How to Play fruit basket musical chairs

This is the classic game of musical chairs with a little fruit added.

You Will Need

* Participants

* Music

* Chairs

* Fruit names assigned to each participant

Step 1

Choose a person to start and stop the music throughout the game.

Step 2

Set up the chairs in a circle. Have each participant sit in a chair.

Step 3

Divide the participants into groups of two or three and assign the name of a fruit, such as pears, bananas, or cherries, to each group.

Step 4

Play the music and call out a fruit group. Members of that group get up and walk around the chairs. Remove one of their chairs.

Step 5

Stop the music. The participants must find an empty seat and the person without a seat is eliminated.

Have the eliminated person help with the music or call out the next fruit.

Step 6

Continue the same process until all the fruit groups are called.

Step 7

Call out "upset the fruit basket" and everyone has to get up and walk around the circle. Remove a chair.

Step 8

Continue playing until there is one participant in the last chair. They are the last fruit in the basket and win the game.

Fact: There are 1,000 different varieties of bananas.