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 :)

Monday, May 15, 2006

Ways To Amuse a Baby - Part 2

Baby and me are back in action! This time we present to you:

1. Ballroom dancing





Hold baby in position, and play some swaying kind of music. Put one of baby's hands on your shoulder, hold the other hand... And sway... This is heaven.

2. One...Two..Three.......JUMP

This requires a baby who likes to climb (and fall). This type of baby is usually referred to as "Hey Monkey", rather than by his or her real name. Anyway, here is how to make falling fun.



Before you let your baby do this, read these VERY IMPORTANT instructions:

  • Don't try this if your sofa doesn't have a nice flat broad backrest. How broad depends on the broadness of your baby's backside.
  • Make sure your baby is a monkey. Non-monkeys HATE this game.
  • Sofa seat should be soft and one single unit - no separate cushions.
  • Sofa MUST stick to a wall.
  • And use a BIG sofa, please.

OK. Here's the fun part. Perch baby on top of the backrest. It will be amusing to see the half confused, half frightened, half excited face. (OK, one-third of each) If baby is an aforementioned monkey, it wont be long till he/she jumps onto the seat with glee. After some time, a really really monkeyish baby will learn to climb on to the backrest himself - first maybe with the help of a pillow or a big teddy bear, later all by himself. And the result, most likely, will be this:


14 Comments:

Blogger Obi Wan said...

1st comment! Yesssss!!!

11:18 PM  
Blogger Obi Wan said...

And may the tribe of monkeys increase and flourish :-)

11:19 PM  
Blogger Sumithra said...

Sunshine is always 2nd on Cloudy's blog :-)

6:41 AM  
Blogger Tin Tin said...

19th! How?? Just how do u make the pics look so good? The guy actually looks like mr walker ;)

8:16 AM  
Blogger Cloudy said...

@Obi: Yes, yay for the monkeys! But in other homes, please. One is plenty for me ;-)

@Sunshine: Yes you are, aren't you?

@Tin: Here I confess: the ballroom dancing pic was shamelessly lifted from MS clip art. 19th - are you sure? Or would you prefer 22?

9:17 AM  
Blogger Sketchy Self said...

@cloudy, thanks for stopping by at random walker's blog. (His last name has nothing to do with the phantom, btw).
And, as always, nice games!!

2:04 PM  
Blogger Tin Tin said...

22nd. But the baby and sofa are really cute too!

9:40 PM  
Blogger Random Walker said...

hey thanx for stoppin by. cool blog!

10:55 AM  
Blogger Cloudy said...

Thank you Sketchy and Random Walker... I actually didn't realise you two were different people!!!

1:54 PM  
Blogger The Comic Project said...

clouddddddyyy..check out a new game..2-3 posts below the current one on http://bombaylives.blogspot.com/

8:18 AM  
Blogger Cloudy said...

Heyyyy Thanx for the link TCP!

2:10 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Cloudy, you mad genius! I already carry out the first part (Himmesh reshammiya tunes, thankfully have been edged out by nursery rhymes) I can't wait til he's old enough to try the couch-monkey!

1:37 PM  
Blogger Cloudy said...

Thank You, Sensorcaine :)

Couch monkey is very useful these days. After a while they just climb by themselves and keep jumping - on good days, for minutes at a stretch - letting you actually finish that line you were reading.

12:47 PM  
Blogger Eveara said...

Thanks for sharing.Keep it up. Music distribution

1:15 AM  

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