_10 to 100 players._ _Parlor; schoolroom; out of doors._ Each player is named for some object on a train, such as engine, baggage car, dining car, smokestack, boiler, cylinders, wh...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ A large circle is drawn on the ground or floor in the center of the play space. At either end of the ground a goal is marked of...
And (in "The Land of Story-Books"):-- Now, with my little gun, I crawl All in the dark along the wall, And follow round the forest track Away behind the sofa back. There, in the ni...
Prepare as many half shells of walnuts as there are guests. In each fasten a small candle with a drop of the wax. Fill a tub with water, and before sailing the boats, the water sho...
This is a very dangerous game, if it can be called a game. Should one boy happen to fall, it is the practice of other boys to fall upon him and to "Heap the Bushel," as it is calle...
Steal out unobserved at midnight; plucking a small lock of hair from your head, cast it to breeze. Whatever direction it is blown is believed to be location of future matrimonial p...
Suspend horizontally from ceiling a barrel-hoop on which are fastened alternately at regular intervals apples, cakes, candies, candle-ends. Players gather in circle and, as it revo...
_2 to 30 players._ _Out of doors; seashore._ Each of the players is provided with an equal number of clam shells; the players then pair off in twos for the combat. Which of the two...
Players paired in circular formation, inside arms hooked at elbows, outside hands on hips. Two players stand in the center, one is "it," the other is chased by "it". The chased pla...
Let one of the ladies be blindfolded and seated behind a large screen or curtain or in a tent in an adjoining room which is dimly lighted. A gypsy tent may be improvised with three...
The house and garden described in Game No. 16, p. 32, will do quite well for this also, but the children are to be at work instead of play. One child may be fetching water, another...
A Japanese fete is suitable for a May Day affair, especially for a large affair where house and grounds can be utilized. The hostess who wishes to carry out the Japanese idea corre...
One player begins the game by going out of the room, and then giving a double (or postman's) knock at the door; it is the duty of one of the other players to stand at the door insi...
Players form a circle, placing right or left hand on the floor as the teacher indicates. Player who is "it" stands in the center. At a signal the players stand and move about promi...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Parlor._ The players are divided into two parties. One party goes outside of the room, and those remaining choose some verb, which is to be guessed and...
Cricket is played by twenty-two persons, eleven on each side, and two umpires, with two persons to score and count the innings. Thirteen players play at one time, viz., two striker...
A turtle is rather an interesting animal to keep, although he will not do much in return. Even in summer they have a curious way of disappearing for weeks together, and in winter,...
Cut out two rings of cardboard, of whatever size you like, from one inch in diameter up to about four inches. A four-inch ring would make as large a ball as one usually needs, and...
On a sheet mark a regular tit-tat-to diagram in black point. Stretch the sheet so it will be smooth on the floor. Divide the company into sides, a captain being appointed for each...
The players join hands and form a circle to represent a bear pit. One stationed as bear stands in the center. The bear tries to get out of the pit under or over or breaking through...
_4 to 60 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ One player is It, or chaser, and changes places with any one whom he can touch (tag) outside of the safety places called homes....
One row of players leave the room. The others hide some small object, placing it in plain sight, but where it would not be likely to be seen, as on the top of a picture frame, in a...
This game is common to the West of England, and is called a "Jingling Match." It is played by a number of players being blindfolded within a ring formed for the game, and one or tw...
Attach one end of a number of strings (one for each guest) to the chandelier. Fasten to the other end of each string a small prize wrapped up in tissue paper. Have strings of vario...
Among the best toys with which to play alone are bricks, soldiers, balls, battledore and shuttlecock, and dolls. No one needs any hints as how to play with them; but it might be re...
Six drawing tricks are illustrated on this page. One (1) is the picture of a soldier and a dog leaving a room, drawn with three strokes of the pencil. Another (3) is a sailor, draw...
_10 to 100 players._ _Out of doors; gymnasium._ This is one of the very strenuous games based on the idea of warfare. The underlying idea is exactly opposite to that of Robbers and...
All the apparatus needed for a "Hand Dragon" consists of a little cardboard thimble or finger-stall, on which the features of a dragon have been drawn in pen and ink or color. This...
Choose leaders and divide the company into sides. The sides stand opposite each other as in the old-fashioned spelling match. The leader, who may be the hostess, has a spelling boo...
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ This is a relay passing race, the different rows of pupils competing with each other in passing bean bags backward over the head. The players shou...