Doggie and the Bone

• The children all sit in a circle, with one child sitting in the middle with his eyes shut, head down on the floor and a bone behind them (the bone canbe cardboard cut in to a bone shape or a cylinder covered in coloured paper.

• An adult points to one of the children in the circle, without saying their name and that child gets the bone (explain this to the children before you start the game i.e. "If I point to one of you, then you have to sneak up and get the bone and then sit back down with it behind your back"). It helps to have a practice run through so the children know what to expect.

• Once the child sits back down with the bone hidden, all of the children put their hands behind their back and say: "Doggie Doggie, who's got your bone?" The child who is in the middle opens their eyes and has to try and guess who has the bone without leaving the middle of the circle. They have two guesses.

• There are two outcomes: If the child guesses correctly, then they can either have another turn or the child who has the bone becomes the Doggie in the middle. If the child guesses incorrectly, the child who has the bone is the doggie.

• Keep playing until the children have had enough. This games can be easily adapted to your chosen party theme by it becoming dinosaur and fossil, fairy and wand, princess and crown and so on.