_10 to 60 or more players._ _Schoolroom._ _Gas balls; bean bags._ For this game a line should be drawn on the floor across the front of the schoolroom, a short distance in front of...
Two adjacent rows, play together. The first of May is moving day. The seats are houses. One player is chosen to be "It" and he walks up and down the street between the two rows. At...
_Any number of players._ _Parlor; schoolroom._ Each player is given a card or slip prepared with the following questions, or the list may be dictated at the time. What famous perso...
_10 to 60 players._ _Gas ball._ TEAM TEAM {_B_ = Bases. {(B) = Bases. I. {_C_ = Captain. II. {(C) = Captain. {_X_ = Guards. {(X) = Guards. ] The class is divided into two teams, wi...
This furniture, if very neatly made, can be very successful, and it costs almost nothing. Plain pins will do quite well, although the fancy ones are much prettier. Velvet or thin c...
The time to see squirrels is September and October, when the beech nuts and hazel nuts are ripe. In the pictures he sits up, with his tail resting on his back, holding nuts in his...
In this game you go through the alphabet, applying adjectives to your love. "I love my love with an A because he [or she] is so admirable"; "I love my love with a B because she is...
A good blind game for a Christmas party is "Bag and Stick." A fair-sized paper bag is filled with candy and hung from a string in the middle of the room. A player is then blindfold...
_3 to 60 players._ _House party; schoolroom; playground._ Each player is given a slip of paper and pencil. Some one who has a good repertoire of popular airs sits at the pian or la...
_4 to 60 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ In this form of tag certain boundaries are agreed upon beyond which players may not run, though they may climb or jump over any...
Mottoes and good wishes can be lettered in cotton wool on a background of scarlet or other colored linen or lining paper. Scarlet is perhaps the most cheery. Or you can make more d...
A competitive game which is easy to manage is hit-or-miss illustrating. Any old magazine (the more the better) will furnish the material. Figures, furniture, landscape, machines--a...
Fire crackers and fire works seem to have first place in the celebration of our Glorious Fourth, but a few games and amusements of a patriotic nature or connected in some way with...
_20 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Hand ball; basket ball._ This is an advanced form of Circle Ball, there being two competing teams in a circle, with wide s...
The teacher may repeat the lines, accompanying them with the actions, which the children imitate, or the children may learn and repeat the words themselves. [1]Wash your hands, dea...
_5 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ This game is a variation of the old familiar game "Simon says," but calls for much more activity than the latter gam...
Blindfold one of the players. All the rest form a ring and dance around him until he points at some one. That one enters the ring and the blindman calls out: "Rachel;" she answers:...
In this game, one of the players takes the part of Puss, and places himself in the centre, and the others playing take up their positions in the four corners of the playground. Eac...
Home-made Easter eggs are made by painting pictures or messages on eggs that have been hard-boiled, or by merely boiling them in water containing cochineal or some other coloring m...
One player leaves the room, while the others decide on some word, the name of a thing for choice (such as tale, tail), which has one pronunciation but two or three different meanin...
_10 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ The players are lined up in several single files behind a starting line which is drawn at from ten to fifty feet fr...
"Law, is law," said Evergreen; "laws must be rigidly obeyed, and, therefore, I will read the articles of war for your edification. The first article of war is said to be, 'That it...
Ten to thirty players may play at one time on playground or gymnasium. Equipment consists of volley ball and tennis net. For large teams this game is best played on a ground measur...
_10 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ This is one of the best competitive chasing games. A goal is marked off across each end of the playground. Midway between the goals, an...
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ The class is divided into two teams. Each team is divided into two lines, which stand facing each other, as shown in the diagram. A waste basket i...
The players stand in couples behind each other. One player is chosen to be catcher and takes his place about ten feet in front of the other players and facing in the same direction...
This is a very good game, which always causes considerable amusement, and if skilfully carried out will very successfully mystify the whole company. It is necessary that the player...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ The ground is divided by a line into two equal parts. One of these belongs to Tommy Tiddler, who stands on his side of the line...
The simplest thing to do with a ball is to catch it; and the quicker one is in learning to catch well the better baseball player one will become. Ordinary catching in a ring is goo...
"Fives" is a game which is a test also of one's store of information. A letter is chosen, say T, and for a given time, ten minutes perhaps, the players write down as many names of...