Tree Party
Source:
Games For The Playground, Home, School And Gymnasium
Category:
MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVE GAMES
_5 to 60 players._
_Out of doors._
In these days of nature study this game is especially appropriate. It
may be used on any ground or strip of woodland where there is a
variety of trees, the game consisting in identifying the trees.
A tag or card is fastened on one or more trees of each variety within
certain prescribed limits. These cards may be made as fanciful or as
rustic as desired. Birch bark is very appropriate for them, and for
either birch bark or a conventional card a pretty element may be added
by writing some appropriate quotation or verse, after the Japanese
custom. The main object of each card, however, is to bear a number.
Each player is provided with a card or slip of paper containing a list
of numbers corresponding to those on the trees. Thus, if fifteen trees
be numbered, there should be fifteen numbers on each player's card.
The players, having been provided each with a card and pencil, wander
at will over the designated territory. Whenever a number is discovered
on a tree, the player, if he knows the name of the tree, writes it on
his own card opposite the corresponding number. For most companies,
popular rather than botanical names of the trees are permissible. At a
signa
a bell, whistle, horn, or cal
the players all assemble. The
host or hostess then reads a correct list, each player checking the
card that he holds. The player wins who has the largest number of
names correct.
The writer has known this game to be a most beautiful diversion
for a lawn party on a large estate, and has a feeling
appreciation of how many trees most people will find it hard to
name in even a familiar strip of woodland.
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