Synonyms
Elephant, Bunny Bunny
Introduction
Everyone into a circle with one person in the centre. This warm-up
breaks the ice, gets people listening and gets the blood flowing.
Description
The person in the centre of the circle starts to spin madly.
They rapidly count up to ten while spinning around. Once they
arrive at the number ten they point to one of the people in the
circle.
The person pointed at sticks their arm in front of their
face and dangles it like an elephant trunk.
The people on either
side of the "trunk person" must make the ears of the
elephant. So the person on the left side uses their left arm
to touch their head, and the person on the right uses their right
arm to form the right ear.
Yes it does look really
silly. Meanwhile the dizzy person in the centre yells "Bippity Bippity Bop".
The elephant must be formed before the centre person gets to "Bop".
If the elephant does
not have ears and a trunk by the time "Bop" is
called then someone has to replace the person in the centre of
the circle.
Whichever person is
responsible for the part that was not formed by the time "Bop" was
yelled has to go into the centre. I.e., if the elephant has
a trunk and a right
ear, but no left ear then the person to the left of the trunk
goes into the circle.
Ties are decided by someone from the circle.
This is continued until someone vomits.
Gimmicks
Make more complicated animals that involve several people and
are not symmetrical.
Variations
Count silently, form a bunny instead of an elephant. |