Games

Captain Bal
II _18 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Bas...

Drawing The Oven
This is another dangerous game. It consists of several player...

Gypsy
_5 to 10 players._ _Indoors; out of doors._ This...

Swallows And Hawks
In the flight of birds there is nothing to compare for beauty...

On The Propagation Of Various Kinds Of Shrubs And Plants
Besides sowing seed and rearing plants from them by transplan...

Gardening
We read in the sacred records, that when man was created, he ...

The Leaves
1. The leaves are green, the leaves are brown. Th...

Balloon
A string is stretched across the room at a height of about th...

Fire-buckets

Source: What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games And Pastimes
Category: GAMES FOR A PARTY





At a fire in the country, where there is no hose, a line of men
extends from the burning house to the nearest pond, and buckets are
continually being passed along this line. Hence the name by which this
excellent game is called here. It is played thus. A large number of
miscellaneous and unbreakable articles--balls, boots, potatoes, books,
and so on--are divided into two exactly equal groups, and each group
is placed in a clothes basket. The company then forms into two equal
lines, and each chooses a captain. Each captain stands by the basket
at one end of his line, at the other end being a chair and another
player standing by that. At the word "Start," the articles are handed
one by one by the captain to the first player in the line, and passed
as quickly as possible without dropping to the player by the chair. As
they come to him he piles them on the chair (without dropping any)
until all are there, and then returns them with equal speed until the
basket is filled again. The side which finishes first is the winner.
If an article is dropped it must be picked up before any other of the
articles can pass the player who dropped it.

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