I was looking back on the blog and realized that this could be our 6th year now that we've held our annual Bake Exchange - I love these kinds of traditions! It's an evening where the ladies get out - enjoy an evening of socializing, singing, eating - and this year even playing games :) I look forward to this evening every year (and maybe Alvar a little bit more - who doesn't like baked goods!).
Singing Christmas Songs
Helen playing piano for us
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This is the game we played - I think it was called the "Paper Game" - I'm not sure it actually has an official name - but it was fun either way! You cut up pieces of paper so you have the same amount of sheets as you do people participating. The first page is a random line - preferably something "drawable".
Then your package of paper is passed to the person to your left - they read your random line and draw a picture depicting what you've written.
Again, the bundle of paper is passed to the left. This person may only see the drawing (they may not read the original line) and must write a line describing what they see in the picture.
This continues on till all the papers are filled (each person has had a chance to either draw a picture or write a line on every persons' pack of paper).
The idea of the game is to stay as close as possible with the original random line.
However, depending on the artists and the writers this is not always the case.
As we saw with this bundle of papers...
We began with a girl loosing her scarf in the wind, and ended with a poor gentleman being electrocuted as he cut down his Christmas tree...hmmm....how did that happen?
We had a lot of laughs over the game (there were 8 stories we read thru - some pretty good, and ones like this one that were way off base!).
Another lovely evening ladies - as always I look forward to gathering again next year!
