An even more interesting thing to do with a paint-box is to make a collection of the flags of all nations. And when those are all done, you will find colored pages of them in any l...
_2 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ The first player makes a back, standing either with his back or his side toward the one who is to leap over. The next player runs, leap...
"_Quoit_ me down, Bardolph."--_Shakspeare._ The game of Quoits resembles Bowls. It is played with flat rings of iron of various weights. At a certain number of paces apart (to be a...
When flowers are sent to you, each stem should be cut with a slanting cut before you put it in water. Flowers with very thick or milky stems should be slit up about half an inch, a...
A leader and his accomplice are necessary to this mystifying game. The leader leaves the room while his accomplice passes around among the players, occasionally stopping in front o...
_4 to 10 players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ This is one of the old dramatic games in which various parts are enacted by the different players. One player takes the part of a lady a...
The same game can be played without such keen rivalry, one player sitting in the midst of a great circle and answering questions in turn. There is also a game called "Man and Objec...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; parlor._ One player is chosen for cat and one for rat. The others all form a circle with clasped hands. The cat stands outside o...
A game which is good, quiet fun for a rainy day is Jack-stones. Although not played much nowadays it is very interesting and is to indoors what "mumble-the-peg" is to outdoors. It...
Any number of children can play. One is chosen as leader and is called the "gardener." All the children sit in a circle and the "gardener" gives each one in turn the name of some f...
The players sit or stand around the room in a circle. The leader assigns to each some imaginary musical instrument--horn, fife, drum, trombone, violin, harp, flute, banjo, etc. Som...
This is a more difficult game, very suitable for a tiring journey. The two players sit side by side, and one of them dots out on a piece of paper the words of a proverb or well-kno...
This game is played like ordinary tag, with the exception that no one can be tagged who has his right hand on his toes and left hand on his nose.
The bull-dog is stupid and not particularly affectionate. Although excitable he is not quarrelsome or savage, and if reasonably treated no doubt would make a quiet, faithful pet. A...
Players form a circle about 30 feet in diameter. One player in center holds a light rope about fifteen feet long with a soft weight on one end. The player in the center swings the...
Each player draws on the upper half of the paper an historical scene, whether from history proper or from family history, and appends the title, writing it along the bottom of the...
The players stand in a circle facing the center, some distance apart. One player called the "center" stands within the circle. A basketball is thrown from one player to another, ac...
9. The bowler must deliver the ball with one foot behind the bowling-crease, and bowl four bowls before he changes wickets, which he is permitted to do, once only, in the same inni...
As a change from ordinary letter-writing, "Hieroglyphics" are amusing and interesting to make. The best explanation is an example, such as is given on pages 52 and 53, the subject...
Silkworms are more useful but not more interesting than many other caterpillars which can be hatched from eggs. The Privet Hawk Moth, for example, is very easily bred, and a very b...
This game is very similar to that of "I love my love." Each of the players must describe the minister's cat, going right through the alphabet to do so. "The minister's cat is an an...
Is OUT, if either of the bails be struck off by the ball, or either of the stumps struck out of the ground. He is OUT, if the ball, from a stroke of the bat or hand below the wrist...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Gymnasium; playground; schoolroom._ _Bean bags; balls._ There should be a bean bag for each of the players except one. All of the players form a circle...
Very good fun can be had also from impromptu pantomimes, where the performers enact some story which every one knows, such as "Aladdin" or "Red Riding Hood" or "Cinderella"; or a s...
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; hand ball._ This is a game of ball played by half of the players while mounted on the backs of the other players. It is...
A confederate is necessary for this trick. The one performing the trick goes out of the room and the confederate agrees with the audience to touch a certain article. The person out...
A leader and his accomplice are required in this game. The one illustrating the game leaves the room. His accomplice passes among the players and stopping before one of the number...
Any number of players may participate. Players form a circle, hands behind back, facing in, eyes closed. One player carrying a swatter (belt, knotted towel, etc.), runs around outs...
A variety of the story game is for each player to write the name of a well-known person or friend of the family on the top of the paper, fold it over, and pass it on. This happens,...
10. When a planet is knocked out of the outer ring (the orbit of Herschel), it belongs to him who strikes it out: the loser must replace it by putting a marble down in its _origina...