SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22367, 2 April 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)

SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO

DIZZY WALKING

Lay . a string flat on the floor and fry to walk the length of it, keep-

fng the middle of your feet on the string. Try >to r wallr at your usual speed.

All players form a circle, with a leader who says: “Peep, peep, a chicken.” Each player repeats, in tum> “Peep, peep, a chicken.” Then the leader says: “Cluck, cluck, a • hen; peep, peep, a chicken,” and all repeat it At the third round, the leader calls out: “Quack, quack, a duck; cluck, cluck, a hen; pieep, peep, a chicken,” all following. The fourth round is: “Gobbis, gobble, a turkey; quack, quack, a duck,” and so on. At the fifth round, the leader begins with “Baa, baa. a lamb.” The sixth and last round goes like this: “Moo, moo. a cow; baa, baa, a lamb; gobble, gobble, a turkey; quack, quack, a duck; cluck, cluck, a hen; peep, peep, a chicken. Whoever misses at any time must drop out. See if you can remember all these farmyard noises in order, FRUIT SALAD There is a fruit hidden in each sentence. Can you find them? The first one is “grape.” The sheep are eating rape and turnips now. Tittle Monty is still ,at school. They were either cupids or angels. Give him a slap, please! You must mop each room, Jane. I think we need a plumber to do the bathroom. . —MARY CHAPMAN,. A. 8., West Eyreton.

Although native costumes in Europe Uaye almost disappeared as everyday wear, they are still to be seen .-'ln Ukraine, the southern part cf Russia, near the Black Sea. The ’"omen work at the elaborate and beautiful embroideries in the long evenings and snowbound days Bof winter. Mount the dolls on stiff paper or thin cardboard (breakfast cereal packets, are good for this). Faint them and their clothes bright, clear colours, leaving the 'blouses white with gay. embroidery. Make some more clothes, too, with different designs on them

A BIRD GAME

Write on cards the names of as many birds as there are players. Have these ready ahead of time. Pictures of the birds are. better, if it is possible to get them. Pin a bird on the back of each player, and ask that no one tell the name written there. A player is named. He stands up in front of the group, with his back turned, so that the :name of the bird may be seen by :the others. They now make re-

marks about the characteristics of this bird pinned to his back, being careful not to make it easy for him to guess. The player standing tries to guess the name of the bird on his

back, and when he does guess correctly, another player takes his turn.

A CLOTHES-PIN GAME

Place a straight-back chair in the centre of the floor and stand an empty milk bottle at the back of the chair. Have each player in turn reacli over from in front of the , wtwi attempt the clothes-pin one at a time into the bottle. Count five for each pin dropped inside of the milk bottle, and have a time limit for play.