Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-12-20
Christmas Romps
For the Little Ones

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HHlDE AND SEEK games are al
ways at Christmas time or dur
Ing other holiday seasons splen-
did to play. There is new way of
playing hide and seek, Just the op-
posite Of the old familiar game. The
player who is 1T" goes away to hide,
instead Of binding, while all the other
players remain at the goal. While one
counts 100 they all blind their eyes.
AT the end Of the counting the play.
ers all hunt for the hider As soon as
one discovers his hiding place be must
squeeze In and hide there too. If there
isn't enough room for him he must
take seat in plain sight near the hid
ing place. The player who is unable to
discover the hiding place is it, for
the next game.
A bean bag is almost a jollier play
mate than ball. Why, does a child
ask? Just because it never runs away
and loses itself as ball does 50 often
when 1t goes rolling of alone to see
the world. A bean bag can't roll. and
so 1t is nearly always ready to play
when child is ready. You can make
your own bean bag. too some rainy
afternoon when you are not able to 20
out In the garden to play. Strong red
and white striped ticking sewed care
fully with small stitches in double
square which measures about six
inches on each side is the best cover
f0v> f0n l~~-
two-thirds full Of dried peas or beans.
Another and prettier cover for a bean
bag is made Of quite strong unbleached
cotton and it Is decorated with some
bright flowers cut from scraps of
ch1ntz or copies of your Noah's Ark
animals cut from black cambria. These
little picture figures should be sewed In
over and over stitches to the white
bean bag cover. When you have made
as many as eight or ten fne new bean
bags you are ready to invite all the
children from the house next door for
an afternoon Of pleasant bean bag
games.
An empty wooden soap box may be
transformed by clever boy into a
splendid bean bag board. quite as
strong and pretty as any which you
can buy at toy shop One end and
the two sides should be knocked of
the box. and the remaining end must
be braced to the bottom by some strips
Of wood taken from the other end.
Three holes varying in size and one
| above the other are then cut with a
circular saw in the bottom. and the
entire board is painted red. The
game is played like that Of ringing
hoops on stake.
bean bag puss In the corner is the
jolliest sort of bean bag game. Each
child chooses tree for his corner.
and half the players are provided with
bean bags. One child losses a bean
bag to child at an opposite tree. i'm
mediately running toward his oppo-
.nent's tree. The other child tries to
catch the bean bag and reach the
thrower's tree first. AS great many
bean bags may be flying through the
air at once, the game will prove a
whole lot Of fun for a group Of chill
dren.
"Bean bag call'' is fine game to
play on lawn or in a field some
frosty day when a child wants to
warm his fingers and toes. One child
who is it, losses a bean bag In the
air and at the same time calls quickly
the name. OF another child who is play.
ing the game. The child called must
run forward and catch the bean bag
before 1t falls to the ground or he
must leave the ground The child who
catches it successfully the greatest
number of times wins the game.