Form a circle in pairs, partners linking arms together. Two stuffed clubs (made by stuffing stockings with waste or rags), are placed in the hands of one of the couples selected to...
Plan to have an even number of guests invited, half ladies and half gentlemen. Provide thick boards for each lady, also a hammer and paper of tacks, and for the men, plain hats (un...
Use a large plateau or mirror for the centerpiece, in the center of which lay an irregular piece of real (or artificial) moss about one-half the diameter of the plateau (to represe...
It should be noted that if you intend to skeletonize ferns, they should not be picked before August, and they must be pressed and dried before they are put into the bleaching solut...
The game of enigmatical menus, as its name implies, is not only especially appropriate for Thanksgiving Day, but has the further merit of not requiring a great deal of preparation...
Pack your baskets. Hang them over your arm. Run down to the street car. Give your fare to the conductor. Step down from the car very carefully. Look up and down for passing automob...
A Hallowe'en party is probably the only gathering where the stiffness and formality entirely disappear. Every one is in for a good time, and should be dressed in old clothes ready...
Place a lighted candle in middle of floor, not too securely placed; each one jumps over it. Whoever succeeds in clearing candle is guaranteed a happy year, free of trouble or anxie...
The first two players on each team stand back to back behind the base line, with the first player facing the distance line. The two lock arms behind them. At the signal to go the f...
To amuse the children after the Thanksgiving dinner, ask them all to join hands and form a ring. One is chosen out and is given a nut which he is to drop behind some child. As he w...
A football or basketball is necessary to the game. All but one of the players stand in circle formation in stride position, with feet touching those of the next players to make a b...
This is a game of speed. One volunteers to be Touch, and he pursues the other players till he comes up with one of them and touches him; unless the player so touched can say, "I to...
Various articles invisible to the eye, with distinctive odors, such as vinegar, rose, mustard, vanilla, ginger, clove, tea, coffee, chocolate, soap, etc., are placed before the pup...
Letters can be used for a round game by one player making a word, shuffling it, and throwing it face upward into the middle of the table. The winner is the player who first sees wh...
All the players except two stand in parallel ranks, one behind the other. The distance between each player and each rank is that of "double arms' length," so that whichever directi...
_; _Line Club Bowls (Double)_; _Center Club Bowls_.) _6 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; football; Indian clubs._ The players divide into two parties...
Wind six hoops each with a standard color. Make six bean bags a corresponding color. This game is played by six files of equal number. In front of each file station a player who ho...
A novel amusement for children at Christmas time is to trim a Christmas tree when blindfolded. Stand a small tree at one end of the room, ready to be trimmed. Have all the ornament...
Formation--In single line. A parallel line is drawn about fifty feet in front and the player being "it" stands between this line and the players. At a signal, players change to the...
The children take hold of hands and form a circle, except one who is standard bearer and stands in the center of the circle holding an American flag having a staff about four feet...
In this game a player stands blindfolded and another player comes up and taps him. The one who is "it" then gives a penalty, such as "climb a tree or run to the corner and back," a...
_3 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Gas ball; basket ball; hand ball; bean bag._ This is a form of ball tag. In it each player chooses a home or corner...
The "tamale" in this game is a knotted handkerchief. One player is chosen for the Hot Tamale man and stands in the center of the room while the others sit around in a circle. The H...
All the children, except one, sit on the floor around a sheet or table cloth which they hold about eighteen or twenty inches above the floor. A feather is placed on the sheet and a...
Foot Ball is a very simple game. A large soft ball is procured (which is now made of Gutta Percha), and the players having assembled and taken sides, a line is drawn across the pla...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _House party._ Each player is provided with a sheet of paper on which are written the following questions. Each question is to be answered with a word, o...
Words are written out on slips of paper and then cut into single letters. Each letter going to make up a word is given the same number. For example, in the word "battle", number ea...
Two lines are drawn in the schoolyard about fifty feet apart. The group is divided into two teams. The one team links hands and takes a position between the two lines, and the lead...
You cannot only wander from one climate and from one nationality to another, but from one century to another. If you are studying early American history nothing is more fun than to...
I _14 players._ _Basket ball; volley ball._ I] This is in some respects a simpler form of Captain Ball than those that follow, as there are but three bases or homes on each side of...