GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS
Australian Women's Weekly
Australian Women's Weekly
16 December 1933
YOU are all sure to like this jolly ball game. Stand all the players in a row except one, who runs a little way off and throws the ball high into the air. As it comes down the other boys and girls must try to catch it and the one who does this adds a "penny" to his score.
The ball then returns to the thrower again, who repeats what he did before, and this goes on until any player has gained "twelve pennies," when he can call himself a "shilling" and change places with the thrower.
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FOR the Feather Game arrange the players in a circle, and then start off by blowing a fluffy feather up into the air in the centre of the circle. The game is for all the boys and girls to try to keep the feather in the air by blowing it upwards. If the feather falls to the ground the player who is nearest to it falls out of the game, so every player must stand perfectly still the moment it touches the ground. The game goes on until at last only one player is left, who is, of course, the winner.
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IN the game of "Pantomimes" you divide the players into two sides, one to be the actors and the other the audience. The actors each draw a slip of paper from out of a hat. On each slip has been written a word such as ugly, pretty, good, silly, etc., and the actors must proceed to act the word they have drawn from the hat. The audience watch this and try to guess what the words are that are being acted, as each actor comes on in turn. The boy or girl who guesses the greatest number of words wins the game.
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A PIECE of paper and a pencil is all each player needs for this game called "Trees."
At the word "Go!" they must all commence to write down the names of as many trees as they can think of which start with the letter "A," such as ash, almond, etc. Then "B" is called out, and so the game goes on right through the alphabet. The boy or girl with the longest list of names of trees which have not been written down by any other player is the winner.
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Tricks to Play on Your Friends
PUT five pennies on the table in front of a pal, and say: "Look at these five pennies. Can you make them into two straight rows of three in each row?"
"Why, of course I can't!" your pal will answer. "You would have to have six pennies to make two straight rows."
"Oh, would you?" you laugh, arranging three pennies in one row, then placing the other two on either sides of the penny in the centre of the first three.
TRY TO SAY THESE
THREE round brown blobs.
Over a crooked style a crooked sixpence crept.
Sharing soap and sherry.
Red leather, yellow leather.
Our canny cat could catch a rat and a rat our cat could catch.
Quick skip, slow skip.
Pip, the pink pawed poodle.
A strange ship slowly and softly sailing.
A shifty snake selling snake skin slippers.
A NEAT CATCH
HERE is a bright little trick which you can play on a pal. You start by saying that you can clasp his hands in such a way that he cannot walk out of the room without unclasping them, although his legs will be quite free to move.
If he consents for you to proceed, you take hold of his wrists and clasp his hands around the leg of a heavy table or some other suitable object. In this way he will find himself unable to walk out of the room, even though his legs, as you said, are free.
Sources:
- Getting Ready for Christmas (1933, December 16). The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), p. 52.
- Tricks to Play on Your Friends (1933, December 16). The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982), p. 52.
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