A game of ball played by two opposing teams of twelve players each. The lacrosse field is a level piece of ground with net or wire goals at each end. The players strive to hurl the...
One of the advantages of being in the country in spring is that that is the time when birds build. In May the weather is not yet sufficiently warm to make sitting about out-of-door...
Where toys become tedious, games have to be made up; and in making up games no outside help is needed. At the same time, some games which E. H. describes may perhaps supply a hint...
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ A starting line is drawn on the ground, behind which the players stand in two or more single files, facing a goal. The goa...
_2 to 30 players._ _Gymnasium; playground._ This game consists in shooting or hurling through a rolling hoop a stick or gymnasium wand. The hoop may be from six inches to two feet...
The first thing for the players to do is to decide what kind of name they will bury. The best way is to call out something in turn. Thus, if there are four players they may decide...
This is a counting game in which, whenever the number 7 comes, or a multiple of 7, such as 14, 21, 28, 35, or a number with 7 in it, such as 17, 27, 37, the player whose turn it is...
One bowl is filled with clear water, another with wine, a third with vinegar, a fourth is empty. All are placed in line on table. Each person in turn is blindfolded, turned about t...
Single wicket may be played with any number of players, and is better than double wicket for any number of players under seven. At double wicket, a small number of players would ge...
Two or three boys with marbles could never have difficulty in hitting on a game to play with them, but the best regular game for several players is "Ring Taw." A chalk ring is made...
_10 to 100 players._ _Out of doors._ This game is best played in the country, where there are woods in which the robbers may hide. The players are divided between robbers and soldi...
A very good picnic game. All the players except two form a large ring, standing in twos, one behind another. Of the two who are over, one is the pursuer and the other the pursued;...
Distribute to each guest a pencil and a slip of paper with the following letters written upon it:-- 1 Higtaswonn 1 Washington 2 Itesrpden 2 President 3 Nutom Nervon 3 Mount Vernon...
In A Child's Garden of Verses there is a poem called "The Land of Counterpane," which tells what a little boy did when he was ill, lying among the pillows with his toys: And someti...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ Each player selects for himself a den; a post, tree, or other objective point may serve for this, or the corner of a building, o...
All the players but one form a circle, with their hands on a piece of string on which a ring has been threaded. The other player stands in the middle of the circle. The ring is the...
_4 to 60 players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ This is a game for small children. The players join hands and form a ring. They dance around in a circle in time to the music, singing t...
"Stagarino" is similar to "Black Man," except that all the players who are caught, and whose business it is to catch the others, join hands. Those that run across have therefore to...
There are several forms of this game, some of which are suited only to young children; others may be full of sport and interest for adults. The games may be adapted to comparativel...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; bean bag._ This game is similar in some respects to Call Ball, but being played in a circle formation, is much simp...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _Gymnasium; playground; schoolroom._ The players stand, scattered promiscuously, one of their number, who is It, being placed in the center at the openin...
One of the players takes a stick in his left hand and thumps the floor with it, saying, "He can do little who can't do this." Then he hands the stick to another player, who will mo...
(Magic Music) _5 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom; parlor._ One player is sent from the room; while absent, one of those remaining hides a thimble, a cork, or some small object which ha...
Bowls of goldfish are not uncommon, but few people seem to care for fish of other kinds. And yet a little aquarium can be stocked for a small sum and is a most interesting possessi...
Where boundary lines are important in a game and need to be seen from a distance, as in many ball games, they should be plainly marked. On a gymnasium floor black paint for permane...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ A small space is marked off at one end of the ground as a "home" or goal. One player is chosen to be the Panjandrum, an importa...
If you want to grow other things besides flowers, lettuces, radishes, and mustard and cress are interesting to raise. Strawberries, too, are easy to cultivate, but they need some p...
This is a trick. Those in the company who have never played the game go out of the room. One of the inside players, who is to represent the potentate, then mounts a chair and is co...
Seaweed and shells make good collections, but there is no use in carrying live fish home in pails. The fun is in catching the fish, not is keeping it; and some landladies dislike h...
(See _Catch and Pull Tug of War_ and _Wand Tug of War_; also _Contests for Two_, under "Feats and Forfeits.")