Whilst you wait for other guests to arrive, or for your starters in a restaurant, you may wish to entertain children or adults.
You can use the back of a paper placemat and a pen or pencil to draw around your hand and write your name in it. Get everybody else to do the same on their own placemat or yours.
Or name all the fingers of the hand for up to five people, or both hands for ten, recalling or learning everybody's names and spelling.
Simple Shadow People
If you are in a restaurant or bedroom and don't have time but need to entertain children, or adults, consider making shadows on walls. You can have yourself or the most extravert person as the entertainer. Or go round in a circle asking each person to give a one person hand character a description, name, action or line of continued conversation.
Like Paddington Bear, your imaginary characters or monsters can travel to or from your current destination and home town. A vertical hand makes a door or wall or barrier or border. A horizontal hand can make the road or the sea or raincloud. A bunched hand makes the rising or setting sun.
Thumb People
No time for shadows? Just create two thumb characters to entertain a child. Two hands with thumbs raised make two characters talking.
You can have two thumbs facing each other, moving, nodding, talking in turn. One leaning forward, and the other leaning backwards. One advancing right to left - and the other retreating. A big thumb and a small pinky finger.
Or you have a thumb as the adult. The listening child raises their thumb as the responding child.
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