Left Right Games: Gift-Passing Stories to Read Aloud

Type your names, read it aloud, pass the gifts.

27 pages

Left Right Christmas GameSeven stories for a left right Christmas passing game: family, funny, short, rhymed, the Wright pun and two nativity tellings, each with its pass counts.
Left Right Across Christmas GameThree Christmas stories with a third cue word, ACROSS, plus the seating rule for a circle, a long table and an odd number of players.
Twas Night Before Christmas Left Right GameThe 1823 poem with rhyming LEFT and RIGHT lines added: a 3-minute short version and the full poem in two parts, with your names in them.
Left Right Party GameLeft right stories for a birthday, baby shower, bridal shower, retirement, family reunion, Thanksgiving, Halloween or any party, each in a 2-minute and a 4-minute cut.
White Elephant Left Right StoryFour left right texts for a white elephant swap: a short story, a long one, one for the office and a poem in couplets, each with its pass counts.
Funny Left Right Gift Exchange StoriesEight comic left right stories that name no holiday: two short, three standard, one long in two parts and two in rhyme, each with its pass counts.
Left Right Christmas Game for KidsThree short read-aloud stories for ages 5 to 10 with a pause after every LEFT and RIGHT, plus ways to play with no gifts.
Left Right Baby Shower GameFive left right stories for a baby shower: a short and a long Wright telling, a rhyme, one for a co-ed shower and one for a sprinkle.
Right Left Bridal Shower GameFive left right stories for a bridal shower: the proposal told short and long, the dress fitting, the wedding morning and a rhyme.
Thanksgiving Left Right GameFive left right stories for Thanksgiving: a short one between courses, a long one for after dinner, a Wright pun, a rhyme and one for a single prize.
Camping Left Right GameFour left right stories for a campground: a short one about a tent, a long one about a hike, a raccoon and a campfire rhyme.
12 Days of Christmas Gift Exchange GameThree left right stories on the carol's twelve gifts: a short one, a long one in two parts and a rhyme, plus a count-and-pass version.
Fall Left Right GameFour left right stories for a fall party with no holiday in them: a leaf pile, a hayride, a runaway pumpkin and a harvest supper in rhyme.
Mother's Day Left Right GameFive left right stories for Mother's Day: breakfast in bed, a day off, a purse with everything in it, a tea table and a rhyme.
Left Right Story Game for WorkFive left right stories set in an office, none about a holiday: a printer, a meeting that moved, the Friday fridge, a reply-all rhyme and a new hire's tour.
Left Right Game BirthdayFive left right stories for a birthday: a piñata, a hidden present, a present that would not wrap, the goody bags and a rhyme.
Left Right Bible Story GameFour Bible passages retold as left right stories: Abram and Lot, the net full of fish, the good Samaritan and all of Jonah, with your group's name.
Left Right Game for Family ReunionsFour left right stories for a reunion day: the name tags, the potluck table, a race for the oldest and the youngest, and a roll call in rhyme.
Valentine's Day Left Right Gift Exchange GamesFive left right stories for Valentine's Day: a box of chocolates with no guide, an unsigned card, candy hearts, a heart-shaped cake and a rhyme.
Left Right Game for Housewarming PartyFive left right stories for a housewarming: forty boxes marked Kitchen, a ring of keys, a lamp nobody packed, a picture to hang and a house tour in rhyme.
Left Right Game for Graduation PartyFive left right stories for a graduation party: a handshake, a cap that will not sit, an empty diploma cover, five parties in a day and a rhyme.
Left Right Game for Winter PartyFive left right stories for a winter party with no holiday in them: a mitten box, a driveway, a thermostat, an old sled and the first snow in rhyme.
Easter Left Right GameFive left right stories for Easter: a rabbit who goes the other way, a lost egg, a dye spill, a chocolate rabbit and a rhyme.
Halloween Left Right GameFive left right stories for Halloween, none of them scary: a costume box, a house with a hedge, a pumpkin, a candy trade and a rhyme.
New Year's Eve Left Right GameFive left right stories for New Year's Eve: clocks that disagree, a resolution list, a guest who cannot stay awake, a horn that honks and a rhyme.
Funny Left Right Gift Exchange Stories Retirement PartyFive funny left right stories for a retirement party: a first Monday, a farewell card that goes astray, a speech on six cards, a full calendar and a rhyme.
Father's Day Left Right GameFive left right stories for Father's Day: a dad who never asks for directions, the grill, a nap in the chair, one old joke and a rhyme.

A left right game is a gift swap with a story for a rule book. Everyone sits in a circle holding a wrapped gift, one person reads aloud, and each time the reader says LEFT or RIGHT the whole room passes that way.

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Each page here is a set of stories written for one kind of party: Christmas stories, a version that adds ACROSS, the 1823 night-before-Christmas poem, the twelve days of Christmas, white elephant swaps, Thanksgiving, baby and bridal showers, a campground, birthdays and send-offs, and funny stories for any season. Type your own names and your town first, and the story is about the people in the room. The list under each tool gives every story's reading time, its number of passes and where each gift ends up, so you know beforehand that nobody gets their own gift back. Then press Print, or read it from your phone.

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