Heads Up Seven Up

This is a great game for children to get to know each other and a quick and fun game for children to guess who picked them.

Materials Required:

Pick 7 of them and ask them to come to the front.
The remaining 7 sit with their heads down and thumbs up.
Now you need to ask the 7 who are standing in the front, to go around a child and then touch either of their thumbs.
They need to come back to their places.
Now you need to say, “heads up, seven up” and the kids at the desk need to stand and guess who touched their thumb.
If they guess correctly, they switch places.
The rest remain in the same place and continue with the next round.

As the name goes, you need 14 kids. But you can do it with more or less a number of kids too.
Accordingly, you can change the phrase, ‘heads up seven up’ based on the number of heads.
Even if you have odd number of kids, you can manage by introducing yourself into the game or asking a kid to touch the thumbs of 2 kids.
The idea is to touch and put the thumbs down, but some kids may be hard on doing this. So, we restrict touching the thumb alone.
This game makes the kids to interact with each other, thus developing their social skills in them.
The kids learn to recognize their classmates by their names which is very essential.
It enables a kid to guess by means of manipulation at times. Say a kid observes who has touched whose thumb and then the child correlates and finally comes out with the correct answer as to who has touched his/her thumb.
The child builds on language skills and learns to communicate through this game.

Reference:
Empowered Parents