Quiet game
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The quiet game is a children's game where children must stay quiet and still. The first child or team to make a noise loses the game. One application of the game is as a way some parents keep their loud children quiet for a long journey. [1]
Other versions involve punishments for being the first to make a noise: In an extreme version played in a classroom at the Berta A. Dreyfus Intermediate School 49 in Stapleton, Staten Island, the boy who spoke first was pelted with textbooks so hard, his spleen was ruptured. [2]
[edit] See also
- The Quiet Game, a novel by Greg Iles (1999)
- Quaker Meeting
[edit] References
- ^ Things to keep children amused on long journeys. BBC. Retrieved 2000.08.18.
- ^ Bizarre school game leads to serious injury -- and many questions. Staten Island Advance website, SILive.com. Retrieved 2007.08.10.
[edit] External sources
Creating Readers: Over 1000 Games, Activities, Tongue Twisters, Fingerplays, Songs, and Stories to Get Children Excited about Reading by Pam Schiller, Gryphon House, Beltsville, Maryland (2001). 447 pages. ISBN 0-87659-258-2.
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