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Stuck in an entertainment rut? Maybe all you need is to throw a few alternative ideas around and see what brainstorms result. Here are some suggestions that can add interesting variety to your time with friends.
Unusual activities
These can help break the boredom. Anyone for that classic Chinese game of Mah-Jongg? How about an Italian sing-along followed by hillbilly clogging and Indian curry dishes? Whether you decide to do a fondue party or try a tiddlywinks tournament, be sure to plant your tongue firmly in your cheek and prepare to laugh!
• Build and decorate little pine cars for a derby. (Thanks to the Columbus, Ohio, UCG congregation for this idea.)
• Have a most unusual invention contest—eyeglasses with windshield wipers, cell phones with stun settings (first seen in the cartoon "Crow's Encounters"), etc.
• Create a band with unusual instruments like kazoos, spoons, "kettle" drums, combs, etc.
• Pumped up karaoke: Write a song as a group. Then perform it in various styles—reggae, blues, operatic, etc.
• Coffee house: Write limericks and/or haiku and have a poetry reading accompanied with special coffees Starbucks would drool over.
• Work as a team to write and illustrate a children's book.
• Have a cartoon-drawing contest. If someone laughs, you win!
• Write and create props for a skit for the next variety show.
• Or have a skit showdown.
• Put on your own variety show.
• Fair warning: Create booths that test people's skills at throwing rings around rubber duckies' necks and suchlike things.
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