MUSICAL CHAIRS. How to play. A game for kids and Adult's..LOL!

0:01 Play musical chairs

Alright ladies and gentlemen, in this video I'm going to show you how to play musical chairs. Now you may think that why would you need a tutorial on learning how to play musical chairs? Because it's one of the most simplest games in the entire world. Well you're right and you're wrong. You're right because it is one of the most simplest games in the world. But you're wrong because you can change it. You can do wacky things. You can do wacky things, believe me, with musical chairs. You can make it interesting. You can make it for kids, for adults. You can have fun with it. You can even get teenagers to play musical chairs and they'll walk away from the function going, you know what? The music was good but I remember that crazy game of musical chairs. So, first of all, musical chairs. For anyone who doesn't know how to play, it's very simple. I've got three chairs.

I've got a couple of dollies helping me at the moment. And I've placed them so they're facing opposite directions, so of course the crowd have to go around like this. And if there's a chair facing them, they can sit down on that chair. If there's a chair not facing them, they've got to go around and try and sit on it. Of course the object for people who have not got the foggiest about musical chairs, if I can put it in its very simple form while the music's on... You go around in one direction. When the music stops, you sit on a chair. While the music's playing, you take a chair away, which means that one person out of the group that are going around won't have a seat to sit on and you carry on doing that until you're left with one chair. Here's a quick one though, very simple as well. Just hold there. When you have one chair left, don't get them to go around that chair. Do something like this. One there and one there. So what they have to do...

2:34 Our chairs, shit, dolls just died

I'm just going to set the camera off. They have to go around that one and around that one and sit in the one in the middle, which means they've got to run around quite a bit. So musical chairs, how can we make this? How can we make it different? How can we make it interesting? By the way, this video is also going out to Dave from Newbury. All right, mate. First of all, if the kids are involved for children, you can make it interesting like this. Our chairs, shit, dolls just died. Let's imagine we've got our chairs back in the centre. So how can we make it different? How can we make this interesting? Now, while the kids are running around, don't take a chair away. So think, you have to open your mind and think. They're running or walking around the chairs, the music's playing.

And you haven't taken a chair away. And then all of a sudden you say, right everyone quickly sit down, sit down. Now of course the kids are going to be running to sit on a seat thinking that one's taken away because they won't really or a lot of them won't notice. This is where the fun starts. What you do is you say to them, right girls and boys, you've sat down on a seat. I want you now to find something for me. And they go, eh? Now this is where we have a little bit of fun. Or you have some fun with them. You say to them, I want you to find something for me out in the audience with a picture of the Queen on. So they're thinking, hold on, picture of the Queen. Now of course mums and dads will be rummaging around their pockets trying to find coins or notes. Of course a picture of the Queen on means a coin or a note. Now again it depends where you are around the world. If it's a Euro it could be a picture of something with a Euro.

5:08 Say, oh dear me, there you go, never mind

But we're looking at money here, so if you're in the States, it could be a quarter, something like that. But don't say a quarter or a dime. Give an image of something. So for example, if you're in America, it could be the head of a president. Find me the head of a president! And of course then what the kids have to do is they have to run around the room and find a coin or something like that. Now while they're running around the room, that's your opportunity... That's your opportunity to take a chair away. Or two, it depends on how many kids are there. If you've got loads of chairs, don't just take one, take three or four. If you've only got five or six kids, take one. Think about it. So you take one away, like that, and then the kids come along and yes, they sit down on the chairs. But it's at that point when there's one chair missing. Now don't go, oh there we are, tough. Say, oh dear me, there you go, never mind. Oh sad, sad, tap on head. No, don't be silly.

Never take the piss. What you can do is, as an entertainer, and it's very cheap but it's great, parents love it, is have a big bag of sweets behind your DJ console. And every child that is out, give them a small sweet, straight away psychological. What you've done to that child, you've taken away the fact that they have now been out of the game. All of a sudden they're like, oh I've got some sweets. Mind change to sweets. Bang, there they are, they're happy. And ask them to go and sit down, and if they're the sort of child who like desperately wants to play a part and they're up and down, up and down, how about you help me? Get them to help you, alright? They may not be helping you, but they think they're actually helping you, which means their mind is not anymore thinking about the fact they want to join in on the secret, on the sly. They're now helping you. Brilliant. So that's the first one. Then the second one, maybe say...

Get me something that you use to brush your hair with. Of course, it's a brush. Find me something that's big and round and red. Maybe there's loads of balloons in the room. Get me something that's small and gritty, piece of grit from outside. But always make sure when the kids go outside that it's a suitable place for them to go outside or, you know, the venue is suitable. So in other words, when they go outside, they're not going to get covered in rain because it's pissing down with rain or get run over because there's a road outside. Anything like that. Just think of things in the room, for example maybe a plastic cup, maybe a straw, maybe a beer mat, something like that. Look in the room and try and imagine what's in the room there's lots of so the kids can grab them. Of course make sure the items they get are not dangerous in any way. So once they're sat on the chair, I'm going to just go back a little bit.

7:31 Put them back on tables or if it's money, keep it

Just ask them to show the items they've got to make sure they have got the items. And when they have, then that's fine. Put them back on tables or if it's money, keep it. Just kidding. Ask them to pass it back to their parents or relatives or family. That's it. Done. And then you end up with one child left. So think about it. You've gone through the stages of doing musical chairs, but instead of taking a chair away while the music is on... You've taken a chair away while, or chairs, while the kids are desperately running to find things. So that's musical chairs for kids. How can we do musical chairs for adults? Hmm. This is the good bit. This is the fun bit. Now, we don't ask the adults to find coins or anything like that. What we do to begin with is we ask the adults to say get a shoe. So the first thing they have to do is find someone's shoe. So they bring a shoe along.

What you do is you have a look at the shoe, so imagine they're sitting there and you go right let me have a look and you keep it. You take it and you know again this is maybe more of a party game and it's a good idea to do this kind of game maybe later on in the evening when they've had a little bit of tipsy. Right, so you take the shoe, now again you need to work on this, have fun. When you pick the shoe up give it a smell, hand it to someone else and give them a whiff alright. Thank you for watching. Put it, I don't know, in a corner somewhere. Right, so this is for later on the shoe thing. And then as the night continues or as the game continues, again, ask them for silly things like a £5 note or, you know, a $20 bill, that kind of thing. But of course they keep it. You don't keep it. It would be nice but you're getting paid hopefully at the end of it. Anyway, and if you do things like this...

9:51 At this point, you ask them for, maybe, a bra

And you do a good job, you could get quite a few pounds or people may want to book you because you're fun. You're not just a DJ, you are now an entertainer. Right, so we get to the nitty gritty bit where we've maybe got five or six adults left. At this point, you ask them for, maybe, a bra. Or, the great one is, you ask them for someone's false teeth. Something, something false, some false, not something false, some false teeth, maybe a tooth or a whole set of teeth. And you ask them to put them in a cup. Alright, so what you do, you've got these, and seriously it will, it does work, it does work. People do this because it's fun. How many times have I said fun? Fun. Anyway, so... Right, five people left. You get their false teeth in cups and what you do, you've got lots of cups on a tray and pretend to like, oh dear me, and you have a jug or you have a bigger cup. Just put them all together, alright? Great fun. And people will go, oh my goodness, but they don't mind because it's fun. So you've got all these teeth now in a cup, big cup. And you're left with one person and finally, you know, they win.

And you maybe give them a bag of sweets or a balloon or something like that. Now, of course, they may expect to get a pint from the bar. But again, it's a children's game, so from a psychological point of view, you want to give them something that a child would expect to have, like a balloon or a packet of Haribos or a packet of M&Ms. They'll love it. So, of course, we're left with a bag of shoes and we're left with some false teeth. Now, again, at this point when the game's finished... Don't say, all right, let's sort out the shoes. Let's sort out the teeth. Just finish it for one song. Go on and play a track or just talk about something completely different. The beauty there is that people will be going, hey, what about my shoe? Hey, what about my tooth? What about my... They'll be thinking, what about... And you'll go, oh yes, I forgot. Now this is where you need to get a song.

12:34 The last person to find their shoe is the winner

And also, this is where you have possibly the biggest ruck known to man. What you do is you get your bag of shoes and you just chuck them on the dance floor like so. And again, this is maybe where you can have a word with the bar manager and say, is it possible to maybe organise a drink? If they're not happy with doing that, then just get two or three quid out of your pocket and buy a drink for someone and say, right, here's the deal, here are the shoes. The last person to find their shoe is the winner. Now, of course, the thing is everyone will be desperately wanting to find their shoes or they'll be thinking, oh, I know, if I'm the last one, I'll get the drink. But what you do is you take a shoe away before anyone comes to get their shoes and that's the person who's going to win. So really, you can choose whether it's going to be male or female or... Well, I don't know, some blokes like women's shoes and some women like bloke...

Anyway, right, so you've got one shoe left. So everyone's diving in to try and find their shoes and of course there'll be one person who will be desperately trying to find their shoe who can't find it and they're the winner because you've got it. Give them the shoe and go and buy them a drink. There you go. Right, the other one then is the teeth. Now then, a song. The song is, and try and download it or get it, it's called Susie Susie Sitting in a Shoe Shine Shop. All day long she sits and shines, all day long she shines and sits. She sits and shines and shines and sits and sits and shines and shines and sits, so Susie Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop. Now you try and say that when you've probably got half your teeth out. I'll explain. Susie Susie shitting in a shoeshine shop all day long, she shits and shines, she shines and shits and shits and... You get it. Now again, it's very easy to do and you can make a complete disaster of it if you don't do it correctly.

But if you have some fun and you make sure that not you but the people involved are the main attraction, then it will go down like a house on fire. People will love it. And of course then that's not the end of it because you've got this big cup full of false teeth. So you say, right, oh yeah, and have fun with them. Is this one yours? It's this one. It's this one. And let them dig in the cut to find their false teeth. It's horrific, but it is good fun. Alright, so this has been a very long video. I hope it's been interesting. And it's about entertainment. That is the... Well, actually that's the only word I said there. It's the major word, the big word. Entertainment. Becoming an entertainer. And this is the thing that will take you to the next level. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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