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John_Morgan@mindlink.bc.ca (John Morgan) writes:
>Does any one out there have any games to play at a Christmas party?  The
>games must have some sort of Christmas theme to them so tag, dodge ball etc.
>are out for this once a year occasion.

Well it all depends on whether you plan to do it indoors our outdoors.
Here are a few ideas, but keep in mind that they're coming from a
country where a consistant plot (a 'fil rouge') is a crucial point
in every scouting activity.

I would embed the games into a Christmas story. For example about a
little angel who has neglected his duties, and preferred to play aureola
frisbee and cloud soccer with the little devils instead of doing his
daily good actions (games: play frisbee with a frisbee ring, and soccer
by having the teams blow on a cotton wool ball over a table). 

The case came to Petrus who decided to send the little angel on a
penitence mission in the world of darkness and the world of silence.
Describe the kids how the angel felt desperately lost and alone in these
worlds; How he meets a blind boy in the world of darkness, and a deaf
boy in the world of silence; How these two kids show him that they can
get along very well in their respective worlds despite their respective
handicaps, by using the remaining senses -- odor, hearing and touch in
the world of darkness / sight in the world of silence --. 

Make heavy use of Kim and trust games in the world of darkness, and of
pantomime games in the world of silence. Tell how the angel is marked by
these two encounters, and how he decides to help the people lost in one
of these worlds. End the story by telling that Petrus, seing the angel
at work and his quest now over, called him back to paradise.

Okay, I made that story up while writing this E-mail, so there are still
a few details to polish, but all in all, you have here largely enough
material for a whole afternoon. By including one or two wide games, you
could even use it as base for a cub scout weekend.


-- Danny Schwendener         macman@bernina.ethz.ch
   Wolfsmeute Nidau/Glockenhof, Sihlstr. 33, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
   m.h.c. Troop 14, San Francisco