Old Fashioned Children's Games

Over 200 Outdoor, Car Trip, Song, Card and Party Activities

Sharon O’Bryan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

143 Seiten

1998
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-0558-9 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Whatever happened to the old-fashioned children's games and songs? Old favorites like Kick the Can, Fox and Geese, and Red Rover encouraged camaraderie, physical activity, coordination and social interaction--as electronic and computer games never can. Family and campfire singalongs helped preserve the folksong and storytelling tradition while instilling in children a sense of community and a confidence in their musical capability.

Writer and poet Sharon O'Bryan has gathered a collection of the old games and songs. She brings the old days back to life with instructions for outdoor games like King of the Mountain; car games like Graveyard; card games including Old Maid; and favorite party games such as Blind Man's Bluff. Lyrics and music to singing games and campfire songs are added to this collection to offer old style amusement for every child and occasion.

Award-winning writer Sharon O’Bryan lives in Florence, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introductory Note

Outside Games

Angels in the Snow

Balloon Toss

Bear and Beasts

Bird, Beast or Fish

Birds

Chain

Chinese Ball

Circle Relay

Circle Tag

Come and Get It

Cross Tag

Do This, Do That

Dodge Ball

Dress Up

Fast Act

Flower Jewelry

Follow the Leader

Fox and Geese

Gypsy

Hang Tag

Heel and Toe Race

Hide-and-Seek

Home Tag

Hopscotch

Horse

Hound and Rabbit

I'll Draw the Frying Pan on Your Back

Jacks

Jump Rope

Kick the Can

King

King of the Mountain

Leapfrog

Lemonade

Letting Out the Doves

Lightning Bug Hunt

Lion in the Pit

Marbles

Marco Polo

Midnight Sardines

Minuteman Run

Mother May I

Nut Race

Pass the Ball

Pitch Pebbles

Poison

Pom, Pom, Pullaway

Red Light

Red Rover

Ringolevio

Rock School

Run, Sheepie, Run

Scavenger Hunt

Serpent

Shadow Tag

Snowball Tag

Spinning Bottle Tag

Spoon Race

Statues

Still Pond

Stoop Tag

Three-Legged Sack Race

Touch-Wood Tag

Treasure Hunt

Tug-of-War

Twenty Steps

Wolf

Zigzag Relay Race

Car Games

Alphabet Game

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

Car Count

Ghost

Graveyard

Hangman

Minister's Cat

Odd and Even

Old Dead Horse

Paper, Rock, Scissors

Riddly, Riddly, Riddly D

Squaring Dots

State License Plates

Tic-Tac-Toe

Twenty Questions

Card Games

Authors

Beggar My Neighbor

Crazy Eights

Donkey

Fish

I Doubt It

Memory

My Ship Sails

Old Maid

Seven Up

Slap Jack

Snap

War

Singing Games and Campfire Songs

A-Hunting We Will Go

Billy Boy

Bingo

Blue-Tail Fly

Clapping Rhythm

Did You Ever See a Lassie?

Down in the Valley

Farmer in the Dell

Found a Peanut

Froggie Went A-Courtin'

Git Along Little Dogies      69 &

Here We Go Looby Loo

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Home on the Range

Hush, Little Baby

I Am a Funny Little Dutch Girl

I'm a Nut

In and Out the Windows

Itsy Bitsy Spider

John Brown Had a Little Indian

Little Bo Peep

London Bridge Is Falling Down

Mary Had a Little Lamb

My Mother Told Me

Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow

Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?

Oh My Darling Clementine

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Playmate

Pop Goes the Weasel

Ring Around the Rosie

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain

Sing a Song of Sixpence

Skip to My Lou

There's a Hole in My Bucket

This Old Man

Three Blind Mice

A Tisket, a Tasket

Two, Four, Nine

Where Is Thumbkin?

Yankee Doodle

You Are My Sunshine

Party Games

Air, Water, Fire

Balloon Ball

Blind Bell

Blind Man's Buff

Blowing Feathers

Bobbing for Apples

Button, Button

Buzz

Cahoots

Cat and Mice

Clothespins in the Jar

Coffeepot

Ditto

Do as I Say

Drawing in the Dark

Duck, Duck, Goose

Ducks Fly

Eggshell Race

Farmer Is Coming

Feelings

Finger in the Bucket

Fire in the Mountain

Fish Race

Fisherman

Frog in the Sea

Fruit Basket

Geography

Gossip

Grandmother's Trunk

Guess the Beans

Guess Who?

Ha! Ha!

Here's the Church

Hidden Treasures

Hide the Thimble

Hold Fast, Let Go

Hot Potato

How Many Words?

Hunt the Slipper

I Am Very Tall

I Love My Love

I Say

Jack Be Nimble

Jerusalem and Jericho

Kaleidoscope

Keep Moving

Lost Child

Mother Cat

Musical Chairs

My Name Is

Noah's Ark

Numbered Chairs

One Potato, Two Potato

Pass the LifeSaver

Penny Pastime

Pickup Sticks

Pin the Tail on the Donkey

Puss in the Circle

Puss in the Corner

Questions

Remember

Simon Says

Stop, Thief

Tell the Smell

This Is My Nose

Touch It

Up, Jenkins!

Where's the Leader?

Who, Sir, I Sir?

Zoom

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.1998
Zusatzinfo	photos, musical notation and lyrics, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Spielen / Lernen ► Quiz / Rätsel
ISBN-10	0-7864-0558-9 / 0786405589
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-0558-9 / 9780786405589
Zustand	Neuware