_6 to 30 or more players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down, My fair lady! Build it up with iron ba...
This is an old English game. Arrange as many chairs as there are players in a circle. All the players but one are seated. This odd player takes his position in the center of the ci...
In all thought-reading games it is best that only the two performers should know the secret. Of these two, one goes out of the room and the other stays in, after having first arran...
The players seat themselves and are questioned by the leader of the game and must answer without bringing in a word containing a forbidden vowel. Say the vowel "a" is forbidden, th...
A tin plate, to serve as platter, is placed in the middle of the room. The players sit round it in a large circle, each choosing either a number by which to be known, or the name o...
_5 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; schoolroom._ Oh, here we all go to buy us a lock; What kind of a lock shall it be? We'll buy a broom handle; if that will not do, With a pok...
Each child should have a thimble, and the teacher should have one also. A short conversation about the thimble should precede the game--how it is smooth inside and rough outside. W...
Another good trick that needs a little practice is to make an egg dance. Boil an egg hard, keeping it in an upright position (between cups set in the water or in some other way). T...
In the ordinary way one would not keep robins at all. They are so tame and fond of the company of human beings that they will come regularly to the door for crumbs every morning an...
With a box of ninepins very much the same game can be played. In wet weather, in the hall, a box of large ninepins is invaluable.
Another form of "Five Dots" is "Outlines." Instead of dots a line, straight, zigzag, or curved, is made at random on the paper. Papers are then exchanged and this line must be fitt...
Painting is an occupation which is within almost everybody's power, and of which one tires very slowly or perhaps not at all. By painting we mean coloring old pictures rather than...
If you find you have an intelligent rabbit who quickly learns to come to you when you call him by name, you will find, with patience, you can teach him that when you say "On trust,...
The one who shall be "it" is decided upon by counting out (see page 134), and he takes his place in the middle of the room. The others, arm in arm, walk around him in couples, sing...
A square or circle drawn by Tommy around himself represents Tommy's land. Tommy stands in the center trying to protect his supposed huge stores of treasure from the enemy. The othe...
Before coming to the different kinds of birds which you can keep, a few general words about their care ought to be said. Remember that with them, as with all pets, the most importa...
All kinds of balancing games are excellent when you are alone and tired of toys. There is no way to acquire proficiency in these but by practice, but practice is fascinating work....
Getting ready for Christmas is almost as good as Christmas itself. The decorations can be either natural or artificial or a mixture of both. In using evergreens for ropes, it is be...
This game may be played by four children, each standing at a corner, with one in the centre for 'pussy,' or it maybe played by a ring of children. The child who is 'pussy' stands i...
This is a very amusing illusion and easy to arrange. All the players but two are sent out of the room and these stand behind a table. One stands close to the table, his arms in fro...
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ The players are in groups of two rows each, which play together. These two rows face away from each other. Thus the first and second row will turn...
Round tables can be made best of different-sized pieces of cork, with very strong pins for legs; and square ones of the outside of a wooden match-box, with four little medicine-bot...
Materials required.--As many sheets of paper and pencils as there are players. The players seat themselves round a table, and each one is provided with a sheet of paper and a penci...
The first thing to do is to draw the doll in pencil on the cardboard or paper which it is to be cut from. If you are not good at drawing, the best way is to trace a figure in a boo...
1 tea-cup golden syrup. 1 tea-cup brown sugar. 1 tea-cup milk. 2 oz. butter. 4 oz. powdered chocolate. A pinch of salt. 16 drops vanilla. Boil all together for half an hour, stirri...
This is another of those fireside games that need more readiness of mind than many persons think a game should ask for. The first player begins an original story, stopping immediat...
On this subject B. R. L. writes:--"We made a list, which was stuck on the wall with a different game for each night. One was 'I Love my Love with an A' (see p. 88), which we steadi...
Each team is made up of two mechanicians and four aviators. The two mechanicians hold stretched between them a piece of string upon which have been placed two funnels of paper made...
The yellow bunting (or yellow hammer) can be a pet; and he has the sweetest little whispering song. If you have a caged bunting, his seed should be soaked in cold water for some ho...
Walking ladies are made in that way; but they must have long skirts and no feet, and when finished a cut is made in the skirt--as in the picture--and the framework thus produced is...