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1.
One child acts as the "mother", while the other children line up and face mother
about 25 feet away. Mother then picks one of his or her friends and says
something like, "Emily, you can take five steps forward". Emily then says,
"mother may I ?".
Mother then says, "Yes you may". Then Emily would take five steps forward.
2.
Mother then says something else to another of his or her friends like "Joshua,
you can take three steps forward" and the games continues until one of the
children reaches the mother. Whoever makes it to the mother first becomes
the mother for the next game.
3.
The fun part of the game is that during the excitement one of the players is
bound to take their steps without asking "mother may I ?". When this happens
the mother says "you didn't say mother may I ?"
and sends the player back to the beginning of the line.
The
mother can also make the game a little more interesting by making the players do
other things like "hop on one foot for two forward steps" or "spin three times"
or some other fun request.
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