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Leaf By Leaf

gamepac — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:30:01 +0000

A basket of leaves is provided no two of the leaves being alike. These may be leaves from trees shrubs or plants or flowers may be used in the same way.

The players are each provided with a card or slip of paper and a pencil and are seated. One leaf is handed to the first player who passes it on to the next and so on until it has made the round of the group. Each player in turn if he can identify the leaf writes the name of it on a card. Each leaf is thus passed.

The host or hostess then reads a correct list naming the leaves in the order in which they were passed. The player wins who has the largest number correct.

This is an especially pleasing game for nature students.

B Game

gamepac — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:30:01 +0000

Each player is given a sheet of paper with numbered questions prepared like the following list. The answer to each question is to be written opposite it and must consist of the letter B as an initial and added to it the number of letters designated the whole conforming to the definition given. The following examples will illustrate –

1. B and one letter meaning to exist.–Be.
2. B and two letters forming a sack.–Bag.
3. B and three letters forming a storehouse.–Barn.
4. B and three letters side of a stream.–Bank.
5. B and three letters a young creature.–Baby.
6. B and three letters a bag of goods.–Bale.
7. B and three letters without hair.–Bald.
8. B and three letters a surety.–Bond.
9. B and three letters timber.–Beam.
10. B and three letters a vegetable.–Beet.–Bean.
11. B and three letters a poet.–Bard.
12. B and three letters a drink.–Beer.
13. B and three letters a globule.–Bead.
14. B and three letters part of a bird.–Beak.
15. B and three letters a vessel.–Boat.
16. B and four letters an appendage.–Beard.
17. B and four letters a tree.–Beech.
18. B and four letters to commence.–Begin.
19. B and four letters a strand.–Beach.
20. B and four letters a receptacle.–Basin.
21. B and four letters a kind of meat.–Bacon.
22. B and five letters a combat.–Battle.
23. B and five letters a hound.–Beagle.
24. B and five letters a signal.–Beacon.
25. B and five letters a cup.–Beaker.
26. B and eight letters a demon.–Beelzebub.

The player wins who answers correctly the largest number. This game may be devised for any initial letter.

Cross Questions

gamepac — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:30:01 +0000

All but one of the players sit in two rows facing each other those directly opposite each other being partners. The odd player walks around the rows behind the others asking questions of any player facing him from the farther row. The question must be answered not by the player addressed but by his partner or vis-a-vis who sits with his back to the questioner.

Any player answering a question addressed directly to him or failing to answer one addressed to his partner or giving an incorrect answer to a question changes places with the questioner or pays a forfeit as may have been decided on beforehand.

FOR THE SCHOOLROOM.–When played in the schoolroom the adjacent rows should form a group and face each other so as to leave free aisles between the groups in which the questioners may walk as shown in the diagram of “Old Man Tag.”

The game may be made to correlate with almost any subject in the school curriculum the questioner asking for instance for capital cities boundaries mountains etc. for geography for dates or the names of heroes in great events for history or even for brief problems in mental arithmetic.

Nimble Squirrel

gamepac — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:30:01 +0000

This is a device for mental arithmetic. It is one of which children are very fond. As the play element may enter very largely into the fanciful suggestions used by the teacher it seems in place in a book of games.

The teacher states her problem in a manner similar to the following –

“There was a tree with fifty branches. A squirrel started on the first branch jumped up three branches to the fourth came halfway down to the second went three times as high sixth branch fell halfway down third branch saw a dog and ran to the top of the tree fell to the ground and started over again went up eight branches jumped past three branches ” etc. finishing up with “How many branches from the top was he “