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Tea Party game: Interpersonal skills & Basic manners
Here is an activity idea to help children develop interpersonal skills and basic manners in a fun way!
Have a pretend tea party to practise table manners, showing kind regards to others and sunnahs of eating and drinking. Then progress to real tea parties.
Captain Quarter card game
Sit around a table with empty plates
Have a collection of coins or bottle caps
Devise a stack of cards with questions pertaining to table manners
Take turns to answer the questions
Each person with a correct answer places a coin on his/her plate
The one with the most coins wins
Ideas for questions on the cards (adapted from the book More creative coping skills for children by B. Thomas)
| Bramblebeard accidentally lets out a loud burp. What should he say? Oh my that was a loud one! Arrgh Excuse me, pardone me, apologies |
| Cabinlass jilly would like some biscuits from the far end of the table. How should he get them? Stretch his hands across and grab them Ask someone to pass them to him Wait patiently for it to be passed round the table |