Category Archives: Games

Really Exquisite Corpses

Posted on February 14, 2017 by thefriendlymoth

Games where you pass and fold paper to make crazy poems and stories are favorites at Frog Hollow. One of the classics is Exquisite Corpse (we didn’t name it — the Surrealists did — but we like it a lot). … Continue reading →

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The Disaster of the Cranky Crankie

Posted on July 18, 2016 by thefriendlymoth

So Lady Gaga had just gotten back from space and was wearing a hotdog costume. Hitler came up to her and said, “You look like a Wiener Schnitzel.” She says to him, “This is a bad romance, Adolf.” But I … Continue reading →

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Wild Word Games

Posted on August 17, 2015 by thefriendlymoth

Summer feeling looooooong? Here are three crazy word games to occupy minds young and old. Bananagram Poetry This game works just like Bananagrams (or Speed Scrabble if you play with Scrabble tiles instead of the nifty little banana bag), but after … Continue reading →

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Math + Poems = Swagness

Posted on April 2, 2015 by thefriendlymoth

Today, in honor of April Fool’s Day, we pretended to do math instead of writing. We wrote a math poem, where each line had to have an equation but everything was words instead of numbers. It was so fun it … Continue reading →

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