SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23053, 22 June 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)

SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO

WHEN IT IS RAINING Do you ever wonder what to do on a rainy day? If you have finished your book and It i 8 too wet to go to the library for another, try these games with your brothers and sisters and your friends the next wet day you have at home,

CUPID’S DART

Have a large dart drawn on a Sheet or large piece of gaper and

hang it at eye level. Divide the heart into sections and give each division a definite point value, such as 5, 10. 20, 50, Then let each player throw three darts .at the heart. Add up the numbers each of the three darts has scored. At the end of a certain time add up each player’s score.

WHAT ANIMAL?

This is a good trick to play oll your friends. Take a looking-glass and a large dark piece of cloth. Cover the glass with the cloth and say to your friend, “Name any animal and I will show it to you. Whatever animal your friend

names, whip off the cloth and he will see his oWn face. —’MATE SPRINGBURN.

GROSSING THE AVON

For this game yoU will need two rows of chairs, facing each other about 6ft apart, Place these two rows down the middle of the room. Each child sits down. A musical instrument is played, and aer the music stops, someone shouts Cross the Avon?’ Each child runs across the room and tries to find a chair

on ■ the opposite bank. Meanwhile a chair hag been taken away from each row,' so that two children are unable to sit down. Thus the children playing gradually become fewer and fewer, until two remain at the end. These are the whiners, and they have crossed the Avon.

THE BEWITCHED PENNY

*l*o convince your audience that you are a real magician-, roll up your sleeves. Put a penny in the palm of your hand, clench your fist, open your hand and show it empty. The penny is actually stuck at the back Of the third and fourth fingers. Before you begin the performance, put a dab of soap on the back of two fingers. Close your hand and press the.soaped fingers well on the penny to make it stick. Keep the two fingers together when you open your hand.