should now call out every little word they can think of ("on, in, the,and") until you gesticulate wildly to indicate the right word.
• "Longer version of the word":pretend to stretch an elastic.
• "close, keep guessing!":frantically wave your hands to keep the guesses coming.