(See _Hide and Seek_ for list of other games of this type.) _3 to 30 or more players._ _Out of doors; indoors._ One player is chosen to be the spy, who blinds his eyes at a central...
_10 or 30 to more players._ _Out of doors._ This is an old Scotch game, evidently an outgrowth of smuggling. The "geg" is a small treasure or object easily handled, such as a pocke...
"Tableaux Vivants" are a change from acting, but they need, if done at all well, a great deal of preparation and rehearsal, and are therefore perhaps better left to older people. B...
Hop-scotch is a great favorite which scarcely needs a description, although there are various ways of marking the boards. The game is played by any number of persons, each of whom...
Open English walnuts, remove meat, and in each half shell fasten short pieces of differently colored Christmas candles, each of which is to be named for a member of party and, afte...
_20 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ This game is played in several different forms. The following are very popular.
The word-making game has been adapted into a writing competition. Each of the company is handed a card which has been prepared for the purpose beforehand by having names of a dozen...
A classroom may be used for the 'house' and another for the 'workshop,' or they may both be made by rings of children (see Frontispiece, and description of same on p. 31). Between...
_10 to 60 players._ _Indoors; out of doors; schoolroom._ This game is suitable for very little children. Some small object about six or eight inches high is placed upright on the f...
A number of slips of paper are passed among the players and each one is asked to write upon one of the papers, two words which will rhyme. These papers are collected and in turn re...
This game may be played immediately after the one preceding, or it may be used alone. The children seat themselves at the table, the 'Mother' sitting at one end and the 'Father' at...
In this game, a person is blindfolded, and endeavours to catch any one of the players, who, if caught, is blindfolded and takes his place. There is another Game something resemblin...
(Line Tag; Right Face) _15 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; house party._ All but two of the players stand in parallel lines or ranks, one behind the other, with ample spac...
Many of the games described in other parts of this book are good also for the garden; such as "Still Pond! No More Moving!" (p. 4), "Puss in the Corner" (p. 7), "Honey-pots" (p. 11...
Each player save one takes a corner. The other, who is the puss, stands in the middle. The game begins by one corner player beckoning to another to change places. Their object is t...
A very exhausting game. The players sit round a table and form sides, one half against the other, and a little fluffy feather is placed in the middle. The aim of each side is to bl...
About a dozen of the older children stand in the centre of the room, and a number of the little ones come in with coat and hat in hand. The older children repeat the verse: Ready f...
The game is started by one child who catches another and says:-- I have caught you, come away, Let us make a chain to-day. The two then join hands and catch another, repeating the...
The children form a ring, joining hands, and one child sits in the middle. Those who form the ring walk round singing to the tune of 'The Keel Bow.' Here's Polly Flinders, She sits...
A good quiet game to play alone is "Spanish Cup and Ball." A long stick has fastened to it a loop of wire standing out at right angles, thus. To this is attached by a long string a...
All the players sit in a circle and one who is bright and witty is chosen as leader. He stands in the center of the circle and asks the most ridiculous questions he can think of. T...
One child is chosen out. This one stands by a post or door with his back to the other players. The rest of the children stand in a row at the other end of the room or porch, as the...
_2 to 10 players._ _Gymnasium; playground; seashore._ A circle from twelve to twenty feet in diameter is drawn on the ground. This is intersected with straight lines, like the spok...
The children stand in a ring, or sit round the room, one child standing in the middle. The handkerchief is thrown from one to another, and the one who is 'out' tries to find a chil...
Here it might be remarked that capital contests can be had with the empty halves of walnut shells. A plate is turned upside down, and the two fighters place their walnuts point to...
This game may be used for a class of children, or for a few only. In the former case, the majority of the scholars would, of course, be lookers-on. Half a dozen boys and girls shou...
The blindfolded player is placed in the middle of the room, and the other players all place themselves at various distances round him. The blind-man is then told how many steps he...
A towel-horse can easily be made with six long pins and two small pieces of cork.
This is a silly game. It is calculated to wear out the shoes.
Many games usually kept for the house can be played in the train. "Old Maid" (see p. 79) is a good train game; so is "Buz" (see p. 167). A "Fox and Geese" board, or a draughtboard,...