But there is no absolute need for you to have boats in order to enjoy a stream. There are so many other things to do, not the least interesting being to make a dam and stop or dive...
In commencing fowl-keeping, it is important to choose young and healthy sorts. There should be a two year old cock, and pullets in their first year. In choosing them, we should not...
This game is played in two ways. In each case one player is blindfolded and attempts to catch one of the others and to identify him by feeling. In regular blind man's buff, the pla...
_10 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ This is a game for very little children, and with a little suggestion as to the exercises or movements to be illustrated by the...
Hide a lot of small paper torpedoes in various places around the lawn. Give each child a paper bag and at a signal, which is the explosion of a torpedo, they begin to hunt for the...
The players seat themselves in a circle, one of the number remaining in the center to represent the "Sea." Each player takes the name of some fish and the Sea walking around the ci...
an be made of chestnuts. The flatter side of the nut is the seat, and in this are stuck pins for the back (and arms if necessary), which may be bound together with gold or silver t...
The players sit in a long line or ring. The first, turning to the second, whispers very rapidly some remark or a brief story. The second, who may hear it distinctly, but probably d...
_5 to 20 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball._ A stool, box, or inverted pail is set in an open place, and from ten to twenty feet away from this a throwing line is drawn...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.--This game, Dr. Culin states, is played among eighty-one Indian tribes of the United States. The game bears different names in the various languages of these tri...
When you are picking flowers to send away, never pick old ones. Buds are best generally, especially in the case of poppies; but they should be buds just on the point of opening. Al...
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ This game differs from the track event known as a Relay Race. The form here given is one of the best for engaging in strenuous exercis...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Parlor; seashore; gymnasium._ All of the players but one sit in a circle, with the feet drawn up and knees raised so that a slipper may be passed from...
1. The dragon consists of half a pint of ignited brandy or alcohol in a dish. As soon as brandy is aflame, all lights are extinguished, and salt is freely sprinkled in dish, impart...
Suspend a large Christmas wreath in a doorway at a convenient height from the floor. Prepare in advance "snowballs," made of cotton batting covered with white tissue paper. The pla...
There is no contrariness about "The Mandarins." The players sit in a circle, and the game is begun by one of them remarking to the next, "My ship has come home from China." The ans...
A similar game is called "Coffee-Pot" or "Tea-Pot." In this case also the company think of a word with more than one meaning, but instead of answering questions about it they make...
Players form in columns of files. Place four bean bags four feet apart at a distance of ten feet in front of each column in direction of depth. At a signal the first player in each...
Dolls occasionally require parties. The food may be real or imitation. If real,--such as currants and raisins, sugar and candied peel,--it is more amusing at the moment; but if imi...
The long-haired Angora variety of rabbit is intelligent and very handsome. These need regular grooming and great care, or their long coat gets matted and frowsy. Belgian hares are...
_5 to 30 players._ _House party._ Each player should be given a card or slip of paper on which the following verses are written, the last of each line being left blank. The game co...
Provide each player with pencil and paper. The leader has a dictionary which she opens at any place and selects a word which the rest are to define. The players write the word and...
Players stand in a circle, hands joined. One player is chosen to be Charley. If more than twenty players have several Charlies. Charley stands in the center. The other players, ski...
In many of the games already described mention has been made of "Forfeits." They do not now play quite so important a part in an evening's entertainment as once they did, but they...
Young dogs are almost sure to have distemper, and if a puppy about six or eight months old is depressed and quiet, and his eyes look inflamed, you should put him away by himself at...
1 cocoanut, grated. 1-1/2 lb. granulated sugar, moistened with a little cocoanut-milk. Put the sugar in a saucepan and let it heat slowly. Then boil rapidly five minutes; add grate...
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ This game starts with the players all seated, and with an even number in each row. At a signal, the last player in each row runs forward on the ri...
Keeping poultry is an innocent amusement both for boys and girls. Domesticated animals, unlike the free inhabitants of the country, do not suffer from the loss of liberty, and when...
A sheet, or a screen made of newspapers, is hung up, and two holes, a little larger than eyes and the same distance apart, are made in it. Half the players retire to one side of it...
This is an excellent game. In some places it is called "Cock Fighting." To play it, two players must be matched against each other, and one is sometimes called "Black Cock," and th...