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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Games Without Music for Children + +Author: Lois Bates + +Release Date: August 23, 2011 [EBook #37165] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAMES WITHOUT MUSIC FOR CHILDREN *** + + + + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[i]</a></span></p> + + + +<h1>GAMES WITHOUT MUSIC</h1> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[ii]</a></span></p><div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> +<img src="images/i004.jpg" width="600" height="404" alt="Two children holding hands while the rest of the children act as the walls of the house" title="" /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_iii" id="Page_iii">[iii]</a></span></p> +<h1>GAMES WITHOUT MUSIC<br /> + +<span class='small'>FOR CHILDREN</span></h1> + +<div class='center'>BY<br /> + +<span class='author'>LOIS BATES</span><br /> + + +<span class='small'>AUTHOR OF 'KINDERGARTEN GUIDE' 'RECITATIONS FOR INFANTS'</span><br /> +<span class='small'>'GUESSING GAMES' 'SALTAIRE ACTION SONGS'</span><br /> +<span class='small'>'SALTAIRE KINDERGARTEN GAMES' ETC.</span><br /> +<br /><br /><br /><br /> +LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.<br /> +<span class='small'>39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON</span><br /> +<span class='small'>NEW YORK AND BOMBAY</span><br /> +1897<br /> +<br /> +<span class='small'>All rights reserved</span><br /></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_v" id="Page_v">[v]</a></span></p> + + + + +<h2>PREFACE</h2> + + +<div class='unindent'><span class="smcap">The</span> object of these Games is to introduce +variety when it is needed in the ordinary +school routine, and to form a means of recreation +to the children when unfavourable +weather makes the usual playtime impossible.</div> + +<p>Those of the Games referring to special +subjects, such as 'Sewing,' etc., may be +used in the lesson time devoted to such +subjects, and the 'Guessing Rhymes,' Nos. +<a href="#Game_51">51</a> to <a href="#Game_97">97</a>, may sometimes be given between +lessons. For notes on these, see <a href="#Page_87">p. 87</a>.</p> + +<p>'Games for the Playground' and a few +of those immediately preceding are old +games with new rhymes.</p> + +<p>It is hoped that some of the plays (Nos.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vi" id="Page_vi">[vi]</a></span> +<a href="#Game_12">12</a> to <a href="#Game_20">20</a>, <i>e.g.</i>) will help to teach the children +important truths that are difficult for them +to learn in the abstract, but which represented +and practised in childish play may +make an impression on their plastic little +minds. Many of the Games are suitable +for home use, and will probably be played +there by the children after being learnt in +school.</p> + +<p>If the Games help to make school brighter +and pleasanter for teacher and children their +object will be gained.</p> + +<div class='sig'> +<span class="smcap">Lois Bates.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Saltaire.</span></p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[vii]</a></span></p> + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + + + + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents"> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br />I. GAMES FOR THE SCHOOLROOM</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left' colspan='2'><span class='small'>NO. OF GAME</span></td><td align='left'><span class='small'>PAGE</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>1. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Laying the Breakfast-table</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>2. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Breakfast Party</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>3. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Clearing the Table</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>4. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Weighing</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>5. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Measuring Game</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_8">8</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>6. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Shopping</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>7. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Tying a Bow</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>8. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Thimble Game</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>9. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sewing Game</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>10. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Knitting Game</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>11. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Sign-post</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>12. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Asking Way in Street</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>13. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Politeness in Streets</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>14. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Dressing Children</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>15. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Father Bringing Presents</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_29">29</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>16. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Going Errands</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_32">32</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>17. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Taking Father's Tea</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>18. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Invitation to Play</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>19. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Invitation to Drive</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>20. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Getting Ready for Bed</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_40">40</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>21. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Washing One's Self</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_42">42</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_viii" id="Page_viii">[viii]</a></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>22. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Asking for Drink of Water</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_43">43</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>23. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Fox and the Tiger</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>24. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Coach Game</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>25. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Stable</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>26. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Visiting Grandmamma</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>27. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Paying Calls</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>28. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Afternoon Tea</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>29. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Spring Flowers</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>30. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Summer Flowers</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_57">57</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>31. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Three Bears</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_59">59</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>32. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Imitating Cries of Animals</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>33. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Charades</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_63">63</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>34. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Passing the Stick</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>35. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Finding the Thimble</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>36. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Throwing the Handkerchief</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>37. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Picking Up Potatoes</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br />II. GAMES FOR THE PLAYGROUND</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>38. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Throwing the Ball</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>39. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Lame Lassie</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>40. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Polly Flinders</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>41. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Drop, Drop, Drop</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>42. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Puss in the Corner</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>43. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wolf and Sheep</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>44. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Dancing Game</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_77">77</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>45. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Ducking Under</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_78">78</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>46. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Who'll Go a-Hunting?</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>47. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sheep Gathering</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>48. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hopping Game</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>49. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Making a Chain</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[ix]</a></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>50. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Mother, May We Go Out to Play?</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_84">84</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br />III. GUESSING RHYMES</td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br /><i>MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS</i>, pp. <a href="#Page_88">88</a>-<a href="#Page_91">91</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>51. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Pudding</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>52. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Watch</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>53. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Brush</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>54. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Arm-chair</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>55. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Pocket-handkerchief</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>56. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Window Blind</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>57. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Boat</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>58. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Steamer</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>59. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sail Boat</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>60. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Bellows</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>61. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Pipe</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br /><i>ANIMALS</i>, pp. <a href="#Page_91">91</a>-<a href="#Page_93">93</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>62. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Dog</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>63. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Stag</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>64. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Caterpillar</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>65. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Lambs</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>66. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Elephant's Trunk</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>67. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Squirrel</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br /><i>FLOWERS</i>, pp. <a href="#Page_93">93</a>, <a href="#Page_94">94</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>68. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Snow-drop</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>69. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Daisy</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>70. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wild Hyacinth</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>71. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Harebell</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>72. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wild Rose</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>73. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">May Blossom</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br /><i>NATURAL PHENOMENA</i>, pp. <a href="#Page_95">95</a>-<a href="#Page_98">98</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>74. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Spring</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>75. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Summer</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>76. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Autumn</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>77. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Winter</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>78. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The Four Seasons</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>79. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Clouds</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>80. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Hoar-frost</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>81. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Dew</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_x" id="Page_x">[x]</a></span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>82. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wind</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br /><i>NURSERY RHYMES</i>, pp. <a href="#Page_98">98</a>-<a href="#Page_100">100</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>83. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Little Boy Blue</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>84. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Jack and Jill</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>85. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>86. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Little Jack Horner</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>87. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Little Tom Tucker</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>88. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Little Bopeep</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>89. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Mother Hubbard</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>90. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Humpty Dumpty</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>91. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Little Miss Muffet</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='center' colspan='2'><br /><i>FAIRY TALES</i>, pp. <a href="#Page_100">100</a>-<a href="#Page_102">102</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>92. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Red Riding Hood</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>93. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Wolf</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>94. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Cinderella</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>95. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Sleeping Beauty</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>96. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Jack the Giant Killer</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>97. </td><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Dick Whittington</span></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> + + + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Illustrations"> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">The 'House'</span></td><td align='left'><i><a href="#Page_ii">Frontispiece</a></i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Fig. 1.—How to Tie a Bow</span></td><td align='right'><i>page</i> <a href="#Page_14">14</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Fig. 2.—The Sign-Post</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="smcap">Fig. 3.—Fox's Den</span></td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></span></p> +<h2>GAMES WITHOUT MUSIC<br /> +<span class='small'>FOR</span><br /> +CHILDREN</h2> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>I. GAMES FOR THE SCHOOLROOM</h2> + + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="Game_1" id="Game_1"></a>1. <i>LAYING THE BREAKFAST-TABLE</i></div> + +<div class='poem'> +1. <span class="smcap">Spread</span> the cloth—this is the way,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Cups and saucers, where are they?</span><br /> +<br /> +2. Put them at one end in rows,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">See, a spoon with each one goes.</span><br /> +<br /> +3. One plate for each person bring,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And a napkin in a ring.</span><br /> +<br /> +4. Here's a jug of milk so hot,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Sugar next, and coffee-pot.</span><br /> +<br /> +5. Bread and butter place we here,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Then we get the chairs, my dear.</span><br /> +<br /> +6. Ring the bell, and all sit round,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Each should in his place be found.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p><i>Directions.</i>—The table may be laid by +two children only, or several may be employed, +but different children should take +part each time the game is played, so that +all may learn how to carry the cups, &c., +and how to place them.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 1.</i> Two little girls step forward and +lay the cloth.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 2.</i> The cups and saucers are +brought on a tray, and placed in rows at one +end of the table.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 3.</i> One child brings plates on a +tray and places them one by one round the +table, while another follows with serviettes +on a small tray, and places one to the right +of each plate.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 4.</i> The sugar, milk, &c., are placed +in position.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 5.</i> One or two plates of bread and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></span> +butter are put on the table, and then the +chairs are placed ready.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 6.</i> The bell is rung, and the children +who are to sit at table take their +places.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />2. <i>THE BREAKFAST PARTY</i></div> + +<p>This game may be played immediately +after the one preceding, or it may be used +alone. The children seat themselves at the +table, the 'Mother' sitting at one end and +the 'Father' at the other. When all the +cups are filled and passed, the following +lines are repeated:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +1. <a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>Little hands are folded while the grace is said,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">'Father, God, we thank Thee for our daily bread.'</span><br /> +<br /> +2. <a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>Let us stir our coffee, softly, gently, so,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>Then the spoon in saucer quietly must go.</span><br /> +<br /> +3. When you eat and drink, dears, do not make a noise,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>Pass things to each other, little girls and boys.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">[If there is a piano in school, a little music</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4.5em;">might be played while breakfast is in progress.]</span><br /> +<br /> +4. When we finish breakfast, <a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>hands in lap lay we,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Elbows on the table, that should never be!</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Fold hands and bow head.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Stir coffee.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Place spoon in saucer.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Pass bread and butter to each other.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Fold hands in lap.</p></div> + +<p>(For Dinner and Tea Table songs, see <a href="#Appendix_I">Appendix I</a>.)</p> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />3. <i>CLEARING THE TABLE</i><br /> + +(For directions as to laying the table, see +game <a href="#Game_1">No. 1</a>.)</div> + +<div class='poem'> +1. Breakfast over, off we go,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">To remove the cloth, you know.</span><br /> +<br /> +2. Put the napkins on the tray,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And the plates, too, take away.</span><br /> +<br /> +3. Cups and saucers next we take,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Carefully, lest them we break.</span><br /> +<br /> +4. Bring the milk and sugar here,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Soon the table will be clear.</span><br /> +<br /> +5. Shake the cloth and fold it straight,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Then we'll wash each cup and plate.<a name="FNanchor_A_6" id="FNanchor_A_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_6" class="fnanchor">[A]</a></span><br /> +</div> + +<p><i>Instructions.</i>—<i>Verse 1.</i> Children rise +from table, and each carries chair to the +place where it should go.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 2.</i> A child brings a little tray, and, +walking round the table, takes up all the +napkins, putting them on the tray one by +one. A second child follows with another +tray, and takes up the plates in the same +manner.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 3.</i> Two children remove the cups +and saucers, each having a tray.</p> + +<p><i>Verse 4.</i> The coffee-pot, milk-jug, and +sugar-basin are taken away on a tray.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a></span></p> + +<p><i>Verse 5.</i> The cloth should be taken off +carefully, so that the crumbs are not spilt, +or if a toy crumb brush and tray can be +obtained, the crumbs may be removed before +the cloth is taken up.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_6" id="Footnote_A_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_6"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> For song 'Washing Dishes,' see<a href="#Appendix_I"> Appendix I</a>.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />4. <i>WEIGHING</i></div> + +<p>Scales and weights are required for this +game.</p> + +<p>Before commencing let the children see +the different weights, and hold them one +after the other in their hands.</p> + +<p>The following rhymes may assist the +scholars to remember the various weights:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +1. First comes the <a name="FNanchor_1_7" id="FNanchor_1_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_7" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>ounce weight, small and round,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Sixteen of these do make a <a name="FNanchor_2_8" id="FNanchor_2_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_8" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>pound.</span><br /> +<br /> +2. Four ounces <a name="FNanchor_3_9" id="FNanchor_3_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_9" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>quarter-pound will be;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;"><a name="FNanchor_4_10" id="FNanchor_4_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_10" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>Half-pound has eight ounces, you see.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_7" id="Footnote_1_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_7"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Show ounce weight.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_8" id="Footnote_2_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_8"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Show pound weight.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_9" id="Footnote_3_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_9"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Show the quarter-pound.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_10" id="Footnote_4_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_10"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Show half-pound.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a></span></p></div> +</div> +<p>The four weights given above will be +sufficient at first for little children, but more +may be added as they become familiar with +these. When the scholars have learnt to +distinguish the pound, ounce, &c., they may +come out in turn and weigh various objects.</p> + +<p>It would be well to explain that solid +objects occupy less room than lighter substances—that +a pound of feathers, <i>e.g.</i>, +would take up a large space, while a pound +of lead would go into a very small compass.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Guessing Game.</span>—When the object to +be weighed has been chosen, a number of +children are allowed to come out and hold +it in turn, and say what they think is its +weight. As the object is handed to the first +child, the teacher says:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Can you tell the weight of this?<br /> +Mind you do not guess amiss.<br /> +</div> + +<p>Each child takes the object in its hand +and guesses. The article is then weighed, +and the child who has guessed most nearly +its correct weight is allowed to choose the +next object for weighing, and to call out the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></span> +children who are to guess. He hands it to +the first child, repeating the words of the +rhyme.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />5. <i>MEASURING GAME</i></div> + +<p>Before playing this game, the children +should be well accustomed to the use of the +foot-rule, marked with inches (cost, &c.<a name="FNanchor_1_11" id="FNanchor_1_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_11" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>). +Each child should have a foot-rule and +measure its book, pencil, desk, &c.; it should +also be taught to draw lines of different +lengths with the rule on its slate; thus, +teacher might say, 'Draw a standing-up +(vertical) line six inches long,' or, 'Draw a +lying-down (horizontal) line four inches +long,' and so on. The children will thus +get accustomed to estimating the length +and breadth of objects, and will be able to +play the game.</p> + +<p>Suppose the slate to be the object chosen,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></span> +the teacher holds it up so that all may see +it, and then repeats the lines:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Think it over carefully,<br /> +And tell me what the length may be<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Of this slate.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>The children who are ready to answer +then put their hands out, and the one who +guesses correctly (or most nearly correctly) +has the privilege of asking the next question, +and stands in front of the class in readiness. +Before proceeding, however, the first object +should be measured, so that all may see +that the answer was correct.</p> + +<p>Perhaps the pencil may be the next +object chosen, or a window-pane, ball-frame, +desk, duster, book, &c., and instead of <i>length</i>, +we may have <i>breadth</i>. The words would +then be:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Think it over carefully,<br /> +And tell me what the <i>breadth</i> may be<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">Of this window-pane.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>The children should be taught to listen +attentively, so that they may know whether<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a></span> +length or breadth is to be guessed; the +meaning of the two terms should, of course, +be explained previously.</p> + +<p>If circular objects are chosen for +measurement, the word 'girth' must be +substituted for 'length.' This form of +object should only be used for the older +children, as it is much more difficult. To +measure a circular object, a string should be +passed round it, and the string should then +be measured with the foot-rule.</p> + +<p>Sometimes the word <i>height</i> may be substituted, +as, for instance, in measuring the +height of a plant or a child. The children +will enjoy the latter very much.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<i>Twelve</i> inches make a foot,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And <i>nine</i> a quarter-yard,</span><br /> +The half-yard <i>eighteen</i> inches takes,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To learn this is not hard.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_11" id="Footnote_1_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_11"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> <a href="#Appendix_II">Appendix II</a>.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />6. <i>SHOPPING</i></div> + +<p>The shopman should stand behind a +table or desk, and have articles made up in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></span> +parcels ready for sale. 'The Shop' described +in 'Kindergarten Guide,' p. 230,<a name="FNanchor_1_12" id="FNanchor_1_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_12" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> +would do nicely for this game.</p> + +<p>The children who go shopping should be +dressed in outdoor costume, and each carry +a basket. They should also have money; +imitation cardboard coins (for cost<a name="FNanchor_2_13" id="FNanchor_2_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_13" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>) would +do. (Customer walks up to the counter.)</p> + +<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">Shopman</span></div> + +<p>Good morning, ma'am, how do you do? +And pray what can I get for you?</p> + +<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">Customer</span></div> + +<div class='poem'> +Good morning, shopman, will you please<br /> +To weigh for me a pound of cheese?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">[The packet is handed to customer.]</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">Customer</span></div> + +<div class='poem'> +Here is a shilling [<i>handing it</i>], eightpence take,<br /> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><span class="smcap">Shopman</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a></span></div> + +<div class='poem'> +And fourpence change [<i>giving fourpence to customer</i>] just twelvepence make.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The children should also ask for other +articles, without using the rhymes, and they +should be encouraged to speak clearly and +distinctly, and to address the shopman +civilly. This will be likely to assist them in +going errands for mother.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_12" id="Footnote_1_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_12"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> See <a href="#Appendix_III">Appendix III</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_13" id="Footnote_2_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_13"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> See <a href="#Appendix_IV">Appendix IV</a>.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />7. <i>TYING A BOW</i></div> + +<p><i>Instructions.</i>—The children should be +sitting at desks or tables, and each child +should have a ¾ yard length of tape or +ribbon, one inch in width, and a book with +stiff cover. The teacher should first show +how to tie the bow by passing her ribbon +round the neck or wrist of a child, and +performing the various movements as they +are mentioned in the rhymes and shown in +the illustrations. This should be done<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a></span> +several times very slowly, the words being +repeated either by teacher only or by all. +When the children begin to tie the ribbon +each round its own book, the teacher should +show the various movements as they occur, +performing them simultaneously with the +scholars. (The numbers refer to fig. 1, +which shows the various steps in order.)</p> + +<div class='poem'> +[1]Place your ribbon round the book,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">[2]Cross it—left end at the top;</span><br /> +[3]Now the right end take and pass<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Over, [4]draw it tight, then stop.</span><br /> +<br /> +[5]With the right end make a loop.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">[6]Draw the left across it, so;</span><br /> +[7]Now another loop we make<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">With the left, and [8]pull it through.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>'Tying a Knot' (which is more simple than 'Tying +a Bow') is given in the 'Kindergarten Guide,' p. 105.<a name="FNanchor_A_14" id="FNanchor_A_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_14" class="fnanchor">[A]</a></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14"></a> +<img src="images/i026.jpg" width="600" height="407" alt="photograph of the steps to tie a knot" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTE:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_14" id="Footnote_A_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_14"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> <a href="#Appendix_III">Appendix III</a>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a></span></p></div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="Game_8" id="Game_8"></a>8. <i>THIMBLE GAME</i></div> + +<p>Each child should have a thimble, and +the teacher should have one also. A short +conversation about the thimble should precede +the game—how it is smooth inside and +rough outside. What makes it rough? +What are the little holes for? Which is +the rim? &c.</p> + +<p>(The teacher, if facing the children, +should use the left hand for right.)</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<a name="FNanchor_1_15" id="FNanchor_1_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_15" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>Pretty little thimble,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><a name="FNanchor_2_16" id="FNanchor_2_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_16" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>In your cradle go,</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_3_17" id="FNanchor_3_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_17" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>I will rock you gently,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Gently to and fro.</span><br /> +<br /> +Now I <a name="FNanchor_4_18" id="FNanchor_4_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_18" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>toss and <a name="FNanchor_5_18" id="FNanchor_5_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_18" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>catch you,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><a name="FNanchor_6_18" id="FNanchor_6_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_18" class="fnanchor">[6]</a>Up and down and <a name="FNanchor_7_18" id="FNanchor_7_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_18" class="fnanchor">[7]</a>up;</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_8_19" id="FNanchor_8_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_19" class="fnanchor">[8]</a>Next I hold my thimble<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Like a little cup.</span><br /> +<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_9_20" id="FNanchor_9_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_20" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>On the right thumb place it,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is that right? <a name="FNanchor_10_21" id="FNanchor_10_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_21" class="fnanchor">[10]</a>oh, no!</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_11_22" id="FNanchor_11_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_22" class="fnanchor">[11]</a>On your longest finger<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><a name="FNanchor_12_23" id="FNanchor_12_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_23" class="fnanchor">[12]</a>Should the thimble go.</span><br /> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_15" id="Footnote_1_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_15"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Hold thimble up between thumb and forefinger +of right hand.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_16" id="Footnote_2_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_16"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Put thimble in left hand, which should be held +palm upward and bent to form a cradle.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_17" id="Footnote_3_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_17"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Sway left hand from left to right.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_18" id="Footnote_4_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_18"><span class="label">[4]</span></a>, + <a name="Footnote_5_18" id="Footnote_5_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_18"><span class="label">[5]</span></a>, + <a name="Footnote_6_18" id="Footnote_6_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_18"><span class="label">[6]</span></a>, + <a name="Footnote_7_18" id="Footnote_7_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_18"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> Toss thimble and catch it.</p></div> + + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_19" id="Footnote_8_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_19"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> Hold thimble, rim upwards, between thumb and +forefinger of left hand.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_20" id="Footnote_9_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_20"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> Place thimble on right thumb.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_21" id="Footnote_10_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_21"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> Take thimble off.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_22" id="Footnote_11_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_22"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> Hold up middle finger of right hand.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_23" id="Footnote_12_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_23"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> Place thimble on proper finger.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />9. <i>SEWING GAME</i></div> + +<p>(N.B. In this game, as in <a href="#Game_8">No. 8</a>, the +teacher, as she faces the scholars, should +use her <i>left</i> hand each time the children +use the right.)</p> + +<p>If the children have been taught the use +of the thimble (Game <a href="#Game_8">No. 8</a>), they should +wear it during this game.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a></span></p> + +<div class='center'><span class="smcap">Teacher</span></div> + +<div class='poem'> +Little children, clean and bright,<br /> +Show your <a name="FNanchor_1_24" id="FNanchor_1_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_24" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>left hand, show your <a name="FNanchor_2_25" id="FNanchor_2_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_25" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>right,<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_3_26" id="FNanchor_3_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_26" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>Left forefinger, that will do,<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_4_27" id="FNanchor_4_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_27" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>Place your sewing round it, so.<br /> +<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_5_28" id="FNanchor_5_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_28" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>Needle in your right hand hold,<br /> +All should do just what is told;<br /> +When the number <i>One</i> I call,<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_6_29" id="FNanchor_6_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_29" class="fnanchor">[6]</a>Take a stitch, dear children all.<br /> +<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_7_30" id="FNanchor_7_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_30" class="fnanchor">[7]</a><i>Two</i>, we show the stitch so neat,<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_8_31" id="FNanchor_8_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_31" class="fnanchor">[8]</a>Just to see it is a treat.<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_9_32" id="FNanchor_9_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_32" class="fnanchor">[9]</a><i>Three</i>, we push the needle's eye<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a></span>With our thimble carefully.<br /> +<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_10_33" id="FNanchor_10_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_33" class="fnanchor">[10]</a><i>Four</i>, we draw the needle out,<br /> +Minding well what we're about.<br /> +Thread from needle need not slip,<br /> +If a good look-out we keep.<br /> +</div> + +<p>After practising this game several times, +the children will be ready for the sewing +drill given on p. 270, 'Kindergarten Guide.'</p> + + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_24" id="Footnote_1_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_24"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Hold left hand up.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_25" id="Footnote_2_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_25"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Hold right hand up.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_26" id="Footnote_3_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_26"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Hold up forefinger of left hand vertically.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_27" id="Footnote_4_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_27"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Hem of pinafore or pocket handkerchief to be +placed round left forefinger.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_28" id="Footnote_5_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_28"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Hold up right hand with thumb and forefinger in +position as if holding needle.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_29" id="Footnote_6_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_29"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Pretend to take a stitch.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_30" id="Footnote_7_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_30"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> Hold up sewing with both hands.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_31" id="Footnote_8_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_31"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> Hem in position (see No. 4).</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_32" id="Footnote_9_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_32"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> Pretend to push needle (which is supposed to be +in the hem) with thimble.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_33" id="Footnote_10_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_33"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> Pretend to draw needle out.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />10. <i>KNITTING GAME</i></div> + +<p>Each child should have a pair of knitting-pins +(<a name="FNanchor_A_34" id="FNanchor_A_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_34" class="fnanchor">[A]</a>wooden ones are the best for +learning), and the teacher should have a +pair also. As the teacher stands facing the +children, her <i>left</i> hand is opposite to their +<i>right</i>, and she should, consequently, use her +<i>left</i> needle to take the stitch, &c., otherwise +the children will be confused.</p> + +<div class='center'><span class="smcap">Teacher</span></div> + +<div class='poem'> +I will teach you how to knit,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">If you listen, dears, to me;</span><br /> +And I'm sure you will admit<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">It is easy as can be.</span><br /> +<br /> +Put the pins all ready,<a name="FNanchor_1_35" id="FNanchor_1_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_35" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> so,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Hold one firmly with each hand;</span><br /> +Then the knitting drill I give<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">You must try to understand.</span><br /> +<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_2_36" id="FNanchor_2_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_36" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>Take a stitch at number <i>One</i>,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And when I say, 'Number <i>Two</i>,'</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_3_37" id="FNanchor_3_37"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_37" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>Hold the wool in your right hand,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And then throw it over, so.</span><br /> +<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_4_38" id="FNanchor_4_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_38" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>Now the pin that's underneath<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">To the top must come at <i>Three</i>,</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_5_39" id="FNanchor_5_39"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_39" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>Slip the loop at number <i>Four</i><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">From the left pin carefully.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>When the above game has been repeated +several times, the children will be ready for +the Knitting Drill given on p. 274 of 'Kindergarten +Guide.'</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_34" id="Footnote_A_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_34"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> <a href="#Appendix_V">Appendix V</a>.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_35" id="Footnote_1_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_35"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Teacher puts her pins in position.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_36" id="Footnote_2_36"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_36"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Put end of <i>right</i> pin under end of left.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_37" id="Footnote_3_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_37"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Pretend to put wool round end of right-hand pin +as in actual knitting.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_38" id="Footnote_4_38"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_38"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Bring right-hand pin to the top.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_39" id="Footnote_5_39"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_39"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Slide the right pin off the left.</p></div> +</div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 399px;"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22"></a> +<img src="images/i034.jpg" width="399" height="600" alt="Fig. 2.—the sign-post" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 2.—<span class='smcap'>the sign-post</span></span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />11. <i>THE SIGN-POST</i></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> +<img src="images/i035.png" width="200" height="156" alt="Crossroads" title="" /> +</div> + +<p><i>Directions.</i>—The children make roads by +standing in lines (see diagram). Four +children should stand at the place marked +× (see fig. 2), one child facing each road, +and holding in its two hands a good-sized +strip of cardboard, with the name of a town +or village to which the road is supposed to +lead printed thereon. It would be well to +use the names of places in the district with +which the children are familiar. Some of +the children must be little travellers, and +come walking up the different roads until<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></span> +they reach the sign-post, then all repeat the +lines:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +The little travellers do not know<br /> +Which way to go, which way to go,<br /> +But here's a sign-post that will tell;<br /> +Ah! now they know the way quite well.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The travellers should be told the names +on the sign-post before starting, and each +should choose the place to which he will +journey. After the lines are repeated, each +traveller takes the road that leads to his +destination.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="Game_12" id="Game_12"></a>12. <i>ASKING WAY IN STREET</i></div> + +<p><i>Preliminary.</i>—One of her Majesty's +inspectors remarked on one occasion that +he could judge of the intelligence and +manners of a school by the way in which its +scholars playing in the street would reply if +asked a question as to the whereabouts of +any particular place in the locality.</p> + +<p>It is doubtless desirable that children<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></span> +should know something of the streets and +roads of the district in which they live, and +if they have clear ideas as to the meaning +of 'right' and 'left,' the following game +should help them in describing the position +of places.</p> + +<p>The streets may be made by the children +themselves standing in rows, as in the +preceding game; or if the space available +be small, the children may stand round the +room, while the plan of the streets is chalked +on the floor. There should be one central +street, with others branching out of it right +and left, and each should be named. It +may be possible to arrange and name the +streets of some district with which the +children are familiar. The name of each +should be written on a card and placed at +the end of the street. The accompanying +diagram will illustrate the playing of the +game. We will suppose that a little girl +comes walking up Victoria Road, and at the +point × meets a gentleman (a little boy), +who asks, 'Can you please direct me to +Queen Street?' 'Yes,' she replies, 'it is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></span> +the second turning on the left.' The place +of meeting may be varied, and the children +will then see that the terms 'right' and +'left' are interchangeable, according to the +direction in which we are walking. In the +following instance, <i>e.g.</i> Queen Street is on +the <i>right</i> instead of left. More difficult +questions may be asked as the children get +to understand better, such as, 'Which is the +way to Alexandra Road?' (starting from *). +'Take the second turning to the right, then +turn to left, and it is the first street on the +right.'</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;"> +<img src="images/i038.png" width="225" height="249" alt="Neighborhood" title="" /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />13. <i>POLITENESS IN STREETS</i></div> + +<p>The streets (<a href="#Page_26">p. 26</a>) of Game No. 12 may +be utilised for this game. The children +should have on their hats and caps, and +walk along the streets. The game is intended +to teach them how to behave when walking; +they should keep to the right, not speak +loudly, and the boys should raise their caps +when they meet anyone who acknowledges +them.</p> + +<p>When the game is fairly started, the +two verses which follow may be repeated by +all the children:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Keep always to the right<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When in the street you walk,</span><br /> +And please remember this—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Do not too loudly talk.</span><br /> +<br /> +We must not stare at folks,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or turn to look behind;</span><br /> +Be kind, but never rude—<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">A good rule you will find.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>A little girl who is walking drops her<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></span> +handkerchief; then, after going a few yards +further, stops and says:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Where is my handkerchief? oh dear!<br /> +I must have dropped it somewhere near.<br /> +</div> + +<p>A boy who has picked it up advances +and offers it to the lady, at the same time +raising his cap, and the lady says 'Thank +you.' The game may be continued at the +teacher's discretion, and the verses again +repeated.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />14. <i>DRESSING CHILDREN</i></div> + +<p>About a dozen of the older children stand +in the centre of the room, and a number of +the little ones come in with coat and hat +in hand. The older children repeat the +verse:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Ready for the babies stand,<br /> +See they come with hat in hand.<br /> +Bigger children always should<br /> +To little ones be kind and good.<br /> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[29]</a></span>The younger children then advance, and +the others proceed with the dressing. First +the coat is put on and carefully buttoned, +then the hats or hoods are tied on, and the +little child says 'Thank you.'</p> + +<p>This game should be played just before +the children are dismissed, or before playtime.</p> + +<p>N.B.—How to tie a bow may be learnt +from Game No. 7, <a href="#Page_12">p. 12</a>.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="Game_15" id="Game_15"></a>15. <i>FATHER BRINGING PRESENTS</i></div> + +<p><i>Object of Game.</i>—Anyone who has +observed children cannot fail to have +noticed how very often they have to be +<i>prompted</i> to express their thanks for kindnesses +received. It is hoped that this little +game may be of use in impressing the lesson, +so often reiterated by parents and others.</p> + +<p>A 'house' is formed by a ring of children +(see <a href="#Page_ii">Frontispiece</a>, and description of same +on p. <a href="#Page_31">31</a>). There should be three children +in the ring to represent 'John,' 'Maud,'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[30]</a></span> +and the 'Baby,' also an older girl for the +'Mother.' The 'Father' is supposed to be +away on a journey, and preparations are +being made for his return. The 'Mother' +and 'Maud' lay the table for tea (see Game +No. 1, which is similar), and the other two +children may be looking at a picture-book +or watching for Father's return at the door +or window. When he arrives, each member +of the family greets him; one takes his +hat, another his bag, and a chair is placed +for him at the table. Then the children take +their places, and the Mother pours the tea.</p> + +<p>After the meal is finished, the Father +opens his portmanteau, and looking into it, +says:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +A ball for baby should be here,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;">[Takes out the ball and gives it.]</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Baby</span></span><br /> +Oh, thank you, thank you, Father dear.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">Father</span></span><br /> +A skipping-rope for Maud is this,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[31]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 6em;">[Presents it to Maud.]</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Maud</span></span><br /> +I thank you, Father, with a kiss.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">[Kisses Father.]</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">Father</span></span><br /> +This cricket-ball for John will do.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">[Hands John the ball.]</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">John</span></span><br /> +Thank you, Papa, 'tis kind of you.<br /> +</div> + +<p><i>Frontispiece.</i>—Twenty or thirty children +might very well combine to make the 'house,' +instead of ten as shown here. The two girls +who cross hands form the 'door.' The boy +on the left of the door grasps the girdle of +the girl with his right hand, while the boy +on the right places his left hand on the girl's +shoulder to make the 'latch.' To open the +'door' we lift the 'latch,' and then push the +girl on the right gently inside the ring, the +girl on the left moving with her.</p> + +<p>To <i>knock</i> at the 'door' we rap on the +floor.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[32]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />16. <i>GOING ERRANDS</i></div> + +<p>The children join hands and stand +round to form a 'house' and 'garden' (see +diagram). A space is left for the gateway +of the 'garden.' For 'door' of house see +Frontispiece.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;"> +<img src="images/i044.png" width="225" height="326" alt="House and garden diagram" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>In the 'house' stands one of the bigger +girls to represent the 'mother,' and there +should also be a little chair, and a doll's +cradle with a doll in it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></span></p> + +<p>In the 'garden' eight or ten children are +engaged in playing a game. ('Drop, Drop, +Drop,' No. 41, p. <a href="#Page_74">74</a>, would do nicely.) One +of the girls must represent 'Nellie,' and one +of the boys 'Johnnie.' As the game +proceeds, the 'mother' comes to the door +and calls:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +'Nellie, Nellie!'<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">[Nellie at once answers:</span><br /> +'Yes, mother.'<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">[Leaves game immediately and runs to mother.]</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Mother</span></span><br /> +Baby cries, just soothe her, Nell.<br /> +Rock the cradle; that is well.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">[Nellie sits down and rocks the cradle.]</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>The game proceeds for a little while, and +then the 'mother' calls again:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +'Johnnie!' [<i>Children say</i>], 'Mother calls you, see.'<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">[Johnnie runs quickly to the 'mother.']</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Mother</span></span><br /> +Go round to the shop for me.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;">[Gives him money and a basket.]</span><br /> +</div> <p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a></span></p> + +<p>Johnnie may go outside the room and +come back again, or the game 'Shopping' +(No. 6, <a href="#Page_10">p. 10</a>) may be played, having been +previously prepared in another part of the +room, and Johnnie may go to the shop for +what his mother requires. When he has +returned, all the children say:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Little children, always run<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">When your mother's voice is heard,</span><br /> +Leave your play whene'er she calls<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Quickly mind her every word.</span><br /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br />17. <i>TAKING FATHER'S TEA</i></div> + +<p>A classroom may be used for the 'house' +and another for the 'workshop,' or they +may both be made by rings of children (see +Frontispiece, and description of same on +<a href="#Page_31">p. 31</a>). Between the 'house' and the +'workshop' there should be a 'street' (see +Game No. 12, <a href="#Page_24">p. 24</a>). In the workshop +there should be 'joiners' planing, hammering, +sawing, &c. (a set of toy tools might be<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a></span> +used for this), and in the 'house' a little +girl should represent the 'mother.'</p> + +<p>Two children come walking quickly +down the 'street' towards the 'house,' +saying:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Straight away from school we go,<br /> +To take our father's tea, you know.<br /> +</div> + +<p>They enter the 'house,' and the 'mother' +gives a jug to one and a basket to the other, +and says:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +With care the jug of tea you'll hold,<br /> +And make good haste lest it get cold.<br /> +</div> + +<p>Children reply:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Oh yes, dear mother, all you say<br /> +We'll mind right well—and now, away.<br /> +</div> + +<p>They walk up the 'street' to the 'workshop,' +and the 'father'—a joiner with +sleeves rolled up—comes to the door.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Father</span></span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a></span>Ah! my children, here you come,<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><span class="smcap">Children</span></span><br /> +Yes, we've brought your tea from home.<br /> +</div> + +<p>Father takes the jug and basket, saying:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Thank you, now run home and play;<br /> +I am working late to-day.<br /> +</div> + +<p>Children say 'Good-bye,' and run off.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><i>INVITATIONS</i></div> + +<p><i>Preliminary.</i>—Children should be taught +to express thanks not only for tangible +presents, as in Game No. <a href="#Game_15">15</a>, but also for +kindness or favours received. The two games +which follow are intended to teach this.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />18. <i>INVITATION TO PLAY</i></div> + +<p>A house with garden is needed; to make +this the children join hands and stand as +shown in diagram, <a href="#Page_32">p. 32</a>. In the 'house'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a></span> +there should be a 'mother,' and in the +'garden' a number of children playing with +ball or skipping-rope. A smaller 'house' is +required at some distance from the first. +In this, also, there should be a 'mother'—(Mrs. +Day), and a little girl—(Nell). A +classroom may be used for this 'house' if +more convenient.</p> + +<p>As the play proceeds the 'mother' comes +to the 'door' to watch the children's game. +Presently one of them—a boy—runs up to +her and says:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Mamma, please, may we ask Nell Day<br /> +To come and have a game of play?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">[The other children come and cluster round.]</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Mother</span></span><br /> +Oh, yes! I will a message send—<br /> +An invitation for your friend.<br /> +Just go and ask if Mrs. Day<br /> +Can spare Nellie to come all day.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">All the Children</span></span><br /> +Thank you, mother.<br /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a></span></p> + +<p>The boy runs off to Mrs. Day's house +and knocks. Mrs. Day answers the door.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;"><span class="smcap">Child</span></span><br /> +Please, Mrs. Day, may Nellie come<br /> +To play all day with us at home?<br /> +</div> + +<p>If Mrs. Day says 'Yes,' Nell should +reply, 'Thank you, mother,' and Mrs. Day +should also send a message of thanks to the +boy's mother. When Nell is ready, they +run off hand in hand.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />19. <i>INVITATION TO DRIVE</i></div> + +<p>The house and garden described in +Game No. 16, p. <a href="#Page_32">32</a>, will do quite well for +this also, but the children are to be at work +instead of play. One child may be fetching +water, another minding the baby, and +another watering the garden or going +errands. A gentleman (boy) comes to the +garden-gate (a space is left for the gateway), +with 'carriage' and 'horses'; the 'carriage'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></span> +is made in the same way as the 'coach' +(Game No. 24, <a href="#Page_48">p. 48</a>), and has two horses +instead of four. Gentleman walks through +the 'garden,' knocks at the door, and says:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Good morning, madam; if I may,<br /> +I'll drive your children out to-day.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Mother</span></span><br /> +<br /> +I thank you, sir [<i>beckons children to her</i>]; come children! [<i>children run to her</i>].<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><span class="smcap">Gentleman</span></span><br /> +Such busy, happy children, they<br /> +Shall drive with me far, far away.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5.5em;"><span class="smcap">Children</span></span><br /> +Oh, thank you, sir, 'twill pleasant be<br /> +To ride with you nice things to see.<br /> +</div> + +<p>Children enter carriage, waving hands to +'mother,' and saying:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Good-bye, dear mother, off we go,<br /> +The horses gallop fast, we know.<br /> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="Game_20" id="Game_20"></a>20. <i>GETTING READY FOR BED</i></div> + +<p>This game may be used for a class of +children, or for a few only. In the former +case, the majority of the scholars would, of +course, be lookers-on.</p> + +<p>Half a dozen boys and girls should be +playing in different parts of the room; one +might be drawing, another building, and a +third looking at a picture-book; or they +might all be joining to play a game together. +A big girl or the teacher represents the elder +sister, who repeats (or sings to the tune of +'The Campbells are Coming') the four lines +following:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Come, children, get ready for bed, bed, bed,<br /> +And sister must wash you, as mother said,<br /> +The hands and the faces will all be clean,<br /> +Such nice, happy children, shall ne'er be seen.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The children instantly put toys and +books away in their proper places, and +reply:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></span></p> + +<div class='poem'> +Some folks they do cry, when they're washed, oh dear! dear!<br /> +Pray where do they live? We do not want them here.<br /> +Merry, happy little children, come and get well scrubbed,<br /> +But do not cry when you are washed and rubbed.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The 'sister' pretends to wash all the +children; then they say:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Some folks they do cry when they're told, 'Time for bed,'<br /> +Some folks pout and say, 'Oh! let me play instead.'<br /> +Merry, happy little children, laughing go away,<br /> +Good-night, good-night, we'll play another day.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The children go out of the room kissing +hands to those who are left, or to the elder +'sister.'<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />21. <i>WASHING ONE'S SELF</i></div> + +<p>The teacher may repeat the lines, +accompanying them with the actions, which +the children imitate, or the children may +learn and repeat the words themselves.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<a name="FNanchor_1_40" id="FNanchor_1_40"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_40" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>Wash your hands, dear children all,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><a name="FNanchor_2_41" id="FNanchor_2_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_41" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>Palms we rub and <a name="FNanchor_3_42" id="FNanchor_3_42"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_42" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>backs as well,</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_4_43" id="FNanchor_4_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_43" class="fnanchor">[4]</a>Round the wrist we leave no mark,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;">Else a sad tale that would tell;</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_5_44" id="FNanchor_5_44"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_44" class="fnanchor">[5]</a>Rub the knuckles, <a name="FNanchor_6_45" id="FNanchor_6_45"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_45" class="fnanchor">[6]</a>brush nails, too,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Clean, bright<a name="FNanchor_7_46" id="FNanchor_7_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_46" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> hands nice work can do.</span><br /> +<br /> +Now 'tis time to <a name="FNanchor_8_47" id="FNanchor_8_47"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_47" class="fnanchor">[8]</a>wash your face,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;"><a name="FNanchor_9_48" id="FNanchor_9_48"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_48" class="fnanchor">[9]</a>Soap your hands, and <a name="FNanchor_10_49" id="FNanchor_10_49"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_49" class="fnanchor">[10]</a>rub away,</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_11_50" id="FNanchor_11_50"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_50" class="fnanchor">[11]</a>Gently round the ears we go,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><a name="FNanchor_12_51" id="FNanchor_12_51"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_51" class="fnanchor">[12]</a>Don't forget your eyes, I say;</span><br /> +<a name="FNanchor_13_52" id="FNanchor_13_52"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_52" class="fnanchor">[13]</a>Nose, and <a name="FNanchor_14_53" id="FNanchor_14_53"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_53" class="fnanchor">[14]</a>mouth, and <a name="FNanchor_15_54" id="FNanchor_15_54"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_54" class="fnanchor">[15]</a>forehead high,<br /> +<a name="FNanchor_16_55" id="FNanchor_16_55"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_55" class="fnanchor">[16]</a>All to make quite clean we try.<br /> +</div> + + + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES:</h3> +<p><i>Actions.</i>—</p> +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_40" id="Footnote_1_40"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_40"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Pretend to wash hands.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_41" id="Footnote_2_41"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_41"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Rub palms together.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_42" id="Footnote_3_42"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_42"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Rub back of left hand with palm of right.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_43" id="Footnote_4_43"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_43"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Wash left wrist, then right.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_44" id="Footnote_5_44"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_44"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Rub knuckles of both hands.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_45" id="Footnote_6_45"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_45"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Brush nails of left hand with right fist.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_46" id="Footnote_7_46"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_46"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> Show hands.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_47" id="Footnote_8_47"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_47"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> Touch face with both hands.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_48" id="Footnote_9_48"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_48"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> Pretend to rub soap on hands.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_49" id="Footnote_10_49"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_49"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> Rub hands together.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_50" id="Footnote_11_50"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_50"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> Wash the ears.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_51" id="Footnote_12_51"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_51"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> Wash eyes.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_52" id="Footnote_13_52"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_52"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> Rub the nose.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_53" id="Footnote_14_53"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_53"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> Wash round mouth.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_54" id="Footnote_15_54"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_54"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> Rub forehead.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_16_55" id="Footnote_16_55"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_55"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> Rub all the face.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />22. <i>ASKING FOR DRINK OF WATER</i></div> + +<p><i>Preliminary.</i>—This little game may be +used to teach children to be courteous to +strangers, and it should also teach them how +to carry liquid without spilling.</p> + +<p><i>Directions.</i>—The school or classroom +should be the 'house,' and a boy (representing +the man who asks for water) should go +outside. One child is required to answer +the door, and another may carry the glass of +water, or the same child may do both.</p> + +<p>The 'man' comes and knocks at the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></span> +door, which is opened by a little girl; he +then says:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +A drink of water, please, I pray,<br /> +You'll give me, madam, this hot day.<br /> +</div> + +<p>A child walks across the room with the +glass of water, which should be carried on a +plate or small tray, without spilling, and +hands it to the man, who takes it, saying, +'Thank you.' When he has finished drinking, +he returns the glass, and the child says +'Good-day,' and closes the door.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />23. <i>THE FOX AND THE TIGER</i></div> + +<p><i>Directions.</i>—The 'tiger' (a boy) hides in +a 'forest,' which the children make by +standing at irregular intervals and representing +trees. Each child should name the +tree it chooses, the following rhyme gives +the names of a few common trees:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Beech and chestnut, birch and oak<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Are the names of English trees,</span><br /> +Elm and willow, poplar, ash,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Soon you will remember these.</span><br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 333px;"> +<img src="images/i058.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Fig. 3.—fox's den" title="" /> +<span class="caption">Fig. 3.—<span class='smcap'>fox's den</span></span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a></span></p> + +<p>The children should see leaves from each +tree, and country children should be shown +the trees themselves with the leaves growing +on them. The 'den' of the 'fox' is at the edge +of the 'forest,' and is made by ten children +standing as shown in fig. 3. The four +children who form the entrance join hands +as shown, and the other six meet hands in +centre. A better way of making the den +would be for each child to hold a branch of +a tree, then the <i>branches</i> would meet instead +of the hands. The children who stand for +'trees' in the 'forest' wave branches, if the +latter are obtainable; if not, the arms are +waved for branches. One of the bigger girls +should be the 'fox,' and two or three of the +smallest children should be cubs, and go into +the den with the fox. Then the fox comes +walking out of the den, and says:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +I go to find a duck<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For dinner this fine day,</span><br /> +And you, my pretty cubs,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will stay at home and play.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>While she is absent, the tiger comes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a></span> +softly into the den and takes one of the cubs +(leading the child away by the hand). +Presently the fox returns, goes into the den, +misses the cub, and chases the tiger.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />24. <i>THE COACH GAME</i></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 225px;"> +<img src="images/i060.png" width="225" height="241" alt="Number diagram" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The 'coach' is formed by children +standing in position as shown on diagram. +All the children face the same way. 1, 2, 3, 4 +are 'horses' and join hands behind, as in +'Bell-horses'; 5, 6, 7, 8 join hands to make +the front part of the 'coach'; '5' holds the +coat of 'horse' No. 1 with right hand, while +'8' holds coat of '4' with left; 9, 10, 11,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a></span> +12 each hold the dress of the child standing +in front; 13, 14, 15, 16 join hands; '13' +catches hold of No. 11 with right hand, and +'16' holds the dress of No. 12 with left. +When the 'coach' is ready, the 'driver' (a +boy) repeats the lines:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Here is my coach, who'll come and ride?<br /> +The door, you see, is open wide.<br /> +</div> + +<p>Four 'passengers' advance, and the +'driver' makes way for them to enter the +'coach' between '10' and '12,' saying:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Jump in quick! quick! not long we stay,<br /> +Then ready! steady! right away!<br /> +</div> + +<p>The 'door' is closed by '12' again grasping +the dress of '10,' and the 'coach' moves +off. The 'horses' should not go very quickly, +else the 'coach' will probably lose its shape. +The 'passengers' walk along with the +'coach' until their destination is reached, +when the 'driver' opens the door and allows +them to alight.</p> + +<p>The above game may be played in conjunction +with Nos. <a href="#Game_25">25</a>, <a href="#Game_26">26</a> and <a href="#Game_27">27</a>.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="Game_25" id="Game_25"></a>25. <i>THE STABLE</i></div> + +<p>This game may be played immediately +after 'The Coach,' or it may be played +alone.</p> + +<p><i>Directions.</i>—The 'stable' is formed by a +number of children who stand in rows (see +diagram) and join hands.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i062.png" width="400" height="156" alt="Chidlren forming the stable diagram" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The 'hostler' (a boy) should stand near +the 'stable.' When the 'coach' (Game +No. 24, <a href="#Page_48">p. 48</a>) drives up, he goes to the +driver and asks:</p> + +<div class='center'><span class="smcap">Hostler</span></div> + +<div class='poem'> +Shall I take your horses for a rest and feed?<br /> +They are tired, I think, sir, and a drink they need.<br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a></span></p> + +<div class='center'><span class="smcap">Driver</span></div> + +<div class='poem'> +Yes, good hostler, take and give them nice fresh corn,<br /> +With a pail of water; they have worked since morn.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The 'hostler' leads one horse into each +stall, and pretends to give them hay or corn. +Then he carries water to them in a pail +(a toy pail, price 1<i>d.</i>, would do), and each +drinks. After this he rubs them down, using +a brush or his hand.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="Game_26" id="Game_26"></a>26. <i>VISITING GRANDMAMMA</i></div> + +<p><i>Directions.</i>—Four little girls are selected +to visit grandmamma, and to carry messages +and presents to her. Grandma's 'house' is +made by a ring of children (see <a href="#Page_ii">Frontispiece</a>, +and description of same on <a href="#Page_31">p. 31</a>), and the +girl who is to be 'Grandma' sits in the ring +knitting. An old-fashioned kerchief and +cap help to make the 'grandma' more real, +and a pair of spectacles adds further to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a></span> +effect. If the 'coach' game be used in conjunction +with this, the little girls may be +the 'passengers' and go in the 'coach' to +grandma's house. The 'door' (see description +of <a href="#Page_ii">Frontispiece</a> on <a href="#Page_31">p. 31</a>) should be +opened by a little maid, then the four +children enter and repeat the lines:</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 4em;"><span class="smcap">Children altogether</span></span><br /> +Good morning, grandma, we have come<br /> +With messages from all at home.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">First Child</span></span><br /> +Mamma sends love, and I'm to say<br /> +She hopes you are quite well to-day.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">[Grandma replies suitably.]</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 4.5em;"><span class="smcap">Second Child</span></span><br /> +These flowers, dear grandma, are for you,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8.5em;">[Gives her flowers.]</span><br /> +In my small garden bed they grew.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Grandma</span></span><br /> +Thank you, my dear.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Third Child</span> [<i>handing a basket</i>]</span><br /> +And here are cakes that Nellie made<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></span>To send to grandmamma, she said.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;"><span class="smcap">Fourth Child</span> [<i>giving basket to grandma</i>]</span><br /> +Ripe fruit I bring for grandmamma,<br /> +These pears and plums are from papa.<br /> +</div> + +<p>When 'grandma' has thanked each of +the children, they take leave of her and +return home.</p> + +<p>The Guessing Rhyme, No. <a href="#Game_92">92</a>, might be +given after playing the above game.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><a name="Game_27" id="Game_27"></a>27. <i>PAYING CALLS</i></div> + +<p><i>Directions.</i>—A ring of children form the +'house' (see <a href="#Page_ii">Frontispiece</a>, and description of +same on <a href="#Page_31">p. 31</a>) or a classroom may be used +for it. A few chairs and a table should be +placed in the 'house,' and there should be a +'mother' and 'children.' A 'lady' (represented +by a little girl) comes and knocks at +the 'door,' and the 'mother' opens it.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Visitor</span></span><br /> +How do you do, dear Mrs. Brown?<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a></span>I've called upon you going to town.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Mother</span></span><br /> +I'm quite well, thank you, Mrs. May,<br /> +And glad to see you this fine day.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The visitor then walks in and speaks to +the children one by one; they should answer +without hesitation. Children are generally +very shy and awkward when addressed by +strangers, but they should be encouraged to +reply with confidence and ease. Perhaps +these little games may help to give them +confidence.</p> + +<p>The game 'Paying Calls' might appropriately +be followed by 'Afternoon Tea'; +both these are played with great glee by the +little girls.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />28. <i>AFTERNOON TEA</i></div> + +<p>The tea-tray is brought in by one of the +children and placed on a table near the +'mother,' who pours out the tea. One of +the children carries a cup to the visitor, +and hands it to her, asking:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a></span>Will you take a cup of tea?<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Visitor</span></span><br /> +Yes, refreshing it will be.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3.5em;">[Takes the cup and says 'Thank you.']</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>A plate or d'oyley may be placed in the +lap of the visitor for the bread or biscuit, +which the child hands, saying:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Bread and butter, biscuits, cake.<br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Visitor</span></span><br /> +Please a biscuit I will take.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The 'mother' may serve the children +with tea, or there may be other visitors +calling, then the time of the children will +be occupied in attending to them.</p> + +<p>When Mrs. May has finished, the child +says:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Shall I take your cup away,<br /> +And your plate, too, Mrs. May?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 7em;">[Takes them away.]</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>By-and-by the visitor takes leave of the +'mother' and children, bidding each 'Good-day,' +and the 'door' is opened for her by +one of the children.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />29. <i>SPRING FLOWERS</i></div> + +<p>All the children join to form a large ring, +and one of the taller girls stands in the +centre to represent 'Spring.' The twelve +flowers mentioned in the verses should be +represented by twelve children standing at +intervals in the ring. Before commencing +the game, the child who represents 'Spring' +might appropriately repeat the lines of +Guessing Rhyme No. 74, p. <a href="#Page_95">95</a>.</p> + +<p>The 'Flowers' step forward from the +larger ring as the name of each is mentioned +in the verses, and form a smaller circle +round 'Spring.' The children should join +hands to close up the gap which is left by +each 'Flower' as it steps forward to join the +small circle.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +A Daffodil am I,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And I a Daisy small;</span><br /> +A Bluebell I come here,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">I'm Buttercup so tall.</span><br /> +<br /> +The Cowslip should come next,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And then the Violet sweet,</span><br /> +The Snowdrop fair and white,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The Crocus trim and neat.</span><br /> +<br /> +The starry Celandine,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Anemone, so fair,</span><br /> +The yellow Primrose, sweet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Lily, with fragrance rare.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>The 'Flowers' then join hands and +repeat the verse following:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Whene'er Spring shows her face<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The flowers all come again,</span><br /> +We cluster round the 'Spring,'<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">[All the Flowers bow.]</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">We follow in her train.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">[Flowers turn to right.]</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>'Spring' marches round inside the larger +ring, and the 'Flowers' follow in order.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />30. <i>SUMMER FLOWERS</i></div> + +<p>This game is played like the game of +'Spring Flowers' (see instructions on p. <a href="#Page_56">56</a>).<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></span></p> + +<p>The girl chosen to represent 'Summer' +may repeat the verse given in Guessing +Rhyme No. 75, p. <a href="#Page_95">95</a>, and then the 'Flowers' +step forward as their names are mentioned in +the rhymes which follow.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +First comes the Pink Wild Rose,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">[Rose steps forward.]</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The White rose, too, is here</span><br /> +Next Honeysuckle sweet,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And Foxglove standing near.</span><br /> +<br /> +The scented Mignonette,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Dog-daisy gold and white,</span><br /> +The pretty Cornflower blue,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And Marigold so bright.</span><br /> +<br /> +A Campion white grows here,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And next a Campion pink,</span><br /> +Here's Clover from the field,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Harebell comes next, I think.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>The 'Flowers' then join hands and +repeat the following rhyme:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +A ring we make round Summer sweet,<br /> +Oh Summer, Summer, thee we greet:<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 13.5em;">[All bow.]</span><br /> +For bright and happy is our play<br /> +All through the livelong Summer day.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The 'Flowers' then dance round +'Summer.'</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />31. <i>THE THREE BEARS</i></div> + +<p>This game may be played either in +the home, schoolroom or classroom. The +words should be learnt previously as a +recitation.</p> + +<p><i>Materials required.</i>—Three mugs or +basins of various sizes, with a spoon in each; +three stools or chairs of various sizes, and +three beds. The latter may be made by +laying shawls or coats on the forms or floor. +The 'beds' should vary in size, the first +being the largest, the next smaller, the third +smaller still.</p> + +<p>Three boys or girls should be chosen to +represent the Three Bears, and these also +should vary in size. The 'Bears' go outside +the room.</p> + +<p>The child who represents the little girl<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></span> +should know the rhymes well. When all is +ready she comes in and, standing near the +open door, says:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +What a funny house I see!<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Surely I may step inside,</span><br /> +All is quiet as can be,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And the door is open wide.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5em;">[Walks slowly towards the mugs.]</span><br /> +<br /> +Pots of food are near the fire.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">I must taste them, one [tastes the first], two [tastes the second], three [tastes the third];</span><br /> +Oh, how good, I'll eat it all,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For my breakfast it shall be.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 5em;">[Puts the mug down and turns to stools.]</span><br /> +<br /> +Three stools! first [sits on first] and next [sits on it] too high,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Tiny one is just for me.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">[Sits on third.]</span><br /> +Oh, 'tis broken [tumbles off], off I go,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">What else is there yet to see?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">[Walks towards beds.]</span><br /> +<br /> +Beds, a large one [lies down], that is hard, [Rises.]<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 1em;">This one [pointing to middle bed] is too long, I fear,</span><br /> +Oh, how soft [lies down in little bed], I'll take a rest,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">In the little bed just here.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 11.5em;">[Pretends to sleep.]</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>The three bears come tramping in. The +big one takes up his mug and says, 'Who +has been at my porridge?' The second bear +says the same; and then the little bear takes +up his mug and says, 'Who has been at my +porridge and eaten it all up?'</p> + +<p>They proceed in the same way with the +stools, the little bear finishing with 'Who +has been sitting on my stool, and broken +it?'</p> + +<p>Then they go to the beds in order, asking +one after the other, 'Who has been at my +bed?' until it comes to the little bear's turn, +when he says, 'Who has been at my bed? +and here she is still!'</p> + +<p>The little girl now opens her eyes, and, +seeing the bears, jumps up quickly and +runs off.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />32. <i>IMITATING CRIES OF ANIMALS</i></div> + +<p>(A simple game for the very smallest +children.)</p> + +<p>One child comes out to stand in front of +the class and says:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Listen to the cry I make,<br /> +Then, if you the trouble take,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">You may guess my name.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>He then imitates the cry of some animal, +the 'bark' of a dog, the 'mew' of a cat, or +the 'crowing' of the cock, and the children +who wish to answer hold out the hand. +The child who is allowed to give the name +of the animal represented by the cry comes +out (if the answer is correct) and makes the +cry of another animal, first repeating the +lines as before. The following are some of +the cries that the children may be able to +imitate, 'cluck, cluck' (hen), 'quacking' +(duck), 'hissing' (goose), 'neighing' (horse), +'braying' (donkey), 'grunting' (pig), 'chirping' +(bird) or talking like the parrot.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />33. <i>CHARADES</i></div> + +<p><i>Preliminary.</i>—Everyone knows how fond +children are of representing ideas by action. +It is for this reason that charades are +recommended here. It will, of course, be +necessary for the teacher to assist and +suggest, but the children soon acquire confidence, +and their acting, being perfectly +natural, is often remarkably good.</p> + +<p>A very simple little charade is given as +an example.</p> + +<p>The children who are to take part go out +of the room for a few minutes with the +teacher. We will suppose the word chosen +is</p> + +<div class='center'><span class="smcap">Tea-cake</span></div> + +<p><span class="smcap">Act I.</span>—The teacher is to be the 'mother' +and the rest are children. The 'mother' +enters and sits down; presently the children +come trooping in from school and gather +round her. She asks what they have been +doing at school, each one tells her something<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[64]</a></span> +about its work or play, and then one child +asks, 'May we have tea, mother, please?' +'Yes,' says the mother, 'go and take off +your hats and we will get it ready.' (End +of Act I.)</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Act II.</span>—The tea-table is prepared (see +Game No. <a href="#Game_1">1</a>, which is similar) and the +children sit down to tea. (The 'guessing' +children should be told to listen carefully to +what is said during tea.) One child asks +for the <i>cake</i> to be passed, another for bread +and butter, and so on. (End of Act II.)</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Act III.</span>—In the last act the whole word +is to be given. The children pretend to +have a baker's shop (see 'Shopping Game,' +No. 6), one child keeps the shop, and the +rest come to buy. One asks for a loaf, +another for rolls, a third buys a <i>tea-cake</i>, +and so on.</p> + +<p>Bricks and tablets may be used for the +loaves and cakes, or they may be made in +the clay-modelling lesson and kept for this +game.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p> + +<p><i>Finding the word.</i>—The children who +have been listening are now asked to guess, +and may be encouraged by remarks, such as, +'Think of the first act, and what the +children said to their mother.'</p> + +<p>'Remember the tea-table and what was +said there.'</p> + +<p>Some of the words thus obtained may +be written on the blackboard, words for each +act being put in separate columns.</p> + +<p>'Now what did the baker sell?' In this +way the answer is soon obtained.</p> + +<p>It is well worth while to help the children +to learn how to play charades, because it +makes such a pleasant home-play for them +in wintry and wet weather.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />34. <i>PASSING THE STICK</i></div> + +<p>The children sit round the room, or +stand in a semi-circle. The teacher should +start the game, standing at the left extremity<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></span> +of the semi-circle, with the stick in her right +hand, and repeat the lines:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +On the floor you see I <a href="#Footnote_1_56" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>tap my <a href="#Footnote_1_56" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>stick, <a href="#Footnote_1_56" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>stick, <a name="FNanchor_1_56" id="FNanchor_1_56"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_56" class="fnanchor">[1]</a>stick,<br /> +Then I <a name="FNanchor_2_57" id="FNanchor_2_57"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_57" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>pass it to my <a name="FNanchor_3_58" id="FNanchor_3_58"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_58" class="fnanchor">[3]</a>neighbour quick, quick, quick,<br /> +If you know it, then please do the trick, trick, trick.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The children who do not know the game +will probably <i>omit</i> to pass the stick into the +left hand; as each one tries to do the trick, +the teacher says 'right' or 'wrong' as the +case may be, and those who are wrong are +told to notice particularly how the teacher +does it.</p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>NOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_56" id="Footnote_1_56"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_56"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Tap floor.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_57" id="Footnote_2_57"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_57"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Pass stick from right hand to left.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_58" id="Footnote_3_58"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_58"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Give it to neighbour.</p></div> +</div> + +<div class='center'><br />35. <i>FINDING THE THIMBLE</i></div> + +<p>This is a favourite game and can be +played with very little noise. At home, <i>all</i><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span> +the children would go out of the room +except the one who remains behind to hide +the thimble, but when played in the school +or classroom, it will be sufficient if six +children are sent out.</p> + +<p>The thimble is to be placed where it can +be seen, the children are then called in, and +the one who has hid it says:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Try to find the thimble out,<br /> +Use your eyes and look about,<br /> +Look before and look behind,<br /> +And when you the thimble find,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;">Just sit down.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>As soon as any child sees the thimble, +he takes a seat and remains quite still until +all the seekers have seen it, and each in +turn has sat down. Then the child who +<i>first</i> saw the thimble takes it from its hiding-place, +and has the privilege of remaining +behind to hide it next time. Different +children should go out each time, so that all +may have a turn.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />36. <i>THROWING THE HANDKERCHIEF</i></div> + +<p>The children stand in a ring, or sit round +the room, one child standing in the middle. +The handkerchief is thrown from one to +another, and the one who is 'out' tries to +find a child with the handkerchief in its +hand. As soon as he can do this, the child +who was caught with the handkerchief has +to stand in the centre, and the other one +sits down, or stands in the ring, as the case +may be.</p> + +<p>As the game begins, the children say:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">The handkerchief is thrown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Find quickly where 'tis gone:</span><br /> +From you to me, from me to you,<br /> +To keep it long will never do.<br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />37. <i>PICKING UP POTATOES</i></div> + +<p>Take twelve potatoes and place them in +two rows of six each, thus:—</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 250px;"> +<img src="images/i081.png" width="250" height="51" alt="How to lay the potoatoes" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>Two medium-sized spoons are required +with which to take up the potatoes, and a +basket is placed two or three yards away to +receive them.</p> + +<p>Two children are chosen to pick up the +potatoes, one standing at the end of each +row. The rest of the children may be +grouped on the gallery, or may stand round +in a ring.</p> + +<p>The following verse is repeated either by +teacher alone, or by all the children, as the +spoon is handed to each child.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Take this spoon, and with it see<br /> +That you lift so carefully<br /> +These potatoes. One! two! three!<br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span></p> + +<p>The last three words are said slowly, and +the game is to begin immediately 'three' is +said. The child who gets his row of +potatoes <i>first</i> picked up and deposited in the +basket wins the game. The potatoes are +not to be touched, except by the spoon, and +they are to be carried one by one in the +spoon to the basket.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>II. GAMES FOR THE PLAYGROUND</h2> + + +<div class='center'><br />38. <i>THROWING THE BALL</i></div> + +<p>One child holds the ball in her hand and +stands at a little distance from the wall +against which it is to be thrown. The +other children are gathered near in a group +or semi-circle. When all are ready, the +children say:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Throw the ball against the wall,<br /> +Then we'll listen for your call.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The child who is holding the ball +replies:—</p> + +<p>'One, two, three, Pollie Burton' (supposing +that to be the name of the child +called), and throws the ball, all the children +running off except the one whose name was +mentioned. If the latter is successful in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span> +catching the ball, it is returned to the girl +who had it first and the game is repeated, +another name being substituted. If the ball +is not caught, the child who was called picks +it up and runs after the other children until +she manages to hit some one with it. The +child who is hit picks up the ball and all +return to the starting place. The lines are +again repeated and the game proceeds as +before.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />39. <i>LAME LASSIE</i></div> + +<p>At the commencement of the game the +children stand in a large ring, and the girl +who is to be 'Lame lassie' stands in the +centre. The children then say:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Now Lame lassie give us chase,<br /> +Get one quick to fill your place.<br /> +</div> + +<p>They all run off, and 'Lame lassie' +follows until she manages to touch some +other child. Wherever the latter is +touched, she must place her hand on that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span> +particular spot and run after the others until +she is successful in reaching some one else. +Sometimes a child will be holding its +shoulder or elbow, or it may have to hold +up one leg and hop on the other. This is a +game which causes much fun and merriment.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />40. <i>POLLY FLINDERS</i></div> + +<p>The children form a ring, joining hands, +and one child sits in the middle. Those +who form the ring walk round singing to the +tune of 'The Keel Bow.'</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Here's Polly Flinders,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">She sits on the cinders,</span><br /> +Waits for a fairy to come and bring her news.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Stand upon your feet, dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Take a look around here,</span><br /> +Kiss the one you love best, the one you like to choose.<br /> +</div> + +<p>At the word 'stand' the child in the +centre rises to her feet, and when the rhyme<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span> +is ended she chooses a child to take her +place in the centre and returns to the ring. +All the children stand still while the choice +is being made.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />41. <i>DROP, DROP, DROP</i></div> + +<p>The children stand eighteen inches +apart in a ring, <i>not</i> joining hands.</p> + +<p>One child walks round the ring, holding +a handkerchief in her hand, and repeating +the words:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +One, two, three,<br /> +Come follow me,<br /> +Drop, drop, drop,<br /> +Where shall I stop?<br /> +</div> + +<p>At the word 'stop,' she drops the handkerchief +near one of the children, and runs; +the child picks it up and follows her as she +threads her way in and out of the ring, +until she is caught. Then the 'chaser' +goes round the ring with the handkerchief, +repeating the rhyme, and the child who was +caught stands in the other one's place.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />42. <i>PUSS IN THE CORNER</i></div> + +<p>This game may be played by four +children, each standing at a corner, with one +in the centre for 'pussy,' or it maybe played +by a ring of children.</p> + +<p>The child who is 'pussy' stands in the +centre of the ring, and the others say:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Pussy cat, pussy cat looking so spry,<br /> +Might very soon catch us, if she would but try.<br /> +</div> + +<p>Two children then beckon to each other +and exchange places. (If a ring is formed, +the two children should come from opposite +sides of it.) As they are crossing, 'pussy' +tries to catch one of them; if she succeeds, +the child who is caught stands in the centre, +and the old 'pussy' takes her place in the +ring or corner.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />43. <i>WOLF AND SHEEP</i></div> + +<p>One child is the 'wolf' and stands on +one side of the playground, while the rest +of the children are 'sheep,' and stand in a +row on the opposite side.</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<i>Wolf</i>: Where's your shepherd, pretty sheep?<br /> +<i>Sheep</i>: In his cottage, fast asleep.<br /> +<i>Wolf</i>: I will catch you as you run,<br /> +<i>Sheep</i>: If we let you, there's the fun!<br /> +</div> + +<p>The 'wolf' and 'sheep' then change +sides, and in crossing the 'wolf' touches as +many of the 'sheep' as she can; these all +go to her side and help to catch more +'sheep' next time. The game proceeds +until all the 'sheep' are caught except one, +and that one is 'wolf' next time.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />44. <i>DANCING GAME</i></div> + +<p>The children stand in two rows facing +each other, thus:—</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/i089.png" width="300" height="105" alt="How to line up for the dance" title="" /> +<span class="caption">How to line up for the dance</span> +</div> + +<p>The following is sung to the tune of +'Pop Goes the Weasel.'</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Have you seen my monkey, Jack?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Gay old Jack, so funny!</span><br /> +He can climb, or nuts can crack,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Or take your money.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>As the children begin to sing, '<b>a</b>' and +'<b>b</b>' join hands and dance down to '<b>o</b>,' then +change hands and dance back again to []; +then '<b>a</b>' goes behind '<b>e</b>' as shown by line +'<b>g</b>,' and stands at '<b>c</b>,' while '<b>b</b>' goes behind +'<b>f</b>,' following the line '<b>h</b>' and stands at '<b>d</b>';<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a></span> +'<b>e</b>' and '<b>f</b>' proceed in the same way, and +each couple follows in turn.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />45. <i>DUCKING UNDER</i></div> + +<p>The children stand in rows facing each +other, each child holding the handkerchief +of its opposite partner, and so helping to +make a long tunnel. As they stand thus +the verse is repeated:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Ducking under is the game,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Are you ready, children, all?</span><br /> +Hold your handkerchiefs quite fast,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Then run under when I call,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 9em;">One, two, three.</span><br /> +<br /></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/i090.png" width="300" height="34" alt="Ducking under diagram" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>At 'three,' '<b>a</b>' and '<b>b</b>' run under, and +stand at '<b>c</b>' and '<b>d</b>' respectively, extending +handkerchiefs as quickly as possible, so that +the next couple may be able to pass under. +The couple who stood next '<b>a</b>' and '<b>b</b>' at<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span> +the beginning follow, then the next couple, +and so on until the 'tunnel' has moved +round the playground.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />46. <i>WHO'LL GO A-HUNTING</i></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 215px;"> +<img src="images/i091.png" width="215" height="250" alt="Who'll go a-hunting diagram" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>The children stand behind each other in +couples at one end of the playground, ready +to dance off when the song begins. They +start from point '<b>b</b>,' and each holds his +partner's hand until the other end of the +playground is reached, point '<b>a</b>,' then the +hands are dropped; one goes to the left +(following direction of arrow '<b>c</b>'), the other<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span> +to the right (arrow '<b>d</b>'), and they meet +again at the starting point '<b>b</b>,' where they +join hands and repeat the movement.</p> + +<p>The following is sung to the tune of +'Weel may the Keel Row.'</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Who'll go a-hunting, a-hunting, a-hunting,<br /> +Oh! who'll go a-hunting this merry, merry day?<br /> +We'll catch the sly old fox—O,<br /> +Safe in a box—O,<br /> +Then who'll go a-hunting this merry, merry day?<br /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br />47. <i>SHEEP GATHERING</i></div> + +<p>Two rows of children are formed facing +each other, with a long chalk line between. +The children join hands.</p> + +<p>[The first row advances to the chalk line, singing:—</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Key F.</span></p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i092.png" width="400" height="95" alt="Sheep Gathering Song Part 1" title="" /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 26.5em;">[First line recedes as second advances.</span></p> +<p><span style="margin-left: 26.5em;">[Second line advances singing:—</span><br /></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/i093.png" width="400" height="88" alt="Sheep Gathering Song Part 2" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>[Second line retires, and first again advances singing:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Mary Burton [or any other name] is the name,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">so send her right away, away,</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>[Second line advances as first retires and sings:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Johnny Smith [or any other name] will come to<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">fetch her, then begins the play.</span><br /> +</div> + +<p>The two children named then come out, +and joining hands with the line between +them, try to pull each other over the line. +If the child from first line succeeds, then +both children join that line, or <i>vice versâ</i>, +and the game begins again.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br />48. <i>HOPPING GAME</i></div> + +<p>Squares are chalked on the ground, +thus:—</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 166px;"> +<img src="images/i094.png" width="166" height="400" alt="Hopping Game diagram" title="" /> +</div> + +<div class='unindent'><br />and a stone or pebble is put at the place +marked <b>×</b>.</div> + +<p>The object of the game is to pass the +pebble into each square with one foot only, +following the numbers in order. The child<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span> +who is to begin the game stands near the +pebble, while the children say:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +Here is a game for you, hippity, hop,<br /> +Into the next place you make the stone pop.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The child then sends the stone into No. +1 square (hopping on one foot), from that +into Nos. 2, 3, 4 and so on. If the stone be +sent outside the square into which it should +go, the player is out, and another begins. +The child who first gets the pebble into No. +10 square, having passed it into each of the +others successively, keeping on one foot all +the time, wins the game.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />49. <i>MAKING A CHAIN</i></div> + +<p>The game is started by one child who +catches another and says:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +I have caught you, come away,<br /> +Let us make a chain to-day.<br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span></p> + +<p>The two then join hands and catch +another, repeating the same words; then the +three start off and catch another, and so on +until all are caught.</p> + +<p>The last child caught starts the game +again, or the completed 'chain' may form a +ring and play one of the ring games, Nos. +40, 41, 42.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br />50. <i>MOTHER, MAY WE GO OUT TO PLAY?</i></div> + +<p>One corner of the playground may be +the 'house' in which the 'mother' sits. If +the game is played by the children elsewhere, +they will probably mark out the shape +of the 'house' on the ground with stones or +pebbles, a practice of which they are very +fond. The children come to the 'house' +where the 'mother' sits, and standing in +front of her, ask:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<i>Children</i>: Mother, may we go out and play?<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Mother</i>: Yes, good children, that you may.</span><br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p> + +<p>The children then run away, and after +a little while return to the mother; she +asks:—</p> + +<div class='poem'> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Mother:</i> Where have you been?</span><br /> +<i>Children:</i> Away up the hill.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Mother:</i> What have you seen?</span><br /> +<i>Children:</i> A house by a mill.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Mother:</i> Who was there in it?</span><br /> +<i>Children:</i> A little, old man.<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><i>Mother:</i> What said he to you?</span><br /> +<i>Children:</i> Catch me if you can.<br /> +</div> + +<p>The children then run off, and the +'mother' chases until she has caught one +or more; these are kept prisoners in the +'house,' and the game proceeds until all are +caught except one, and she is the 'mother' +when the game begins again.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p> +<h2>III. GUESSING RHYMES</h2> + + +<p><i>Notes.</i>—The Guessing Rhymes are intended +to be read by the teacher to the +children, who then try to find out the word. +The verse should be repeated slowly two or +three times before the children are asked to +guess. At first only the familiar and well-known +objects should be given, and even then +it will sometimes be necessary to assist the +imagination of the children by a question or +two. Before reading the rhyme, the teacher +should say whether it is a flower, object or +animal, &c., that is to be guessed.</p> + +<p>The rhymes about animals, flowers, and +natural phenomena will not be difficult to +the children if these subjects have been +included in their object lessons, or have +formed the subject of 'morning talks' (see +p. 14, 'Kindergarten Guide').<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p> + +<p>The Nursery Rhymes will have been +learnt by the children when they were in the +Babies' class, and the rest of the rhymes +belong to fairy tales that are commonly told +to all children.</p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><i>MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS</i><br /><br /></div> + +<div class='poem'> +<a name="Game_51" id="Game_51"></a>51. I'm tied up in a basin<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And boiled well in a pan,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And then turned out and eaten,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">So guess me if you can.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 11.5em;"><span class="smcap">Pudding.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +52. Two hands I have, my face is round,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">In father's pocket I am found,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">My hands do move, I make a noise,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Now guess me quickly, girls and boys.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14em;"><span class="smcap">Watch.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +53. Are there cobwebs, is there dust,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Are there crumbs upon the floor?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Then you surely bring me out</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">From behind the pantry door,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And on sweeping days I'm seen,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Making all things nice and clean.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 14.5em;"><span class="smcap">Brush.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +54. Sometimes I'm made of willows,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">But oftener of wood,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Four legs they always give me,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Or else I am no good;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A back I should have also,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And two strong arms as well,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Now if you think it over,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">My name you soon should tell.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 13em;"><span class="smcap">Arm-chair.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +55. You have me in your pocket,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">I'm square and white, 'tis true,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And many things I'm used for</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">By children, such as you.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">Pocket-handkerchief.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +56. I may be white, I may be brown,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">You draw me up or pull me down,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">At night I'm mostly down, you know,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">But in the morning up I go.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;"><span class="smcap">Window Blind.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +57. I glide along or fast or slow,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And only on the water go;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'm long and narrow, and you see</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">My pointed end [bow] that first should be;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The broad end always goes behind [stern],</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And both have names as you will find.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 19em;"><span class="smcap">Boat.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +58. By steam alone I move and go,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Men have an engine down below;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Long journeys oftentimes I make,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">When o'er the sea my way I take.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14.5em;"><span class="smcap">Steamer.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +59. I skim so lightly o'er the sea,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With wings outspread like bird so free,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">What are my wings? [sails] and do you see</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">How o'er the waves they carry me?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14em;"><span class="smcap">Sail Boat.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +60. The fire burns very slowly,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">You come to look for me,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I blow it till it blazes,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 3em;">All bright and cheerfully;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'm partly made of leather,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">The rest is iron and wood,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I always have a round hole,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Or else I am no good.—<span class="smcap">Bellows.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +61. I'm made of wood, or made of clay,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And used at any time of day;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">When father comes from work at night,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Perhaps he takes me, strikes a light,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And puffs—ah, then what do you smell?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Now surely you my name can tell.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Pipe.</span></span><br /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><i>ANIMALS</i><br /><br /></div> + +<div class='poem'> +62. I watch your house all night,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">When you're asleep, my dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">If any thief should come,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">My voice you soon would hear.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><span class="smcap">Dog.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +63. A gentle, timid creature, I<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Shall soon run off if you come nigh;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">My horns, like branches of a tree,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Above my head you always see.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Stag.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +64. A little, creeping thing I saw,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Upon a plant it stayed all day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And very many legs it had,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And how it ate the leaves away!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 12.5em;"><span class="smcap">Caterpillar.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +65. They are frisking in the field,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">By the side of mother dear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Playful, happy creatures, they</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Never think of danger near,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And their coats so soft and light</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Keep them warm by day and night.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><span class="smcap">Lambs.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +66. I take my trunk with me, wherever I go,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">'Tis not made of tin or of wood, oh, dear no,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I use it to lift to my mouth things I eat,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Just give me a biscuit, that would be a treat!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 11em;"><span class="smcap">Elephant's Trunk.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +67. My coat is made of soft, warm fur,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">My tail is thick and round,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">My eyes are very sharp and bright,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 3em;">Among the trees I'm found;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I like to crack the nuts, you see,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And jump about from tree to tree.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><span class="smcap">Squirrel.</span></span><br /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><i>FLOWERS</i><br /><br /></div> + +<div class='poem'> +68. Before the winter changed to spring,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I saw a graceful, white, wee thing;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Its pretty bell was hanging down,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">As if it thought, 'Too soon I've grown,'</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Although more snow we yet may see,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We give glad welcome, flower, to thee.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14em;"><span class="smcap">Snow-drop.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +69. A yellow eye and frill of white,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Which closes up when comes the night,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sometimes my frill is edged with pink,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Now, surely of my name you'll think.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 15.5em;"><span class="smcap">Daisy.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +70. I come in the spring, and my bells are all blue,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A pretty blue carpet I'm spreading for you.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 13em;"><span class="smcap">Wild Hyacinth.</span></span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 5em;">(Commonly called 'Bluebell.')</span><br /> +<br /> +71. Another blue flower, that in summer we see,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Has bells that are larger, in which dips the bee,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And if you should give these blue bells a slight shake,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A pretty, soft tinkle for you they would make.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Harebell</span>.</span><br /> +<br /> +72. Five petals I have which are white, as I think,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Unless I should blush, then they turn rosy pink,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I smell, oh, so sweetly, now guess me quick, quick!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And mind, when you pluck me, the thorns do not prick.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><span class="smcap">Wild Rose</span>.</span><br /> +<br /> +73. All the hedge is snowy white,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Covered with my blossoms bright,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sweetly I do smell, they say,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And I come in month of May.</span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;"><span class="smcap">May Blossom</span>.</span><br /> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[95]</a></span></p> + + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><i>NATURAL PHENOMENA</i><br /><br /></div> + +<div class='poem'> +74. All the trees have buds of green,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Pretty, yellow flowers are seen,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Lambs are frisking, happy, free,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Pray what season can this be?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Spring.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +75. Sunny days so bright and long,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sweet, new hay, and mower's song,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Honeysuckle, roses sweet,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Holidays, that are a treat.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Summer.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +76. The reapers' scythes are heard among the yellow corn,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">There's harvest moon at night, and frosty air at morn,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The hunter sounds his horn, ripe nuts and fruits are here,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The leaves go whirling by, and colder days draw near.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Autumn.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +77. Now we have the North wind bold,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Bringing frost and snow and cold,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sliding, skating, oh what fun,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">When this season is begun!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Winter.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +78. Four sisters come past, one by one, every year,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The <i>first</i>, in a dress of green buds will appear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The <i>second</i> brings roses and flowers, oh, so sweet,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The <i>third</i> scatters gold and brown leaves at our feet,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The <i>fourth</i> often wears a white robe—now please tell</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">The names of these sisters, you know them quite well.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 18em;"><span class="smcap">The Four Seasons.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +79. We are sometimes dark and heavy,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Then you think there will be rain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">We are sometimes light and fleecy,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And the blue sky shows again,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">If you would see us, look above,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Across the sky we always move.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 15em;"><span class="smcap">Clouds.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +80. On a frosty morning, you may sometimes see<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">All the fields and houses white as white can be,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">If the sun arise, the whiteness soon will go,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Pray what can its name be? for it is not snow.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14em;"><span class="smcap">Hoar-frost.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +81. In the early morning<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Drops are shining clear,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">On the leaves and grasses,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">In the flower-cups here;</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Through the night 'tis falling,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">But by noon of day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sunshine warm and pleasant</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sends it quite away.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 9em;"><span class="smcap">Dew.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +82. You want me very much when you go to fly your kite,<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">I send it soaring upwards, to such a great, great height,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Sometimes I lift your hat off, and you to catch it fly,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">You wonder where I come from, so now to guess me try.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 21em;"><span class="smcap">Wind.</span></span><br /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><i>NURSERY RHYMES</i><br /><br /></div> + +<div class='poem'> +83. A little boy once had a horn,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I think he lived among the corn,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And wore a pretty dress of blue,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I've nearly told his name to you.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;"><span class="smcap">Little Boy Blue.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +84. A boy and girl walked up a hill,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">But tumble, tumble, down they came,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And where's the water? where the pail?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Of each poor child you know the name.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;"><span class="smcap">Jack and Jill.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +85. Somebody has a garden,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">We ask her how it grows,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Such funny things she says are there,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">A-growing all in rows.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 4em;"><span class="smcap">Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +86. Who sat down in a corner,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">One Christmas, long ago,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And thought himself a good, good boy,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">While eating pie, you know?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Little Jack Horner.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +87. 'Twas something about a supper,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And something about a knife,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And something about a boy that cried,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And something about a wife.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Little Tom Tucker.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +88. 'Where is your flock, my little maid?'<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">'They're lost, all lost, kind sir,' she said,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">'I slept and dreamed, but found not one,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Ah! here they are with tails all gone!'</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;"><span class="smcap">Little Bopeep.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +89. She had a dog, and he could smoke,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And dance, and laugh or cry,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">This woman and her dog you know,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">To find her name please try.</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Mother Hubbard.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +90. He tumbled from a wall so high,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And if to pick him up they try,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">They find it is in vain, in vain,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">He cannot be picked up again.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 12em;"><span class="smcap">Humpty Dumpty.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +91. She sat upon a little stool,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">To eat her food one day,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A spider came and frightened her,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And quick she ran away.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">Little Miss Muffet.</span></span><br /> +</div> + + +<div class='center'><br /><br /><i>FAIRY TALES</i><br /><br /></div> + +<div class='poem'> +<a name="Game_92" id="Game_92"></a>92. Who was it went her Grandmamma to see,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">In cloak and hood as pretty as could be?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Red Riding Hood.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +93. And pray whom did she meet, that said 'Good-Day,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">I'll race you, little maiden, all the way?'</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Wolf.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And when, at last, she reached her Grandma's house,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Who lay there in the bed, still as a mouse?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 16em;"><span class="smcap">Wolf.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +94. She sat by the fire, and she looked oh, so sad,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Until a kind fairy made everything glad,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Away drove the maiden in carriage so bright,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">With slippers that sparkled like jewels that night.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14em;"><span class="smcap">Cinderella.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">What time did the fairy tell someone to come</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">To her carriage, and quick, oh, so quickly drive home?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 14em;"><span class="smcap">12 o'clock.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And what did she lose? [Her slipper.] I think you know well,</span><br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a></span><span style="margin-left: 2em;">And what was the end of it all, can you tell?</span><br /> +<br /> +95. They say she slept a hundred years,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Her hair down to her feet had grown,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And then the brave prince woke her up,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And claimed the maiden for his own.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 10em;"><span class="smcap">Sleeping Beauty.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +96. He climbed a stalk so wondrous high,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">It seemed almost to reach the sky,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And then he slew, so we are told,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">A giant who was bad and bold.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">Jack the Giant Killer.</span></span><br /> +<br /> +<a name="Game_97" id="Game_97"></a>97. Who was it had a pussy cat,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And sent it o'er the sea,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">And then became Lord Mayor, they say,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 3em;">And rich as rich could be?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">Dick Whittington.</span></span><br /> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a></span></p> +<h2><i>Works by the same Author</i></h2> + +<div class='poem'> +<a name="Appendix_I" id="Appendix_I"></a>1. 'The Dinner Table Song'} by Lois Bates,<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">'The Tea Table Song' } 1<i>s.</i> 4<i>d.</i> each</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Song, 'Washing Dishes' }(E. J. Arnold.)</span><br /> +<br /> +<a name="Appendix_II" id="Appendix_II"></a>2. Foot-Rules, 9<i>d.</i> per dozen.<br /> +<br /> +<a name="Appendix_III" id="Appendix_III"></a>3. 'Kindergarten Guide,' by Lois Bates, 6<i>s.</i> (Messrs. Longmans.)<br /> +<br /> +<a name="Appendix_IV" id="Appendix_IV"></a>4. Cardboard Coins. Box of 220, 1<i>s.</i> 8<i>d.</i><br /> +<br /> +<a name="Appendix_V" id="Appendix_V"></a>5. Wooden Knitting-pins. 10<i>d.</i> per dozen pairs.<br /> +</div> + + +<div class='copyright'><br /><br /><br />———————————<br /> +<i>Spottiswoode & Co. Printers, New-street Square, London.</i><br /> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class='tnote'><h3>Transcriber's Notes:</h3> +<p>Obvious punctuation errors repaired.</p> +<p><a href="#Page_x">Page x</a>, "Hubbare" changed to "Hubbard" (89. Mother Hubbard)</p> + +<p><a href="#Page_77">Page 77</a>, two facing brackets are used to show a drawn square in the text.</p> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Games Without Music for Children, by Lois Bates + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GAMES WITHOUT MUSIC FOR CHILDREN *** + +***** This file should be named 37165-h.htm or 37165-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/7/1/6/37165/ + +Produced by Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading +Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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