WATER GAMES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 20

WATER GAMES

Floats are very useful to anyone learning to swim, and even if you have mastered the art you can have quite a lot of fun with them. An old bicycle tube, or, better still, an old motor-car or motor-cycle tube, inflated with air, make excellent floats. They can also be bought specially made for the purpose. Two youngsters who are learning to swim can each lie across a tube ~and then have races. They can paddle and kick as hard as they like —t>ut see that they stay right in the shallow water. They can sit armchair fashion also, and splash each other with their' feet; if they kick up and down .hard I>oo<Z>«Kr>oo<Z><»<^>ocKCl><K)<:' :■»

enough they will find themselves moving along. Perhaps you may all have wrestling matches, each lying across his or her float, and trying to push or pull the others so that they fall off. Another good idea is "perambulator pushing." One bather sits in his float, keeping the legs straight, while another holds his feet and pushes him along. Sometimes careless nurse maids tip their babies out of the prams! It's great fun if you stay in the shallows. It is exciting to jump into the water from a bank or low platform, holding your float against your chest. You can try falling off it and clambering back too, without feet touching the bottom.