_Any number of players._ _Schoolroom; parlor; playground._ This is a device for mental arithmetic. It is one of which children are very fond. As the play element may enter very lar...
This is a game for several little players and two stronger ones. The little ones are the honey-pots, and the others the honey-seller and honey-buyer. The honey-pots sit in a row wi...
The players form a circle taking hold of hands and circle around one of the players who is blindfolded and holds a staff or cane. When he raps on the floor with the cane they all s...
Any number can play this game. The players stand in a line around the room and number themselves, beginning with one, until each has a number. The leader, who has no number and who...
This is not played now as once it was. In the old way the players sat in a line and went steadily through the alphabet, each one taking a letter in order. This was the form:--"I lo...
The players form in a circle about two steps apart. The leader stands in the center holding a cord with a small sand or shot bag attached to the end. He swings the cord around the...
BALLOONS Gas balloons have been found very useful for quite a large class of games, and are specially suitable for use in the schoolroom or parlor, though they may also be used out...
Give each player a pencil and paper. Ask each to write the name of the city (town or state) in which he was born. Then ask each to separate the letters in the name of his birthplac...
Place two small bowls on a table at one end of the room, at the other end of the room on a table have two bags of peanuts and two knives. The players may choose partners in any way...
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ This game consists in a sideways passing of two bean bags and two dumb-bells alternately. This amount of apparatus should be placed on the floor i...
_5 to 10 players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ This is one of the traditional dramatic games, obviously an abbreviated form of _Mother, Mother, the Pot Boils Over!_ One player is sele...
A piece of rope is needed for each team. At the signal to go, the first individual skips rope ten times, in place, hands the rope back to the next individual who skips ten times, a...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ The players, who should be numbered consecutively, stand in a circle or semicircle. One player stands in the center...
The clairvoyant goes out of the room, undertaking to name the person whom his confederate shall point out. The door being shut upon the clairvoyant the confederate points to one wh...
The leader need be the only one who understands this game. He asks, "What month are you going away in?" One player might answer "September." He then asks, "What will you wear?" "Wh...
Divide the room into teams of three rows each. In front of each team, some six or eight feet distant, place a chair with a scarf tied to each. The first child in each team acts as...
One player who is blindfolded stands in the center of the room. The other players stand anywhere they wish and in such positions as seem safest to them. The blindman is then told t...
The Indoor Recreation Work is given in the form of plays and games. While the plays and games listed have been carefully arranged and graded with a view to adapting them to the sch...
Players form a circle, hands joined. Stepping lightly around the circle, they recite the following verse, bobbing down quickly on the word "sank": Round and round went our gallant...
One player represents the Sergeant, and the others the soldiers, whom he is supposed to be drilling. When the Sergeant says "Do this," all the players must imitate him. But when he...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ This is an admirable game for very little children. Their dramatic tendency should be given full rein in impersonating the soft...
_2 to 10 players._ _Out of doors._ This is one of the pretty Oriental games recorded from Korea by Mr. Culin, and is played by the children of that country, Japan, and China. The p...
Each player is asked to draw a haphazard line on a piece of paper. The line may be anything he wishes and does not need to suggest or resemble any object. The papers are collected...
_5 to 15 or more players._ _Out of doors._ _Football; hand ball; bean bag._ This game is a form of Ball Tag, and may be played with any light-weight football, or with a bag or sack...
Have each competitor grin as broadly as possible. The judges measure the grins with a tape measure.
_9 to 12 players._ _Gymnasium; seashore._ The players sit in a circle on the floor, with their feet stretched out and mingled in a promiscuous pile. One player, who is leader, and...
The usual thing to draw with shut eyes is a pig, but any animal will do as well (or almost as well, for perhaps the pig's curly tail just puts him in the first place). Why it shoul...
("Squat" Tag) _4 to 60 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ One player is It and chases the others, trying to tag one of them. A player may escape being tagged by suddenly st...
Get ten small toy ten-pins or use wooden clothes pins. Stand them upon end about six or eight inches apart in a line across the room. Use five colored eggs for the balls. A player...
Familiar proverbs are divided into groups of three or four words. These are distributed among the guests. There should be at least two words, and preferably more, on each slip. Eac...