Sleeping lions

Sleeping Lions 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 may not touch the lions, but may move close to them, tell 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.

Although a dying fad in schools, this game is in growing popularity in children's holiday camps, such as The Green Tent.

Variations of the game can include: dead soldiers, standing scarecrows, resting tigers, dead beaver, and fishies (usually played near the pool during the lifeguards' pool check).

On a previous edit it was claimed that this game is called 'Sleeping Logs'. However, any popular search engine will show that 'Sleeping Lions' is considerably more popular.