THE FAIRY TALE GUESSING GAME Game for 4-8 players HOW TO PREPARE - wave your magic wand and pretend to make You will need the eight Fairy Tale Guessing Game - a beautiful dress for Cinderella cards. -- pretend to talk kindly to Cinderella If you cannot print them, make your own cards by without actually speaking etc. folding two A4 pieces of paper in half. Once opened 4. The next player then takes a turn. you will have eight smaller pieces of paper that you can cut loose. HOW TO PLAY THE ACTING GAME On each of the eight pieces of paper, write the name All players act out the story by taking the parts of the of a one of the Fairy Tales. different characters. They can use their own words or Then follow the instructions and read the stories some of the words on the cards if they want to. For either on-line or from the printed cards. example when the players have guessed who you are, you can act the part of the Fairy Godmother by telling Cinderella that she must stop crying because HOW TO PLAY THE MIMING GAME she can go to the ball. Tell Cinderella 1. Let each player choose a card, but they must not • that you will give her a beautiful dress let the other players know which one they chose. • that you will change a pumpkin into a coach • that the magic will only last until midnight etc. 2. The player mimes/acts the part of the character on their card without saying any words. The other players can join in and act the rest of the 3. The other players guess who the character story. They can play the parts of is. For example if you get the card with the • Cinderella Fairy Godmother in the story about Cinderella • the prince remember that you can mime the part but you • the ugly sisters cannot talk. You can -- flap your wings and pretend to fly AT HOME GAMES & ACTIVITIES BOOMPILOOMPI Everyone in the village was scared of a horrible monster called Luckily the boy and his father thought of a clever plan and used Boompiloompi because he liked to catch people and eat them. their magic to make Boompiloompi disappear. ‘Zippity-Zap!’ and Boompiloompi was gone forever! One day a boy and his father came to live in the village. The boy played his drum while his father made things disappear with After that the people were so happy that they did not mind his magic. when the boy and his father did their magic tricks. ‘Zippity-Zap!’ said the father and food and drink would disappear. The village people did not like this and they stopped talking to the boy and his father. But one day Boompiloompi came to the village. The ground shook and everyone ran away in terror.

MIME ACT You are the monster Boompiloompi. Growl and look fierce Tell the people you are going to eat as you pretend to catch the people. them up. Make the ground shake. THE FROG PRINCE A beautiful princess loved playing MIME with her golden ball but one day it rolled into a pond and disappeared. You are the princess. Luckily a frog found her golden ball Show how you feel when and gave it back to her. In return for you have dinner with the this the princess promised to let the frog sitting next to you. frog stay with her, eat from her plate ACT and be her friend. Scream and tell the frog to But the princess screamed when the go away or you will be sick. frog wanted to eat from her plate, Tell the frog why you sleep on her pillow and be her friend. hate him. Her father, the king, made her keep her promise to the frog and she had to obey him. After a while the princess got used to the frog and they talked and sang and played happily with her golden ball all day long. One day the princess told the frog that she was sorry she had behaved so badly to him because she thought he was ugly. Now that the frog was her best friend she kissed him. In that instant the frog turned into a handsome prince. The kiss broke a wicked spell that had turned him into a frog. They married and lived happily ever after. RUMPELSTILTSKIN Once upon a time there lived a girl called Hannah. Her father bragged to the King that Hannah could spin straw into gold. The King ordered Hannah to come to his castle and spin a big pile of straw into gold. ‘Spin this straw into gold by tomorrow and I shall marry you. If you don’t you will go to prison,’ said the King. Hannah began to cry when a little man appeared and asked Hannah what she would give him if he spun the straw into gold. ‘You can have my necklace,’ said Hannah. So the little man spun the straw into gold but the King demanded more gold. Hannah gave the little man her ring. The King demanded more gold but Hannah had nothing more to give in return so she promised to give the little man her first-born child. The King married Hannah and a year later her first baby was born. Back came the little man and demanded the baby. Hannah cried and cried until at last the little man agreed to let her keep her baby if she could guess his name. Hannah guessed and guessed in vain but at last a servant heard a little man singing in the forest: A happy jig I dance tonight My lady will not win this game MIME ACT For Rumpelstiltskin is my name! You are Rumpelstiltskin. You sing Tell everyone why you are so cross. and dance. You are very surprised Hannah guessed his name and kept her baby. and then upset. Stamp your feet! Run off in a fury. CINDERELLA Once there lived a beautiful girl called Cinderella. She lived with her stepmother MIME ACT and two stepsisters who were very unkind You are the Fairy Godmother in Say what you tell Cinderella. to her. Cinderella had to do all the work. Cinderella. Fly, wave your wand and do magic. One day a rich prince invited everyone to a ball at his palace. Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters went to the ball but Cinderella stayed at home to do more work. Cinderella felt very sad when suddenly a fairy godmother appeared. She waved her magic wand and with that Cinderella’s rags turned into a beautiful dress. A pumpkin turned into a grand coach. ‘Go to the ball, Cinderella but you must leave at midnight!’ said the fairy godmother. At the ball the prince danced only with Cinderella. At midnight the magic ended and Cinderella had to run home. On the way she lost one of her glass slippers. The prince found the glass slipper. He wanted to find Cinderella and marry her. Every girl in the country had to try on the glass slipper. At Cinderella’s house the stepsisters tried on the glass slipper but it did not fit them. It only fitted Cinderella. The prince married Cinderella. She forgave her selfish stepsisters and so they all lived happily ever after. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Jack was a poor young boy who lived with his mother. MIME ACT One day Jack’s mother told him to go to market and sell their You are the giant. Shout, “Fee! Fie! Fum! cow. Jack swapped his cow for some magic beans. His mother Eat like a giant. Bring me my food! was furious and threw the magic beans out of the window. Shake your fork. Bring my golden hen! The next day to their amazement a magic beanstalk had Then stamp your feet! Are you sure no child grown up and reached right up to the sky. Jack climbed the hides in my den?” beanstalk and when he reached the top he spied a fierce Climb down the giant. beanstalk and fall ‘Fee, fi, fo fum!’ roared the giant. ‘Bring me my food! down dead. Bring me my golden hen! Are you sure no child hides in my den?’ Jack crept away and when the giant went to sleep Jack grabbed the giant’s golden hen and quickly started to climb down the beanstalk. The giant woke up and chased after Jack down the beanstalk. Jack called to his mother far below, ‘Quick bring me the axe!’ Just in time Jack chopped the beanstalk and the giant crashed down dead. ‘Hooray the giant is dead!’ ‘Cluck! Cluck!’ The magic hen laid a golden egg and Jack and his mother were rich. THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER Once upon a time there was a poor One night the shoemaker and his wife shoemaker. He had only one piece of decided to find out who was helping them. MIME leather left to make a pair of shoes. They hid in a cupboard and saw two tiny You are an elf. Pretend to fly elves come through the window and finish and then sew shoes. He cut out the shoes and went to bed. making the shoes. To his surprise the next morning the shoes The elves had shabby old clothes and were finished. looked hungry. ACT That day a rich man came and bought the The shoemaker and his wife decided to Say what you look like - I am shoes. Now the shoemaker had enough make gifts for the elves. They made tiny small and wear old clothes. money to buy more leather and make two new clothes and small cakes. pairs of shoes. Say why you are helping the The elves came and ate the cakes and put shoemaker. In the evening the shoemaker cut out two on the new clothes. They danced and sang pairs of shoes and in the morning they and then they left the house and were were finished. never seen again. The same thing happened every night and soon the shoemaker and his wife became rich. WANJIRO AND THE GIANT Once upon a time a girl called Wanjiro went for a walk in the bush. Suddenly she heard a loud noise. Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! It was Uroyo the giant. Uroyo grabbed Wanjiro and said, ‘I’m going to eat you!’ The giant put Wanjiro in his bag and walked stompy-stomp through the bush. Soon Uroyo was very hungry. He took Wanjiro out of the bag. ‘I’m going to eat you now!’ he shouted. ‘Wait,’ said Wanjiro. ‘I’ll taste better with some onions.’ ‘Then I’ll take you home and eat you with some onions,’ said Uroyo. ‘But now I feel very tired. I’m going to have a nap.’ The giant started to tie up the bag. ‘Don’t tie the bag up. It’s so hot in here that I won’t taste fresh,’ said Wanjiro. So the giant left the bag open and went to sleep. ‘Silly giant!’ Wanjiro got out of the bag and put rocks in the bag. Then she ran home. When Uroyo got home he boiled some water and held the bag over the pot. The heavy rocks tumbled into the pot and the boiling water splashed all over him. He ran to the sea and jumped into the water to cool off. But he could MIME ACT not swim so the waves carried him far, far away. You are Wanjiro. Struggle to get You are Uroyo. Say what you do out of the bag, Put rocks in the when you throw the rocks into bag and run away. the pot, get splashed, run, jump into the sea and drown. TIKKY TIKKY SPIDER Once upon a time there lived a brother and sister ‘Are you hungry, Tikky Tikky Spider? Bongani and Zama who could dance like the wind. Then try me. I am young and I am sweet MIME Oh yes! Oh yes! I am better than cow to eat.’ You are Bongani or Zama. Dance and In the forest nearby lived Tikky Tikky Spider. Its They danced and danced but Tikky Tikky Spider sing around Tikky body was as big as an elephant and it could eat a spun a sticky thread round and round them and Tikky Spider until whole cow at one meal. It was a night time spider came closer and closer. his web nearly traps that could not stand the sun so in the day the ‘Keep dancing until morning and then we will be you and you are cattle were safe but at night it would spin a sticky safe!’ said Bongani. But Tikky Tikky Spider was so exhausted. web around a cow and eat it. close there was nowhere to go. Bongani and Zama made a clever plan to destroy Oh no! Oh no! ACT that spider. They came out dancing and singing You are Bongani Just in time the sun came up and a strange thing one night. or Zama. Have a happened to the spider. It squealed and shrank dialogue together and became so small that it was like spiders that about how you will catch flies. trap the spider.