The endless variations of leap-frog should not be forgotten in devising outdoor games: and tournaments of long or broad jumping and high jumping are good. Stilts and the games to b...
Very dainty and good sweets can be made without cooking at all. All that is necessary is to have a certain amount of cream with which to stuff or surround stoned dates, cherries, a...
The tea-tray is brought in by one of the children and placed on a table near the 'mother,' who pours out the tea. One of the children carries a cup to the visitor, and hands it to...
The players stand in two rows, facing each other and holding hands. A line is drawn on the carpet (or ground) between them. One row then step toward the other, singing-- Here we co...
One child is the 'wolf' and stands on one side of the playground, while the rest of the children are 'sheep,' and stand in a row on the opposite side. Wolf: Where's your shepherd,...
For this game sheets of paper are handed round and each player draws at the top of his sheet a head. It does not matter in the least whether it is a human being's or a fish's head,...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ This is a form of Drop the Handkerchief, differing somewhat in play, and also in that a verse is sung with the game. All of the...
A maid and youth each places a chestnut to roast on fire, side by side. If one hisses and steams, it indicates a fretful temper in owner of chestnut; if both chestnuts equally misb...
"Witches" is a home-made game played thus, according to the description of E. H.--"One player is made witch. A good spot is chosen for home, and here the others wait until the witc...
If the garden has no summer-house or tent a very good one can be made with a clothes-horse and a rug.
The man who looks after the cows is a very valuable friend. He may even let you try to milk, which only specially gifted children ever succeed in doing at all well; and he will tea...
Nasturtiums and canary creeper can climb up a little trellis made of sticks at each end of the box, or they can cling to strings fixed to the box and nailed high up at the side of...
This is a good game for a company of ingenious people, and it will be found that almost every one is ingenious when confronted with a difficult situation and given time to think ou...
_2 to 10 or more players._ _Out of doors; seashore._ _Small ball._ This game is played by rolling a ball about the size of a golf ball into holes made in the ground. Three holes ar...
One of the players is sent out of the room, and the rest then agree upon some simple task for her to perform, such as moving a chair, touching an ornament, or finding some hidden o...
It is rather exciting for each player to take a side of the road where there are shops and see which can first complete a given sentence or word from the initial letters of the sho...
Children that are ill are often too weak to hold up a large book and turn over the leaves. There are two ways of saving them this exertion and yet giving them pleasure from picture...
(Still water, still water, stop!) _5 to 30 or more players._ _Parlor; gymnasium; playground._ One player is blindfolded; the others scatter promiscuously. The blindfolded player is...
This is a somewhat similar game bearing on geography. Suppose there are three players. One chooses a well-known place, say Boston, and begins, "I know a place where they sell boots...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; basket ball; bean bag._ I. Simple form for little children. All of the players but one stand in a circle, with two...
In this game one player thinks of a word and gives the others a rhyme to it. Thus, she may think of "coal," and she would then say, "I've thought of a word that rhymes to pole." Th...
_2 to 30 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Volley ball._ This game consists in keeping a large ball in motion back and forth across a high net by striking it with the open palm....
All the children kneel on the floor in a ring with hands on each other's shoulders. One is chosen to be the "rabbit" and runs around outside the ring and touches one of the players...
Any number of children can play this game. One is chosen to be the "bear," and he hides in some part of the room or garden, while the rest, with their backs turned, are standing at...
A more difficult game is "Riddles." At the top of the paper is written anything that you can think of: "A soldier," "A new dress," "A fit of the blues," "A railway accident"--anyth...
To play this game successfully two of the company privately agree upon a word that has several meanings. The two then enter into a conversation, which is obliged to be about the wo...
II In this form of the game the players in the displaced row run around the room and take the vacant row of seats on the opposite side. For instance, the teacher gives an order, "C...
To make a clothes-basket, take a round piece of cork about a quarter of an inch thick and stick pins closely together all round it, as in the above picture. Then weave wool in and...
This is a kind of "Roadside Whist," the rules for which will be found on page 163. As has been said there, most players will prefer to draw up their own scoring table; but the foll...
Partners for different games or for the midnight spread may be decided by the fates. Write a number on one side of a small slip of paper, on the reverse side write a bit of "fortun...