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.
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.