KEH 136: Games – add a new game to your kids entertainer package

Games – add a new game to your kids entertainer package


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Welcome to Season 7 chapter 136 of the Kids Entertainer Podcast! Zivi and Danny are back for this new episode. Today the topic is about Games, listen to the episode and have fun.

Here are some of the important notes from this episode:

  • Why games? and when to use them.
  • Get the energy out vs up.
  • Introduce yourself as the leader & expert – they need to listen to you for clear instructions. You get to know the kids even before a show.
  • Party games that work
  • Non contact games that work
  • GMD – the Games Magic Disco formula by Ken Kelly
  • Zoom Games on youtube
  • Musical games, Kids games, Gameshow, Auction and more


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Welcome to the Kids Entertainer Podcast, the world’s leading podcast for children’s family entertainers, and here to help you in your journey of spreading smiles and joy, your host, Zivi Kivi.

Zivi:

Hello, and welcome to the Kids Entertainer podcast. Hi I’m Zivi Kivi. And I’m here with my co-host Danny. Hello, Danny!

Danny:

Hi, everybody out there. It’s nice to be back.

Zivi:

It is. And today, especially, it’s like, it’s going to be quite playful because we are going to talk about games and being an entertainer actually is an opportunity to play games and kids love games and events. To talk about how to add a new game to your kids, entertain a package, whether you’re doing just a show, you could do some games or maybe you’re doing the complete two hour game. See what I did here, Danny. And let’s go right into it. Why, why games?

Danny:

Games are well, who doesn’t love playing games. Let’s face it. Who does not like playing games. Kids love games. Entertainers should be loving games because they’re fun. And it’s really important that you can, you add games to your party.

Danny:

Even if you’re just doing a show, you’re going to have to wait for kids to arrive. They’re not all like on a coach and they arrive all at once. Conveniently like that. It doesn’t happen. So as people are coming into the party, you can play a little simple game with them as the early arrivers come and you’re interacting with them. You’re getting to know them already. And you can introduce yourself as the leader, as the expert, as the fun person that they’re going to spend the rest of the party with. And so I think it’s really important that you kick off with a game. Yeah. Zivi:
What type of games do you use sometimes on that part of the event? Like in the introduction?

Danny:

So it depends on the age of the kids, obviously, but I’ve done parties with the younger kids and I take along my bubble kits and I do bubble games, games with bubbles.

Danny:

And I saw that on the KEA archives. Really great, really simple. Everybody loves bubbles and there are several versions you can do about them popping the bubbles, them trying to keep them up by waving their hands, all kinds of bubble things. And it’s, it’s lovely fun. And it’s very gentle, which you kind of want at the beginning of the party because you, they don’t necessarily know each other. They might be cousins and friends and all kinds of as well as school people. So, yeah, it’s nice and gentle. So I’ve done that myself. You might want to get them running around, get some energy, getting rid of their energy before you sit them down for your show. So the main thing is it gets them listening to you with your clear instructions. And so they know how far they can push you and you know them, how far they’re going to push, try to push you too.

Danny:

So it’s a nice little introduction into this group of kids that you’re going to be entertaining. Nice. Any games that you did I do.

Zivi:

And like, I love the bubbles, but sometimes I will forget to fill out my bubble Ghana. We just like I love the bowels, especially for the smaller kids for the toddlers. Like when it’s just a beautiful to see them face shine for bigger kids. I usually make a decision according to the actual event location. So if we have enough space, for example, if it’s outdoors, I would do one of these games when the kids stand on one side and this is actually a and I will stand on the other side of the night. My kids will say, what’s the times if you Zivi Kivi and I will say it’s free and they need to walk three steps. And if I say 12, we need to run back.

Zivi:

So this is actually an idea that the gates Luchini now has been sharing in his lectures in Kia and DVDs and just a quick game that gets everyone involved in it gets them to learn and they enjoy it. And I don’t think they really enjoyed doing these just in this can be done in those all outdoors is to put everyone in a circle, again, a magical when you get the kids to sit in a circle, it’s just wonderful. And there’s even a way to get them to sit in a circle that is quite rewarding and surprising. We formed the clowning master masterclass in KEA, where you get the kids to walk around in the area that you find for them, but they have to not, you know, bounce to each other. So they are just walking, just walking around. Then you talk them into like starting to say hello and starting to wave or starting to do faces.

Zivi:

And then at some point you thought you tell everyone to stop and close their eyes and try to create a circle by going backwards a bit and reaching out to other kids and holding hands and getting a second, which is something that’s probably these days in the pandemic. I will not do the whole holding hands thing is a bit of a problem. But when the kids manage, like, that’s what I mean, this wasn’t fun when we could hold hands, when the kids hold fence and they actually managed to shape to create the shape of a circle. And then they open up the eyes, no picking. Right. But we tell them to open up their eyes. And then, yeah, so he was like, wow, we managed to get a circle. And then we see to down. So you can just tell them to sit down in a circle anyway.

Ziv:

But what I do next thing is we play spelling games. So we spell the name of the birthday kid, like the kids to the right of me and the kid to the left of me will say the first letter of the kid. And then once the next kid, the second kid will hear it. He needs to say the first in the checking, like which side will split the letter faster. So it’s L L and it goes from both directions. And then it comes back with the next letter and the next, and it just empowerment for the birthday kid. Cause we were all focused on his name and letters off his names and maybe saying happy birthday, fast enough. So it’d basically like take as long as you want to have to use the film, all the hands, you can do that remotely in all sorts of other ways like in lines or whatnot.

Danny:

Sounds great. I like that one.

Ziv:

Well, thank you. When let’s, let’s go on and talk about the additional ideas. There’s so many, like

Danny:

There are loads, there are so many games. I really love the classics. And then I knew taped them and change them and add variations and I’ll make it my own. So what’s that?

Ziv:

What’s the classics?

Danny:

So for example, musical statues, musical bumps. So when the music stops you freeze or you sit down on the floor, very simple, everybody knows it. So you can start the kids off doing that with your music and you can stop it. You can play with having a very brief pause and start again so that it’s not a real stop or you can play with all of that kind of stuff. But also then you can add in when the music stops next time, I want you to be your favorite animal.

Danny:

Okay, great. The music stops and you kind of talk what’s your animal, okay? Who you can ask kids, they’re watching each other and then you can just change it up and do all kinds of things. The next time the music stops. You have to lie down on the floor, the cook, the first, the last one is out or not out, depending on how you play games, because there are benefits to keeping everybody in the game. And there are benefits to kind of having people drop out to help you spot people. And, and then you, that leads for a little group to be maybe a different ending to the group. So yeah, you can segue into the next, into the next game with a little group of people are out and they become the chocks or the lions for the next game or whatever you’re going to do.

Ziv:

So taking a classic game that we all played at some point in our childhood and just putting it twist into it, changing it, evolving it, mutating it. And like that’s, that’s one of the games that a very popular one that we’ve released in the academy was a version of pass the parcel by Ken Kelly in his games, magic disco course, and was like really successful in getting kids involved in a fast space version of the game. In me personally, I was working on a version that was really successful for me personally, of musical chairs. And so they tell me, I love to eat, spill the beans. Talk to me, I’ll teach everyone. I’ll sell everything. So it’s, there is the balloon.

Danny:

What do you do?

Zivi:

Let’s play a game where I share the information. So do you want to know what they did with them physically?

Zivi:

We can skip one. Okay. Okay. I’ll teach you. So the musical chairs in general, you put, let’s say five chairs for six kids to walk around the chairs and they are automating. So one will turn this way and the one other one will turn the other way. So they, so they can just walk in. They need to walk and skip a chair before they can feed again. If you stop the music. So you basically play the music and they still have you still occasionally. And every time there’s like one extra kid that cannot find a chair. And that will be the key that is eliminated from the game. And then you take out the chair. Well, what I like about this game is that it’s very popular. Kids understand it immediately. And it’s fun to create a situation where the birthday kid is the winner, because you can look, we can get the peak on who’s working where, and eventually make sure that the kid wins and he can win the big prize as well.

Zivi:

That’s fun. So, but I, I didn’t want to eliminate so many kids in the game. So that’s how I created the balloon version. So in the balloon version, I’m taking six chairs, let’s say six chairs or five. Let’s go whole five. Cause that’s the example I’m giving the five chairs and there’s a two 60 balloon tied on the top, right? It could be an 11 inch, but it can be any balloon.

Danny:

What color, what color balloons do you normally cook?

Ziv:

Rainbow format. So I use like, if it’s a boy, I might just choose a few blue purple dot the boys love the dark colors. I don’t know if you noticed that. So we put the balloons on top. I just tie them to the chair with like another balloon. So I take an, an inflated two 60 and eight item. So we have five chairs each with a balloon for six kids.

Ziv:

So the [inaudible] and I stopped the music and one doesn’t have a chair to fit on. So he, instead of him being, so he he’s eliminated for that round, but he might come back later and then I’m going to pop out one balloon. And these are exact this moment where I’m going to pop. One of the chairs. Balloon is actually very important in making this game into a show into like this really exciting moment, because I asked you shoot, or you surely should pop it now, are you ready? And like, hold your hand like this and hold your ears and stuff. And like, eventually I do pop it and then we play it again. Only this time. If you don’t have a balloon, a chair with a balloon, then you will be eliminated. So on the first round, we actually start with one with no balloon.

Ziv:

That’s different. So five chairls, one without the balloon. Okay. So now on the first round we have four balloons and wander without on the second round, we only have three balloons left, so we’re going to eliminate two kids, but we’re going to bring them back to new kids. So we always have five kids and they’re in, some of them are being replaced by two other kids. So kid might go back and then come back again to play. And we always have five kids. Even when we eliminate kids, we take new ones because you could, you can see the chairs that are with the balloon and without a balloon. And eventually you have four chairs with no balloon and one show with the balloon and five kids running around the chairs. So it’s just a different version visually.

Danny:

So you’re adding, so you’re adding the balloons, the chair with the balloons you stay on.

Zivi:

Yes.

Danny:

The chairs without balloons, you’re eliminated, but then other people come in to sit on those chairs and play. So you always have six players, right?

Zivi:

Right, right. It takes all five or I don’t know. You can put some whatever it is. Yeah. But you can, because you’re not just eliminating, you’re calling them back. It makes it more of a more, more of a party and they got more chances to play. And so there’s way more kids. I did the math, right. Because you know, there’s extra one on the first one, extra two and the second one. So on the overall there’s like tons of kids playing the game. That’s the mathematical result I got from doing the math, tons of kids playing in one round. Like the entire kids can, can play because you eliminate fall and then you get new fall and you limited flea and you got the new ones and so on.

Ziv:

So it’s six plus five plus four plus three plus two plus five plus six, something like that. So that’s pretty much all of the kids in these days. And they really love the moment of like, are you surely, should I pop it to the not pop it? And then it, then you make sure that the kid stops with the one child with the balloon and it’s America. Like he’s sitting on the one chair that has a blue, and that will be his birthday chair for the remaining of the show. He could fit on the bird page K. Which is visually different. He loves it.

Danny:

Nice. That’s really great. I love that version. That’s good. Yeah. And I think if you can include more and have variations, then it makes it your own and you can improve it with all the different shows you’re doing and different age groups. So, yeah, it’s really good. I like that a lot. Thanks for sharing.

Ziv:

What about no contacts? Non-Contact games. Like we have a situation now where, because of COVID-19 some of the games you need to be careful, right? You need to make like, even musical chairs with balloons or without balloons, the kids might be too close to one another, what can we do? What can we do? Are there any games that we can play that are non-contact games?

Danny:

Think so? Yes. I was watching again on KV, on, on KEA Guy Schaeffer does a great course on one of the units is on using circus equipment and hula-hoops, and the great thing about circus equipment is it’s robust and easily wipeable you can easily wipe it down and protect everybody else after somebody touched it. So I was looking at the hula hoop one, and obviously some kids can hula already and spin it around their waist.

Danny:

Well, there’s loads of other stuff you can do with hula hoops. And guy goes into great detail about how to use the hoops, to maybe set a pathway for the kids to come into the room and they have to hop and skip and jump into the hoops to get to where they need to sit down or whatever. And he does a lot of things with the hoops. And it’s really interesting. So I really liked that idea of using things that you can easily wipe down ready for the next party, before you put it back in your car, and you can even use the hula hoops to sit the audience in at a distance from you. And it’s kind of fun cause they’re sitting in a, in a hula hoop. So that’s a really nice idea. I like using circus equipment. I I’ve been to circus school.

Danny:

I know how to use a lot of circus equipment. So it’s fun for me as an idea, but if you don’t have, or if you don’t want to buy hula hoops, there are alternatives. So in England we call this the Mexican wave where in huge stadiums, the crowd puts their arms up and then the next row and so on. And it goes round the stadium. And there’s no reason why, even in the middle of your show, you can have a bit of an activity and you start at one end of the audience and you do a wave of arms up. And maybe you can use a sound wave as well. And do sounds of pirates or sounds that are relevant to that moment in the show and that, and do a wave of sounds as well. So I think, are you taking a basic idea of, of a, a Mexican wave as we call it?

Danny:

I dunno what you call it in Israel, but that’s what we called it here. And, and you go, okay, the wave it’s passing something down the line. Yeah. As a kind of a, an organized thing. Yeah. So it goes from one end to the other. And so what else can you do with that? Can you do animal noises? Can you do sound effects? Can you do gestures? Can you do your magic gesture or, or a magic word or something like that? So I think if you can think of, of variations, then, then you’re, it’s endless, you know, when you use your creativity.

Ziv:

With that with a Mexican wave or we call it the wave with just the capital D T at the beginning of the wave. Right. But we basically like you could use clapping for that. And no clapping competitions in general are a very fun game, is a warmup for some of the games are really good warm ups for your show. We’ll get half of the people clap. And then you say, can you clap faster or harder than they try? And then you do all sorts of games. Okay. Clap. And then you raise your hand. When I clap, when I raise my hand in any way, you lower your hand, and then you raise your hands open. This whole thing is like, is all the, as a theater and, but still holds really well, but you can use it in a way format as well. What I like to do personally is train my audience on clapping a certain amount of claps. So I will start with like three and go to and go one and go up again. And then at the end they will say, let’s clap 10 times for the birthday kid to celebrate for him being the star of the show and stuff like that.

Ziv:

So just again, empower him and the kids clap fast, like the clap louder than the most excitement, because it’s to celebrate the birthday of a kid and we clap 10 times. And usually I will count like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 million, because they actually want to continue as I just say, okay, we, we, we actually did a million. We skipped to a million. Okay. A million is enough. So yeah. But yeah, you can get kids to do pretty much everything, anything you want, if you tell them to do it three times. So just, if you tell them what is the game, even if it’s relatively, just very trivial by telling them what is it and what are they going to do three times? And that’s it, they’re not wired to do exactly what you just said.

Danny:

Yeah. I really liked that numbers training with the claps. I also use claps as a warmup and I get them to clap in different ways. So I do a round of applause where they clap in a circle around their head, and then I do a duck clapping so that the hands become the beak in front of their face. And they clap like this other silly things. So they’re kind of practicing clapping. And then I come on stage and they have to clap me coming on stage of course, and dividing the audience up into two and is a classic classic for up comedy. And all of that kind of street shows where you divide the audience and you pit them against each other. Yeah. So, and then you get everybody to join together and you have, and maybe even get the adults, kids versus adults, clapping, things like that. So you can do a lot with clapping and completely socially distanced.

Ziv:

And it’s just easy of clapping in all sorts of ways . I just, I wish I had an audience the best. It’s really one of those things you’ve once you hear it, you’ll think why didn’t I think about that. That’s brilliant. Another thing I really love about clapping once the audience is warm is to use that, to introduce the birthday kid. So it would be so game spelled his name counted 10 for him. And yet, instead of just saying, let’s start the show. I mean, to do things my central I’m putting some music dates of those, myself. I have like this music form. I like the, the movie, the minions, they have this beginning where it’s like getting attention. Yeah. So we, I tell, I tell the kids that mean the birthday kid will hide behind the backstop. I use a backdrop and then only if they clap loud enough, we’ll come to them.

Ziv:

And then when possible, when, when the like there’s enough space, I try to create a situation where I can find the birthday kid. And he’s willing to me by going through the other side of the backdrop, because that gets everyone excited about tapping even even louder. And I’m like, you’re not clapping loud enough. So he will never come to you. He would never come. It’s probably hiding somewhere. And they see him only be fooling me. And then I continue to look for him a bit the kids and get them to potentially to fool me even better. So, so sometimes I will go out and I will not notice that he’s there and he will see that as an opportunity to hide again. So it’s all about audience control. And once you get them warmed up to do what you say with clapping or whatnot, then you can use it in all sorts of other ways.

Ziv:

And by the way, like I think you can get a volunteer to stand with you if they like even the birthday kid, if they have a mask on, I imagine like that might work, right? Like you stand over here and they will clap for you and they’ll come out only when they do. Like, I dunno, just thinking out loud, because it’s really is a big part of the fun of performing is on those engagement things.

Danny:

Yeah. I mean, I’m just thinking out loud now, once you’ve mentioned having volunteers up with masks, you can have these masks reusable ones, but you can put funny faces on them. So they put the mask on and they’ve got a big grin or a clown or something. So you could, you could do so have some fun with that. And then you just put them in a bag to wash totally. When you get home possible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s good to hear.

Zivi:

Oh, you’re going to have like gel, gel, Alco, gel, and allow kids to, as they go up to the stage, they can take a little bit of gel.

Danny:

You can, you can make a game of it. I think the whole purpose of games is to get them in a playful mood. It’s a party. So, and also it helps you to get into a playful mood playing games, even though you’re in charge of not, you know, but if you’re interacting with them and getting excited, and then you maybe what’s the game of, of squeezing gel on their hands. What are you gonna put it on your shoe by accident? Or because they’re not close enough or I don’t know what games can you find?

Ziv:

I think, I think it could be really funny to just bring other things that like, I would try to find a catch-up that has the same mechanism and the master of about just playing all sorts of maybe clueless items for the kids to take the gel form, like what gel.

Danny:

And you can even have an empty catch-up bottle with the same mechanism. No, this is the gel I put, please put, catch up on your hands. No, no, I don’t want to put, but you can play games with all that kind of, it can be fun, changing perception of, okay, can you please wash your hands with the mustard? No, really it’s perfectly fine. And they, and then you get out in a mustard thing and it’s the same thing, but you’ve just loaded it with the gel. Zivi:
Yeah. I mean, it’s a joke that we work really well for about a year or two, where you might as well use it. And the thinking of gags, you did like three different lectures with gags. One with like caution type of bags with costumes where the one with the tie and one which was about balloons, right.

Which is the all specialties. So gags are a big part of being at a retainer, but games let’s go back to games. So what other games can people use or learn about games?

Danny:

Well, a lot of people are doing zoom parties and virtual shows, virtual parties. So I discovered, I mean, you kind of put it up on the KEA Facebook group and I watched it this morning and it’s a really good video. I’ve put the link in the show notes so people can watch it it’s on YouTube. So it was by this lady who wanted to give people games and fun to have with their family meetings or with their church group or whatever. And so she lists, she explains 25 virtual games. You can play on zoom. Some of them, I didn’t like some of them are amazing. And I’m going to highlight a couple for you here.

Danny:

You can do on zoom. So my top tip game on zoom is apparently, and I need to test this out. You can do group coloring on zoom, so you can upload a blank, a coloring page. So for example, if you’re an entertainer, you could upload your Zivi Kivi coloring page, or Danny, the idiot coloring page. And then everybody has to color in online at the same time, the coloring page. And then you take a photo of it and you can email it to the parents or whatever they can. So that, and I don’t know if it’s true. I don’t know how it works exactly, but that could be, or you’re testing it now it’s walks like you can, you can create a wide wall and allow people to just use the annotation tool to do that. Well, do you have another station options?

Zivi:

How about we’ll show people how to do that?

Danny:

I think it would be a great little video because this could work really well. You upload your coloring page with your details on it, but not really.

Danny:

I usually, when this happens, it’s you just paste two files. So we’ve now tested the coloring on zoom works during adding pictures and stars. And so that’s amazing. I think that’s, that’s my, that’s the top discovery for me.

Zivi:

That’s the technology for you and you know, the reactions where you can get kids to do either thumbs up or clap and you can use sorts of interesting questions, like, okay, like the first kid that does their heads up with a thumbs up, I dunno, you ask them a question and only this kid that this or the back and they answer like in CSL, no or whatever. It’s just that there’s so many things you can just use the technology.

Danny:

So the whole opening up of a virtual shows and zoom things is really interesting because you can see everybody, you can see everybody with a name so you can call on people. Hey, to me, what do you think of this? And then you can unmute them and you can ask, you can play games with them. You can ask them questions. You can do, you can really interact with them online. So I think that’s a really useful tool when you’re doing your virtual shows. And this is like one game out of 25 and we’ll put the link so that people can read more about gains over zoom.

Danny:

The other, the second game, I will highlight, sorry, before we, before we lose, that, is that if you’re using virtual backgrounds, you can use your virtual backgrounds for games. So she played where in the world am I? And you can have set up some virtual pictures of the Taj Mahal or New York city or Vegas or Disney land or whatever, where am I? But you could make it even more fun than that. Yeah. Yeah.

Danny:

You can make it more fun by having a mountain or a cave or Woodland and start the kids, gaining them to tell stories of what happens when you’re in the, at the beach or in the mountain or with a dinosaur or running after you. So you can prepare these pictures for your parties and you can go through lots of different things with your virtual background. So I thought that was my second brilliant idea.

Ziv:

Yeah. And you can tell a story this way, like exactly, like one day I was walking through the woods and like, it’s almost like a virtual fat by absolutely. You don’t need to pay for exactly.

Danny:

You can download for your own storytelling for your own games, for whatever you want to use them for in your show, in your games, bit of your show images from the internet and use them. Yeah, you can shrink. So Zivi just is playing with, with the virtual backgrounds as we’re speaking. And he put one up of some long grass. So you can be really tiny. You can be a really huge giant, you can go into space, you can do limitless possibilities just by changing a picture on your zoom background on your virtual. So that’s really good. It works. The visual background does work better if you have a relatively balanced lighting. So there’s no doubt. And also if you have some sort of a green screen behind you, and this can actually be inexpensive, you can find on Amazon like four 60 bucks a pop up a green screen that will fit on your chair or just by buy green screen fabric.

Zivi:

Just any fabric that is green. And you use your backdoor mechanism, your fame to just put it together. Oh, don’t do that. Spell the money and just use the virtual pack. Or you can buy, you know, you have pull up banners that people advertise on for their kids’ parties. You can have a green screen pull up banner. You could have a couple of them. And then they pack down easily and it doesn’t take up much space and you’ve got them even, you can just put those pictures inside of a presentation file and just share your screen and show them the presentation. Fine. You can even do that.

Danny:

Absolutely. You don’t need to spend money.

Zivi:

Yeah. Like it’s, it’s fun. And it’s more interactive where they see your face is, looks like as if you’re really there with the green screen technology of virtual screens, but even just sharing your stay and showing them something and telling them the story of some kid’s story that you’ve mutated.

Somehow, that could be fun. Wow. So many, so many good ideas.

Danny:

Thanks. I deliberately watched it and there are loads more ideas on this. Woman’s YouTube. Some of them might, I don’t think are appropriate, but I think those two were the key ones that went, you know what? This could be incredible for kids entertainers. And so the coloring on zoom using your coloring page or getting them to draw on your publicity photo, whatever you could, could be good. Fun.

Zivi:

I want to do a game where the kids grow a mustache and the beer on my Zivi Kivi. That’s cool.

Zivi:

That’s awesome. Okay. So we talked a little bit about zoom and where do we go from here? Like, are there any other games you wanted to share with us?

Danny:

Yeah. I mean, there’s a couple of kind of distance games you can do in real life. You talked about musical chairs, your version of it, but there’s also things like limbo the limbo game, because they’re not actually touching you, but they’re moving in the space. You can even use balloons if you use balloons or just a wooden pole or something, paint it so that it’s easily wipeable and you can play, you can make it extra long for even more social distancing. And then you can do the limbo game. It’s very popular people. Kids love trying to get on underneath this bar that you’re setting them and it goes lower and lower and you could do it to music and have some music.

Danny:

And the other thing I wanted to mention is that I haven’t done any parties, but I’ve been talking to some friends here who do parties and during the pandemic. And they were saying that the kids now are learning to sit down on chairs and not to get up and run around. They’re learning it at school. They’re learning it because they have to. Yeah. So that means you can do more experiments with getting one person up at a time. They’re not going to all rush on to stage. You can do the hand sanitizing games. You can do a lot more things. If the kids are, I don’t want to say better behave, but they’re learning to use the chairs for what.

Zivi:

They are you in less GT.

Danny:

When the kids let’s see the now, wow. Maybe it depends on your area and what’s going on. But I spoke to a friend last night and he was saying, yeah, that he was doing outside shows all the kids were sitting where they were told to sit at distance and he didn’t touch any kids.

Danny:

Nobody, none of the kids wanted to touch his stuff will come up afterwards or anything. So I wanted to pass that on because it could be an interesting phenomenon.

Zivi:

That’s a really interesting phenomenon. And one more thing I would love to bring to a big in the future when we’re getting back to big shows is a mute button. Like just maybe like some fake mute button and just show how yeah. Yeah.

Danny:

He, you can get, you can get big red buttons. I, in fact, I have, I bought some in America the last time I was there. It was the last one on the shelf. So I straight away bought it. You can programmable buttons so you can record. Hi, my name is Danny. And then they can press the button when they, oh, they can record their own names or they, so you can give somebody a shush button. They can record should be quite everybody. And you give them the Flip It like the mute, which is like white and blue collar.

Ziv:

So the, the mute button on zoom is like white on blue. And it’s just, it’s just a funny gig. And so acceptful mute buttons, which is something that’s I think a good mental thing.

Danny:

Yeah. So you know how you want to work with one person on stage and get them to stand where you want them. So you could have, you know, those Instagram or Facebook frames that you had, maybe you can get a computer, one with a mute button on that you can flick. And then, sorry, if you want to help me with this trick, you need to stand here behind this little frame, and then you can flip the frame and all the kids go, no, you’re on mute. Shut up, shut up. And let me, hold on. Let me unmute you. What did you want to say? And as you go away, you can forget and, and play with that.

Danny:

And that means they’re in that place. They have to stay in that framework of being online in their little zoom box.

Zivi:

That’s funny.

Danny:

And it’s a silly game. It’s a silly thing that you sanitize before you get in my computer zoom box and all of that. So you can, you can play, play with ideas. Playing is really important as we’ve continually said on these podcasts. So you play with games. What can you change them to? How can you use what you’re doing virtually in real life and vice versa.

Zivi:

There’s a, there’s many, many other ideas that we could cover, but we’re kind of running out of time. So one last idea, Danny.

Danny:

So just take your musical statues, musical bumps, do it online. If you’re doing virtual shows, you can see all the, all the people stop, the music, play some music, stop it. They all have to freeze on camera. You can see who’s moving. Who’s not. So just switch things around, play with stuff.

Zivi:

It does just so many ideas, not just here, but also inside the kids. That’s been an academy, but you know what we are actually, community of kids entertainers and we help each other. So if you go to the kids, entertain us Facebook group, you could actually share out your ideas of what games you like to play, or what variations you’ve made all go and come and learn more ideas for games there. And one you’re ready inside the kids entertainer academy. We have a complete courses on games like the games magic this time and complete lectures about games that are very fun and efficient and inclusive.

Ziv:

Some of them are more inclusive than others. We discussed the all sorts of options of like zoom games and inclusive games, non-exclusive games and all sorts of clapping games, really lots of stuff. Then you should, as in, you’ve been amazing. Again, it’s so much to learn every time with your wisdom and your deep research, and we will meet again next week on the kids entertainer podcast.

Danny:

Thank you very much for having me here. I hope everybody gets something from this podcast because there’s loads to learn always.

Zivi:

Yeah. I mean, that’s a part of the fun of playing too. Like you learn stuff and when you experiment, so if you want to learn faster, though, all play with us, then go to kidsentertainerhub.com download today’s show notes that are going to be some game for you to play there or to learn. And that would be fun to catch up, to connect the kidsentertainerhub,com website, and either way we can’t wait to be inside your ear lobe again next week on the kids entertainer podcast. Bye bye.

Danny:

Bye.

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