Keep those games alive!

Children are inventive, original and very messy. As they get older they start losing these nice qualities. Some manage to hold on. This is what I am trying to do with this blog. My brother - a great inventor of games - kept most of my childhood happily occupied with his original games. This blog started out as a way to keep those games alive. Do read the first few posts to enter his wonderful world. Reader contributions welcome :)

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Ways To Amuse a Baby - Part 1

Bachaooooooooo! (Help me!)

Required: A baby who can kick, a dramatic parent (or anyone, really)

Place baby on bed and get him in a nice playful mood. Like Figure 1 below:



Place his feet near your tummy and encourage him to kick you. It tickles...hehehe. At some point he will land a nice powerful kick and this is the time to let out a dramatic cry and fall. Like Figure 2 below.


Then, with exaggerated dramatics, extend your hand towards baby (who will now be looking over the bed to see what happened), while yelling "Bachaoooo" in a typical action movie climax style. Chances are baby will lend a hand, maybe even pretend to pull you up after a couple of tries. Once you're up, if the baby has enjoyed this game, he will send you right back over the cliff :-)

14 Comments:

Blogger Callous Crab said...

Got here through TCP. Have an idea for your blog, its available at the link below. Just getting into blogging (again)!

http://callouscrab.blogspot.com/2006/04/book-cricket-anyone.html
You can tell, I am desperate for page views...just kidding...

7:37 PM  
Blogger Obi Wan said...

Technically 1st :-)

11:31 PM  
Blogger Obi Wan said...

Actually, there is a minor technical problem about the universal applicability of this game. Some of us might not have babies handy & available anytime for our entertainment.

11:33 PM  
Blogger Sumithra said...

:-) I know I keep saying this. But can't resist saying again - the diagrams are soo cute!!

2nd, BTW.

2:39 AM  
Blogger Tin Tin said...

he he! Real cute..

Obi, try using a dog.

8:37 AM  
Blogger Cloudy said...

@callous crab: Thanks! Left a comment on your blog too :-)

@Obi wan: Ah right... just a minor technical difficulty ;-)

@Sunshine: Thanks - diagrams are fun to make! Did you get those mickey strips?

@Tin: Hey do you want Obi to get mauled???!

12:32 PM  
Blogger Sumithra said...

@Cloudy: I did get them. Thank you :D - I enjoyed them.

1:15 PM  
Blogger Obi Wan said...

Tin Tin: Maine tumhara kya bigadha hai???(What wrong have I commited towards you???) :-)

11:31 PM  
Blogger The Comic Project said...

cloudy..you are amazing. Truly. :-) Why do i come here so late? :-( Anyway, my PC is going to be reformatted tonight. So will be back tomorrow

1:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

this really is good learning... i can probably archive some of the images from here and use them on my nephews and kneeses ;)

1:51 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

ha ha ha! nice game and nice pictures. Would be a great theme for AFV if you can capture this game on a video :-)

6:10 PM  
Blogger Cloudy said...

@TCP: You are always late because you have your work cut out on your blog! (Not that I'm complaining)

@IyerEd: Thank you :-)

@Roshan: Good idea! Hope he co-operates... usually, he suspends all activity when he sees the camera, and wants to play with that. We are thinking of hidden cameras...

9:36 AM  
Blogger The Comic Project said...

@cloudy: A sting op on dariba? noooo

5:31 PM  
Blogger Tin Tin said...

next post haakae!

11:15 AM  

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