PRANKS     

The following are classic pranks you can do at children's parties.

Do as I do

This funny prank involves you doing a few actions using a dinner plate and the victim copying you as closely as possible.

To set up, have your dinner plate ready and the victim's dinner plate is prepared by having soot from a candle built up on the bottom side of the plate.

Sitting or standing face to face with your victim, ask you victim to copy you as closely as possible, without laughing (this is a distraction)!

Start by doing a few random movements, lulling the victim into a false sense of security. You pass the victim his/her plate, bottom downwards. Start by gently making movements with your plate so that the victim will not notice the soot on their plate wen they copy you. You then run your finder on the underside of your plate so your victim deos the same. When s/he has a nice load of soot oh his/her finger you run your finder across you forehead, as they copy you, they get thick black marks on their face.

Do this just enough to mark your victims face then finish with some moves not involving the plate.. Your victim will have nice thick marks on their face!

 Crossed or uncrossed

This is a daft party game, get everyone to sit in a circle, on chairs if possible. You start the game by passing a pair of scissors to the next person, saying "crossed" or saying "uncrossed". The next person also passes on the scissors saying either crossed or uncrossed and so on. You correct the call of each person if it's incorrect.

Confused? Well, that's not surprising! This is a game of pure misdirection, before you pass the scissors on, you move them in random ways so the players think that is what the crossed or uncrossed is about and try to work it out so that they are making the correct call.

So, what's the real reason I hear you ask? Well, how the scissors are moved is a distraction, if your legs are crossed you say crossed and if they are uncrossed, you say uncrossed. You can correct anyones call if they say crossed and their legs aren't or vica verca.

Keep the play lively and occaisionally give hints as to the real nature of the call and some people will get it, others wont, and the ones in the know can really enjoy watching the bemusement of everyone else!

Obviously, this game is better for older children and works surprisingly well for adults, too.