PLAYING RULES FOR MORE THAN 250 GAMES AND SPORTS FOR CHILDREN OF EVERY AGE, INCLUDING INDOOR, OUTDOOR, PARTY, TRAVEL, WATER, MEMORY, AND CARD GAMES Games galore! From Capture the Flag to Stickball and Volleyball, from Jacks and Old Maid to Word Lightning, here are easy-to-use instructions, recommendations, and scoring for more than 250 popular games and sports for children. Presented in quick-access format, this unique guide is ideal for parents, teachers, adult referees, grandparents, babysitters, and camp counselors. Featuring: * Games to play on grass, on pavement, on steps and stoops, inside houses for rainy days and parties, and while traveling
* Step-by-step instructions and rules for each game, complete with clear diagrams and line drawings
* Games for children of all ages and playing abilities
* Multiple lists that make it easy for you to find the perfect game for a specific situation (by number of players, etc.)
* The origins of games through interesting anecdotes
* Tips on choosing sides, determining who goes first, selecting who is "It," and more HAVE FUN!
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Foreword by Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan
Introduction
Helpful Hints to Get the Ball Rolling
ONE INDOOR GAMES FOR SUNNY DAYS AND RAINY DAYS
Action Spelling
Aesop's Mission
Animals
Art Consequences
Assassin
Bango
Battleship
Beetle
Beggar My Neighbor
Bingo
Botticelli
Boxes
Buzz
Cat's Cradle
Categories
Charades
Cheat
Clockwise Dice
Coffeepot
Colin Maillard
Concentration
Cootie Catcher
Crambo
Crazy Eights
Crosswords
Donkey
Drawing in the Dark
Dress Me
Drop Dead
Dumb Crambo
Fifty Points
Ghost
Go Fish
Going to Boston
Gossip
Guess the Number
Guggenheim
Ha, Ha, Ha
Hangman
Happy Families
Hearts
Hot and Cold
How Do You Do, Shoe?
Huckle Buckle Beanstalk
Hunt the Key
I Packed My Bag
I Spy
Initials
Letters by Numbers
Magazine Scavenger Hunt
Magazine Storytelling
Mathematical Baseball
Memory Game
Muggins
Musical Chairs
Musical Clapping
My Ship Sails
Odd Bean
Old Maid
Orchestra
Pass the Present
Password
Questions
Racetrack
Rain
Rigamarole
Rolling Stone
Scissors, Paper, Stone
Seeing Green
Sentences
Shadow Buff
Slap Jack
Sneeze
Snip Snap Snorum
Spelling Bee
Spit
Square Tic-Tac-Toe
Stairway
Taste
Tic-Tac-Toe
Tip-Tap-Toe
Tongue Twisters
Twenty Questions!
Up, Jenkins!
War
Western Union
What Are We Shouting?
Word Lightning
Yacht
TWO GAMES TO PLAY ON GRASS AND PLAYGROUNDS
Army
Around Ball
Baby in the Air
Badminton
Barnyard Peanut Hunt
Baseball
Blindman's Buff
Bronco Tag
Brooklyn Bridge
Buck, Buck
Call Ball
Capture the Flag
Cat and Mouse
Chimp Race
Circle Golf
Contrary Children
Cops and Robbers
Cowboys and Indians
Crossing the Brook
Dizzy Izzy
Drop the Handkerchief
Duck Duck Goose
Egg Toss
Farmer in the Dell
Follow-the-Leader
Foul-Play Race
Frisbee Golf
Hat Grab
Hide-and-Seek
Home-Plate Baseball
Hot Potato
Human Hurdle
I Draw a Snake Upon Your Back
Ice Cubes
Jack Be Nimble
Johnny-Jump-Ups
Kick the Can
Kickball
King of the Hill
Kitty Wants a Corner
Leapfrog
Lemonade
Log Roll
London Bridge
Maypole
Moving Statues
Mulberry Bush
Newcomb
Obstacle Course
Obstacle People
Octopus
Pom Pom Pull Away
Prince Tiptoe
Rabbit
Races and Relays
Red Rover Ring-Around-the-Rosy
Ring-a-Levio
Run for Your Supper
Sardines
Sewing Up the Gap
Simon Says
Spud
Statues
Tag
Tetherball
Threading Grandmother's Needle
Tiger and Leopard
Toesies
Touch Football
Tug-of-War
Twine the Garland
Ultimate Frisbee
Volleyball
Water-Balloon Ball
Wink
Wrestling Games
THREE GAMES TO PLAY ON PAVEMENT, STEPS, AND STOOPS
Ball Punch
Basketball Games
Battleball
Beanbag Toss
Bombardment
Bounce Ball
Circle Dodge Ball
Cross-Over Dodge Ball
Danish Rounders
Dodge Ball
Errors
Firing-Squad Dodge Ball
Four Square
Fox and Geese
German
Goal Kickers
Greek Ball Game
Handball
Handball Tennis
Hopscotch
Hunter and Rabbits
Jacks
Jump Rope
London
Marbles
Monkey in the Middle
Mother May I?
O'Leary
Pottsie
Prisoner's Base
Running Bases
Seven Up
Sidewalk Golf
Skully
Steal the Bacon
Stickball
Stoopball
Tunnel Relay
Two Square
FOUR GAMES TO PLAY IN WATER
Ball Between the Knees Race
Black and White
Chicken Fights
Fisherman
Marco Polo
Mount Ball
Poison Balls
Sharks and Minnows
Still Pond
Tunnel Swimming Race
Underwater Football
Underwater Tag
Water Ball
Water Bridge
Water Follow-the-Leader
Water Keep Away
rWater Volleyball
Watermelon Scramble
Whirlpool
White Whale
FIVE PARTY GAMES FOR ANY OCCASION
Auction
Balloon Ball
Bobbing for Apples
Broken Hearts
Burst the Balloon
Cobweb Confusion
Easter-Egg Hunt
Egg Polo
Feelies
Good Resolutions
Orange Race
Peter Piper
Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Piñata
Scavenger Hunt
Treasure Hunt
SIX TRAVEL GAMES FOR FUN ON THE ROAD
Alphabet Objects
Alphabits
Automobile
Billboard Alphabet
Bordering Plates
Find All Fifty
Free Association
Going on a Picnic
License-Plate Poker
License-Plate Spelling
Miles to Go
Name That Tune
100 Points
The Preacher's Cat
Ten Pairs
Travel Scavenger Hunt
Appendix A Games Listed by Player Age
Appendix B Games Listed by Number of Players
Index
