GamesNaming ChestnutsRoast three chestnuts before the fire, one of which is named ... Jacks Alive The group sits in a circle in the room. A lighted splinter is... Hand Ball Drill (Preliminary Ball) _1 to 100 players._ _Playground; g... Ring And Goblet Tie wedding-ring or key to silken thread or horsehair, and ho... Follow-my-leader This needs no explaining. It is nearly always good fun for a ... Apple Race A strawberry basket full of small apples is handed to the fir... Club Snatch A goal is marked off across each end of the playground. An In... Corner Spry _10 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._... |
Source: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games And Pastimes
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Counting-out RhymesTo decide who is to begin a game there are various counting-out
rhymes. All the players stand in a circle, surrounding the one who
counts. At each pause in the rhyme (which occurs wherever a stroke has
been placed in the versions which follow) this one touches the players
in turn until the end is reached. The player to whom the last number
comes is to begin. This is one rhyme:--
Eena-a, deen-a, dine-a, dust,
Cat'll-a, ween-a, wine-a, wust,
Spin, spon, must be done,
Twiddlum, twaddlum, twenty-one.
O- U- T spells out.
Others:--
Intery, mintery, cutery corn,
Apple seed and apple thorn;
Wine, brier, limber lock,
Five geese in a flock;
Sit and sing by a spring
O- U- T and in again.
One-ery, two-ery,
Ziccary zan;
Hollowbone, crack-a-bone,
Ninery, ten;
Spittery spot,
Must be done,
Twiddledum, twaddledum,
Twenty-one.
Ring around a ring-pot,
One spot two spot three spot san
Bob-tailed winnie-wack tittero tan
Ham Scram
Fortune man
Singum sangum Buck!
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