{"id":341,"date":"2019-01-31T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/?p=341"},"modified":"2019-01-31T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T19:02:12","slug":"indoor-games-for-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/2019\/01\/31\/indoor-games-for-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Indoor Games for the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;River Crossing&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This game is very similar to \u201cThe floor is lava,\u201d but with a challenging twist!<\/p>\n<p>First, the players should collect items that could be used as stepping stones (pieces of cardboard or fabric, styrofoam plates, etc).\u00a0 The smaller the stepping stones are, the more challenging it will be! \u00a0Use one less stepping stone than the number of members playing; so, if you have 4 people playing, use 3 items.\u00a0 Everyone then agrees on a starting point and a destination.\u00a0 The players move the stepping stones to create a path, so each player can reach the destination.\u00a0 After each item is placed on the floor, at least one player has to be touching the stepping stone at all times.\u00a0 If a stepping stone is placed on the floor and no one is touching it, the stone must be removed from the game.\u00a0 Each family or group playing can make up their own silly rules for consequences when a player steps off of the stepping stone onto the \u201clava\u201d floor (player has to be blindfolded, they can only use one hand, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>This game is a great for building teamwork, practicing communication and group problem solving skills, and having some fun indoors!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;River Crossing&#8221; This game is very similar to \u201cThe floor is lava,\u201d but with a challenging twist! First, the players should collect items that could be used as stepping stones (pieces of cardboard or fabric, styrofoam plates, etc).\u00a0 The smaller the stepping stones are, the more challenging it will be! \u00a0Use one less stepping stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":885,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/johnstk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}