Sleeping lions
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Sleeping Lions (also known as "Dead Dogs" or "Dead Fish") is a children's game.
All but one or two players are "lions", and lie down on the floor, eyes closed, as if they were sleeping. The remaining one or two players ("hunters") move about the room attempting to encourage the lions to move. The hunters can't touch the lions, but may move close to them, tell things to them, jokes, etc. Any person who moves must stand up and join the hunters.
Sleeping lions is also sometimes used in schools as an exercise. All the children will play "lions" and the teacher will play the "hunter". Usually in this case the teacher will make no effort to make the "lions" move, because in this case the real aim of the "game" is to calm the children down after playing other exciting games.
Variations of the game can include: dead soldiers, sleeping logs, standing scarecrows, resting tigers.
There is another game called Sleeping lions made up to get a group of children under the age of 6 to fall sleep . The children are put in the centre of a room with pillows and blankets and told the rules of the game , Whoever opens there eyes first loses. After about 5 - 6 minutes 90% -100% of the children are asleep . this was invented by Andrew Cruickshanks in 2001 after finding him self looking after a group of children
