CHRISTMAS GAMES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 32, 10 December 1943, Page 3

CHRISTMAS GAMES

THE MUSICAL PARCEL

You have heard of musical chairs

—here's one much on the same lines, it is called, the musical parcel and is another version of the musical chairs Raines which is just as exciting but less damaging to small limbs. A nice prize is done up in a packet and quickly passed from hand to hand of a circle oi" guests, only the left hand being used. 'Music is played, during the passing., and "when the. muski steps the player in whose hand the parcel is drops out of tho game. Finally, only two players arc left in. The parcel belongs to tlie player who does NOT hold it when the music stops for the last time. Hadio, gramophone or piano arc all suitable for providing the music shince each can be stopped at will by somebody made responsible. NEW HIDE AND SEEK Here is a game Avhich will not tire yon. M is a game of hide and seek played in the. mind! One child is ''It*" and closes her eyes while the others "hide"--though actually they remain seated in their chairs. Each child thinks of the place where'she would hide, and the advantage of this game is thai really impossible places may be. thought of. such as behind the clock on the mantlepieee, or inside the coal scuttle. "It" asks questions of each ill turn. "Arc you behind the curtain?" '"Are you underneath the table?" "Are you inside the Loud. Speaker?" and so on, till the hiding place of each is guessed. Tile lirst child "caught" is ''l;t" for the next round.

A SKI!!■,()US RUSLVKSS

Farmer (i:.si iija telephone for lii'st time): 'Send me a -bushel of oats;, please." Voice at other end: ''Who are lltey for?" Farmer: "Who arc they for? Don't gel .joking with me, young man., or it will be. worse i'or you,/ They're for my lior.se."