Party Twins

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Forty Parlies,Plays and Games
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FORTY PARTIES,
PLAYS AND GAMES

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1924
 THE PARTY TWINS
AND THEIR FORTY
PARTIES, PLAYS AND GAMES
Copyright 1923 by Albert Whitman Company
Chicago, U. S. A.
Second Printing 1924

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 INTRODUCTION
DID MOTHER EVER SAY TO YOU,
CAN WE PLAN OUT SOMETHING NEW?

In this book the Twins, Penny Party and

Polly-Play Party, two very lively children, lived
with Uncle Party, and Grandmother Play, in
an old-fashioned house, and they all planned
and played many interesting things together.
Many games and stories are introduced. Among
the latter, appear such titles as, "A Toy-Shop
Story," "The Cookie Man," "Shy Susan's Birth-

day Cake," etc.

This book is of value to parents and teach-

ers, as well as being useful to children who want
to get up parties themselves.
For use in home, school, Sunday School and
Library.
Welcomed by "Little Miss Entertainer" and
little "Sir Please-Play" alike.

NOW we'll give invitation hearty,

to our very own play-time party.
The Party Twins go han<
in hand,
With invitations you under
stand,

If you will come they'll en

tertain,

With many a story, son:

and game,
Peep over my shoulder am
take a look,
At the Party Twins owi
Story Book.

CONTENTS
Pag
Birthday Party
The Cookie Party 1

The Peanut Party 1

An Easter Party 2

The Fairy Tale Party 2

A Toy Party 2

A Out Door Carnival 3

The Circus Party 3

A May Day Party 3

An Alphabet Party 4
An April Party 4
The Kite Party 4
The Bird Party 5

A Fourth of July Party 5

A Mother Goose Party 5

A Button Card Party 6

An Animal Cracker Party 6

The Post Office Party 6

 CONTENTS (Continued)

The Soap Bubble Party 66

The Postal Party
p
68
The Sun Flower Party 70
A Black Cat Party 73
The Flower Party 75
The Rag Doll Party 77
The Puppet Show Party 79
The Pea Stick Party 84
The Wooden Party 89
The Musical Party 91
The Paper Bag Party 93
An Old Time Party 96
A Shadow Play Party 98
The Silhouette Party 100
A Valentine Party 102
An Apple Party 105
The Halloween Party 108
A Thanksgiving Party 112
The Christmas Party 114
A New Year's Party 119
The Parasol Party , 122
A Pillow Party ,. 124

This little book contains directions for forty

different kinds of parties for children. It tells

how to write invitations, serve refreshments,

decorate, and entertain the happy little guests.
Carrying their boxes of Animal Crackers
 THE PARTY TWINS

Eight candles upon it

A BIRTHDAY PARTY
The Party Twins heard mother sigh 7

" 'Tis somebody's birthday, my, oh my!

What shall we serve? What shall we do?
Can any one tell us something new?"
The Twins were thoughtful, I heard them
say,

"Perhaps we can give a Birthday Play."

The Twins, Penny Party and Polly-Play

Party, made invitations and drew in the corner
of each a picture of a Birthday cake with eight
candles upon it, for they were eight years old.
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On each invitation they wrote,

"To our Birthday Party come and play,
At an early hour on Saturday,
We send this card to you,
little

So please come promptly here at two."

(Hoar —place.)
For place card they got pretty Birthday pos-
tal cards a penny each, and on them they wrote,

"May your Birthday be glad, my dear,

And tho' it comes but once a year,
We'll form a ring, we'll dance and sing,
And happiness each hour will bring."

The Twins made up a game. It was called

"The Clock and the Mouse." The children
stood in a circle and chose the Mouse and
Clock, who ran around inside the circle.
The Mouse stops by any child, saying, "I'll

nibble this candle."

The Clock follows him saying,

"Not a single bite you'll take,
This candle is for a Birthday Cake."

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The Mouse goes from one child to another,

saying he will nibble a candle at the top, or
bottom or blow it out, and the Clock always fol-
lows with the same remark.

Suddenly the Clock says

"Every one in the house I'll wake,

This Candle is for a Birthday Cake."

At the word "Cake," those in the circle sit

and the Mouse and Clock try to get a seat, if

they do so, the ones who were too slow to be
seated, become the new Mouse and Clock and
the game continues any length of time.

Another pretty game they made was called,

"The Birthday Candle."

Thechildren stood in a circle, and chose one

of their number to stand inside with the candle.
All sing to the tune of "Twinkle Little Star."
Will you tell how old you are,
So we'll make no mistake,
Will you tell how old you are,
So we'll have a Birthday Cake?
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Any child skipped to the center and the child

with the candle guessed her age, if correct, they
changed places.
When guessed correctly the children in the
circle clapped hands and said,

"The secret is out, now it is told,

For (Mary) really is (eight) years old."

Another time they played the game this way

A child with a candle skipped round the cir-
cle while all the children sang to the same tune,
"Who will get a candle bright,
Close your eyes, make no mistake,
Who will get a candle bright,
Lighted on his Birthday Cake."

They turn and the child has dropped the

candle behind some one, who will now take his
place. They say as they turn, clapping hands:
"Clap one in, clap one out,
We will turn round about."

After the wonderful Birthday Cake was

served with ice cream, Old Grandmother Party
gathered the children round her and told about
Shy Susan's Birthday Party. The story began:
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Once upon a time there was a shy little girl

who had never had a Birthday cake, and she said
when she was nearly eight years old:
"If I had a cake, I'm sorry, quite,
T know no friends to invite."

The Laughing Wind called after her:

"Now it's too bad if that is so,

You might make a friend today, you know."

Shy Susan went into the woods singing:

"A Birthday Party would be such fun,
I'll be a friend to every one."

She met Old Mother Rough-Coat, the Bear,

carrying an arm full of wood, and she said, po-
litely :

"I will carry it to the bend,

If you will only be my friend.'
1

Old Mother Rough-Coat was glad of help,

you may be sure.
Next, Shy Susan met Little-Tail the Rabbit,
puffing and blowing,
"My fur and whiskers, without doubt,
This cabbage is difficult to roll out."
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He was trying to cabbage

roll a to his home
Shy Susan laughed and said,

"Ha, ha, a helping hand I'll lend,

If you will only be my friend."

She picked up the cabbage and carried it for

Little-Tail, all the way home.
So days and days, Shy Susan
for made
friends with woodland animals and did little

kindnesses for them.

She helped Chatter-Box, the Squirrel store
nuts away.
She helped Old Who- Who, the Owl, find his
gold rimmed spectacles, and every hour her
Birthday drew nearer and nearer.
The Laughing Wind went calling through
the woods,

"Here is something I am told,

Shy Susan is almost eight years old,
I hope some one knows how to bake

For she never had a Birthday Cake."

"Never had a Birthday Cake," cried Old

Mother Rough-Coat.
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"No pink frosting/' said Little-Tail.

"No candles," said Chatter-Box.
Now all this time Old Who-Who just called
"Who, who, who?" until all the animals knew
she was asking who would make the Birthday
Cake as a surprise for Shy Susan.
Old Mother Rough-Coat said at last.
"In a bowl I'll stir and make it

But you'll have to help me bake it,

Ha, ha, ha, we will not stop,

Till we put eight candles on the top."

They left the Cake at exactly the right hour

on exactly the right day, for Shy Susan, with a
card saying,
"The Wind keeps no secrets I am told,
Shy Susan you are eight years old."

Shy Susan called the animals in to eat her

Birthday Cake, for she loved them all. She said,
"I'm happy each day from beginning to end,
For I have learned how to make a friend."

The animals clapped and replied,

"We give three cheers long and hearty,
Hurrah, hurrah for the Birthday Party."
 THE COOKIE PARTY
The invitations read,
"We really hope that you can plan
To meet the little Cookie Man,
He'll smile at you with his Cookie face
And show you where to take your place,
So come on (Wednesday) at half-past two
For at that hour we'll look for you."
On
each invitation is drawn a picture of the
Cookie man with round head, body, and funny
cookie arms and legs, and currant features of
course.
Children arrive to find a large sketch of the
same Cookie Man on a cloth stretched in an
open door-way. This remarkable Cookie Man
has a wide opening for a mouth, and the chil-
dren stand at a certain distance and are asked
to feed him by throwing bean-bags into his
mouth.
When ready for the next game or stunt they
may enjoy a grab-bag from which cookies of
all sizes and shapes are produced. They now
sit down while the story of The Cookie Man is

told.

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Nibbled his toes

THE COOKIE MAN

There once was a Cookie Man who cried,

"I'm the Cookie Man, the Cookie Man

I just got out of the baking-pan.

The Family Clock listened and answered,

"You'd better keep still," says the Family
Clock,
"Some one will eat you like as not."

Now, the Cookie Man would not keep still,

he just kept saying the same thing over and over.

Then very strange things began to happen.
"A little mouse came and what do you suppose
He nibbled a bit of the Cookie Man's toes.
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At this the Cookie Man shouted again,

"I'm the Cookie Man, the Cookie Man
I just got out of the baking-pan."

The Tea kettle next sang,

Said the Tea Kettle, "I'll bubble over,

Here comes the cat to see what she can dis-
cover."

The gray cat came sniffing along.

She nibbled the Cookie Man up to the waist

And said, "How good a Cookie Man tastes."

Even then the Cookie Man would not keep

still but shouted louder than ever,
"I'm the Cookie Man the Cookie Man,
I just got out of the baking-pan."

The plates on the wall fairly rattled with ex-

citement,

"Said the big blue china plate,

You'll be eaten up as sure as fate."

In came the little Wooly Dog.

He ate up the rest of the Cookie man,
Then off and away the little dog ran
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I think he would
still be alive don't you

Ifhe hadn't told everything he knew,

The Cookie Man grew again in Fairyland,
And for fear you should not understand,
Just go to the table and find ifyou can
The dear little, queer little, Cookie Man.

The children now go to the table where re-

freshments are served and each child finds a
Cookie Man by his place.

Sandwiches, cocoa, lemon jelly, and Cookie

Men, are served.

THE PEANUT PARTY

The Twins give invitation hearty

To a novel Peanut Party,
Tomorrow plan to come at one
Before the afternoon's begun.

(Hour —place.)
The Twins planned a Peanut Party and
wrote their own invitations, with the following
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verse upon them and they also tied a peanut

with red ribbon on the cards they sent out.

They bought many bags of peanuts and put

a bag by each child's place on the table. Each
child had his name written on the bag, and a red
ribbon connected every bag with the light above
the table which gave a pretty effect.

The children found their places and had

peanut butter sandwiches, cocoa, and candy
shaped like peanuts.

After lunch they had a game of "Hunt The

Peanut," Peanuts were hidden everywhere, and
the child who found the most in five minutes
received a prize.

They then sat down and made words out of

the letters in the word "peanut." The one who
had the most in a stated length of time received

a prize.

The Twins now took turns in telling the

story of The Peanut Boy.
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THE PEANUT BOY

The Peanut Boy sat on a shelf,

And thus he talked right to himself,

Into a bag I may have to go,

And be eaten up in a minute or so

The world is large, the world is wide,
Back of this jar I'll try to hide.
The Peanut Boy was a jolly Elf
But he went to sleep high on the shelf,
Then the Peanut Boy heard a thundering
knock,
You could have heard it half a block
In came a girl with dimes so many,
(The Peanut Boy never had any.)
The girl did not wish to annoy,
But her bright eyes found the Peanut Boy,
She took him home and I suppose,
Made him eyes, and mouth, and nose,
For this tale I heard him tell,
To the pen in my old ink-well,
The children greet him now with joy,
And cry, "Hurrah for the Peanut Boy!"

The more peanuts which

children are passed
they turn into real Peanut boys, and girls, by
dressing them in tissue paper, and drawing
faces upon them.
 AN EASTER PARTY

The Twins were invited to an Easter Party.

They received invitations cut in the shape of

a Bunny and containing the following verse
inside,

Bunny gives invitation hearty,

To a little Easter party,
Come to-morrow then at six,

At that hour Bunny plays his tricks.

(Hour —place.)
The guests arrived for supper to find little

candy boxes shaped like Bunnies at their plates.

After supper the hostess told this story of The
Easter Bunny.
The Easter Bunny once made up mind his
to give a party, but he was very poor so, Old
Father Bunny said,

"What can you give for refreshments sonny?

You are only a poor little Easter Bunny."
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Hunting for Easter Eggs

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Old Mother Bunny said,

"I think your idea is rather funny,

For you are a poor little Easter Bunny."

Now the Easter Bunny wanted a party so

badly he went out and told five and twenty other
little Bunnies about it,

"Said one little hoppety, skippety Bunny,

I've a happy idea worth a mint of money."

Then he told about hiding Easter eggs (for

Bunnies always have plenty of eggs at Easter
time), so all the Bunnies went home with the
Easter Bunny and hid eggs all round his house.
Back of things, and under things, and all over
the house, just like this and they began to hunt,
with one, two, three go.
Here grand hunt and the
the story ends in a
children find candy eggs which they drop in a
big basket as soon as found.
After all are found, an even number is given
toeach child. The children may receive a large
pasteboard Bunny to take home, on the back of
which the storv is written.
 THE FAIRY TALE PARTY
Penny Party planned a party in which each
guest came representing a Fairy. Refreshments
were served in the following way: Cinderella
had the pumpkin pies in a little cart represent-
ing her coach. Little Red Riding Hood had
cakes in her basket. The Three Bears had de-
licious soup which they served in blue bowls.
The Babes in the Woods had berries in tin cups.
Aladdin rubbed a lamp and told a Fairy Tale
when all the guests were assembled.
The children went from one booth to an-
other as they entered and wrote on a card what
they thought the different fairies represented.
This made fun as well as guessing about each
other, as all came in fancy costume.
A Gypsy told fortunes in a tiny tent and a
real Fairy Tale was dramatized.
This party may be given outdoors or in, as

the season makes it convenient, and the invita-

tions contain the verse,
"A Fairy Tale Party is fun for all,

At three o'clock we hope you'll call

If you'll be good as you should,
You will meet fairies in the woods."

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 A TOY PARTY
Penny Party and Polly Play sat down one
day and wondered what kind of a party they
could invent next.
Uncle Play talked of rocking horses and
tops and drums. Suddenly Penny Party clapped
his hands and said,

"We'll give invitation hearty

To your very own Toy Party
So bring the toy you like the best,
And come in Plainest costume dressed."
(Hour —place.)
(Overalls, aprons, straw hats and sun bon-
nets.)

The children came with their favorite toys

and a half hour exchange of toys was allowed.
At the table every child received a small toy
with a riddle written on a card beside it to guess,
and a little toy favor was found beside the cake,
in the center of the ice cream and on the candy
dish.

After refreshments were served Old Grand-

mother Play told them "A Toy-Shop Story."

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Hippety-hop, hippety-hop,
To Old Father Grim's little Toy Shop.
So sang the children day after day as they
spent their pennies and dimes and quarters for
toys that Old Father Grim made out of wood,
and cardboard, and paper.
There was a secret closet in the Toy Shop,
only Old Father Grim, and Beppo his dog knew
what was in there
Every night when the cuckoo came out and
chimed nine
Old Father Grim closed his Toy Shop door
And sat himself right down once more,
Then he said I'll enjoy myself,
And took a key to the closet shelf,
Out of the closet came wonderful toys
That would delight all girls and boys,
And every night when the clock struck ten,
He put the toys all back again.
One night at ten o'clock he forgot to lock
the closet and the toys began to talk.
Said Jack-In-The-Box to the big red drum,
"I really wish the children would come."
Said Teddy Bear lonesome quite,
"It's
To be locked up here day and night,"
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The Wax Doll in the corner sighed,

And wept real tears from her big, round eyes.

"My goodness, what do you think of that?"

Said the solemn wooden Cat.

The Curly Dog said, "Perhaps we'd better

Write Old Father Grim a letter."

So, those cunning animals wrote a letter and

said they knew Old Father Grim had made them
long ago, but they longed for little children's
love, and could they please go in the Toy-Shop
window tomorrow.
Teddy Bear mailed the letter in the real mail
box on the corner and the toys went back to
the closet shelf and fell asleep.

Old Father Grim read his letter next day and

said,

"By my long whiskers no, no no,

The toys in the window shall not go."

He was afraid some one would buy his

favorite toys.
At this very minute Little Nothing-to-
Spend, peeped in the Toy-Shop window, She
held Little Burst-out Shoes bv the hand.
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The toys in the window

Old Father Grim called these children in

Then for one and all did the fun begin.

Old Father Grim unlocked the secret closet

door and took the toys down off the shelf and for
an hour the children played with them.

"This is jolly fun I do declare,"

Said the merry Teddy Bear.

Jack-In-The-Box and the big red drum

Cried, "Hurrah, hurrah, the children come."

The big Wax Doll was willing to walk,

And once or twice she tried to talk.
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The Wooden Cat said as she sat on the rug,

"It feels mighty good to have a real hug."

The Curly Dog was pleased as he could be

At this very jolly company.

By and by the children had to go home and

the Toys cried together,

"It was such jolly play

Please call another day."

Old Father Grim wiped his spectacles as the

children thanked him.
Little Nothing-to-Spend said over and over
We are glad this Toy-Shop to discover,
And merry Little Burst-Out-Shoes,
Went far and wide to carry the news
That poor little children each day at four
Might come inside and open the door,
And peep up on the closet shelf
And down a toy and help themselves,
take
In Old Father Grim's Shop they went to play
For twelve months, a year, and a day,
Old Father Grim had no more lonesome toys
They all were well loved by girls and boys,
And Beppo spoke quite clearly for him,
"Hurrah! hurrah! for Old Father Grim!"
 Having a race

AN OUT-DOOR CARNIVAL
Booths are easily arranged and children are
asked to come in any fancy dress costumes. The
invitations read,
An out-door Carnival under the trees
Is very sure some folks to please,
So come in any fancy dress,
Your name we all will try to guess.
—
(Hour place.)
Red Riding Hood, Mother
Cinderella,
Goose, Clowns and Fairies came. They had a
little circus and a gipsy who told fortunes. They

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played a game called, "The Peddler's Pack."

To play this game the children choose the
peddler who stands inside the circle they form.
He has many things beside him as a ball, book,
box, etc., these articles he slowly puts into his
pack. The children must observe what he puts
in his pack, so when called on they can name
any article it contains.
They all say,

"Peddler, peddler, what do you lack?

Peddler, peddler, what's in your pack?"
He skips about and stops before any child
saying,
"What's in my pack, answer me
Before I count, one, two, three."
The must name some article in the
child
pack, or change places with the peddler and the
game continues.
Refreshments can be served at a lemonade
booth, sandwich booth, etc. Childern riding on
hobby horses and having a race with kiddy cars,
add to the excitement. A doll carriage race and
hoop race is indulged in also.
Said Penny Party and Polly Play
We'd like a Carnival every day.
 THE CIRCUS PARTY

Invitations contained a colored drawing of

a balloon in one corner and the verse.

To the party come and play,

We'll have a regular Circus Day,

So please come with old suit and gown
For you'll be welcomed by the Clown.

(Hour —place.)
The children are received by a child in
clown costume and have to search in the first
room for tickets which are hidden in every pos-
sible place, behind vases, in books, in baskets,
behind the clock, etc. As soon as children find
tickets they go into the next room and take a
seat, when the little audience is ready Shadow
Pictures are thrown on a sheet. These are part
of the company chosen as Circus Performers.
They stand back of the sheet to throw the shadow
while any older child directs them, and de-
scribes in the following manner:

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Clown
Here is the Clown, he came to town
With tiny cap and striped gown.

Japanese
Next comes the Lady from Japan,
With gay parasol and fan.
Tight-Rope Walker
Sing hurrah for the tight-rope walker,
She minds her steps she is no talker.

Juggler—
Tho the Juggler has but two hands you see
He entertains for you and me.
Animals
The Elephant and big Giraffe,
Are very sure to make you laugh.
Dog-
The trained dog is useful too
And many things he'll do for you.

(This dog with pasteboard mouth made to open

and close is shown snapping at a spider suspended from
above, etc.

Clown
The Clown always returns full soon,
And takes delight in his balloon.
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Clowns
Two Clowns now come in you know,
On a see-saw riding high and low.
These Clowns are very glad you came,
And invite all to a Circus Game.

Invite all to a circus game

The "Show" is over and the children

little

run out to play. The Circus Game. They

choose the Clown who stands inside the circle
thev form and all sing to the tune of "Yankee
Doodle."
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The Circus Clown is in our town,

Into the tent we're going,
Who will be chosen by the Clown,
There is no way of knowing
Chorus
Clap the hands and be polite,
Circus days are funny,
Many others we'd invite
If we had the money.
The Clown chooses one who skips with him
outside the circle, and comes back and they ex-
change places. This may continue until all
have had a chance to be the Clown.
When all have been "Clown," the children
all clap hands saying,

"One for the money, two for the show

The Circus is over away we go."

The guests now ride in a swing, on a see-saw

in a hammock, on rocking horses, on carts, etc.,
they fly kites and balloons and bounce balls.

Each one given a delightful looking paper

is

basket covered with tissue paper filled with a

regular picnic lunch and lemonade is passed.
Refreshments are served in a tent. If a fortune
teller can also be had, it will add to the fun.
 A MAY-DAY PARTY

Penny Party and Polly Play

Invite you on the first of May
Who would not A-Maying go,
When the spring-time breezes blow?

(Hour —place.)
The two children wrote the invitations with
the above jingle upon them, and drew a picture
of a basket in one corner.
Baskets were also obtained of all colors,
shapes, and sizes. Each guest received a basket
with a card in it, telling with what it was to be
filled.

The blue basket said,

Will you fill me up with daisies,

So I'll sing sweet spring-time's praises?

The pink basket said,

Dandelions are easily found

Springing up above the ground.
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The brown basket said,

Search about and don't give up,
Fillme with yellow buttercups.
The white basket said,
Search now in the garden bed,
See the crocus lift her head.

The children run to a sand pile where arti-

ficial flowers are found, or they can search for

real flowers if the season is favorable, or flowers
may be hidden in many places in-doors, or out.
After all the baskets are filled they line up for a
prize, which may be a pretty book about flowers.
All form a circle and play the game of May
Queen.
All skip round and sing to the tune of
"Twinkle Little Star."

Who will be the Queen of May?

On a summer holiday,
We are happy, glad and gay,
Who will be the Queen of May?
One child dances in the center and bows to
any girl, and they skip round outside the circle
and back to places, and the game continues.
The May Pole Dance

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They also play the game of May Basket,

A child in the center of the circle says, hold-
ing an empty basket,

"Who'll fill my basket the first of May

Who'll name a flower for me to-day?"

She calls on any child who must name a

flower at once, or go out of the game.
Another way game is for chil-
to play the
dren in the circle to be given names of flowers,
and the one in the center names any two flowers
,,
as "I want and lilies to fill my basket.
violets
The children named change places and the one
in the center tries to slip into the place of either
one. The child left out, each time takes the
basket to fill, stands in the center and the game
continues.
The boys found a tree, and put up streamers
and all had a May Pole dance. Refreshments
were served in baskets everything wrapped in
wax paper, and opened as a surprise. They had
sandwiches, cakes, potato chips, sweet choco-
late, and salted peanuts, and candy. The baskets
the children filled were taken home.
 AN ALPHABET PARTY
The Party Twins said 'There are new things
yet,
We'll make a party out of the alphabet,
Bring the letter that stands for your last name
And you will all be glad you came.
(Hour —place.)
The children came with the initial of their
name and looked for other similar letters hidden,
for example the child whose name began with
"C" must find another "C" in the room and so
on. After all the letters are found they must do
whatever the letter suggests, so the fun begins.

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The letters suggest the following:

—You are letter A, be glad and gay
And dance to while the hours away.

— Letter B, please make a bow,

Like a curtsey, we'll show you how.

Kg — Letter C, read or recite

A poem, or a verse please write.

—Do anything lest you forget

I belong to the alphabet.

i2 — Every little child I know

Can imitate a dumb-bell show.

Find a little tune now please,

On the smooth piano keys.

-Go get an article of dress,

Act a charade for all to guess.

-Here we'll all join in song,

For we are a merry throng.

-In and out come dance with pleasure,

Choose partners for each merry measure.

-Join in the games light and airy,

Play a while at "Statuary."
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!
-Keep in time if you play the fiddle,
Or you may suggest a riddle.

-Learn a verse given by another,

Friend, or sister, or your brother.

-Many a word come name and yet

Who'll tell you the opposite?

-Name some very common trees,

We all know some things like these.

-Open a little box with care

First make three guesses what is there.

Perhaps some pretty songs you've heard

Ask each child to name a bird.

-Quiet keep lest a fairy knock,

Who is the first to hear the clock?

-Rightaway some colors name,

Hold up cards like in a game.

&* — See the nuts on the table

To name them all, are you able?

—Take a walk to tell the news,

Any partner you may choose.
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-Use a picture puzzle, do you know whether,

In ten minutes you can put it together?

-Very pleasant it will be

To tell a joke in company.

-Take a cord if you've forgot

We'll teach you how to tie a knot.

-X stands for Xantho, meaning yellow

Name a yellow fruit, be a good fellow.

-Years are made of months and days,

We can name them now always.

-In Zero weather it's a good plan

To read a thermometer if you can.

Anagrams may be played and a Game of

Alphabet as follows:

The children can sit in a circle and one child

begin, "I met a child whose name begins with
"A." Someone suggests "Annie," and con-
tinues, I am thinking of a child whose name
begins with "B," and so on down the alphabet.
They may play the game if they like, each tak-
ing a turn in regular order, and being clapped
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out of the game if they cannot think of a name

beginning with letter as suggested.
The children are delighted to discover letter

noodles in their soup, and letters are made with

colored sugar on cookies.

Said the Twins

"The Alphabet Party was fun
Let us spread the glad news to everyone!"

AN APRIL PARTY
Penny Party and Polly Play drew umbrellas
on their invitations, some of them they drew
open and some closed, and wrote,
Come and find the pot of gold
At our Rainbow Party tomorrow,
There are presents in it I am told
So no trouble we will borrow.
(Hour —place.)
The children come ready for surprises.
They toss balls into the center of a cardboard
circle marked off in rainbow colors. Next they
play A Rainbow Game.
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They stand in a circle and the one in the

center says,

I hold a color up today,

Which color is it tell me pray?

She holds up one card after another with a

color of the rainbow upon it and calls on a child
to name color, or go out of the game.
They next grab in a bag for a colored paste-
board round, each round tells where to search
for the pot of gold but does not name the correct
place, and the children go in search while some
one accidently discovers it, amid shouts of
laughter. Some of the verses read:

Violet says do as you're told,

Look under a chair for the pot of gold.

Blue says if you are bold,

Look back of the curtain for the pot of gold.

Green says, I'm neither hot nor cold,

A basket might carry the pot of gold.

Yellow says, some secrets we unfold,

Look back of the door for the pot of gold.
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Orange says, you'll grow wise when old

Look under the table for the pot of gold.

Red says, it's hard a secret to hold,

Look everywhere for the pot of gold.

be cute to have the pot of gold suspended

It will
from the ceiling, or hidden in a flower pot, or
some out of the way place.
Rainbow colored strands of tissue paper
hang over the table and extend to the guest's
places. Lemon jelly with orange colored can-
dies is served on red dishes.

Much colorwas used in the dishes that

served wafers, cookies and cakes, and tiny cakes
piled on the plates were tied with baby ribbon,
various colors. Tiny umbrellas were placed on
top the jelly mounds and the children said,

We had a happy hour of play

At your party this April Day.
 THE KITE PARTY
Penny Party invited twelve boys to his birth-
day party and said to each as he telephoned.
"Bring your own lath, and string and paper,
Your up many a caper."
kite will cut •

Old Uncle Play helped the boys make kites

of course, and all enjoyed a Kite-flying contest.
The one whose kite flew highest won the game.
The affair took on the aspect of a camping
marshmal-
party, they roasted chestnuts, toasted
lows, popped corn over a bonfire, and were
pleased to eat refreshments served in shoe-boxes
with pictures of animals on top. The boys
gathered round in groups and told the most
thrilling experience they had ever had with an
animal.
They "Fed The Bear" huge fellow drawn
a
on canvas, with wide open mouth, by throwing
in a ball or bean bag.
They shot at a kite with bow and arrow.
They ran races to a goal, and a Japanese-
shaped kite was awarded the fastest runner.
Later they went to a sand pile and each
plucked a tiny paper kite, at the end of which
was a present.
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 THE BIRD PARTY

To a Bird Party you're invited,

And so no one will feel slighted,

A picture of a bird please wear

Upon your suit, dress or hair!

So wrote the Twins on invitations cut double,

shaped like a robin and painted to resemble
robin-red-breast.

The little guests had great fun cutting and

coloring bird pictures to wear. One little girl

dressed in white cut out the red bird out of

paper, and had many all over her dress. One
boy wore a band round his head with an owl in
front. One girl had yellow canaries outlined
on her apron. One boy wore black birds on a
yellow belt.

As they entered some one said,

"In either fair or stormy weather,

Birds of a feather flock together."

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A wire screen at one end of the room was

covered with autumn leaves and made a pretty-

background for those who wished to dance or

sing. Theywent in turn blindfolded to a
all

tree, and took off a bird. This bird was made

of pasteboard, and had one of the following
verses upon it which they must complete.

1 — Back and forth you have been bobbing

Can you name red-breasted (robin).

2 —What do you say, what do you say?

Who stays all winter but (Blue-Jay?).

3 —Who builds in places small and narrow?

Who but common little (sparrow).

4 —Who has a glorious song, oh hark?

Singing as he flies? the (lark).

5 —Yellow and black as a bit of coal

In a hammock-nest swings (oriole).

6— Late at night who likes to prowl?

Who but the very wise old (Owl).
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7 —Who always chirps but does not sing?

He wears a top-knot, a (Cedar Wax-wing).

8 — In chimneys that are tall but hollow,

Who builds a nest but a (Chimney-Swallow).

9 — He imitates a cat I've heard,

The saucy fellow, the (Cat-bird).

10 — I hear a call I cannot see

The bird who sings (Pewee, Pewee).

In working out the end to the verse the children

can exchange birds if they like (the name of the
bird on each card is omitted).
Birds are suspended from the ceiling or
chandelier by thread and those who complete
the cards may now
reach up for one of these.
On the back of each is a direction sending the
child to a Bird-shaped picture puzzle, cut from
a bird picture pasted on cardboard and cut into
various pieces to be put together.
When a bell rings those who have completed
the puzzles change places. The children play,
The Bird Cage Qame.
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A child steps inside the circle the rest form,

and says, "Iwant to buy a bird for my cage, I'm
thinking of one whose name begins with 'R',"
the first child to say "Robin" takes his place and
he is out of the game. He says, "I am thinking
of a bird whose name begins with 'W (or any '

letter) and the first child to name "Woodpecker"

takes his place and so on.

Each time after a bird is named the children

clap hands, skip round and say,

Clap him out, clap him out,

The bird's name we found out,

It is fun to laugh and shout,

Clap him out, clap him out.

They may "Feed Owl," by bouncing

the
rubber balls and trying to throw them into the
mouth of an owl drawn on cambric and stretched
in a door way.

They may write on cards the names of as

many birds as possible, the one with the longest

list when a bell rings may receive a bird-book.
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The table is decorated with blue ribbon

streamers. Each ends with a ten-cent blue-bird

pin at the child's place.

Serve ice cream with tiny pasteboard birds

of bright colors stuck in the center, and cookies
piled up, tied with ribbon, paper birds surround-
ing them on the plates.

A FOURTH OF JULY PARTY

The Twins painted flags on one corner of
cards they sent out as invitations and they con-

tained the verse,

One and all the children cry,

"Hurrah, hurrah for the Fourth of July,"

We will spend an hour together,

So we'll hope for pleasant weather.

(Hoar — place.)
The guests arriving were pleased to see flags
everywhere.
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They played out-door games and among

them the game of "Liberty Bell."
A large paper bell was placed on the ground
and a child ran in from the circle they formed,

They Ran a Flag Race

naming a president, and another child did the

same, and so on, each time touching the bell.

,,
They next played a "Flag Game.

The children are in two lines and they

choose one to carry a flag and run between the

lines saying,
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a
How many stripes, how many stars

In this beloved flag of ours?"

The one north end of each line now

at the
skips round his line, returns to his place and
names the correct number of stripes and stars

in the flag as, 13 stripes, 48 stars, or goes out of

the game. The second child from the north
end of the line, next skips round, and so on, until
every one has had a chance to name the number
of stars and stripes in the flag. The line having
the most left in it, wins the game.

A large firecracker is fastened to the ground

and children throw hoops over it. The hoops
are wrapped with red, white and blue muslin,
the children all stand at an equal distance to
throw, and the prize is a bag of peanuts.

The children run a flag race. Two start with

flags to a goal, the last one there selects a child

to take his place in the next race.

Refreshments were ice cream cones bearing

a tiny paper flag and cookies sprinkled with red
and blue sugar.
 A MOTHER GOOSE PARTY
We planned a Mother Goose Party, drawing
and coloring a picture of a Mother Goose char-
acter on our invitations and writing upon them,

Sitting on a Mantel

"Here issomething old and something new,

Come meet the Old Woman who lived in a

Shoe,
And her other children hale and hearty
We invite you all to our Mother Goose
Party."

(Hour —place.)
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The came dressed in Mother Goose

children
costume and much fun was had in guessing
whom they represented. Tommy Tucker sang,
the Fiddlers Three played, and Tom, the Piper's
Son played, but the real fun came when each
child was given a card and pencil and sent about
the room to find out what the groups with num-
bers represented.

To make these groups we borrowed dolls

from every quarter and arranged them as fol-
lows :

No. 1 —A Doll in a cradle in a twig hung over

chandelier.

Rock-a-Bye-Baby.

No. 2 —A Doll with pasteboard egg-shaped face, sit-

ting on mantel.

Humpty Dumpty.

No. 3 —A Doll in a corner seated holding tin pie

plate.

Jack Horner.
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No. 4—A boy and girl doll seated at tiny toy table.

Jack Sprat and Wife.

No. 5 —A boy doll seated with fishing rod.

Simple Simon.

No. 6 —A Girl Doll with toy sheep.

Bo-Peep.

No. 7—Ten Little Darkey Dolls.

Ten Little Niggers.

No. 8 — Dolls on a see-saw.

See-Saw Margery Daw.

No. 9 —A boy doll in pail of water.

Doctor Foster.

No. 10 —A doll with twigs in flower pots about her.

Mistress Mary.

No. 11— A Paper Doll House.

The House That Jack Built.

No. 12— A Doll in a Shoe full of dolls.

The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.

No. 13 —Three boy dolls in a bowl.
Three Wise Men of Gotham.
No. 14 —A doll sitting on cushion sewing.
Curly Locks.
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No. IS —A boy doll jumping over a candlestick.

Jack-Be-Nimble.

No. 16 —A doll with a yarn spider beside her.

Miss MufTet.

No. 17 —A doll in a basket with a broom.

Old Woman Sweeping cobwebs.

No. 18 —A doll with red paper crown and hearts on

dress.
The Queen of Hearts.

No. 19 —A boy doll dressed in blue.

Little Boy Blue.

No. 20 —A doll with paper tea-kettle.

Polly Put the Kettle On.

The child who won them all received as a

prize a copy ofMother Goose. The "Consola-
tion Prize" was a doll dressed as a Mother
Goose character.
 A BUTTON CARD PARTY

Button, button who has the button,

With justtwo holes for eyes,
Every little girl and boy,
Can bring one if he tries.

So read the invitations to the party, and such

a hurrying and scurrying as there was to find
buttons with just two holes in them, and then
the delight of the little people when they found
postal cards made really at the printers with
cunning figures drawn on them. Advertise-
ments furnished ideas for the figures. Each
child glued his button on the figure for a face,
put a dot inside each hole for an eye, drew nose,
mouth and hair on the button and with colored
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pencil or water color, brought a blush to the

cheeks and colored the little figure.
By the time the children were ready to go
home each one had a cute card to take home and
to mail later to a friend, and many of them made
a whole Button Card family.
It is not necessary for a printer to make the

cards, though it is fun to mail them.

Any cards cut from cardboard will do. It
is well to have some cards with buttons upon

them, as some child may come forgetting to

bring buttons for the faces.
Sandwiches, pickles, potato chips and cakes
are served in button boxes and the children have
a wonderful time.

AN ANIMAL CRACKER PARTY

One day wondering what
the children were
kind of a party they could give next when Old
Grandmother Party suggested An Animal
Cracker Party.
Thechildren bought a box of animal crack-
ers and selected different animals which they
laid down on the cards and drew around. They
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wrote on their cards the following invitations.

Penny Party and Polly Play
Will invite you all to-day,
A box of animal crackers bring
And just be glad of everything.
(Hour —place.)
The guests carrying their boxes of
little

animal crackers joined in a grand march. Then

Penny Party whispered to the boys, and Polly
Play whispered to the girls, and the children
hid their crackers in every possible place.
After all were hidden the children drew strings
from a bag, on the end of each string was an
animal cracker. Each child then began to
search for a similar animal to the one drawn,
and when a bell rang the one who had found
most animals to match the one on their string
had a toy animal for a prize.
Refreshments consisted of Animal Crackers
and cocoa, and the older children told animal
stories. The one who had drawn a Bear told
about the doings of Snow Ball, Polar Bear at
the Zoo. The child who had drawn a Lion told
a story about a Lion in jungle, etc.
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The children were given cards and drew

around animal crackers, coloring their drawing
to take home, some of them pricked their draw-
ings to make sewing cards of them later, and
One and all said with accent hearty,
"We loved the Animal Cracker Party."

THE POST OFFICE PARTY

Said Penny Party and Polly Play
A Post Office Party we'll give to-day,
So don't you think you'd really better
Call at the Post Office for a letter.

(Hour—place.)
Each child received the above invitation and
arrived to find at one end of the room a little

imitation Post Office.

Cloth stretched between two open doors
with an opening for a window will do.
Each guest calls for a letter, and each letter
directs the child to some other place in the room
where he finds an envelope containing a picture
puzzle, which he sits down and fits together.
When a bell is rung all skip around and look
at the puzzles.
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The Postmaster has names of the chil-

the
dren and calls them one at a time. Each letter
suggests something for the child to do, which
he does before another letter is called for. Some
of the suggestions are:
1. Recite a verse from Mother Goose
2. Select a partner for a dance.
3. Sing a song, select enough for a chorus.
4. Select a group to pose as statuary.
5. Act out proverbs as, "A new broom
sweeps clean, but it takes the old one to get dust
out of the corners." Two children are shown
sweeping, one with old broom, one with new.
"Birds of a Feather Flock Together" is shown
by several children displaying feathers.
6. Tell a riddle for others to guess. "What
relation is the doormat to the door?" Answer
A step-father.
Packages may next be distributed at the Post
Office and the children required to guess the
contents. The one who guesses correctly re-
ceives the package.

The Post Office Party is lots of fun,

You had better try it every one.
 THE SOAP BUBBLE PARTY

The children wrote on cardboard, shaped

like a pipe,

We hope you will feel hale and hearty

And come to our Soap Bubble Party,
So come tomorrow please at four,
You'll find us waiting by the door.

(Hour- —place.)
Bowls of soap bubbles containing a few
drops of glycerine and pipes await the guests.
The pipe handles are gay with ribbon or raffia.
The guests are asked,

Color, color, What will you name?

Color, color, come in the game.

A tiny bow, the color they choose, is pinned

on them and they select a pipe tied with the cor-
responding color. They blow bubbles to their
heart's content.
Refreshments are lemon or orange jelly,
with bright colored candies surrounding them,
and cookies with colored sugar upon them.
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 THE POSTAL PARTY

The Twins wrote on postal cards,

To find a new idea is hard,

Let's get one from a postal card,

To a Post Card Party we invite

Each and all with a card polite,

Please bring a card you received this year
With pleasant greetings of good cheer.

(Hour —place,)
All the guests came with postal cards they
had received that would be interesting to talk

about.

A boy borrowed a postman's suit and met the

children at the door. They dropped their cards

in his bag.

On tables were envelopes containing puz-

zles cut from postal cards, to be put together.
The first one to complete a puzzle received a
collection of postal cards as a prize.
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They had a game "Hunt The Postal," and

kept on looking until each child had a card to
take home.

They formed a circleand the mail-man

stood in the center. They all clapped hands
and one after another said,

Postman, Postman tell me. pray,

Any mail for me to-day?

He would call the name of a child, hand him

his card, and the child would tell where it came
from and something interesting about it. When
all have their cards they rise turn round and say,

Here we all turn round about,

And we clap the Postman out.

The game may be made more difficult for

older children by each child telling the town

from which his card came, or city, and the
others think what state it was in. Postals from
foreign countries add to the interest. The pos-
tals may be placed in a card album and sent to
a hospital with a description of the party.
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were indicated by ordinary

Seats at the table
postals with names on them. Each child was
asked to write a jingle on his card, rhyming
with the word "card."

Penny Party wrote,

A penny for your thoughts, said a postal card
But to make a jingle for me is hard.

Polly Play wrote,

Put me in an envelope said the postal card
If from others my thoughts you'd guard.

The Postal Party was a great success.

THE SUNFLOWER PARTY

The Twins had learned to use paints and
painted a sunflower on their invitations which
read:

Penny Party and Polly Play,

Have this little word to say
A Sunflower Party we give this week,
Please come and play with us hide and seek.

(Hour —place.)
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Penny Party sang one day about a Sun-

flower Party and Old Grandmother Party said,
"It is the fall of the yearand we are all so busy
we do not see how we can plan a party," so the
Twins had to plan every bit of it themselves.

Polly covered a large pasteboard round with

brown tissue paper for the disk of a sunflower,
and she cut yellow petals also. The petals were
hidden outdoors and each guest was given a
paper sunflower to pin on as he entered. They
read on the back of the sunflower,

A Sunflower petal please find today

Play hide and seek and let's be gay.

children searched for the petals in vari-

The
ous places and put them round the disk and soon
the sunflower lay on the grass completed.
They stood round the completed sunflower in
a circle and sang to the tune of "Twinkle Little
Star."

Round and round the sunflower go,

Some one holds a flower we know,
He'll be "it" you understand,
Who holds a sunflower in his hand.
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A child runs inside the circle and pretends

to place a sunflower in the hands of any child
as he skipsround the ring. He finally does give
one the sunflower, and they change places and
the game continues.

Next the children choose sides and two start

toward a goal on a Sunflower Race, each carry-
ing a sunflower, and the first to get there scores
one for his side. The side w inning most points
T

wins the game.

The children are given cards with letters
that compose theword "Sunflower" upon it and
are asked to make as many words as possible
out of those letters in fifteen minutes.

The prize may be a sunflower-shaped book-

let or pretty card with sunflower upon it.

They may stand in line with real sunflowers

and play the game of "London Bridge."
Refreshments are served outdoors among
decorations of sunflowers. cream and
Ice
cookies are served, the cookies being tied up in
piles with green ribbon.
 A BLACK CAT PARTY

The Twins drew on each invitation a picture

of a Black Cat and they wrote this jingle:

The Black Cat gives invitation hearty

To a pleasant bean-bag party.

(Hour —place.)
Black Cats of all shapes and sizes were
pinned on curtains, suspended by strings from
the ceiling.

The children put their hands into a paper

bag on the outside of which a Black Cat was
pasted, and they drew numbers. They had to
hunt round the room and find a cardboard cat
with a corresponding number on it. Each
Black Cat has a direction on it, for example,
No. 1 says "Go to No. 10," No. 10 says "Go back
to five."

These large numbers that they now go to

are all about the room and the child wins a prize
who gets to twelve first. The directions may be
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No. 1— Go to 10.
—
No. 2 Go to 4.
—
No. 3 Go back to 1.

No. 4— Go to 9.
No. 5— Go back to 2.
No. 6— Go to 11.
No. 7— Go to 8.
—
No. 8 Go back to 3.
No. 9— Go to 6.
No. 10— Go back to 5.
—
No. 11 Go to 6 and hunt for 12.

Another way to play the game is to have a

circle divided off with the numbers in spaces,
spin a top and go from one number to the other.

The children are handed bean bags, which

they throw into the opening in the mouth of a
large cat drawn on cambric stretched in a door-
way. This is called "Feeding the Cat."
Cards may be passed the children and they
are asked to write as many words as they can,
beginning with the letters "Cat." The prize will
be for the greatest number of words and will be
a pin-cushion cat.
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It will also be fun to spell down, the only

w ords
7
given out to be words beginning with the
letters "Cat," as "catastrophe," etc.
To vary the entertainment the old rhyme of
"Three Little Kittens who Lost Their Mittens"
is dramatized.

Refreshments are served on trays, a black

caton each one, and consist of jelly sandwiches,
orangeade, wafers and sliced bananas.

THE FLOWER PARTY

Invitation read,

To a Flower Party we bid you come,

There will be fun for everyone.
(Hour —place.)
Flowers are hidden everywhere and the hostess
recites,

Everyone knows, in the garden grows

Nothing sweeter than the red rose.

As the flower is mentioned everyone runs to

hunt for it, and as soon as it is found the hostess
continues,
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The garden bed with dew is wet

So blooms the early violet.

Other verses are

'

Nodding to us as we pass,
Daisies beckon in the grass.
This flower's the proudest one of all,
We'll hunt for the lily white and tall.
Growing by the garden walk
Blooms the lovely hollyhock.
Peeping o'er the garden wall,
Grows the sun-flower big and tall.

After this play is over flower catalogues are

passed and the children cut out flowers, which
they put in slits in a large pasteboard basket
fastened on a screen. When the basket is full

they are called to refreshments. Flowers are

placed at their plates, painted, or artificial, or
real.

Ice cream in shape of a flower with cake is

served.
 THE RAG DOLL PARTY

Polly Play liked to invent things sometimes

herself so she wrote on cards, pasting a picture
of a doll cut from a catalogue, in the corner,

You are invited by Polly Play

To make a Rag Doll to-day,
So bring some cloth if you have any
But you need not spend a penny.

(Hour —place.)
Polly Play did not live in a place where you
could get stamped Rag Dolls, so she drew round
her largest china doll for a pattern. She made in
this way a good paste-board pattern, that could
be put on white cloth and drawn around. She
marked on the white muslin as many dolls as she
was to have guests, and Uncle Play helped her
make faces on them, marking in eyes, mouth
and nose.
When the guestscame they enjoyed sewing
up the Rag Dolls and stuffing them with saw-
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dust. They used cloth they had brought from

home to make simple capes and hoods for the
dolls, and each one was proud to have a doll to
take home.

Refreshments of cocoa, sandwiches, tarts

and candy were served on a tray wagon so the
work would not be interrupted.

The candy was in paper boxes, a penny doll

tied to each one with red ribbon.

Polly Play's little friends gave a series of

Rag Doll Parties after this, at which the dolls
received elaborate costumes.

At one party the guests brought doll car-

riages and took the dolls riding round the
square.

They all declared the Rag Doll Party a

success.
 A PUPPET SHOW PARTY

One day the children in Party Town were ex-

cited when they received the following invi-
tations.

We can have a party any day

But seldom Puppet Play,
see a
The hour will come before you know,
To attend a Puppet show.

(Hour —place.)
The Twins put wooden figures they
little

bought, everywhere about the room and made

and operated their own Puppet Theatre, using
an old soap box for the foundation. They set it
on a stand, cut off the back, and concealed
themselves behind a curtain so their hands
would not show, when they raised the figures in
sight of the little audience. They used wall
paper to decorate the theatre. The Twins took
turns reciting the verses as they held up the
dolls, and Uncle Play had printed the verses for
them on cards, so they would not forget their

parts.

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Punch and Judy are in town,

Each with joke and striped gown,
Soon you'll hear a voice so hearty
Come in to the Puppet Party!

Punch
Ha, ha, ha how do you do?
Let me count you, two and two.

Judy—
Ha ha, Punch if you please,
I would rather count by threes.

(Punch knocks Judy down.)

Don't dispute me whatever you do,
I would rather count by two's.

Toby
Bow, wow, wow, now I call,
I would rather not count at all.

Punch
Who let Toby out?

Judy-
Go down Toby.
Toby-
Bow wow, wow,
7
, I can tell,

Somebody answer the big door-bell,

Judy-
There is the door-bell sure enough.
 THE PARTY TWINS 8^

Punch
Go answer the door-bell.
(Judy knocks him down)

Judy-
Answer the bell yourself

Baby-
It is a party, oh my eyes
It is a party, a surprise.

Punch
It is a surprise party don't tell any one!
Nothing fit for a mouse, in the house!

Judy-
Nothing to eat, nothing sweet
Nothing to give our friends a treat.

Punch
Call the butcher, grocer, baker,
(How long is it going to take her?)

(Punch telephones now for all sorts of large quan-

tities of provisions, the children may make up this part

themselves as they will enjoy ordering a barrel of cran-

berries, etc.)

Judy—
Ineed a new dress for the party
Though I'm the only one who cares.
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Punch
Hush, hush, don't wake the baby
The party is gathering down stairs.

Butcher
Here are your turkeys, Punch.

Punch
I don't want turkey's bring me hams!
(Knocks butcher down)
Baker
Here are 500 party cakes

Punch
I don't want cakes, bring cookies.
(Knocks baker down)
Ice Cream Man
Here are your bricks of cream.

Punch
I don't want bricks, I want cones.
(Knocks man down)
Toby-
Bow, wow, wow, bow, wow, wow,
I will be happy anyhow.

Judy-
Very quiet we must keep,
For the baby is asleep.
Dressmaker
Here is Judy's new dress.
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Punch
She wanted a cape instead I guess.
(Knocks dressmaker down)

(Voices from below) —

A surprise party town
is in

Ha, ha, we'll just knock old Punch down,

Knock him down and he'll discover,
How it seems to recover.

Punch
No, no, no, don't knock me down ,

I act the part of a Circus Clown.

Judy—
The surprise party has gone away
Perhaps they'll call another day.
Whatever you do whatever you say,

Don't wake baby up today.

Baby—
The same old baby in every clime,
I was awake all the time.

Punch and Judy

Punch and Judy, Punch and Judy,
Wooden, big as life,
Punch and Judy, Punch and Judy,
Call out, such IS LIFE.
Curtain is drawn.
 THE PEA-STICK PARTY

Said Old Uncle Play, "I'm hale and hearty

I will help you plan a Pea-Stick Party."

They soaked up many peas and had many

toothpicks ready, then they made a windmill,

Windmill Chickt Coop

and kite, and gate, a parasol, chicken and coop.

Next they sent out invitations each card and had
a tooth-pick run through one end and the verse,

To our Pea-Stick Party come at four,

Though you never made these toys before,
You'll be happy at any rate,
And a story we will relate.

(Hon?- —place.)
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Uncle Play and Grandmother Party took

turns telling about the Pea-Stick toys as the chil-
dren made them, and the children played a
game of Jack-Straws using tooth picks instead.
They were served with sandwiches, custard, and
tarts.

The following stories were told.

The Pea-Stick Man said, "How the wind

blows ! merry March. March came in like
It is

a Lion sure enough, how the March Lion

roars!" He made a wonderful windmill. He
made it in the month of March. The windmill
was near his Pea-Stick house. He sang,
"In March when stormy winds are blowing,
See the windmills all are going.
See the windmill is turning round,
Very high above the ground,
A Pea-Stick Windmill like one of these
Is really very sure to please."

The Pea-Stick Man was fond of a little Pea-

Stick boy passed by his gate often. He
who
said, to himself, "I will make him a Pea-Stick
kite, how pleased he will be to fly it!"
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The Pea Stick Man was very busy making

his Pea Stick kite. He worked away at and
it,

finally he had a very good kite made. It was

stormy in March some of the days, but by and

by a clear windy day came, and he gave the boy
the Pea Stick kite. The boy had fun with his
kite and said,

"A Pea-Stick Kite by and by,

Does really look like it could fly
So when the wind is pasing by,
Come out and toss your kites on high
The Pea-Stick boy is very sprightly
And he bows to you politely."

The Pea Stick Man made a Pea Stick gate.

Itwas very easily made, and he wondered he
had not thought of it before. Can you imagine
him looking over the gate at you?

"A Pea-Stick Man may come in late,

You'll find him standing by the gate,

For many hours he likes to wait,
You'll see him there at any rate,
We'll all have time to say, 'good day'
Before he bows and turns away."
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Make all Pea Stick things you can think

the
of, for March. Make a house for your Pea
Stick Man and boy. Decorate it with a bowl of
pussy willows.

The Pea Stick Man adopted the little Pea

Stick boy, that is, he took him for his very own
to live with him.

One day Pea Stick Man said, "It rains

the
and rains so hard in April, I always get wet
when I go out, and you come in quite wet from
school. What shall we do?"
The Pea Stick Boy learned many things in
school, so he suggested that they make a Pea
Stick umbrella or parasol to keep off the rain.

The Pea Stick boy learned to talk in rhyme

and he said,

A Pea-Stick Parasol you see

Is always pleasant company,
We'll take it out in sun or rain,
It wil protect us, that is plain,

The Pea-Stick Parasol you see,

Is like a toy for you and me."

 THE PARTY TWINS

The Pea Stick Manplanned a pleasant sur-

prise for the Pea Stick boy. He got a funny
little chicken for a surprise and said,

"A Pea-Stick Chicken in the spring

Will chirp and almost try to sing,
He likes the sun but I'll explain,
He does not really care for rain.
The Pea-Stick chicken's funny ways,
You will observe on April days."

The Pea Stick boy was delighted with the

chicken and by and by they made a coop, and
got an old hen and had her set for days and days.
Soon there were many Pea Stick chickens.

The Pea Stick Man said,

"A Pea-Stick Coop you understand,

Is always well to keep on hand,
For Pea-Stick chickens large and small,
There's really room enough for all,
The Pea-Stick chickens without doubt,
1

Will very soon come crowding out.'

Make all the Pea Stick things mentioned and as

many more things as you can that belong to an
April Day.
 THE WOODEN PARTY

Penny Party and Polly Play said, "What can

we think of new for a party?"

Penny Party suddenly had an idea and said,

"We'll give a wooden Party to-day

And Clothes Pin Dolls we'll give away,
To the wooden party do not be late,

In answer to this wooden plate.

(Hour —place.)
This invitation of course was written on a
wooden plate. The children came on time and
played.

The Chopping Bowl Game.

Three chopping bowls were placed on the
floor and a child blindfolded and told to walk
across the room, and step between them. While
he is blindfolded the bowls are taken up, and
his efforts to step carefully to avoid them, make
the children shout with laughter.

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They played the Game of Wooden

also
Spoon. One child having a wooden spoon and
going from one to another in the circle they
form, and pretending to give them the spoon.
All the children hold hands together so no one
can tell who did receive the spoon. When a
bell is rung the child with the spoon and one
who passedrun a race, the
it last to get there is

out of the game.

The children say while they stand in the,

ring,

A wooden spoon, a wooden spoon,

We hope we will be chosen soon.
Later they may have a wooden hoop race and
also throw hoops over a wooden doll.

Some of the party sit and play with wooden

blocks.
Clothes pins dressed in tissue paper mark
their places fastened to cards containing their
names.
Refreshments were served on wooden plates
with wooden knives and forks. They consisted
of salad, croquettes, potato chips, and wafers.
 THE MUSICAL PARTY
Penny Party and Polly Play decide to ask
all Musical Party, so
their little friends to a
they drew a staff on and placed
their invitations
a note, or rest, or other musical character in
one corner and wrote the verse,
To aMusical Party we invite
All with invitation most polite,
If any piece you sing or play,
Please bring it with you on that day.
(Hoar —place.)
The children brought their music and went
to the Music Store, which consisted of a table,
with someone to receive their music. The music
was numbered in the order in which it came in.
A hat was placed with numbers in it, and a
child drew a number at a time, then the clerk
at the Music Store called the child whose num-
ber corresponded to the one drawn, and she
played or sang as the case might be.
A novfel feature was a Home Made
Or-
chestra, in which the children used toy drums,
triangles, horn and knitting needles which they
tapped on pans, all keeping perfect time to any

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selection played on the piano. A familiar tune,

as "Yankee Doodle, " is suggested. The chil-
dren played a game called "Naming the Key."
They stood in two lines. The Music Master
was chosen and he skipped through the lines

^ ^' One sharp, who will follow me?

One sharp, who can name the key?
The first child to name "Key of G" follows
him through the lines, and the game continues,
the Music Master calling for any number of
sharps or flats he pleases up to six.
The line to have fewest left standing in it
wins the game, and a bell taps to say the game
has ended.
The children march to music's merry meas-
ure when refreshments are served and find their
names on cards at the table, each card contain-
ing some musical character. They have much
fun, calling, "I am a sharp," "I am a flat," "I am
a natural," etc.
Refreshments are served by children with
musical characters on their caps and aprons,
and consist of cereal with colored sugar, brown
bread, milk and fruit.
 THE PAPER BAG PARTY

Penny Party and Polly Play

Send a message to you, they say,
We give a Paper Bag Party to-morrow
So a Paper Bag please buy, or borrow.

(Hour —place.)
Each comes provided with a brown
child
paper bag, and holes are made in it for eyes and
nose so he can wear it over his head and no end
of fun is had in guessing who is who.

When tired of this off come the bags and one

at a time, they are blind-folded and strike out
with a stick, trying to hit a large paper bag
suspended from the ceiling, in the centre of the
room. When struck at last, out falls a shower
of small paper bags, each containing a small
present.

Each child is now

provided with a large
paper bag and string, which they will tie near
the top making a paper bag doll. They pull out
the head and make a face with crayons, also
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sketch arms close at the sides, and decorate the

whole dress with colored circles to represent
buttons. Some of the dolls made at this party
were fashionable ladies, some were cooks and
some became baby dolls under the skillful little
fingers.

The boys of course enjoyed making police-

men and gentlemen dolls, which they did by use
of pins, which pulled the bag's sides together to
form trousers.

The joyous thing about these Paper Bag

Dolls was that they would stand alone when
completed and were put up in a long row to be
judged.

The Prize for the best one consisted of a

Paper Bag Doll dressed by the hostess, with tis-
sue paper cape and hat, carrying a paper
parasol.

The children became so interested they

begged for tissue paper, pins and scissors,and
soon created costumes for the dolls they had
made.
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Refreshments were informally served so as

not to interrupt the work. Cookies, sweet choco-
late, and apples were passed in paper bags,

each in a small bag placed in a larger bag.

All the children saved their bags to take
home and planned a whole Paper Bag Family.

Said Penny Party and Polly Play

Let's give such a party every day
Said the Paper Bag Dolls in a row,
'
'Twould be great fun for us you know,
Then save up your paper bags to-day,
And join us in our work and play,"
Paper bags white, Paper bags brown
Make the Jolliest dolls in town.
 They used to dance

AN OLD TIME PARTY

The Twins give invitation hearty
To-morrow come to an Old-Time Party,
We will have some fun in the holidays
With Old-Fashioned dress, and old-time
ways.

(Hour —place.)
Children come in old time dress and suits

and find the twins seated singing, "Old Folks

At Home."
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Those who wear wigs, carry fans, and show

huge buckles on their shoes, are much admired.
If each little guest can bring a relic of long ago,
an old-fashioned plate, or candlestick, and put
it on the center table to tell about it later, it will

add to the pleasure of the party.

Old-fashioned songs as "Annie Laurie,"

"Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thru The
Rye," etc., are acted in tableau and sung.

Each childgiven a palm-leaf fan with the

is

following words on it, to be sung to the tune of

"Long, Long Ago."

They dance a quadrille and sing,

This is the way that they all used to dance,

Long, long ago, long, long ago
Each with his partner slowly advanced,
Long, long ago, long ago,
Bowing politely with old-fashioned ways,
Stepping sedately as sweet music plays,
So they took pleasure in the far-off days,
Long, long ago, long ago.

Refreshments are made from old time recipes.

 A SHADOW-PLAY PARTY

Old Uncle Play planned a novel kind of a

party.

He wrote on the invitations,

You are invited to a Shadow Play,

So now, I will name the hour and day,
Come on Wednesday then at four,
And enter by the big front door.

(Hoar —place.)
Uncle Play divided the children into two
groups, one group going behind a sheet
stretched between two folding doors. A lamp
was placed back of this. He explained to the
audience group, that the children would show
occupations, in shadow pictures, and leave them
to guess what each picture meant.

The occupations represented were, sawing

wood, playing piano, eating at a table, going to
school, sewing, selling balloons, mowing the

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lawn, riding (on a rocking horse) playing hand-

organ (use a coffee mill). A postman is shown,
etc. By and by the two sides changed, the audi-
ence becoming actors.

Uncle Play next chose two boys to act out

one of his own verses. The second acted as a
shadow, imitating whatever the first boy did.

A little boy once lost his hat (off goes hat),

His shadow was aware of that, (It dangles

from a string),
He chased it over hill and dale,
And fell head-long in a milk-pail,
Up the ladder he climbed you see,

The hat caught in a big tall tree,

The ladder fell and down he came,
The shadow ladder did the same.
A friendly breeze its power may lend,
And down the long lost hat may send. (It
comes on head.)
There is a smile on the boy's face,
He said, "I'm glad no one saw the chase!
 THE SILHOUETTE PARTY

The Twins give invitation hearty,

To a novel Silhouette Party,
So come prepared to laugh and play,
And enjoy your holiday.

(Hour —place,)
So read the invitations which contained a
little picture in silhouette upon them. Someone
clever with scissors asks each guest in turn to be
seated,and cuts his silhouette out of black paper
and pins it on a white screen.

After all are done the children try to recog-

nize their own Next they receive cards
pictures.
with some object in silhouette upon them, and
they are to write opposite each the month they
represent. The cards are prepared with the fol-
lowing drawings.

Bells for January, Flags for February, Wind

Mill for March, Umbrella for April, May Pole
for May, Rose for June, Firecracker for July,
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Golden Rod for August, Autumn Leaf for

September, Jacko' Lantern for October, Turkey
for November, Holly Wreath or Tree for De-
cember.

No end of fun can be had by similar con-

tests, animals, flowers, fruits, etc., may make up
lists, and the child who has the correct list wins
a picture for a prize.

Each child may try to cut a silhouette of a

stuffed bird or animal. They may cut silhouettes
of Mother Goose and the best one
characters,
receives a prize of a Mother Goose book.

They may see how many words they can

make out of the letters in the word "Silhouette"
in ten minutes.

Each guest finds a card by his place with a

silhouette upon it of some object, as he guesses
the object he is seated.

The Twins said when they gave this party,

"Of all the parties we'll not forget

The fun we had with the silhouette."
 Whirled around

A VALENTINE PARTY
Said the Twins "On the fourteenth let's be
gay
And give a party on Saint Valentine's Day."

They wrote invitations on correspondence

cards and painted a red heart in each corner.
For decorations they cut red paste board
hearts and red cupids and strung them up about
the room. They had heart-shaped candy boxes
filled with nuts, and candy hearts and heart-
shaped cookies with lemon jelly in moulds for
refreshments.

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On
cambric stretched on a screen or door,
was a large sketch of Cupid. The children
were blindfolded in turn and tried to pierce
Cupid's heart by pinning an arrow in the right
place where his heart was sketched upon him.

Another blindfolded game sent each child to

a big jar in the middle of the room. They are
whirled around after being blindfolded, but
must find the jar and select their fortune which
is written on a heart-shaped valentine. These
home-made valentines are made of different col-
ored paper, each color representing a different
kind of fortune, among them the tissue paper
heart, the brown paper heart, the sandpaper
heart, the pinpricked heart and many other
kinds are found.

They all play "Drop the Valentine."

The children choose Cupid who skips

around the circle they form and finally drops a
valentine behind one.

They sing
'
to the tune of "The Mulberry
Bush."
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u
Oh who will get the valentine,
The valentine, the valentine?
Oh who will get the valentine
This February morning."

They whirl round to see who has the valen-

tineand the lucky child changes places with
Cupid and the game continues.
They sing, naming the lucky child.

"Oh (Mary) got the valentine

The valentine, the valentine
Oh (Mary) got the valentine
This February morning."

AN APPLE PARTY
The invitations were written on red card-
board shaped like an apple and cut double, to
contain inside the verse,

In an Apple Party strange things you'll see,

We will dance about an Apple Tree,

So come at two do not delay,
And many happy games we'll play.

(Hour —place.)
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The childrenplayed a game of indoor

croquet, using hard apples for balls. They were
later blindfolded one at a time and tried to pin
a cloth stem on a cloth apple sketched on muslin
and tacked to a door.

They threw rings at a stake with an apple

on top for a prize. The most fun of all though
was dancing round an apple tree. An ever-
green branch in a tub with little presents
wrapped in red paper will do, each package has
a number on it and may contain a present, pop-
corn or candy. The children enjoy little toys
or presents most.

They march round and sing, whistle

the tree
or hum to the tune of "Comin' Thru the Rye."

Round Apple Tree we're going,

the
Happy hand in hand,
When we'll stop there is no knowing,
We're a merry band,
Tra, la, la la, la, la, la la,

Hear our voices ring,

As round the Apple Tree we're going,
Merrily we sing.
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Throning rings at a stake

The children pause, one is asked to name a

number as a certain "apple" is touched on the
tree. The child may receive it if he guesses the
right number, otherwise another child is asked
and so on, until one is lucky enough toguess the
number on the "apple." They then skip round
the tree singing as before and another apple is
given out, and so on until all are served.
For refreshments baked apples and cake are
served.
 THE HALLOWEEN PARTY

Said Penny Party and Polly Play

Halloween will come some day,
We'll entertain with stunts and games
I'm sure you'll all be glad you came.

(Hour —place.)
The above verse appears on invitations cut
the shape of a pumpkin, and a Jack o' Lantern
face drawn on the outside.

When the guests arrive they are led to paper

Jack o' Lanterns of various sizes suspended
from a string stretched across the room. Each
one is given a small rubber ball and has three
tries at hitting the Jack o' Lantern. The chil-
dren who hit the largest and smallest Jack o'
Lanterns receive candy boxes which are pump-
kin shaped, or any other Halloween favor.

The guests are next shown four large pump-

kins in the center of the room on the floor. One
child is blindfolded and is told to cross the room
without stepping on the pumpkins. His efforts
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to avoid them are funny as they have been re-

moved while he is being blindfolded. The next
child is blindfolded and the pumpkins are not
removed, and he touches them, of course, as he
darts fearlessly across the room. The fun con-
tinues now that no child knows whether they
are really there or not until after he has been
blindfolded and tries to cross the room.
The children now choose sides and dance
round a large pumpkin, trying to pull as they
form a circle, so as to make the ones on the op-
posite sides come near enough to touch the
pumpkin. Any child who does so goes out of
the game.
They sing as they dance round the pumpkin
to the tune of 'Twinkle Little Star."

Round the pumpkin dance and shout

Touch it and we'll clap you out
Then we'll all turn round about,
Round the pumpkin dance and shout.
They face outside the circle to clap out any child
who has touched the pumpkin. The side who
has the most left in it when a bell rings wins the
game.
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They now sit in a ring and play the Scare-

crow Game. The children choose a Scarecrow,
who puts on an old cape and hat.

He takes an umbrella

He takes an umbrella, clears his throat and

says as he raps on the floor with it,

"You are stupid we'll agree,

If you can't rap one, two, three.

He hands the umbrella to the next child, who

must repeat the performance exactly, or the um-
brella, at the suggestion of the Scarecrow, goes
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on and so on. Now the child

to the next child,
must not only repeat the verse and rap as many
times as the Scarecrow did, but must clear his
throat before doing so or the Scarecrow will not
admit that his performance was correct.
umbrella comes back to the Scarecrow
If the
without any child doing the stunt correctly, he
may explain it, the next time he may laugh be-
fore he raps, or cross his feet or his arms, in
fact do anything that requires careful imitation
and observation. Another way to play the game
is to have the first child who does the stunt cor-
rectlychange places with the Scarecrow and do
some funny little thing beside reciting the verse
for the children to imitate.
The children next fish to "Let the Cat Out
of the Bag" by using bent pins on sticks. They
fish from a bag shaped like a Cat and draw out
a folded paper fortune. Little presents may be
fished out if desired.
The dining room may be lighted with Jack
o'Lanterns and refreshments served by children
dressed as witches. Peanut butter sandwiches,
cocoa, apples, nuts and candy are served.
 A THANKSGIVING PARTY

The Twins said,

"Let us invent a game to play

After dinner Thanksgiving day."

As they were invited out with older people

they knew they must amuse themselves after
dinner, so they invented "A
Sitting-Down
Game" as they called it, and you and I can play
it, too. They cut out vegetables and fruits from
a seed catalogue and pasted them on cardboard.
They cut a large basket from cardboard and cut
slits in it. Penny Party filled his basket by put-
ting vegetables in it, and Polly Play filled her
basket with flowers, which she put in the slits.
The children enjoyed this so much they pre-
pared a whole Thanksgiving Baskets with
set of
fruits and vegetables, and when they had a party
it was one of the games they played. A whole
year passed before they could give a regular
Thanksgiving Party, but when the time came
they wrote on cards on which they pasted a pic-
ture of a turkey cut from an advertisement,

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In the Mayflower sail away,

With us on this holiday,
At three o'clock we'll look for you
To sail across the waters blue.

(Hour —place.)
The boys came costume and the
in sailor
girls in Puritan costumes. A
large packing box
formed a ship, with aid of a mast and tennis nets
to give a sea-like appearance. As many chil-
dren got in the ship for a ride as possible, and
others grouped around singing familiar sailor
songs.
When tired of this they "Shot the Indians"
by using a bow and arrow, and aiming at a
figure of an Indian stretched on cloth in a door-
way.
The table was decorated with little toy ships.
Turkey sandwiches, orangeade and pumpkin
pie were served.
The children each drew a fortune from a pie
made by crossing paper strips on a big dishpan.
They drew strings and a little candy box with a
sentiment folded on paper was produced.
 THE CHRISTMAS PARTY

For the Christmas Party the Twins wrote

their own invitations containing the following
verse,

A Christmas Party in old December

Is one we'll very well remember,
So come at seven by the clock,
Step inside, you need not knock.

(Hour —place.)
A gayly colored stocking was painted in the
corner of each invitation.
When the guests arrived they were greeted
with " Merry Christmas" and told to search for
their stockings.
The search began and as soon as a child
found a stocking he pinned it up on a home-
made mantel piece, made of a screen covered
with paper, lined off as bricks. He
found his
own name on the mantel piece and pinned his
stocking under it. As these stockings were
made of gay colored paper the mantel piece
soon had a festive air.
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The children played THE GAME OF

THE CHRISTMAS STAR.
One child chosen to carry a large paste-
is

board star. He runs in and out among them as

they stand in a circle. They all sing, tune
"Lightly Row."

Who will go? who will go?

Guided by the Christmas star?
Stars above, starsyou love,
Shine where'er you are,
Christmas star that shines at night
Making all the world more bright,
Shining bright, all the night,
Merry Christmas star.

The child with the star drops it behind a child

who now changes places with him and the game
continues. Each child may have a tiny star
with the words of the song upon it. They
played the game of, Santa Claus Pack.
The children choose Santa Claus who gives
names of toys. They form a circle
the children
about him, and he tells a story saying, "I will
pack up now and I want my top and my horn,"
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Draiving Out of Santa's Pack

naming any toys, and the children who had

these names run to a place agreed upon as goal,
the last one to get there is out of the game.
Santa Claus says, when the game is ended,
"Reach into my sack, what can you see,

A chance to trim a Christmas Tree."

Each child draws out of Santa's pack an

envelope in which is a Christmas tree cut out of
green cardboard with slits in it, and gay toys
cut from advertisements and pasted on tag card-
board. The game consists in placing toys in
slits in the tree, and the one who has the most

artistic arrangement wins the prize.

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Another game enjoyed was, Filling the

Stocking. A stocking is drawn on cambric
stretched across a doorway. It has a large
opening in the top, and the children try to toss
little rubber balls into it. The children who are
successful receive little cards shaped like
stockings.
They next wrote on cardboard stocking-
shaped cards all the toys they could think of,
and the one who had the longest list when a bell
rang won the prize, a tiny stocking made of net-
ting and filled with peanuts.
At were found home-made picture
tables
puzzles, cut-up pictures of toys, mounted on
cardboards, cut from advertisements in mag-
azines.
They next played the Game of Christmas
Candle.
The children sat in two lines opposite each
other and chose the child with the candle, which
may be an electric candle or torch if desired.
This child skips round each line saying,
Candle light candle bright,
What can you see by candle light?
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They all rise, clap hands and say,

"What do we you may believe
see,

We see Santa Claus on Christmas Eve."

The child with the candle then runs through

the line saying,
What you say is very true,
But don't let Santa Claus see you.

the word, "you," all rise, skip to opposite

At
line and the child with the candle tries to get
into any seat, and the child left out takes the
candle, and the game continues.
To one child at a time is blind-
select gifts
folded whirled around, and then told to go to
the Christmas tree and wave a wand so as to
touch a toy on the tree. As soon as he or she
touches the toy, the children watching cry,
Be you girl, or be you boy
Here is your Merry Christmas toy!

The child's eyes are uncovered, he takes the

toy he touched, and the next child comes and so

on.
As the little guests went away,
Said Penny Party to Polly Play
"I wish Christmas came every day."
 A NEW YEAR'S PARTY

The children suggested they give a party on

the first of January and they wrote,

Will you spend an hour with Father Time?

We will engage in game and rhyme,
So come tomorrow please at four,
Father Time will greet you at the door.

(Time —place.)
True to his word Father Time greets each
child and gives him a gayly tinted pasteboard
bell, and on the bell is a verse telling him to go
on a pleasure hunt in this way,

For other bells search full well

'Till you hear the tinkle of a bell.

The children look for other little bells placed

all about the room, and at the tinkle of a bell
stop their hunt. The child who found the most
bells in the time allowed receives a little bell-

shaped booklet, to wear round the neck sus-

pended by a ribbon.

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Each child is passed a pasteboard circle, a

pencil and pin. He makes a watch or clock
face on it, and pins it on to wear.

A bell now calls them to play, A New Year's

Game.

Time divides them into sides of an

Father
even number and they stand opposite each other.
They skip forward and back saying with hands
clasped.

Ha, ha, ha, we're glad we're here

We wish you all A Happy New Year.

Father Time passes through and they lower

arms at any time to catch him. He chooses
their
some one to take his place and the game con-
tinues.

They may now ask Father Time for fortunes

which are suspended in tiny bags or envelopes,
fastened to a string hung across the room. He
cuts down one fortune after another with his
scythe, (which is only a sickle wrapped with tis-
sue paper).
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The fortunes suggest any cute thing as,

"You are going on a journey soon," "You will
receive a letter," etc.

The children now guess the end of the rhyme

as Father Time holds his Hour Glass and
recites,

To be on time is always fine,

For most schools start at nine.

At close of school haste once more,
Leave the school room then at four.
For dinner some folks have to delve
Be in your place then at twelve.
At supper time play no tricks
For the meal begins at six.

A bell summons all to refreshments. Paper

napkins contain pictures of bells upon them, a
large paper bell is hung over the light and has
streamers to each place, marked by tiny little
bells that really tinkle. They have sandwiches,
chocolate, custard and cake.
 THE PARASOL PARTY

Grandmother Play helped the children plan

a new kind of a party. They drew and colored
parasols on cards and wrote on them,

A Parasol Party we give outside,

We hope you'll come from far and wide,
A Parasol Party lots of fun,
is

We hope you'll come now every one.

(Hour —place.)
Japanese parasols were covered with colored
paper pinned on, so children could choose their
colors.
A Japanese booth was made out doors and
child in Japanese costume gave out the parasols
as chosen by the little guests. They chose colors
by turning a spinning top that whirled on a
colored disk. As the top stopped, the color of
the parasol was indicated.
One by one children marched up and down
under their parasols and tried to find children
with the same color on their parasol. When
tired of marching they played A
Parasol Game.
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To play this game the children stand in a

circle, and choose "Guessing Child" who
the
goes about inside the circle. She turns slowly
and looks at all the children in the circle, as
they hold their open parasols. She is then blind-
folded and one child steps out of the circle, the
bandage is taken off her eyes and she must guess
who went out of the circle, or try to remember,
as the children have stepped close to form a
perfect circle again. cannot tell who is
If she
missing from the circle she goes out of the game
and the child who stepped out is the "Guessing
Child" and the game continues.
They also played a Clapping Game.
The children stand in a circle and choose
one to wind in and out between them carrying
an open parasol.
All clap hands and say,

Clap the hands clap the hands,

Play you're in far-off Japan,
Clap the hands, clap the hands,
Be lucky if you can.

The child who

has been winding in and out
now hands the parasol to any one, and they skip
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round the circle twice, and change places and

the game continues as long as desired.
Children under open parasols on the
sit

lawn to eat refreshments which are served on

Japanese trays with a Japanese fan as souvenir.
Peanut butter sandwiches, and orangeade were
served, Japanese stories told and Japanese songs
sung.

A PILLOW PARTY
Onevery hot summer day Grandmother
Play said, "We'll give a Pillow Party," so the
Twins wrote on pillow-shaped invitations,

"We give invitation hearty

To a summer Pillow Party,
So bring a pillow large or small
We think that we can use them all."

(Hour —place.)
The children came and sat down in the yard
on their own pillows, soon a good natured pil-
low fight began, next they built a house on the
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lawn, outlining the rooms with pillows. After

the house was completed the Story Lady came
and said,

"Form a circle, one, two, three,

Let's sit under a shady tree."

They gathered round in a circle and she

all

told the story of The Feather Fairy.

One day a Feather Fairy said,
"I hope I may fly an hour or so,
Before, into a pillow I have to go"
She had seen other Feather Fairies beaten
and pounded into pillows of many shapes and
sizes, so she continued,
"If into the parlor pillow I go,
I'llhave many lonesome hours I know,
If in the pillow on the chair,
Some one will sit upon me there,
In the hammock pillow I might swing,
And hear the sweet birds sing and sing.
I'd like to creep under a small boy's head,
That's the next thing the pillow said."

At that very minute some one came along

and picked up a lot of feathers. They did not
know that there was a Fairy among them. Into
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a neat pillow they were put and the Feather

Fairy lay still.

At just exactly quarter of eight

She heard a small boy say, "I'm late,
Early to bed I go in each season,
I want to be healthy, that's the reason."

It was a very hot night, and the little boy con-

tinued,

"I wish a fairy would put me to sleep,

I'll close my eyes and quiet keep."

The Feather Fairy sang,

"A Feather Fairy sings and sings,
Of dreams, and pleasant far-off things,
Nestle down close, see how soft I seem,
And I will whisper a Fairy dream."

Off and away the little boy went into Dream-

land, and the Feather Fairy sang,

"When you put a pillow under your head,

Think of what the Feather Fairy said,
Little children if you quiet keep,
I'll rock you to the land of sleep,

Just close your little up tight,"

eyes
Sings the Feather Fairy "good night, good
night."
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After telling the story refreshments were

passed, which consisted of orangeade and waf;
ers, candy, shaped like pillows, and berries wen
enjoyed.
The
children laid ten pillows in a row and
threw small rubber balls at them, those touching
the most pillows in a given length of time re-
ceived a prize, the girls received a pillow-
shaped sachet, and the boys a bean-bag.
To close the party they had a pillow march
to music, each one carrying his pillow on his
head, as the pillows dropped off amid much
laughter the Twins said,

We all say with laugh so hearty

You can have such fun at a Pillow Party.

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