Amusements -- Juvenile literature; Children's literature; Games -- Juvenile literature; Handicraft -- Juvenile literature
There is such a fascination about cutting and pasting that a game like
this is one of the best you can choose for a dull day. Each child has
an old magazine, a piece of cardboard and a pair of scissors, while
tubes of paste lie conveniently near. When the children are seated
around a table the game begins. It is played in this way: Each player
cuts from his magazine a picture (which must be smaller than his card),
pastes it upon his piece of cardboard, and when it is dry and firm cuts
it in pieces with six straight cuts of the scissors, so as to make a
puzzle. He then mixes the pieces and passes them to his neighbour on the
right. At a given signal each child tries to put the puzzle which he has
received together as quickly as possible. The one who finishes first
calls out that he is through, and he is of course the winner.
As a sequel the children will enjoy colouring the puzzles. If they are
pretty and neatly made they may be given to a child's hospital, to amuse
some other little children in the long days of convalescence.
_How to Play the Daisy Game_
This is a good guessing game for two or more children to play, and if
you will follow the directions given in chapter IX. you will find that
it can be made quite easily. None of the players should have seen the
key, or answers to the conundrum, but if you find that they have seen
it, you can write on the slips of paper, instead of the conundrums, the
names of flowers with the letters mixed for example, sapyn, for pansy.
Each child in turn pulls a petal from the daisy and tries to guess the
name of the flower, which is the answer to the conundrum written on the
under side of the petal. Five minutes is the time allowed, and if the
player has not guessed the flower in that time he must pass the petal to
the child on his left, who also has five minutes in which to guess it.
If he guesses correctly the petal belongs to him, and at the end of the
game the player having the most petals has won.
_Horses in the Stable_
=Materials Required:= A pasteboard shoe box,
Some marbles,
Pen and ink,
Scissors.
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