Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-19

little children really become victims of
a kind Of stage fright when at a party,
but the game of Observation-Disclosures is
SO simple that tiny tots VIII enjoy it and
forget The embarrassment.
"Chick-Chick-Chick."
On one side of 4 room there is a basket
or box with single grains of corn or small
pebbles, each wrapp in the center of a
square piece OF tissue paper of any bright
color. These little packages. of course.
are so fixed that one cannot tell which
papers contain corn and which tiny bun
dies contain pebbles The children stand
or sit on the floor in a line on the oppo-
site side of the room. for they are
chicks. One player, called mother"
stands beside the box of corn and peb-
bles wrapped in the fluffy packages.
When she says. "Chick. chick. chick, it's
breakfast time" the first two chicks run
to the box with quick, short steps. take
out three little packages and return to
their places before the mother counts
10. or they cannot have anything out of
the box. BY this plan the chicks do not
nave time to feel the tiny packages to see
what they contain. Then the mother
calls the next two players in the same
way and SO on until all have run to the
food box. Then another mother hen
is chosen and the game is continued until
all of the children nave another turn.
The game goes on until four 'mother"
hens have been chosen in turn, giving
the players four turns to run for the
corn and pebbles. The four mothers are
then given a chance to run together for
their breakfast, so that they, too, may
have four turns. Each child then has -
tiny packages which contain either peb-
hlAS nv nor, ~ la-.
II wonder which is my smartest chick"
Then all of the players open their pack
ages to see who has the most grains of
yellow corn. AS the smartest chick is the
prize winner, he receives a little yellow
chicken or some other Easter novelty.
During this game the children must run
with short steps, like chickens. This fea-
ture not only adds to the amusement of
the little ones. but keeps the element of
roughness from appearing. Each moth
err must also count 10 at every turn so
that the chicks will be quick in choosing
the corn and getting back to their places.
III this Is not done the game will lose it's
snap.
Game Of Easter Basket.
AS this Is a ring game, 1t is bound to
be a success. The children stand In a
circle facing the center of the ring. They
sing the following song to the tune Of
Farmer In the DELI"
"Easter's come again.
Easters come again,
The rabbit brings the basket i'm
ana leaves 1t at the door.
Fl runs back to the woods
SO ne will not be seen;
Id like'to thank him If / could
10 show him how I'm pleased"
While this is being SUNG one child who
takes the part of the rabbit. walks around
the OUTSIDE OF the ring and leaves a little
BASKET chino one of the children. AS
soon as 1t Is discovered the child receiv-
ing 1t tries to catch the rabbit before the
niue teioW gets into the ring. where he
mad left the basket. If the rabbit ia
caught In this way he must take his part
over again, but If he succeeds In getting
into the ring before being caught the
child who DID not catch him becomes the
rabbit. Then the rabbit song is sung
again and the game goes on.
After about IS minutes with the rabbit
and his basket game the little hostess NAV
voluntarily become the rabbit and ask all
or the players to close their eyes while
they sing. Then she places a tiny Easter
basket behind each child as a gift. The
presents may be inexpensive and contain
but one pretty Easter egg.
Little Red Hen Game.
The little girl who is giving the party
prepares a number of small straw nests
ana places from one to four candy eggs.
the size OF jelly beans. in each of them.
While all of the children are sent out of
the room these nests are placed around
so that they can be seen only by those
with sharp eye, but the nests must he
IN plain sight. 1t must be impossible.
however, Tor any one to see how many
eggs are In the nests. One PLAYER is
chosen little red hen" When the guests
return to the room each child in turn
asks: Where are your eggs, my little
den away for Easter"
Then the questioner has one guess tn
locate them. and she asks if the eggs are
IN some nest which she sees. The first
player may say: Are they in the nest on
the music cabinet?" The little red hen
always says Look and see" When the
player finds the eggs she may keep them.
She also takes the place of the little red
hen. AS the nests have different num-
bers of eggs i'm them. the children will not
only be interested in finding the eggs. but
Will be anxious to see how many eggs
each child finds. There is added pleasure
Tor the little ones in taking their turns
at being little red hen.
Birds Egg Game.
The hostess of an Easter luncheon NAV
welcome the following suggestion for a
half hours pastime at the table before
the desert course is served. Each guest
Is provided with a place card in the form
of a cardboard egg. All eggs may be the
same color, but a variety of tints will bet
ter serve the purpose of the game. Tho
hostess explains that each of these paper
eggs represents a birds egg contributed
to the luncheon by the feathered creature
limited on the back.
AS each of the IL eggs is numbered,