Old Fashioned Children's Games: Over 200 Outdoor, Car Trip, Song, Card and Party Activities

Whatever happened to the old-fashioned children's games and songs? Old favorites like Kick the Can, Fox and Geese, and Red Rover encouraged camaraderie, physical activity, coordination and social interaction--as electronic and computer games never can. Family and campfire singalongs helped preserve the folksong and storytelling tradition while instilling in children a sense of community and a confidence in their musical capability. Writer and poet Sharon O'Bryan has gathered a collection of the old games and songs. She brings the old days back to life with instructions for outdoor games like King of the Mountain; car games like Graveyard; card games including Old Maid; and favorite party games such as Blind Man's Bluff. Lyrics and music to singing games and campfire songs are added to this collection to offer old style amusement for every child and occasion.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Introductory Note      Outside Games Angels in the Snow      Balloon Toss      Bear and Beasts      Bird, Beast or Fish      Birds      Chain      Chinese Ball      Circle Relay      Circle Tag      Come and Get It      Cross Tag      Do This, Do That      Dodge Ball      Dress Up      Fast Act      Flower Jewelry      Follow the Leader      Fox and Geese      Gypsy      Hang Tag      Heel and Toe Race      Hide-and-Seek      Home Tag      Hopscotch      Horse      Hound and Rabbit      I'll Draw the Frying Pan on Your Back      Jacks      Jump Rope      Kick the Can      King      King of the Mountain      Leapfrog      Lemonade      Letting Out the Doves      Lightning Bug Hunt      Lion in the Pit      Marbles      Marco Polo      Midnight Sardines      Minuteman Run      Mother May I      Nut Race      Pass the Ball      Pitch Pebbles      Poison      Pom, Pom, Pullaway      Red Light      Red Rover      Ringolevio      Rock School      Run, Sheepie, Run      Scavenger Hunt      Serpent      Shadow Tag      Snowball Tag      Spinning Bottle Tag      Spoon Race      Statues      Still Pond      Stoop Tag      Three-Legged Sack Race      Touch-Wood Tag      Treasure Hunt      Tug-of-War      Twenty Steps      Wolf      Zigzag Relay Race      Car Games Alphabet Game      Animal, Vegetable, Mineral      Car Count      Ghost      Graveyard      Hangman      Minister's Cat      Odd and Even      Old Dead Horse      Paper, Rock, Scissors      Riddly, Riddly, Riddly D      Squaring Dots      State License Plates      Tic-Tac-Toe      Twenty Questions      Card Games Authors      Beggar My Neighbor      Crazy Eights      Donkey      Fish      I Doubt It      Memory      My Ship Sails      Old Maid      Seven Up      Slap Jack      Snap      War      Singing Games and Campfire Songs A-Hunting We Will Go      Billy Boy      Bingo      Blue-Tail Fly      Clapping Rhythm      Did You Ever See a Lassie?      Down in the Valley      Farmer in the Dell      Found a Peanut      Froggie Went A-Courtin'      Git Along Little Dogies      69 & Here We Go Looby Loo      Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush      Home on the Range      Hush, Little Baby      I Am a Funny Little Dutch Girl      I'm a Nut      In and Out the Windows      Itsy Bitsy Spider      John Brown Had a Little Indian      Little Bo Peep      London Bridge Is Falling Down      Mary Had a Little Lamb      My Mother Told Me      Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow      Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?      Oh My Darling Clementine      Old MacDonald Had a Farm      Playmate      Pop Goes the Weasel      Ring Around the Rosie      Row, Row, Row Your Boat      She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain      Sing a Song of Sixpence      Skip to My Lou      There's a Hole in My Bucket      This Old Man      Three Blind Mice      A Tisket, a Tasket      Two, Four, Nine      Where Is Thumbkin?      Yankee Doodle      You Are My Sunshine      Party Games Air, Water, Fire      Balloon Ball      Blind Bell      Blind Man's Buff      Blowing Feathers      Bobbing for Apples      Button, Button      Buzz      Cahoots      Cat and Mice      Clothespins in the Jar      Coffeepot      Ditto      Do as I Say      Drawing in the Dark      Duck, Duck, Goose      Ducks Fly      Eggshell Race      Farmer Is Coming      Feelings      Finger in the Bucket      Fire in the Mountain      Fish Race      Fisherman      Frog in the Sea      Fruit Basket      Geography      Gossip      Grandmother's Trunk      Guess the Beans      Guess Who?      Ha! Ha!      Here's the Church      Hidden Treasures      Hide the Thimble      Hold Fast, Let Go      Hot Potato      How Many Words?      Hunt the Slipper      I Am Very Tall      I Love My Love      I Say      Jack Be Nimble      Jerusalem and Jericho      Kaleidoscope      Keep Moving      Lost Child      Mother Cat      Musical Chairs      My Name Is      Noah's Ark      Numbered Chairs      One Potato, Two Potato      Pass the LifeSaver      Penny Pastime      Pickup Sticks      Pin the Tail on the Donkey      Puss in the Circle      Puss in the Corner      Questions      Remember      Simon Says      Stop, Thief      Tell the Smell      This Is My Nose      Touch It      Up, Jenkins!      Where's the Leader?      Who, Sir, I Sir?      Zoom      Index     

About the Author :
Award-winning writer Sharon O’Bryan lives in Florence, Kentucky.

Review :
“has all the standard games together in one place...a quick easy reference...a useful title”—Reference & User Services Quarterly; “recommend[ed]...an excellent resource”—Library Reviews; “a collection of more than 200 outdoor, car trip, song, card and party activities...target audience is parents, grandparents, teachers, camp counselors, scout leaders, babysitters or anybody who works with kids”—The Cincinnati Enquirer.