So, inspired by Bluey, I started playing a new water-based game with my son and daughter, for the past few months, who absolutely love it.
Welcome to "Crocodile" (it's inspired by Australia, after all!)
- Dad is at one end of the water with one of the child's toys sitting next to him on the edge of tub or pool.
- Child magically turns dad into an animal (Crocodile was the first one), so dad magically turns into a very sleepy crocodile protecting his "treasure" with his eyes closed.
- Child has to sneak past to retrieve their toy from the crocodile, who sleeps rather restlessly, and occasionally flexes/snaps it's jaws (dads arms) as noise and ripples disturb it's otherwise tranquil slumber.
Of course I give them a few "scares", then let them grab the toy, to the tune of much giggling.
We've also done
- jellyfish (fingers floating lazily on the water), no stinging, but these jellies tickle!
- hippo (snoozing with mouth under water, breathing through nose blowing bubbles)
- ducky (two fingers clicking together), not super scary.
- and monkey (mostly just noise).
Anyway, as usual, thanks to Bluey for getting dad thinking outside the box to play with his kids even more.