Tell-A-Picture, A Fun, Easy and Simple Game for the Entire Family!

Here is an example of how it's played:

You start out with one piece of paper and one pencil for each player. The players all sit around a table.  It's works best with 4-5 players.

1. Each person writes a sentence at the top of the paper:

2. The paper is passed to the person on the left.  That person draws a picture of the sentence underneath, leaving a lot of room at the bottom of the page:

3.  Fold over the top sentence, leaving only the picture exposed.  Pass the paper to the person on the left.  That person will write a sentence of exactly what they see in the picture:

4.  Fold over the paper underneath the picture so that only the sentence is exposed.  Then pass the paper to the person on the left:

5.  The person on the left draws a picture of the sentence then folds the paper over underneath the sentence so that only the picture is exposed and passes it to the person on the left:

6.  The next person writes a sentence of exactly what they see in the picture.  Folds over the top picture and passes it to the person on their left:

7. The Next person draws the picture of what they see in the sentence.  Then folds down the sentence and passes it to the person on their left:

8.  The next person writes a sentence for the picture, then folds the paper over underneath the picture so that only the sentence is exposed:

9. Keep repeating the same pattern until you have several pictures and sentences.  Make sure you end with a sentence:

10.  When you are all done, have the last person holding the paper read the first sentence and the last sentence:

Once you get the idea of the game you can alter it different ways.  An idea that we have done is to stack all the papers in a pile and just pull them out at random.  Have fun!

Here are some of my other great Holly's Home ideas.  Just click on the picture to take you to the link.