This is a great game. The normal way this game is played is whoever gets stuck with the potato is out. Will with this game that is not always the case. This helps with the kids wanting to cheat by passing the potato after the stop command is given because they don't want to be out. Sometimes in this version it is safer to have the potato. Plus you have one or two potatoes. I use the colored bean bags for awana to play this game. You can also just use one bean bag. You run the game the way it works for your group. A large group two bean bags a small group just use a single bean bag.
Some prep is required. You should print on strips of paper what happens when the stop command is issued.
Behind Red
Front Red
Behind Blue
Front Blue
Red
Blue
Any others you want to think up that you think would make this game fun you can add to the list. Make them match your game how you intend to play it.
Now for the game. Take your strips of directions and place them in a small paper bag and mix them up. Make all the strips of paper he same size so that your hand can't tell them apart. Now hand the bean bag(s) to the kids and have them start passing the bean bags around the circle on your command. I like to not be looking at the kids so you will need another person to watch the kids and make sure they are playing fair. After a while you yell stop and then reach into the bag and pull a single strip of paper out and the person out is what the strip says. So if it says red the child holding the red beanbag is out. If it says blue then the blue. But if it says front of blue then the child that would have had the bean bag next is out. You understand how this game works! Why it has a twist. You keep this up till you have one child left and they are declared the winner.
