Carve all the letters of the alphabet on a medium sized pumpkin. Put it on a dish and set on a stand or table. Each guest in turn is blindfolded and given a hat-pin, then led to pu...
(Skipping) _3 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ Jumping a rope is admirable for both boys and girls, combining much skill with invigorating exercise. It should always be do...
_5 to 10 players._ _Parlor; schoolroom._ Each player is provided with ten slips of paper, numbered conspicuously from one to ten, but arranged irregularly in a pile. The players ga...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _House party._ Each player is given a sheet of paper with numbered questions prepared like the following list. The answer to each question is to be writt...
This is an old Swedish game and one which can still be played and thoroughly enjoyed. The players are arranged in double file. One player is selected to be "It" and takes a positio...
Prepare long strips of paper on which the guests are requested to write several words of three or more syllables, leaving spaces between each syllable. When this is done, cut up th...
The best breed--Good and bad points of incubators--What to feed small chicks--A model chicken house A pen of chickens gives a boy or girl an opportunity for keeping pets that have...
A game of ball which is generally played in England and the British provinces, but which is not very popular in the United States. There are two opposite sides or sets of players o...
Two lines are marked upon the ground, about fifteen feet apart. The group is divided into three equal teams; one team is known as the red, the other the blue, and the third the whi...
A group is divided into two equal teams. These two teams line up in parallel lines about six feet apart, back to back. A safety line is drawn at each end of the field about twenty-...
All the guests sit in a circle and the leader begins by saying: "This is a very solemn occasion." He then twirls his thumbs and looks very solemn. Commencing with the player to the...
_6 to 60 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ (Sung to the air of "Mulberry Bush") Here we come gathering nuts in May, Nuts in May, nuts in May. Here we come gathering nuts i...
A game of ancient Irish origin which is much played by baseball players and other athletes to keep in good condition during the winter when most outdoor sports are impossible. A re...
This is a very old game and of great historic importance. The famous Bowling Green in New York City was named from a small park where the game was played by New Yorkers before the...
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...
A game similar to Rugby football except that it more closely resembles what its name implies and kicking predominates. A round, leather-covered ball is used and the game is conside...
The players sit in a circle and one of them asks the others: "What's my thought like?" One player may say: "A monkey"; the second: "A candle"; the third: "A pin"; and so on. When a...
See clock games above. Similar to the preceding walking race, except that instead of running around the ring singly, the competitors go in pairs, as follows: At the signal to go Nu...
Divide room into two teams, each team holding a flag. Upon a given signal the first child in each team runs forward and makes a complete circuit of his team and upon returning give...
The guests are requested to bring something wrapped up in paper, which they wish to get rid of. The hostess prepares a duplicate set of numbers, pinning one number on each parcel,...
Players in a circle. One player chosen by teacher goes around inside, holds out his hand between two players and says, "Run for your supper." The two players run around opposite wa...
Photographs of prominent individuals are numbered and placed on exhibition about the room, with the wrong title beneath them. Each member of the group is given a card and pencil. H...
One of the group, known as the "dummy", must take a position 30 feet in front of a line and stands with his back to the rest of the group. A soft ball is thrown at him and he endea...
All the players sit in a circle, the leader begins by saying, "My father had a rooster!" The player to his left says: "A what?" The leader answers: "A rooster!" Each player repeats...
Make two balls, one red and one blue, out of paper thus-- [Illustration: A drawing of three identical circles of paper. No. 1 should have slits on the top, bottom, left, and right....
Each girl and boy seeks an even-leaved sprig of ash; first of either sex that finds one calls out cyniver, and is answered by first of opposite sex that succeeds; and these two, if...
The group is divided into two equal teams. Two lines are marked upon the playing space parallel to each other and about 20 yards apart. These lines should be long enough to allow a...
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ GROUND The ground should measure about twenty feet in width by forty in length, and should be divided in half by a line...
INTRODUCTORY NOTE.--The game in which the ball is struck with a racket is almost exclusively played by men, but there are tribes where it is played by women, and one tribe, cited b...
Coloring maps is interesting, but is more difficult than you might perhaps think, owing to the skill required in laying an even surface of paint on an irregular space. The middle o...