GamesHop ToadsThe players form a circle, hands joined. One toad stands in t... Hanging This is a more difficult game, very suitable for a tiring jou... Famous Numbers. Provide the players with pencil and paper. Each one writes... Mice Mice should have a cage with two compartments, one of which s... One Leg Tug Of War Opponents are arranged as in the preceding game on opposite s... The Boy Scouts Of America Headquarters--Purpose--Scout law--How to form a patrol of sc... Three Deep _15 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ Th... Ghosts Of My Friends While on the subject of novel albums the "Ghost of My Friends... |
OUTDOOR GAMES FOR BOYSSummer HousesIf the garden has no summer-house or tent a very good one can be made with a clothes-horse and a rug. ... Ball Games 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 good, but the practice is better if y... Ball Games Alone A boy with a ball need never be very lonely. When tired of catching it in the ordinary way he can practice throwing the ball straight into the air until, without his moving from his place, it falls absolutely on hi... Races All kinds of races are easy to arrange and these can be repeated from day to day as your proficiency increases. Here are a few. The Spanish race, sometimes called the Wheelbarrow race, is played by forming the bo... Quoits Quoits is a game not played as much as it should be by American boys. It is easy to arrange, for although there is an outfit sold in the toy shops, a home-made one is just as good. It consists of a collection of ho... Duck On A Rock Duck on a Rock is a variation of Quoits which is excellent fun. One of the players, chosen by counting out, puts a stone (called in this game the "duck") about as big as his fist, on the top of a smooth rock and st... Bowling Bowling is the best of sports but this usually needs too much apparatus for the average boy to have. Nine pins, however, can be arranged in a rough sort of a way, by setting up sticks and bowling at them with round... Hop-scotch 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 kicks a small stone from one part ... Strength Tests Various trials of strength are good for boys out of doors, provided rules are fixed and adhered to. Cane-spreeing is good sport, but should only be tried by boys pretty well matched in size and strength. A cane (or... Hare And Hounds Hare and Hounds can be played either in the country or the city and is fine fun, although it should be begun with a short run. In the excitement of the chase boys are apt to forget, and over-strain themselves. The ... Dog-stick A game for city pavements or for smooth country roads has so many names that it is difficult to say which is its right one, but a common one is "dog-stick." It is played something like hockey, the aim being to get ... Other Games The endless variations of leap-frog should not be forgotten in devising outdoor games: and tournaments of long or broad jumping and high jumping are good. Stilts and the games to be arranged with them are also anot... Marbles The first thing to learn in "Marbles" is the way that the marble should be held. Of course one can have very good games by bowling the marble, as if it were a ball, or holding it between the thumb-nail and the seco... Ring Taw Two or three boys with marbles could never have difficulty in hitting on a game to play with them, but the best regular game for several players is "Ring Taw." A chalk ring is made on as level a piece of ground as ... |
