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Sundae · 03-17-2011, 01:50 PM

I now know a lot of "holding" strategies for children aged 4-11, but I'd only be capable of it in shifts.

Songs, especially songs with actions work with children across this range.

Cards will be beyond the grasp of the littlies.
Unless you use colour / suit for Snap.
But then one of the few games I know is Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, aka Strip0 Jack Naked.
Hardly appropriate in the circumstances.

Cloud · 03-17-2011, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

As Heinlein, among others, have pointed out, a deck of cards is an important survival tool.

When lost, deal out a hand of solitaire. Someone is bound to show up and inform you that you could play the 10 of hearts on the jack of spades.

I would NOT want to play cards with Mr. Heinlein. He based too much of Lazarus Long on himself!

wolf · 03-18-2011, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

always pack a deck of cards in your bugout bag.

... I don't think I remember any card games. Except Go Fish.

I do. I have a set of plastic (not plasticized, actual plastic, Bicycle makes them) cards as well as regular pasteboards.

And I remember a lot of card games, suitable for small children to adults, including numerous versions of solitaire.

I also have a small chess/checkers/backgammon set.

Child management and entertainment is supposed to be part of the standard Red Cross offerings. When I was working at a recovery center during some flooding here, there was a child care area set up with toys, stuffed animals (that the kids were allowed to take with them), and a licensed child-care working watching over everything. This wasn't a shelter, this was a FEMA site where folks were coming to do the paperwork to get their vouchers.

footfootfoot · 03-18-2011, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by monster

what do you do?

Lay there and revel in your abandon?

Pete Zicato · 03-18-2011, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot

Lay there and revel in your abandon?

FTW

casimendocina · 03-20-2011, 05:56 AM

Seen this one about the teenagers who have organised themselves to go and find food for the rest of the people in their shelter?

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/a...520689503.html

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Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I now know a lot of "holding" strategies for children aged 4-11, but I'd only be capable of it in shifts. Songs, especially songs with actions work with children across this range. Cards will be beyond the grasp of the littlies. Unless you use colour / suit for Snap. But then one of the few games I know is Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, aka Strip0 Jack Naked. Hardly appropriate in the circumstances. Last edited by Sundae; 03-17-2011 at 03:37 PM.

03-20-2011, 05:56 AM	#21
casimendocina Professor Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,622	Seen this one about the teenagers who have organised themselves to go and find food for the rest of the people in their shelter? http://english.aljazeera.net/video/a...520689503.html

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