Indoor Games for Kids

In this game, one of the players is sent out of the room, while the others hide a handkerchief or any small article that can be easily secreted.

NINE MEN’S MORRIS is an ancient English game, and ought not to be laid aside; so we resuscitate it for the benefit of young England.

One player with his eyes bandaged lays his head on a chair, or in another player’s lap, while the others strike him on his back with their open hands.

One player takes an oblong piece of paper, and having divided it into three equal parts by folding, he sketches a comic head, either with pen or pencil, in the upper space;

One of the players is sent out of the room, while the others fix upon a subject, which may be anything to which the three questions, “How do you like it?” “Where do you like it?” and “When do you like it?” will apply.

To play this amusing game, which is of German origin, it is necessary to be furnished with five cards, on which are painted the figures of a white horse, an inn, a bell, a hammer, and a bell and hammer;

This old-fashioned pastime is so generally known that it is scarcely necessary to describe it;

A boy who has never seen the game played is elected hunter; the others seat themselves on the ground, as in Hunt the Slipper.