CHRISTMAS GAMES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 33, 14 December 1943, Page 3

CHRISTMAS GAMES

♦ POEM GAME A novel game which can be played without any jjreparation, and is particularly good for older children, is organised in the following way : One player —preferably an adult — selccts a short story or poem from any book at hand. Every player except the one who is to read, them chooses a trade or profession, which he holds throughout the game. When the trades are selected, the reader opens his book and reads from it any passage he. selects. Every time he comes to a common noun he jjauses and looks at one of «the 'tradesmen" who must immediately name some article or tool connected with his profession. By this substitution of nouns the most pathetic passage is converted into a jumble of absurdities.! For example, say No. 1 is a butcher, No. 2 a carpenter, No. 3 a grocer, No. 4 a mason, No. 5 a druggist, and No. 6 a baker. If the poem chosen wc, say "The skeleton in Armour," one of Longfellow s, it would sound something like this: Speak! Speak! Thou fearful (1) lamb. Who, with the hollow (2) Nails. Still is rude (3) Flour drest. Comest to daunt me! THE PENNY HUNT This makes a very e-xciting game and is done with bright new coins. Half-pennies or farthings are Just as suitable, of course, if these are preferred. The pennies should be. hidden before the party, or the game can be played by sending the. children out one at a time. When the first returns a grown-up sitting at the piano can indicate, by loud or soft music, whether the hunter is near or far from the object of. his search. When one penny has been found, the next child can go out, while the penny is hidden, to try his luck. If no piano is possessed, the music can be made, by handclapping, carrying it from soft to loud, according to progress. « DEPENDS Teacher: How old would a person be who was born in 1910? Willie: Man or woman?