GamesDonkey's TailA good-sized donkey without a tail is first of all cut out of... Walking These preliminary exercises having been practised, the young ... Guesses. Each player receives a slip of paper and pencil. The leade... Cake Sale _Any number._ _Parlor._ Each player is given a card o... Stool Of Repentance One player goes out. The others then say in turn something pe... Combing Hair Before Mirror Stand alone before mirror, and by light of candle comb your h... Human Tug Of War Players form in columns of files facing each other. Players s... Chinese Wall _10 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ ... |
DRAWING GAMESAuctioning PrizesA novel way of awarding prizes is to auction them. Each guest on arrival is given a small bag instead of a tally card. These bags are used to hold beans, five of which are given to all the players that progress at ... Five Dots All children who like drawing like this game; but it is particularly good to play with a real artist, if you have one among your friends. You take a piece of paper and make five dots on it, wherever you like--scatt... Outlines Or Wiggles 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 fitted naturally into a picture, as in... Eyes-shut Drawings The usual thing to draw with shut eyes is a pig, but any animal will do as well (or almost as well, for perhaps the pig's curly tail just puts him in the first place). Why it should be so funny a game it is difficu... Ghosts Of My Friends While on the subject of novel albums the "Ghost of My Friends" might be mentioned. The "ghost" is the effect produced by writing one's signature with plenty of ink, and while the ink is still very wet, folding the ... Drawing Tricks Six drawing tricks are illustrated on this page. One (1) is the picture of a soldier and a dog leaving a room, drawn with three strokes of the pencil. Another (3) is a sailor, drawn with two squares, two circles, a... Composite Animals In this game the first player writes the name of an animal at the top of the paper and folds it over. The next writes another, and so on until you have four, or even five. You then unfold the papers and draw animal... Invented Animals A variation of this game is for the players to draw and describe a new creature. On one occasion when this game was played every one went for names to the commoner advertisements. The best animal produced was the H... Heads Bodies And Tails For this game sheets of paper are handed round and each player draws at the top of his sheet a head. It does not matter in the least whether it is a human being's or a fish's head, a quadruped's, a bird's, or an in... Pictures To Order Each player sits, pencil in hand, before a blank sheet of paper, his object being to make a picture containing things chosen by the company in turn. The first player then names the thing that he wants in the pictur... Hieroglyphics Or Picture-writing As a change from ordinary letter-writing, "Hieroglyphics" are amusing and interesting to make. The best explanation is an example, such as is given on pages 52 and 53, the subject being two verses from a favorite n... |
