Thursday, February 10, 2011

Animal Shelter

The kids have been playing Animal Shelter for quite a while, commandeering the "formal" front room for their shelter. I woke up the other morning and discovered some rules posted at the entrance.
1. Don't do anything to hurt the animals.
2. No jumping.
3. Take off your shoes.
4. No yelling.
5. (my personal favorite) No pocket knifes, smoking, or guns.
6. Only 8 people at a time.
7. No people that are sick.
8. No littering (no staples)
9. No touching the animals.
10. No making caves out of chairs.
11. No playing on chairs.
12. No taking animals out of bed.
13. No fighting
14. No turning off lights at play time (unless the teachers help).
15. No hard balls.

With so many rules, you wouldn't think that the front room would look like this:

But it does. Sigh.

4 comments:

CSIowa said...

This, too, shall pass. I promise. It won't even seem like eternity when it does. Try not to impale yourself on the detritus in the interim.

Anonymous said...

A warning to Marmot Dad,step lightly, I once accidentally slew Barbie's horse amid such a collection of youngster's treasures.

KWB

SCS said...

Yes, the only thing worse than killing a horse is killing a horse that is in the animal hospital because it is sick and weak. Frankly, though, I worry more about the Legos because they really really hurt on bare feet. I'd like to make some rules of my own for this room . . .

SCS said...

And see their devious little minds? Rule #2 is "take off your shoes," as if they WANT us to get hurt in there. Kids these days.