If you wish to buy a dog, the best way is to get the catalogue of some big dog show, and find the address of a well-known breeder of the kind of dog you wish to have. If you write...
"I Spy" combines "Hide and Seek" and "Tag." One player stays in the base, covers his eyes and counts a hundred, while the others run off and hide. On finishing the hundred the play...
Invitations for this party are written on red paper hearts. The decorations also are red paper hearts strung from the corners of the rooms to the chandeliers, between arches, drape...
It is most important to know what the baby-plants will look like when they come up, because one has to weed hard in the warm showery weather, and if one is not careful, mignonette,...
A popular method of determining who shall be "It" for a game is for the players to race to a certain point, the last one to reach it being "It." Or one of a group of players decidi...
A novel way of selecting partners for a New Year's party is to paint upon water color paper such objects as may illustrate the different months of the year. A candle for January, t...
_10 to 60 or more players._ _Gymnasium; playground; schoolroom._ This game is played in two forms, line form and circle form. LINE FORM The players stand in two lines or ranks faci...
It is, of course, possible to make a house of several pieces instead of one. The walls and floors can be made separately and joined with linen strips; but this adds to the difficul...
A subject is given to the company by the "teacher" and those joining in the game are each to define the subject in as terse a manner as possible, in epigram or verse, written on a...
Each guest, receiving apple and knife, is requested to peel apple without breaking; then swing paring around head, and let it drop to floor. The letter formed is initial of future...
Rhyming games require more taxing of brains than most players care for. The ordinary rhyming game, without using paper, is for one player to make a remark in an easy metre, and for...
Robins in the garden are so pretty, so cheeky, so sweetly musical, and are so friendly to man (in spite of their arrogance and selfishness among birds) that they ought to be encour...
Wax-bills eat millet-seed, canary seed, and a little soaked bread and sponge-cake.
To make a bed, take the inside of a match-box and cut away the bottom of it. Then take two matches and glue them to the two corners at the head of the bed so that a portion sticks...
Squares are chalked on the ground, thus:-- [Illustration: +----+----+ 5 6 +----+----+ 4 7 +----+----+ 3 8 +----+----+ 2 9 +----+----+ 1 10 +----+----+ X] and a stone or pebble is p...
_9 to 25 players._ _House party._ An uneven number of players are required for this game. Enough chairs are placed in a circle to allow one chair to each two players and one for th...
Among other occupations which are not in need of careful description, but which ought to be mentioned, bead-work is important. It was once more popular than it now is; but beads in...
_10 to 60 or more players._ _Schoolroom; parlor._ This is a very pretty sense-training game cultivating discrimination through the sense of hearing. Little children are very fond o...
The players sit in a long row, as if in a class at school. The one that acts as schoolmaster asks sharply, beginning at one end, "The name of the letter?" "A," says the player. The...
The leader tells every member of the company to choose as a name some article connected with a stage coach; the wheels, the horses, the whip, the bridle, etc., may be chosen. These...
The old way of making a daisy chain is to split one stalk and thread the next through it up to the head, as in this drawing. That is for out-of-doors. If you are using the chain fo...
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ One player is chosen for the fox, and stands in a den marked off at one end of the playground. The rest are chickens, and have...
The simplest bookshelves are those that hang from a nail on the wall. They are made by cutting two or three strips of cardboard of the size of the shelves and boring holes at the c...
Stand alone before mirror, and by light of candle comb your hair; face of your future partner will appear in glass, peeping over your shoulder.
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Parlor; playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ The players stand in a large circle and are numbered consecutively. One player takes his place in the cente...
All the children form a ring with the exception of one player, who stands in the center. The children then dance round this one, singing the first three lines of the verses given b...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _House party._ Each player is given a paper on which the following is written or dictated, the words in parentheses being omitted and a blank space left....
In "The Home Newspaper," the first thing to do is to decide on which of you will edit it. As the editor usually has to copy all the contributions into the exercise-book, it is well...
A pea can be made to dance on a column of air as you sometimes see a rubber ball rising and falling in a fountain of water. Take a piece of a clay pipe about three inches long, and...
In this place a word might be said about some of the curious things to be found in flowers and plants. If you cut the stalk of a brake fern low down, in September, you find a sprea...