Entertainment for
Home School & Church
An incredible
resource consisting of 20 chapters and over 100 pages, packed
full of activities for schools, home schools, church & families,
covering games and interesting ideas!!
Looking for
entertaining games and activities for all ages? The old
classics never fail!
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101 total pages
jam-packed with different games, sports, activities suitable
for all ages and for varying size groups. This classic book
offers many games that you can easily adapt to your own liking
or use as is.
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
Going
Shopping; Lighting the Candle; Hit or Miss, Cross Questions;
Game of Rhymes; The Most Improbable Story; Animated Art;
Guessing Characters; Tongue-Twisters.
CHAPTER II--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
Button, Button; French Rhymes; Consequences; Ant and Cricket; A
Spoonful of Fun; What is My Thought Like?; Biography; Nicknames
of Cities; How, When and Where; My Grandfather's Trunk;
Location; Predicaments; Progressive Puzzles; Mirth; Crambo;
Auction; Beast, Bird or Fish; The Rotation of the Globe; Advice;
Words.
CHAPTER III--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
Flags
of All Nations; Another Game of Words; Grammatical Game; Prince
of India; Exchange; Hunt the Ring; Shadow Bluff; Guessing Eyes
and Nose; The Tailless Donkey; Throwing the Handkerchief.
CHAPTER IV--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
Magic
Music; Cushion Dance; Animal Blind Man's Bluff; My Lady's
Toilet; Mary and John; Going to Jerusalem; "What D'Ye Buy?".
CHAPTER V--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
Lemon
Pig; The Seasick Passenger; The Enchanted Raisins; Demon Lump of
Sugar; The Mysterious Production; The Family Giant.
CHAPTER VI--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
“The
What-Do-You-Think”; The Knight of the Whistle; "He Can Do
Little."; “Throwing Light”.
CHAPTER VII--CHURCH AND SCHOOL SOCIALS
Acting
Charades
CHAPTER VIII--CHURCH AND SCHOOL SOCIALS
Living
Pictures: Dignity and Impudence; The Fortune-Teller; Faith;
Hope; Charity; Single Life; The Sailor’s Farewell; Home Again;
Various Tableaux.
CHAPTER IX--CHURCH AND SCHOOL SOCIALS
The
Chinese Giant; The Two-Headed Girl; The Sewing-Woman; Captain
Kidd and His Victim; The Siamese Twins; The Celebrated Dwarf;
The Vocalist; The Yankee; The Cannibal; Babes in the Woods;
Little Red Riding-Hood; Lady with Golden Locks.
CHAPTER X--OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
Raising the Ghost; A Magic-Lantern Trick; The Phantasmagoria;
Chinese Shadows; A Wonderful Mirror; The Disappearing Mirror;
Multiplied Money; Multiplying Shadows.
CHAPTER XI--TABLE GAMES FOR ADULTS
Dominoes; Backgammon; Checkers; Jenkins; Bouquet; Zoo; Simon
Says; Author’s Initials; Sketches; Stray Syllables;
Shakespearean Romance; Parodies; London; Chess.
CHAPTER XII--OUTDOOR GAMES FOR ADULTS
Lawn
Tennis; Polo; Hockey; Golf; Archery; Ring Toss; Lawn Bowls.
CHAPTER XIII--HOLIDAY GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
New
Year’s Eve Party; Children’s New Year Games; Lincoln’s Day;
Valentine Party; Washington’s Birthday; For April First; Easter
Egg Parties; Flag Day; A Halloween Party; Bobbing for Apples;
Floating Needles; Candle and Looking Glass; Apple Games;
Thanksgiving Party; Kris Kringle Party; Snowball Battle;
Christmas Guesses; Jack Frost; Lead Test; Apple Tests; A Pumpkin
Game; The Christmas Dinner; Suggestions for Games to Be Played
at Christmas Time or Thanksgiving.
CHAPTER XIV--OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS
Basket
Ball for Girls; Box Ball; Guess Ball; Target Ball; Bombardment;
String Ball.
CHAPTER XV--PASTIMES FOR CHILDREN
Sun
Dial; Mother, May I Go Out to Play?; Garden Scamp; Do This, Do
That; Weather Cock; The Flowers and the Wind; Blind Man’s Bluff;
Blind Man’s Bluff with a Wand; Hide-and-Seek Games; Follow Our
Leader; Feats and Forfeits; Dumb Motions; Wand Tug of War; Catch
and Pull Tug of War; Nine Pins; Preliminary Ball; Ball Dull;
Time Ball; Railroad Train; Merry-Go-Round; Pebble Chase; How
Many Miles to Babylon?; Puss in the Corner.
CHAPTER XVI--INDOOR GAMES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
Patchwork; Quotations; Table Game; A Doll Show; Peanut Game;
Peanut Hunt; A Peanut Party; A Children’s Fair; Soap Bubbles; A
Pop-Corn Party; Candy Pull; A Baby Show; Miss Children; The Cook
Who Doesn’t Like Peas; Magic Music; Zoology.
CHAPTER XVII--OUTDOOR GAMES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
Target
Bean Bag; Box Bean Bag; Bean Bag Games; Bean Bag Race; Bean Bag
at the Seashore; Skipping the Rope; Home Tag; Secret Tag;
Japanese Tag; Crossing the Brook.
CHAPTER XIII--SINGING GAMES FOR CHILDREN
Orchestra; Charley Over the Water; Jack Be Nimble; Mary’s Little
Lamb; The Snail; Oats, Peas, Beans; Mulberry Bush; Itiskit,
Itasket; Farmer in the Dell; The King of France; London Bridge;
Moon and Morning Stars; Wee Bologna Man; Draw a Bucket of Water.
CHAPTER XIX--GAMES OF ARITHMETIC
How To
Tell Any Number Thought Of; Another Way; A Third Way; A Fourth
Way; How To Tell Numbers Thought Of; Gold and Silver Game; The
Number Bag; The Mystical Number Nine; The Magic Hundred; To
Guess the Missing Figure; The King and the Counselor; The Nails
in the Horse’s Shoe; The Dinner Party Puzzle; Basket and Stones.
CHAPTER XX--ONE HUNDRED CONUNDRUMS
