GAMES TO PLAY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 18

GAMES TO PLAY.

BALLOON RACE

The playters, holding spoons, stand in two. Tows, down, the room. Two air balloons are given to the captains of the lines. The balloons* are received on spoons. Directly the balloons have been placed on the spoons the two players turn to those next to them and drop the balloons into the spoon of the next player and so pass the balloon down the row. If the balloons are dropped they must not he picked up again by the hands —only with the spoons. Mo two snoons ait to touch tlie balloon at once. The first balloon' to reach the* end of the row means a win for that side. THE BUSY POSTMAN. One child is the- postman for this game: all ihe other players take the name of a town apiece and sit round the room. The “postman” stands in the centre of the room. The aduit who is directing the game then announces that a letter has been sent from to- mentioning two of the towns. The children who have chosen those towns then try to change places with each other, and the postplan has to try and .sit in one of the vacated chairs. Should he succeed he has won and the “town” has to be the postman. T\YENTY-FIVE QUESTIONS.One person goes out of the room and the remainder choose a particular object—an ornament in a girl’s hair, the sheet of music on the v piano, or the fire tongs, and so on. The person then returns to the room and begins a-sking any question he pleases. He can begin by asking if it is alive, what colour it i.s. what it is used for, and so on, but lie is limited to twenty-five questions. Should he then fail another player takes his place.