Purple People Eater

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

I made up this game to pass time with the kids during mandatory carpet time. They love it and so do I, sadly. It's like mafia for pre-schoolers, except there's no way they can win. I narrate and start our adventure by making sure at least 1/2 of the kids are proficient in karate, swordfighting and tree climbing. We enter the jungle and start chanting this song that the Purple People Eater sings and it goes, "I'm makin a purple stew, I'm makin a purple stew. With purple potatoes and purple tomatoes and (insert names of naughty children) toooooo". I then make up a story of how those kids got caught by the PurplePeopleEater and have the remaining survivors cast votes to determine whether or not we go try and save their captured peers from the stew pot. By the end of the game, I've got a whole lot of dead kids lying around me in complete silence. It's beautiful.

Also, one of the kids took me aside and asked with a very serious-bus expression on his face, "is the purple people eater REAL?"

My work here is done.