This game is played with a bat and a small ball; and the game consists in driving the ball into certain holes made in the ground. Sometimes these holes from first to last, are at t...
A leader is chosen for the "hen" and the remainder of the children are "chickens," except one who is supposed to be a chicken hawk. They stand in a row behind one another and grasp...
Parrots are most companionable pets, and, next to a dog, quite the most interesting and intelligent. They are always cheerful: whistling, singing, and talking. The gray parrot is t...
_4 to 60 players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ Tag in its simplest form may be started by any one of a group of players suddenly turning to another, touching (tagging) him and saying...
A flower-show competition is an excellent garden game. A handkerchief on sticks forms the tent. Underneath this is a bed of sand in which the flowers, singly or in groups, can be f...
Number eight slips of paper with the same number. On each slip write a part, or a line from a verse of a familiar song. Suppose set No. 1 was a verse of "America," this is the way...
(For other games sometimes known by this title, see _Fox Trail_ and, in the division of Quiet Games, _Naughts and Crosses_.) _10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ On...
Hang a sheet or screen in a doorway between two rooms and cut six holes, the size and shape of eyes, each pair a distance apart, in it, some up high and some down low. Choose group...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ GROUND The ground should be marked off with boundary lines, which should inclose a space at least fifty feet lon...
_3 to 15 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ This game is usually played with boys' caps, but knotted handkerchiefs or balls of crumpled paper may be used. One player is the cock; h...
Players stand in files, an equal number in each file. Opposite and at about fifteen and twenty yards respectively from the front player of each file, two circles (about eight inche...
If a maid wishes to know whom she is to marry, if a man of wealth, tradesman, or traveler, let her, on All-Hallow-e'en, take a walnut, hazelnut, and nutmeg; grate and mix them with...
I The teacher gives the command, "Change right!" whereupon each pupil slips from his own seat to the one across the aisle to the right, the pupils in the farthest right-hand row st...
Tie wedding-ring or key to silken thread or horsehair, and hold it suspended within a glass; then say the alphabet slowly; whenever ring strikes glass, begin over again and in this...
(Burley Whush) _5 to 20 players._ _Out of doors; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; tennis ball._ This game is started by tossing a ball against a wall or on the roof of a house from which it...
Place several objects at different distances. Contestants race, jumping over them.
This is a good game to follow formal gymnastic exercises, maintaining the same formation. The players are lined up in open order upon the playing space. The leader asks for a numbe...
This is a quiet, entertaining and instructive game. One member of the family is given the privilege of thinking of some specific object anywhere in the universe. The others endeavo...
Make several snowballs from crepe paper or white cotton. Hang a large holly wreath in the doorway and let each child in turn try to throw his snowball through the wreath. The playe...
Have the same number of children in each row. Supply the first child in each row with a crayon. Upon a signal from the teacher the first child in each row stands, runs to the board...
The game of plain, old-fashioned Tag may be made great sport, especially if suddenly and unexpectedly commenced in a group of players when other interests seem to lag. The game has...
For simple gardening the following tools are needed:--spade, trowel, hoe, rake, watering-can with a fine rose, syringe. They should all be strong and good. Besides these tools you...
_10 to 100 players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ The players are divided into two lines and stand facing each other, with a distance of about ten feet between. Each line numbers off i...
This is a memory game and a very amusing one. It is played with two packs of cards of any sort. One pack is laid in a heap, face down, in the middle of the table. The other pack is...
_10 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; parlor._ This may be made a very amusing game for young children. One is chosen for ringmaster and stands in the center. If he can flour...
_2 players._ _Indoors; schoolroom; seashore._ This is a quiet game in which the players are all seated. A diagram is drawn on a slate or piece of paper of oblong shape, about six b...
_2 to 20 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ A small box measuring not less than six inches square should be fastened inside of one about twice the size and that...
One of the company is chosen as Grand Mufti. The others then form a circle with the Grand Mufti in the centre, and every action which he performs, if preceded by the words, "Thus s...
The children are seated on the floor, around a sheet or tablecloth. This is held tight by the players about 1 1/2 ft. from the floor, and a feather is placed in the middle. One is...
1. What poem is it that helps to shoe your horse The Village Blacksmith. 2. The poem that needs an umbrella The Rainy Day. An April Day. 3. The poem that carries you across The Bri...