Christmas Games.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18946, 17 December 1929, Page 15 (Supplement)

Christmas Games.

A quiet but interesting game, that keeps children amused for a long time, is “The Clock.” A large clock-face, painted on a piece of cardboard, is fastened to the wall. The hour-hand is missing. Each guest is given a paper cjock-hand with his or her name on it, and a pin, and in turn the children are blindfolded and given a chance to pin the hand in its proper place.

The Gipsy Ring. In “The Gipsy Ring” the players join hands and dance round a blindfolded gipsy and another player, her partner. When tha gipsy calls “Stop!” all the players must stand quite still and her partner asks her a question, such as: Who in a cireis :s going to travel s

great deal?” or “Who is going to succeed as an author?” “ Who is going to make a lot of friends and a lot of money?” The gipsy then points to someone in the ring, and the one singled out must leave the circle and run twice round the gipsy, who endeavours to catch him or her. The one caught must stand out of the game. Alice, Where Art Thou?

This, also, is a good "catching” game. The players, holding hands, form a ring in which stand Alice and Peter the latter being blindfolded. When he cries out, “Alice, where are thou?” she has to reply, dodging about, “Here I am, Peter! And he tries to catch her by following her voice. Jt is great fun. Zoological Gardens.

Another amusing game is arranged by pinning a slip of paper, on which is written the name of an animal, to the back of every little guest, and sending the childrog round

of one until they guess correctly which animal they represent. As soon as they have done this, they are given another name. The child who guesses correctly the highest number of animals at the end of the game, which must have a time limit, say, twenty minutes, receives a prize. Touch Colour.

A new version of the old fashioned ‘Touch Wood,” is “Touch Colour.”

A colour to touch is decided upon and then the game starts. Supposing the colour chosen to be green, the game is called “Touch Green,” and the children must look for anything green in the room and touch it—it may be the leaf of a plant, a dress, an ornament, a cushion, the grass in a picture, a touch of green in the carpet, and so on. As they dart from one bit of green to another, an “odd” players tries to seize a child before he (or she) reaches his des filiation. The one who is caught stawftg** places with his captor.