Did I not Invent this Game?

I’ve been playing a game with my son where I make a buzzing sound and then start poking him in his belly and sides on the premise that he’s being stung by a bee. When I broke this game out over Easter, I was surprised at how quickly his cousin of the same age caught on the first time she saw me playing this game with my own child. I assumed it was her own perspicacity.

Just this week, I was in the park with my own boy in a kind of boat ride where you shake a fake raft, and there were these younger girls in the boat while I was shaking it. I don’t poke other people’s children if I can help it. That’s just the way things are these days. I wouldn’t have even started the game with my own kid if I’d realized that as soon as I started making the noise, these girls would start poking people with abandon.

Is this bee game widespread? Because I’d never heard of it before I started doing it.

I certainly did it with my son 30+ years ago. I can’t recall if it was ever done to me as a child or where I might have learned it. It seems like a kind of natural game.

Pretend action and child reaction is very common game.

Pretend train bringing food to eat… Into the tunnel> action is open the mouth !
Mine was:
Press pretend button, being a specific tile on the wall of the bathroom: Action: both pretend to react (whatever you think about)…Different tile, different pretend action. Its like “concentration” or “memory” , as with remembering where pictures are, but in this case, remembering what action each tile is.

My grandpa did it with me 50 years ago give or take.

Before your sun burned hot, I was playing that game with my offspring.

An uncle did it to me when I was a wee one, back in the late 40s. I imagine the game is many thousands of years old. My guess is that someone played it with you, and you’ve simply forgotten.

I imagine it’s something easily reinvented again and again.