What Shall We Do Now?

About this eBook

Author

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

Title

What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes

Credits

Produced by Bryan Ness, Ritu Aggarwal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure

Subject

Amusements

Category

Text

eBook-No.

31186

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31186

Release Date

February 4, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW? — WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW? — Five Hundred Games and Pastimes A BOOK OF SUGGESTIONS FOR CHILDREN'S GAMES AND EMPLOYMENTS — BY
3. 3.DOROTHY CANFIELD — AND OTHERS — NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.GAMES FOR A PARTY
7. 7.GAMES FOR A PARTY — Blind Man's Buff — French Blind Man's Buff — Blind Man's Wand — Steps — Still Pond! No More Moving — Shadow Buff — The Donkey's Tail — The Blind Feeding the Blind — Deer Stalking — Blowing Out the Candle — Apple-Snapping — Bag and Stick — Puss in the Corner — Hunt the Slipper — The Whistle — He Can Do Little Who Can't Do This — Thimble — Magic Music — Hot and Cold — The Jolly Miller — Going to Jerusalem — Stir the Mash — Caterpillar — Honey-Pots — Nuts in May — Old Soldier — My Lady's Clothes — Here I Bake — The Cobbler — Cushion — The Day's Shopping — Clap In, Clap Out — Neighbors — Oranges and Lemons, or London Bridge is Falling Down — General Post — Spin the Platter — Kitchen Utensils — Up Jenkins — Hunt the Ring — Lady Queen Anne — The Feather — Russian Scandal, or "Gossip" — Advertisements — Judge and Jury — Cross Questions — Ruth and Jacob — Fly Away! — Hold Fast! Let Go! — The Sergeant — Simon Says Thumbs Up — The Grand Mufti — The Mandarins — Buff — The Ditto Game — Statues — Laughter — The Concerted Sneeze — Bingo — Robin's Alive — The Mulberry Bush — Looby, Looby — Orchestra — A Good Fat Hen — John Ball — Chitterbob — The Muffin Man — Family Coach. — The Traveler, and the Bicyclist — Drawing-Room Acrobatics — Acrobatic Impossibilities — The Trussed Fowls — The Candle-Lighters — Hat and Cards — Tug of War — High Skip — Parlor Football — Balloon — Tissue-Paper Race — Walking Spanish — Potato Race — Fire-Buckets — Forfeits — Auctioning Prizes
8. 8.DRAWING GAMES
9. 9.DRAWING GAMES — Five Dots — Outlines or Wiggles — Eyes-Shut Drawings — "Ghosts of My Friends" — Drawing Tricks — Composite Animals — Invented Animals — Heads, Bodies, and Tails — Pictures to Order — Hieroglyphics, or Picture-Writing — Pictures and Titles
10. 10.WRITING GAMES
11. 11.WRITING GAMES — Simple Acrostics — Double Acrostics — Fives — Lists — Buried Names — Letters and Telegrams — Telegrams — Initials — Riddles — Rhymed Replies — Missing Information — Consequences — Consequences Extended — Composite Stories — Another Story Game — Improbable Stories — The Newspaper — Predicaments
12. 12.TABLE AND CARD GAMES
13. 13.TABLE AND CARD GAMES — Card Games and Others — Letter Games — Patience, or Thirteens — Snap — Grab — Snap Cards — Old Maid — Pig — Prophecies and Characteristics — The Old Maid's Birthday
14. 14.THINKING, GUESSING, AND ACTING GAMES
15. 15.THINKING, GUESSING, AND ACTING GAMES — The Ship Alphabet — I Love My Love — My Thought — P's and Q's — The Elements — Suggestions — Quotation Games — Two Rhyming Games — Telling Stories — Clumps — Other Yes and No Games — My Right-Hand Neighbor — How, When, and Where — Coffee-Pot — Throwing Light — Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral. — Proverbs — Shouting Proverbs — Acting Proverbs — Acting Initials — Acting Verbs, or Dumb Crambo — Guessing Employments — Stool of Repentance — Eyes — Making Obeisance — Mesmerism — Thought-Reading Tricks — To Guess Any Number Thought of — To Guess Any Even Number Thought of — To Guess the Result of a Sum — Guessing Competitions — Guessing Quantities — Observation — Scents — The Topsy-Turvy Concert — The Dancing Dwarf — Charades — Dumb Performances — Dressing Up — Tableaux Vivants — Remarks on Acting
16. 16.RAINY-DAY GAMES
17. 17.RAINY-DAY GAMES — Bean-Bags — Ring-Toss — Ring-the-Nail — Soap-Bubbles — Jack-Stones — Tying Knots — Illustrating — Shuffle-Board — Balancing Tricks — The Dancing Egg — The Dancing Pea — The Glass-Maker — Electricity
18. 18.OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS
19. 19.OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS — Battledore and Shuttlecock — Jumping Rope — Tom Tiddler's Ground — Old Stone — Hen and Chickens — Other Garden Games — Witches — The Ballad Game — Counting-Out Rhymes — Daisy Chains — Flower Show — Garden Shop — Flower Symbols — Summer Houses
20. 20.OUTDOOR GAMES FOR BOYS
21. 21.OUTDOOR GAMES FOR BOYS — Ball Games — Ball Games Alone — Races — Quoits — Duck on a Rock — Bowling — Hop-Scotch — Strength Tests — Hare and Hounds — Dog-Stick — Other Games — Marbles — Ring Taw — Other Games
22. 22.PICNIC GAMES
23. 23.PICNIC GAMES — It, Touch Last, or Tag — Touchwood — Cross Tag — The Little Dog — Hunt the Squirrel — Gaps — Twos and Threes, or Terza — Hide and Seek — I Spy — Chevy, or Prisoner's Base — French and English — Black Man — Stagarino — Red Rover — Hop, Step, and Jump — Follow-My-Leader
24. 24.OUT FOR A WALK
25. 25.OUT FOR A WALK — Roadside Whist — Counting Dogs — Guessing Horses' Tails — Shop-Windows — Making Sentences — Collecting Jones's — The Love Alphabet — The Cat Alphabet — Spelling — The Grand Mogul — Buz — Rhyming Lights — The Apprentice — Towns and Products — Other Games — Hoops — Two in Hoop Games — Hoop Posting
26. 26.IN THE TRAIN Or DURING A WAIT AT A RAILWAY STATION
27. 27.IN THE TRAIN Or DURING A WAIT AT A RAILWAY STATION — The Value of a Map — Railway Competitions — Railway Whist — Station Observation — Games With a Watch — Hot-Hand — Pencils and Paper — Noughts and Crosses or Tit-tat-toe — Paper French and English — "Letters" and Words — "Letters" With a Pencil — Hanging — Other Games — Food — Chinese Gambling
28. 28.PLAYING ALONE, AND GAMES IN BED
29. 29.PLAYING ALONE, AND GAMES IN BED — Bricks — Soldiers — Ninepins — Spanish Cup and Ball — Balancing — Bruce's Heart — The Hotel Camps — Block City — Story-Books — The Bed Boat — Thinking Games for Bed — Games by Rote — The Imaginary Family — Making Plans — For Getting to Sleep — Games for Convalescents — Bed Soldiers — China Animals
30. 30.AT THE SEASIDE
31. 31.AT THE SEASIDE — Low Tide — Paddling — A Cork Ship — Wet Clothes — Rocks — Sand Castles, and Other Sand Games — Seaweed — Shell Work — Good Seaside Friends
32. 32.IN THE COUNTRY
33. 33.IN THE COUNTRY — Making Friends — Exploration — Finding Hens' Eggs — Ducks' Eggs — Feeding the Chickens — The Dairy — Bee-Swarming — The Cows — Sheep — The Blacksmith — Birds'-Nesting — Blowing Eggs — Butterflies — Collecting Flowers — Nuts and Blackberries — Ponds and Sailing Boats — Little Boats on a Stream — A Stream's Fascination — Solitary Watchfulness — Mice and Moles — Snakes — Ants — Swallows and Hawks — Squirrels — A Country Diary — A Camera in the Country — Country Books
34. 34.DOLLS' HOUSES
35. 35.DOLLS' HOUSES — Dolls' Gardens — Garden Chairs and Tables — The House — Fireplaces — A Furnishing Game — Curtains — Floors — General Remarks on Furnishing — Beds — Bead Furniture — Pictures — Bookshelves and Books — Other Articles — The Inhabitants — Dressing Dolls — Dolls' Dinner Parties — Dolls' Flats — Smaller Dolls' Houses — Cork and Match-box Furniture — Materials — Chairs — Chestnut Chairs — Sofas — Tables — Foot-Stools — Standard Lamp — Bedroom Furniture—Materials — Beds — Dressing-Tables — Washstands — Wardrobes — Towel-Rack — Clothes-Basket
36. 36.DOLLS' HOUSES AND DOLLS OF CARDBOARD AND PAPER
37. 37.DOLLS' HOUSES AND DOLLS OF CARDBOARD AND PAPER — The Partition — The Chimney — The Garden — Another Way — "The House That Glue Built" — Paper Furniture — Glue and Adhesive Tape — Home-Made Compasses — Materials — Tracing — General Instructions — Paper Dolls — Making Paper Dolls — The Dresses — Other Paper Dolls — Walking Dolls — Tissue-Paper Dresses — Rows of Paper Dolls
38. 38.PLAYHOUSES OF OTHER PEOPLES
39. 39.PLAYHOUSES OF OTHER PEOPLES — A Pueblo Settlement — An Esquimau Village — A Filipino Village — A Dutch Street
40. 40.INDOOR OCCUPATIONS AND THINGS TO MAKE
41. 41.INDOOR OCCUPATIONS AND THINGS TO MAKE — Painting — Flags — Maps — Magic-Lantern Slides — Illuminating — Pen and Ink Work — Chalks — Tracing — Pricking Pictures — Easter Eggs — Spatter-Work — Scrapbooks — Scrapbooks for Hospitals — Composite Scrapbooks — Scrap-Covered Screens — Collecting Stamps — Postage-Stamp Snakes — Puzzles — Soap Bubbles — Shadows on the Wall — Skeleton Leaves — Ferns — Wool Balls — Wool Demons — Bead-Work — Post-Office — The Home Newspaper — Paper and Cardboard Toys—A Cocked Hat — Paper Boats — Paper Darts — Paper Mats — Paper Boxes — Cardboard Boxes — Scraps and Transfers — Ink Sea-Serpents — A Dancing Man — Velvet Animals — Hand Dragons — Other Uses for Cardboard — Cardboard Cut-Outs — Kites — Kite Messengers — A Simple Toy Boat — Walnut Shell Boats — Walnut Fights — Suckers — Skipjacks — A Water-Cutter — Whistles — Christmas—Evergreen Decorations — Paper Decorations — Mottoes — Christmas Trees. — Bran-Tubs or Jack Horner Pies — Philopenas — Cherry Contests
42. 42.CANDY-MAKING
43. 43.CANDY-MAKING — Utensils — General Directions — Barley Sugar — Chocolate Caramels — Cocoanut Cream — Cocoanut Cream ( another way ) — Cocoanut Drops — Cream Caramels — Fruit Cream — Pop-Corn — The Plainest Toffee — Another Toffee — Everton Toffee — Molasses Candy — Nut Candy — Nut Candy ( another way ) — Peppermint Candy — Stuffed Dates, etc.
44. 44.GARDENING
45. 45.GARDENING — Introductory — Color in the Garden — The Use of Catalogues — Gardening Diaries — Flower-Shows — Tools — Watering — Wall Pockets — Borders — Annuals — Preparations for Sowing — Thinning Out and Transplanting — Weeds and Seedlings — Autumn Sowing — Biennials — Saving Seed — Perennials — Planting Perennials — Slugs — Watering — Supports — Dividing — Perennials From Seed — Seedlings — Bulbs—General Remarks — Planting Bulbs — Cutting Leaves — Shades — Kitchen Gardens — Lettuce — Radishes — Mustard and Cress — Strawberries — Town Gardens — Flowers for Towns — Indoor Gardening and Window Boxes—Precautions — Watering — Flower-Pots — Indoor Plants — Bulbs in Glasses — Window Boxes — Flowers for Window-Boxes — Cutting Flowers and Packing Them—Flowers for Post — Picking Flowers — The Reception of Flowers
46. 46.PETS
47. 47.PETS — Dogs: Their Care and Food — Washing Dogs — Feeding Puppies — Distemper — Tricks for Dogs — What is Due to Dogs — Buying Dogs — The Bull-Terrier — The Fox-Terrier — The Irish Terrier — Other Terriers — Spaniels — The Retriever — Setters — The Collie — The Sheep Dog — The Newfoundland — The Mastiff — The Bull-Dog — The St. Bernard — The Great Dane — Hounds — Toy Dogs — The Pomeranian — Poodles — Mongrels — Cats — Wild Rabbits — Tame Rabbits — Rabbits' Hutches — Food and Exercise — Teaching Rabbits — Guinea-Pigs — Squirrels — Mice — Turtles — Fish — Silkworms — Other Caterpillars — Pigeons — Doves — Parrots — Smaller Cage Birds — Baths — Food — Tricks — Canaries — The Love-Birds — The Cardinal — Wax-Bills — Other Foreign Birds — The Chaffinch — The Goldfinch — The Bullfinch — The Yellow Bunting — The Blackbird — The Robin — Garden Robins — Birds in the Garden
48. 48.READING
49. 49.READING — Fairy Tales — Legendary Tales — Verse and Poetry — Books About Children — Boy and Schoolboy Stories — Adventure Stories — Historical Stories for Boys — Animal Books — History — Books of Travel — The Treatment of Library Books
50. 50.APPENDIX
51. 51.INDEX — A List of Standard Books for Children — Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company — Books For Older Children — Books For Children From Ten to Fifteen Years of Age — Books For Very Young Children — TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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