Five Hundred Games and Pastimes A BOOK OF SUGGESTIONS FOR CHILDREN'S GAMES AND EMPLOYMENTS

BY

DOROTHY CANFIELD

AND OTHERS

NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS

PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

GAMES FOR A PARTY

GAMES FOR A PARTY

Blind Man's Buff

French Blind Man's Buff

Blind Man's Wand

Steps

Still Pond! No More Moving

Shadow Buff

The Donkey's Tail

The Blind Feeding the Blind

Deer Stalking

Blowing Out the Candle

Apple-Snapping

Bag and Stick

Puss in the Corner

Hunt the Slipper

The Whistle

He Can Do Little Who Can't Do This

Thimble

Magic Music

Hot and Cold

The Jolly Miller

Going to Jerusalem

Stir the Mash

Caterpillar

Honey-Pots

Nuts in May

Old Soldier

My Lady's Clothes

Here I Bake

The Cobbler

Cushion

The Day's Shopping

Clap In, Clap Out

Neighbors

Oranges and Lemons, or London Bridge is Falling Down

General Post

Spin the Platter

Kitchen Utensils

Up Jenkins

Hunt the Ring

Lady Queen Anne

The Feather

Russian Scandal, or "Gossip"

Advertisements

Judge and Jury

Cross Questions

Ruth and Jacob

Fly Away!

Hold Fast! Let Go!

The Sergeant

Simon Says Thumbs Up

The Grand Mufti

The Mandarins

Buff

The Ditto Game

Statues

Laughter

The Concerted Sneeze

Bingo

Robin's Alive

The Mulberry Bush

Looby, Looby

Orchestra

A Good Fat Hen

John Ball

Chitterbob

The Muffin Man

Family Coach.

The Traveler, and the Bicyclist

Drawing-Room Acrobatics

Acrobatic Impossibilities

The Trussed Fowls

The Candle-Lighters

Hat and Cards

Tug of War

High Skip

Parlor Football

Balloon

Tissue-Paper Race

Walking Spanish

Potato Race

Fire-Buckets

Forfeits

Auctioning Prizes

DRAWING GAMES

DRAWING GAMES

Five Dots

Outlines or Wiggles

Eyes-Shut Drawings

"Ghosts of My Friends"

Drawing Tricks

Composite Animals

Invented Animals

Heads, Bodies, and Tails

Pictures to Order

Hieroglyphics, or Picture-Writing

Pictures and Titles

WRITING GAMES

WRITING GAMES

Simple Acrostics

Double Acrostics

Fives

Lists

Buried Names

Letters and Telegrams

Telegrams

Initials

Riddles

Rhymed Replies

Missing Information

Consequences

Consequences Extended

Composite Stories

Another Story Game

Improbable Stories

The Newspaper

Predicaments

TABLE AND CARD GAMES

TABLE AND CARD GAMES

Card Games and Others

Letter Games

Patience, or Thirteens

Snap

Grab

Snap Cards

Old Maid

Pig

Prophecies and Characteristics

The Old Maid's Birthday

THINKING, GUESSING, AND ACTING GAMES

THINKING, GUESSING, AND ACTING GAMES

The Ship Alphabet

I Love My Love

My Thought

P's and Q's

The Elements

Suggestions

Quotation Games

Two Rhyming Games

Telling Stories

Clumps

Other Yes and No Games

My Right-Hand Neighbor

How, When, and Where

Coffee-Pot

Throwing Light

Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral.

Proverbs

Shouting Proverbs

Acting Proverbs

Acting Initials

Acting Verbs, or Dumb Crambo

Guessing Employments

Stool of Repentance

Eyes

Making Obeisance

Mesmerism

Thought-Reading Tricks

To Guess Any Number Thought of

To Guess Any Even Number Thought of

To Guess the Result of a Sum

Guessing Competitions

Guessing Quantities

Observation

Scents

The Topsy-Turvy Concert

The Dancing Dwarf

Charades

Dumb Performances

Dressing Up

Tableaux Vivants

Remarks on Acting

RAINY-DAY GAMES

RAINY-DAY GAMES

Bean-Bags

Ring-Toss

Ring-the-Nail

Soap-Bubbles

Jack-Stones

Tying Knots

Illustrating

Shuffle-Board

Balancing Tricks

The Dancing Egg

The Dancing Pea

The Glass-Maker

Electricity

OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS

OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS

Battledore and Shuttlecock

Jumping Rope

Tom Tiddler's Ground

Old Stone

Hen and Chickens

Other Garden Games

Witches

The Ballad Game

Counting-Out Rhymes

Daisy Chains

Flower Show

Garden Shop

Flower Symbols

Summer Houses

OUTDOOR GAMES FOR BOYS

OUTDOOR GAMES FOR BOYS

Ball Games

Ball Games Alone

Races

Quoits

Duck on a Rock

Bowling

Hop-Scotch

Strength Tests

Hare and Hounds

Dog-Stick

Other Games

Marbles

Ring Taw

Other Games

PICNIC GAMES

PICNIC GAMES

It, Touch Last, or Tag

Touchwood

Cross Tag

The Little Dog

Hunt the Squirrel

Gaps

Twos and Threes, or Terza

Hide and Seek

I Spy

Chevy, or Prisoner's Base

French and English

Black Man

Stagarino

Red Rover

Hop, Step, and Jump

Follow-My-Leader

OUT FOR A WALK

OUT FOR A WALK

Roadside Whist

Counting Dogs

Guessing Horses' Tails

Shop-Windows

Making Sentences

Collecting Jones's

The Love Alphabet

The Cat Alphabet

Spelling

The Grand Mogul

Buz

Rhyming Lights

The Apprentice

Towns and Products

Other Games

Hoops

Two in Hoop Games

Hoop Posting

IN THE TRAIN Or DURING A WAIT AT A RAILWAY STATION

IN THE TRAIN Or DURING A WAIT AT A RAILWAY STATION

The Value of a Map

Railway Competitions

Railway Whist

Station Observation

Games With a Watch

Hot-Hand

Pencils and Paper

Noughts and Crosses or Tit-tat-toe

Paper French and English

"Letters" and Words

"Letters" With a Pencil

Hanging

Other Games

Food

Chinese Gambling

PLAYING ALONE, AND GAMES IN BED

PLAYING ALONE, AND GAMES IN BED

Bricks

Soldiers

Ninepins

Spanish Cup and Ball

Balancing

Bruce's Heart

The Hotel Camps

Block City

Story-Books

The Bed Boat

Thinking Games for Bed

Games by Rote

The Imaginary Family

Making Plans

For Getting to Sleep

Games for Convalescents

Bed Soldiers

China Animals

AT THE SEASIDE

AT THE SEASIDE

Low Tide

Paddling

A Cork Ship

Wet Clothes

Rocks

Sand Castles, and Other Sand Games

Seaweed

Shell Work

Good Seaside Friends

IN THE COUNTRY

IN THE COUNTRY

Making Friends

Exploration

Finding Hens' Eggs

Ducks' Eggs

Feeding the Chickens

The Dairy

Bee-Swarming

The Cows

Sheep

The Blacksmith

Birds'-Nesting

Blowing Eggs

Butterflies

Collecting Flowers

Nuts and Blackberries

Ponds and Sailing Boats

Little Boats on a Stream

A Stream's Fascination

Solitary Watchfulness

Mice and Moles

Snakes

Ants

Swallows and Hawks

Squirrels

A Country Diary

A Camera in the Country

Country Books

DOLLS' HOUSES

DOLLS' HOUSES

Dolls' Gardens

Garden Chairs and Tables

The House

Fireplaces

A Furnishing Game

Curtains

Floors

General Remarks on Furnishing

Beds

Bead Furniture

Pictures

Bookshelves and Books

Other Articles

The Inhabitants

Dressing Dolls

Dolls' Dinner Parties

Dolls' Flats

Smaller Dolls' Houses

Cork and Match-box Furniture

Materials

Chairs

Chestnut Chairs

Sofas

Tables

Foot-Stools

Standard Lamp

Bedroom Furniture—Materials

Beds

Dressing-Tables

Washstands

Wardrobes

Towel-Rack

Clothes-Basket

DOLLS' HOUSES AND DOLLS OF CARDBOARD AND PAPER

DOLLS' HOUSES AND DOLLS OF CARDBOARD AND PAPER

The Partition

The Chimney

The Garden

Another Way

"The House That Glue Built"

Paper Furniture

Glue and Adhesive Tape

Home-Made Compasses

Materials

Tracing

General Instructions

Paper Dolls

Making Paper Dolls

The Dresses

Other Paper Dolls

Walking Dolls

Tissue-Paper Dresses

Rows of Paper Dolls

PLAYHOUSES OF OTHER PEOPLES

PLAYHOUSES OF OTHER PEOPLES

A Pueblo Settlement

An Esquimau Village

A Filipino Village

A Dutch Street

INDOOR OCCUPATIONS AND THINGS TO MAKE

INDOOR OCCUPATIONS AND THINGS TO MAKE

Painting

Flags

Maps

Magic-Lantern Slides

Illuminating

Pen and Ink Work

Chalks

Tracing

Pricking Pictures

Easter Eggs

Spatter-Work

Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks for Hospitals

Composite Scrapbooks

Scrap-Covered Screens

Collecting Stamps

Postage-Stamp Snakes

Puzzles

Soap Bubbles

Shadows on the Wall

Skeleton Leaves

Ferns

Wool Balls

Wool Demons

Bead-Work

Post-Office

The Home Newspaper

Paper and Cardboard Toys—A Cocked Hat

Paper Boats

Paper Darts

Paper Mats

Paper Boxes

Cardboard Boxes

Scraps and Transfers

Ink Sea-Serpents

A Dancing Man

Velvet Animals

Hand Dragons

Other Uses for Cardboard

Cardboard Cut-Outs

Kites

Kite Messengers

A Simple Toy Boat

Walnut Shell Boats

Walnut Fights

Suckers

Skipjacks

A Water-Cutter

Whistles

Christmas—Evergreen Decorations

Paper Decorations

Mottoes

Christmas Trees.

Bran-Tubs or Jack Horner Pies

Philopenas

Cherry Contests

CANDY-MAKING

CANDY-MAKING

Utensils

General Directions

Barley Sugar

Chocolate Caramels

Cocoanut Cream

Cocoanut Cream (another way)

Cocoanut Drops

Cream Caramels

Fruit Cream

Pop-Corn

The Plainest Toffee

Another Toffee

Everton Toffee

Molasses Candy

Nut Candy

Nut Candy (another way)

Peppermint Candy

Stuffed Dates, etc.

GARDENING

GARDENING

Introductory

Color in the Garden

The Use of Catalogues

Gardening Diaries

Flower-Shows

Tools

Watering

Wall Pockets

Borders

Annuals

Preparations for Sowing

Thinning Out and Transplanting

Weeds and Seedlings

Autumn Sowing

Biennials

Saving Seed

Perennials

Planting Perennials

Slugs

Watering

Supports

Dividing

Perennials From Seed

Seedlings

Bulbs—General Remarks

Planting Bulbs

Cutting Leaves

Shades

Kitchen Gardens

Lettuce

Radishes

Mustard and Cress

Strawberries

Town Gardens

Flowers for Towns

Indoor Gardening and Window Boxes—Precautions

Watering

Flower-Pots

Indoor Plants

Bulbs in Glasses

Window Boxes

Flowers for Window-Boxes

Cutting Flowers and Packing Them—Flowers for Post

Picking Flowers

The Reception of Flowers

PETS

PETS

Dogs: Their Care and Food

Washing Dogs

Feeding Puppies

Distemper

Tricks for Dogs

What is Due to Dogs

Buying Dogs

The Bull-Terrier

The Fox-Terrier

The Irish Terrier

Other Terriers

Spaniels

The Retriever

Setters

The Collie

The Sheep Dog

The Newfoundland

The Mastiff

The Bull-Dog

The St. Bernard

The Great Dane

Hounds

Toy Dogs

The Pomeranian

Poodles

Mongrels

Cats

Wild Rabbits

Tame Rabbits

Rabbits' Hutches

Food and Exercise

Teaching Rabbits

Guinea-Pigs

Squirrels

Mice

Turtles

Fish

Silkworms

Other Caterpillars

Pigeons

Doves

Parrots

Smaller Cage Birds

Baths

Food

Tricks

Canaries

The Love-Birds

The Cardinal

Wax-Bills

Other Foreign Birds

The Chaffinch

The Goldfinch

The Bullfinch

The Yellow Bunting

The Blackbird

The Robin

Garden Robins

Birds in the Garden

READING

READING

Fairy Tales

Legendary Tales

Verse and Poetry

Books About Children

Boy and Schoolboy Stories

Adventure Stories

Historical Stories for Boys

Animal Books

History

Books of Travel

The Treatment of Library Books

APPENDIX

INDEX

A List of Standard Books for Children

Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company

Books For Older Children

Books For Children From Ten to Fifteen Years of Age

Books For Very Young Children

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES