How to Play Musical Statues

To play musical statues, you will need at least five children. This is a great birthday game, as it has all the components that children love... music, laughter, and lots and lots of fun.

What you will need:

A sound system and music

An adult to use the sound system

The rules on how to play musical statues are as follows. Take one group of average, ever-day, happy, and healthy children comprised of at least five kids. Place them into a nice big echoing room, and have an adult start the music. Whilst the music is playing (very loudly), have the children run around the room like chickens with their heads chopped off, preferably with lots of shrieks of laughter, yells, and plenty of giggling. Let the children continue to this until the music stops. The music is stopped by the adult supervising the music. This will either be brought about by trying to catch the children out, or to stop the incessant, pounding migraine that is forming behind your eyes. As soon as the music stops, the children are to immediately stop and freeze in whatever position they are in - this is really important, as the first child caught moving is out of the game. If the children are doing an excellent job of not moving whilst the music is off, it is time to restart the music, and do it all over again. Changing the amount of time the music is played for between each stop will help in catching someone out, as will the amount of time the music is off. Sooner or later (depending on how that migraine is going), the children will start flinching whilst the music is off, as they are preempting the restart of the music. The number of children left standing will begin to dwindle, although not nearly fast enough for your migraine. In the end, the last child remaining is the winner.