To foretell complexion of future mate, select three soft fluffy feathers. (If none is handy, ask for a pillow and rip open and take out feathers.) On bottom end of each feather fas...
One player chosen to be "Simon" takes his place before the other players. He commands some gymnastic movement as "raise arms forward, bend knees," etc. As he does so he calls out,...
One player is sent from the room and the rest decide upon something he must do when called in. When this has been done he is summoned by magic music which is made by having one of...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ This is a game of leapfrog in which the leader (first over) sets feats for the others to perform, as in Follow the Leader, any p...
A good-sized donkey without a tail is cut out of brown paper and fixed on a screen or on a sheet hung across the room. The tail is cut out separately and a hat-pin is put through t...
Each one places handful of wheat flour on sheet of white paper and sprinkles it over with a pinch of salt. Some one makes it into dough, being careful not to use spring water. Each...
The first thing to learn in "Marbles" is the way that the marble should be held. Of course one can have very good games by bowling the marble, as if it were a ball, or holding it b...
Stand in front of mirror in dimly lighted room and eat an apple. If your lover reciprocates your love he will appear behind you and look over your right shoulder and ask for a piec...
The best months for planting perennials are November, February, and March. Dig a hole large enough to take the roots when well spread out, hold your plant in position, with the jun...
Three players stand so as to represent a hollow tree, facing center with hands on each other's shoulders; a fourth player stoops within to represent a squirrel. Let the other playe...
Each person melts some lead and pours it through a wedding-ring or key into a dish of water. The lead will cool in various shapes, supposed to be prophetic. Any ingenious person wi...
_3 to 10 players._ _Out of doors; seashore; snow._ _Ball; bean bag; stone._ This game is played with one small ball, in size anywhere from that of a golf to a tennis ball. If playe...
The reputation for uncertain temper which collies have is not well grounded. They are excitable, it is true, and apt to snap if you romp too long and wildly with them, and they do...
This game may be played either in the home, schoolroom or classroom. The words should be learnt previously as a recitation. Materials required.--Three mugs or basins of various siz...
Cellar-stairs' test is where girl boldly goes down stairs backward, holding a mirror, and trying to catch in it the features of him who is to be her mate.
In French "Blind Man's Buff" the hands of the blind man are tied behind his back and his eyes are left uncovered. He has therefore to back on to the players before he can catch the...
1 pint of chopped nuts. 1/2 lb. brown sugar. 3 oz. butter. Juice of one lemon. Tablespoonful of water. Boil everything, except the nuts, for twenty minutes, stirring all the time....
There is also pen and ink drawing, mistakenly called "etching," for which you require a tiny pen, known as a mapping pen, and a cake of Indian ink. If the library contains a volume...
Before sowing any seeds, see that the soil is nicely broken up, and remove any stones. When you have decided where to sow the different seeds, take away a little earth from each pl...
Select copies of famous paintings, those familiar to every one, and hang them around the room. Neither the name of the painting nor of the artist must be on it, only a number on ea...
One of the most popular games at a party is certainly "Consequences"; it is a very old favorite, but has lost none of its charms with age. The players sit in a circle; each person...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _House party._ Each player is given a sheet of paper on which the following questions are written. The player wins who writes correct answers to the larg...
All the players, except one, stand in a line. The other, who is the old soldier, then totters up to the end player, saying-- Here comes an old soldier from Botany Bay; Pray, what h...
A raisin is strung in middle of thread a yard long, and two persons take each an end of string in mouth; whoever, by chewing string, reaches raisin first has raisin and will be fir...
Another trial of composure. The players choose what positions they will and become as still and as silent as statues. One player is judge. It is his business to try and make the st...
_20 to 30 players at once._ _Schoolroom._ This schoolroom game is played with most of the class sitting, being a relay race between alternate rows. The first child in each alternat...
All players form a ring, joining hands, except one called the Mouse, whom they enclose within the circle, and one who is on the outside who represents the cat. They then dance arou...
1-1/2 lb. granulated sugar. 4 oz. grated cocoanut. Melt the sugar with as little water as possible. Continue to let it boil gently until the syrup begins to return to sugar again....
The form of "Consequences" above given is the ordinary one and the simplest. But in certain families the game has been altered and improved by other clauses. We give the fullest fo...
The children stand in rows facing each other, each child holding the handkerchief of its opposite partner, and so helping to make a long tunnel. As they stand thus the verse is rep...