The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-12-19
GAMES To MAKE
the CHILDREN HAPPY
Some Suggestions to Grownups
for the Entertainment of
the Little Ones.

Did you ever give a children's party,
with plenty of favors and elaborate
table decorations, ice cream. cake and
all sorts of good things, and then have
your little guests arrive and sit
solemnly and sedately on their chairs
In glum and s~elf-conscious silence?
Did o ever rack your brains to
think of games for them to play, with
out being able to remember anything
but hide and seek?"
Perhaps you asked the most intel
ligent child what she would like to
play, to have her wiggle bashfully on
her chair and murmur, Il don't know"
Well, here is a page of suggestions.
Where man children have been in
vited, the hostess or the mother of the
small host Will do we'll to make a list
OF different games, grouping the child
rem according to size or g and let
ting the smaller children play at the
simpler games. for they are often most
unhappy II they are not occupied dur
Ing the time that tho games of the
older children so xH1E1 on.
Some very pretty ag1rr effective prizes
can be made with the help of crinkled
paper and bon bons. Wrap a large
bonbon or sweetmeat in paper; make
a tissue paper rose and place the bon-
bon in the centre The outfit for rose
making may be bought for a few cents
and prizes of this description seem to
please children just as much as do
more expensive gifts. When candy is
distributed as prizes it should not be
served at the table, as children don't
value even car,dy when they see too
much of it.
Delicious little foreign cakes, Italian.
German or French, pretty Japanese
rice cakes, or Chinese candied fruit can
be used for the eenterS of the flowers.
All these make charming prizes and are
odd enough for ever the most blase
youngster. No prize should be given to
a child unless it is done up in some
pretty way; for children do appreciate
daintlness and mystery: And 8 cents
worth of ribbon with a few cents worth
of paper add a great deal to the charm
of a chtldren's entertainment.
one more word about prizes. Let
all the favors be equally inexpensive
and then at least you will have the
knowledge that the children are all be-
ing treated alike.
Many games suitable for such a
party are what children call sitting
down games" so before the party be-
gins, enough chairs should be provided
to go round
Caterpillar is one of these games. AS
many chairs as there are players are
arranged in a circle. One player
stands in the middle of the room. The
others sea themselves. The PLAYER
who Is standing, tries to sit on the
vacant chair, but he is prevented by
the other players, who slip quickly
from chair to chair. AT one time a
vacant chair is within touch of the odd
player; at the mex the vacancy is on
the other side of the circle. At last
he Is able to secure a seat, and some
other player h has lost his chair
takes the center of the circle.
Musical fright, which is like Going
to Jerusalem" calls for one chair few
er h there are players. The chairs
are In a row down the middle
of the room, side by side but facing
alternately in opposite directions. The
players fern In line and move around
the chairs In single file, while some one
plays the piano, violin or other musical
instrument. A large music box win
do. h players continue marching
until the music stops, when they ali
scramble for seats. OF course one
player is bound to be left out. as there
is n chair short. This player pays a
forfeit and retires from the game.
Another chair is taken away. and then
1.-THE game goes on until ali are "outp
but the winner
In neighbors there should be as MANY
chairs as there are players. The
lchiidren should BIZ divided into two
SIDES OF equal number. all the players
~ one side being blindfolded and tax
ING possession of the chairs in such a,
q That a player has an empty
mar at his right hand. The other side
must then move silently into the middle
OF the circle and at a given signal they