The name explains the game, which is played as "It" is played, except that you can be caught only when you are not touching wood. It is a good game where there are trees. It is, of...
The most important thing to do when staying at a farmhouse is to make friends with the principal people. The principal people are those in charge of the chickens and ducks, the cow...
Suspend apples by means of strings in doorway or from ceiling at proper height to be caught between the teeth. First successful player receives prize. These prizes should be Hallow...
1 lb. powdered sugar. The white of an egg. 1/2 a pint of water. 1/2 a lemon. Dissolve the sugar in the water, and add the well-beaten white of an egg (this must be done before the...
Guests are to be supplied with pencils and papers containing the following letters:-- 1. Loadailrrfliar 2. Aliredalrig 3. Ginlatirlairgruad 4. Wilrayalingir 5. Letairrlailerry Whic...
All the children join to form a large ring, and one of the taller girls stands in the centre to represent 'Spring.' The twelve flowers mentioned in the verses should be represented...
This game is suitable for playground, gymnasium or classroom. Equipment necessary is Bean Bag or ball. Number of players preferably 8 to 10 on a team. The players stand in two or m...
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ The players should all be seated, an even number in each row of seats. At a signal, the last player in each line runs forward and tags the front w...
_16 to 60 players._ _Gymnasium; playground; schoolroom._ _Bean bags; oat sacks._ The players stand in two or more even ranks, facing sideways. The players at either end step one lo...
For a sofa a piece of cork about two inches long and half an inch thick is needed. This must be covered, and then quite short pins stuck in for legs. Put a row of short pins along...
Upon the floor are twelve candles in a row, all alight and each of a different color. Each candle stands for a month in the year. The white one for January, blue for February, pale...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ This game is played with a slipper, or a piece of paper folded in several thicknesses to present a surface of about three by ei...
There are several ways of playing this game, here are two. Provide each guest with a little paper book to represent a guide book and a pencil. Articles of all kinds have been scatt...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ Two parallel boundary lines are drawn from thirty to fifty feet apart; or the game is often played between the curbings of a st...
Except in very dull streets shop-windows can be always entertaining. It is interesting to suppose you have so much money--say five dollars--to spend, or, if you like, an unlimited...
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ _Gas balls or bean bags._ Arrange the players so that all the rows are filled and the same number in each row. No. 1 in each row has a bean bag or...
Java sparrows are pretty creatures, although they do very little for you. Perhaps the most attractive of small foreign birds is the avadavat, a tiny, perky little soldier. These li...
_5 to 20 players._ _Out of doors._ This game is played when the sun is shining. One of the players is the moon, and takes her place in a large area of shadow, such as would be cast...
One of the players commences the game by saying to his neighbor, "I have a cook who doesn't like peas (p's); what will you give her for dinner?" The person addressed must avoid the...
One or two of the group are informed that they are to be initiated into the Order of the Knights of the Sacred Whistle. They are shown a whistle and told that to become a member th...
_10 to 30 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; volley ball._ This is one of the most interesting games for players beginning to care for team work. The writer has known...
All the players sit in a ring, except one, who stands in the middle holding a soft cushion. This he throws at any one of the players and begins to count ten. The person at whom the...
_6 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; parlor._ _Volley ball; basket ball; gas ball._ This game is very similar to Volley Ball, but differs from that game in the fact t...
The players form a ring: all except one, who is "It." This one runs round the ring and touches one of the players in the circle. They both set off running immediately in opposite d...
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ This game is played with wooden gymnastic wands, from three to five feet in length, and not less then one inch in diameter. There shou...
Cut an apple open and pick out seeds from core. If only two seeds are found, they portend early marriage; three, legacy; four, great wealth; five, sea voyage; six, great fame as or...
A circle is drawn on the ground. The players stand shoulder to shoulder inside of the circle with arms folded, either on the chest or behind the back. At a signal, the game begins...
The Newfoundland is one of the grandest of beasts. The true Newfoundland is black all over, except for a white star on the chest, and he stands at least twenty-seven inches at the...
The tiny tots would enjoy building a log cabin of tooth-picks by placing upon the table two wooden tooth-picks about two inches apart in a horizontal line, then laying two tooth-pi...
For this game it is necessary for the hostess to collect a large number of pictures from magazines, advertisement pages or papers. These are placed in the center of a table around...