THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT Little book of Funcraft play. Yours be joy to give away — To the children every one Carry happiness and fun. «^ THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT BY PATTEN BEARD Author of "The Jolly Book of Boxcraft," "The Jolly Book of Playcraft," "Marjorie's Literary Dolls," Etc. With Sixty-two Illustrations arranged by the Author and photographed under her direction by G. S. North NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS d Copyright, 1Q18, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All rights reserved ©Ci.A5U1747 SEP "^ i^ia DEDICATION THIS BOOK OF FUNCRAFT IS GIVEN TO ALL LITTLE CHILDREN WHO FIND JOY IN EVERYDAY THINGS AND WHO WANT TO SHARE THIS HAPPINESS WITH OTHER CHILDREN AUTHOR'S NOTE Thanks are due to The Youth's Companion, The Designer, Mc Call's, The Congregationalist, The John Martin Book, The N, Y, Tribune and The N, Y, Herald and others for permission to reprint these little home-made games and entertainments which they have used in past years. The author wishes also to acknowledge the help of her friends among the children who have contributed in their own way to the making of this book of fun. These are Marjorie and Dorothy Candee, Carol and Francis Wing, Eleanor and Richard Mathews, Pris- cilla Hatch and Stanley Hoyt and Wesley Meehan. Acknowledgment is made to The Dennison Com- pany for use of fancy papers, stickers, and party decorations. CONTENTS PAGE Introduction (Verse) xiv How TO Find Fun i The Party Made From Almost Nothing at All . • lo A New Year's Party i6 January Snowflake Fun i8 The Lincoln's Birthday Celebration ... 24 A Washington's Birthday Game 29 Valentine Puzzle Fun 33 Fun for Valentine's Day 36 Fun for St. Patrick's Day . . . . • -43 The Topsy-Turvy Fun for April First ... 47 Easter-Time Fun .53 Outdoor May Day Fun 59 Indoor May Day Fun ...•.•• 64 June Fun 71 Fun for July Fourth • 76 August Fun 82 September Fun : A Leaf Party Game .... 85 October Hallowe'en Fun . . . ^ • . 91 Carrot Fun • • 97 The Thanksgiving Fun Making .... loi Thanksgiving Table Favors and Make-Toy Game . 105 The Christmas Toy Exhibition 108 Christmas Fun Party Gift-Making . • . .111 Christmas-Tree Fun-Making 115 Surprise Party Fun . . • . •. • • ii7 The Masquerade Party . . . • , .119 Snip Picture Fun 124 Cork Fun . 127 A Plasticine Party 133 [vii] CONTENTS PAGE The Indoor Picnic Fun ....•• 136 A Balloon Fun Party ....... 141 Auction Fun-Making 144 The Queer Party 146 Envelope Fun 149 North Pole Fun 153 Puzzle-Making Fun 156 Peanut Fun 161 The Game Party Fun 165 The Faggot Party 167 Book Fun-Making 169 Toy Charade Fun 178 The Bookplate Fun Party 180 Fun with Sticker Labels 184 Trade-Mark Anagram Fun 186 Guessing Game Fun . . . . . . .189 Hobo Fun 192 Bargain Hunting Fun 196 Garden Party Fun . . . . • . .199 The Lawn Party Bazaar 204 The Japanese Fun Party 208 The Alice in Wonderland Lawn Party . . .211 Fairy Fun 214 The Bazaar on Wheels 218 A Fishing Party on the Lawn 220 The Fun of Wise Turtle 222 The Sea Beach Party 224 The Fun of a Box Party 228 The Sick-a-Bed-Fun Party 232 A Lawn Party Contest . . . • . .238 The Fortune-Telling Fun 241 The Drawing Party ....*.. 244 The Funnybeast Fun 248 SoAP-BuBBLE Fun 251 The Fun of Illustrating with Snip Pictures , . 254 [viii] ILLUSTRATIONS This Is a Bazaar on Wheels: Five Cents a Grab Frontispiece FACING PAGE Party Candy-Boxes Cut from Wallpaper .... 6 Party Letter Paper Stenciled with Water Color Paints . 6 Party Dresses That Were Made at Home — for Fun . . lo Our Party Table Set for a 'Tour- Year-Old Birthday" . lo Party Prizes That Anybody Can Make for Fun . , 12 A Jack Horner Pie Made Like a Bag with Crepe Paper . 12 Here Is January Fun, Snowflake Patterns .... 22 Here Is Fun for Washington's Birthday .... 22 Some Valentines Made with Motto Candies ... 42 Some Games to Play on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th . 42 April Fool Candy, Foolscaps, and an April Fool Doll , . 52 Games to Play at an Easter Party or for Fun in April . 52 A Woodland Party Made in a Dish ..... 62 Trophies Brought Home from a Real May Day Party in the Woods 62 Here Is Fun for an Indoor May Day Party ... 70 June Fun Is All About Birds, of Course .... 70 Patriotic Games Are Fun for the Fourth of July . . 80 Butterfly Fun Comes in August ..... 80 September Fun Is a Leaf Race with Bright Colored Leaves 90 October Fun Is for Hallowe'en and a Funny Witch has Made Magic Ink for It . . . . . .go A Pieful of Fun for a Thanksgiving Party . . . 104 Some Playthings Made from Lemons, Oranges, Potatoes and Bananas ........ 104 A Toy Picture Made for December Fun . . . .110 Favors of Pretty Candles to Give at a Christmas Party . no Fun for a Surprise Party 118 [ix] ILLUSTRATIONS Picnic Brown Paper Masks Cut with Scissors Indian Head-Dress Made of Newspaper, Collar, and News paper Trimming ..... Snip Picture Fun Is Jolly — Not so Easy as It Looks Cork Fun Is Nice for a Rainy Indoor Afternoon The Indoor Picnic Fun for Rainy Indoor Days . Little Home-Made May Baskets Made from Small Dishes ....... A Balloon Party with Colored Penny Balloons . Auction Fun Made with Toy Animals Fun with Old Envelopes — and the Animals Are for an Ani mal Show ....... North Pole Fun Is Played with Real Explorers . Puzzle-Making Fun ...... Peanut Owls, People and Animals for Peanut Fun This Is the Exciting Finish at a Game Party. Who Will Win? This Is Book Fun: Here Are the Titles of Three Books Here Are Doll Charades. Can You Guess What Book This Represents? ...... Here Are Bookplates Made at a Photographic Party . Here Are Pictures Made Just for Fun at a Sticker Party Advertising Anagrams Must Spell Trade-Marks Can You Guess What Is Taken from These Advertising Pictures? ........ Here Is a Game Called Hobo Hand-Out, Made with Mag azine Food Advertisements ..... This Is a Game Called Bargains in Which One has to Match Pieces of Advertisements . Priscilla, Wesley, and Stanley Playing a Game at a Lawn Party Posters Made of Wallpaper for Bazaar Advertising . A Wee Japanese Garden Made at a Garden Contest . Fairy Fun: The Fairies Dance to Invisible Fairy Music A Fishing Party on the Lawn ..... [x] FACING PAGE . I20 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE The Fun of the Wise Turtle Game 220 A Brownie Box Game of Fortune Telling at a Box Fun Party 230 Some Jolly Fun for a Sick-a-Bed Party .... 230 Oak-Leaf Bookmarkers Made at a Garden Contest . .238 Hollyhock Dolls Made for a Contest ..... 238 Playing at Fortune-Telling — But Everybody Knows It's Just Make-Believe Fun ...... 242 This Is a Picture of a Mouse Drawn in Just a Minute . 246 Here Are Some Funnybeasts, the Donkeybray, Puppywag, and Yowlcat ........ 246 Soap-Bubble Fun Is Mrs. Piper's Party .... 252 Picture-Illustrating with Scissors, Paste, and Paper . . 252 [xi] MATERIALS USED IN MAKING FUNCRAFT GAMES Brown manilla wrapping paper Pad paper Colored papers Wallpapers Cardboard, both colored and white Newspaper Magazine advertisements Paper shanks Wire shanks Little toys Penny dolls Old envelopes Boxes of assorted stickers Glazed paper book jackets Colored pictures Crepe paper. TOOLS NEEDED TO MAKE FUNCRAFT GAMES Scissors, paste, crayons, Pencils, pins. PRIZES YOU CAN USE FOR FUNCRAFT GAMES The little things you know how to make yourself A penny sheet of transfer pictures A sheet of cut-out pictures A box of fancy stickers A five-cent box of crayons A penny soap-bubble pipe A lollypop An apple Animal crackers A new pencil A rubber eraser A toy flag Small favors meant for holiday use Japanese water flowers and water pictures A five-cent package of garden seeds A bunch of flowers or a little plant. [xii] FUN PARTY RULES A host must always see that others enjoy them- selves. A host must think first of his guests' enjoyment and last of his own happiness. A host should greet every child with equal show of cordiality. A host should never make personal comments. A host should never enter into a quarrel. When you play games and disputes arise, take a vote of all players to decide the matter. Make no distinctions. Be polite to all and when you say good-by be equally cordial to each guest. Remember to thank your host and express your pleasure enjoyed at the party when you say good-by at its close. [xiii] INTRODUCTION Have you heard of the children who lived in a shoe And of the old woman who lived with them, too? — Maybe you have heard why she sent them to bed And fed them on nothing but water and bread? Why, the world all about them was brimful of fun And the joUiest plays that are under the sun, But the children complained in the horridest way That there wasn't a single nice thing they could play! When the old woman heard, she just brandished her stick And called for the fairies to come right there quick — Nimblefingers, the fairy who makes magic joy Out of all the old nothings most people destroy; Happy Thought, the good fairy who finds some new play In the most unexpected and jolliest way — With some paper, some crayons, some cardboard, you know, You cut and you color and make a game so! And the little Play Fairy, who came with them too, Was to teach all the children the glad things to do — Why, the old woman's shoe was all magic with glee Everybody was happy as happy could be! They made jolly fun out of nothing at all — Every day in the year and from winter to fall — They made fairy magic with everyday things And each day was so joyous, it sped by on wings! Now, the children and fairies who played in the shoe, Are giving this glad book of new plaj^s to you, For happiest magic, so they have all found. Is just sharing the fun you have made, the year 'round. [xiv] The Jolly Book of Funcraft HOW TO FIND FUN Do you believe in four-leaved clovers? Do you think that the finding of them will make one lucky? I do. I think every person who picks up a four- leaved clover is ever so lucky! And I'll tell you why I think so — I think one is lucky to have the bright eyes that can find in an everyday clover field something more than everyday and usual! That's what I call lucky. And I think that one can have ever so much fun and be ever so lucky every day in the whole year if one can find in common-place things something new and interesting. I'll tell you about something that happened to me: There was once-upon-a-time a day that seemed just about the dullest day that ever was. There didn't seem to be anything to do. I was tired of all my games and my toys but I wanted some fun dreadfully, I was — yes, I was sulky and cross — I went outdoors to w^ander around all by myself and while I was walking I stubbed my toe and looked down at the path. Right there — you can believe me or just think [I] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT it is make believe — right there I saw a fairy with a four-leaved clover! ''O, hello!" I exclaimed. ''Now that I've found a magic clover, I'm going to make a wish and it will have to come true because a four-leaved clover is sure to bring luck!" 'What do you wish?" asked the fairy. "I wish for some jolly fun," I replied. "I don't know what to do with myself. Everything seems dull and uninteresting — but now that I have magic something nice will be sure to happen!" The fairy nodded. "If you look about you, you'll find more four-leaved clovers," she suggested. "Every day of the year is full of lucky fun, one needs but the eyes that can see it. Why don't you hunt for your fun and find it in everyday things? It's there just as four-leaved clovers are in clover-fields!" "I can't see it," said I. "Then rub your eyes good and hard and take a look all around you," the fairy advised. "What do you see now?" "I see nothing but some horrid old crayons and some scraps of paper lying with some everyday scis- sors on our back porch," I grumbled. "Wow! How can you say that, you big blind bat," cried the fairy, jumping up and down with ex- citement — "I see, I see Cant you see it, too?" "Of course I can't!" "Well, take another look!" "It's no use," I repeated. But the fairy waved the [2] HOW TO FIND FUN clover as if it were a wand and the funniest thing happened: the crayons began to draw something on the paper and while I watched, it turned out that they were coloring four-leaved clovers with green crayon and the scissors that were on the back porch began to cut the picture-clovers out just as fast as the crayons made them! And then I saw that there were two fairies there and not just the one! "Why, why," I laughed. "Isn't this funny! Who are you? Is this the fun?" "We are Happy Thought and Nimblefingers," the fairies explained. "Happy Thought finds fun every- where even in everyday things and Nimblefingers makes a magic with scissors or crayons or something and turns it into play." "You might tell me about the fun," said I. "I was just wishing for some. Maybe this is mine." "If you will do what Nimblefingers is doing, you can make your own magic fun," returned Happy Thought. "This fun we have just thought of and made is a party." "Oh, oh," cried I, "I think a party is the most fun of anything I know. How do the paper clovers make a party?" "It's a Lucky Party," both fairies chimed in. "Ask Play how to do it?" And then I saw that there was a third little fairy standing right beside me and fairly hopping up and down to attract my attention. It had probably been there all the time, only I hadn't seen it at all. [3] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT "You can have a party out of almost everything," the fairy, Play, laughed. "Almost anything you can play with will make a party if it's a game that you can share with other children. This party is a Lucky Party and you put numbers on the paper clovers and hide them everywhere where you are allowed to amuse yourself indoors at home. You put them under the sofa, under the mat, on the bookshelf, behind sofa pillows, back of the scrapbasket, under the table — everywhere. And then you ask your brothers and sisters and the children next door to come and help you play a party game with them." "How?" "Why, you have a four-leaved clover hunt, of course! See who can find the most! Make about fifty clovers — it takes no time to make them. The one who finds most clovers or wins the highest score of numbers will be so lucky he will win a prize." "What kind of a prize?" I inquired. "I haven't any money except the two dollars and fifty-six cents that is in my china bunny-bank that came from Japan. I don't want to spend that. I'm saving up to buy myself a toy flying-machine." Happy Thought considered. "Prizes are almost everywhere," she declared. "Haven't you some lit- tle toy you could give as a prize, just for the sake of making fun?" "I have an apple up in my room," I suggested. "It's a lovely red apple and I want it myself but I could give it as a prize, maybe." [4] HOW TO FIND FUN "Do it up in a pretty crepe paper napkin and tie it in a little package — a very pretty package," laughed Nimblefingers. "It's ever so much more of a prize if it's done up nicely in tissue paper, don't you think so?" I nodded. "Maybe I have something nicer," I suggested. "Maybe I'll think of something. There could be other prizes and the apple could be booby prize. I know how to make very pretty candy-boxes out of wallpaper. One cuts out a triangle about ten inches in size and one folds and folds till one has made a box with a triple cover. Maybe Mother would let me have nuts to put inside or some animal crackers or something. And — ^wait a bit! Wait a bit — I have a brand-new rubber eraser that would be a prize. I know how to draw the funny figure of a man upon it. I will tie a ribbon about his neck to make a necktie. One just draws the face and the dress on the blank side of the long rubber eraser. It would be a fine prize to win. All the children I know want me to make them to carry to school in pencil-boxes. Most anybody would be glad to have one!" So I made the prizes and did them all up nicely in colored crepe paper. Nimblefingers helped me tie them with bright strands of colored rafiia and odd bits of narrow ribbon that I had. Then I thought of something else. "How about invitations and refreshments?" "Refreshments!" The fairies seemed puzzled. [5] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT "Things to eat/' I explained. "One always has something to eat at a party." "Bread and butter," cried Happy Thought. "Bread and butter sandwiches/' corrected Nimble- fingers. "Make-believe it's ice-cream," laughed Play. "One can have a splendid time just pretending. I know a little girl who can make a whole party out of a lump of sugar. I do! She divides the lumjp into four bits and each one is make-believe differwm. She and her sister have the party on an old cherry stump in the back-yard. The ^party' is ice-cream, cake, candy, and pink lemonade." "But I want real things to eat," I insisted. "I don't want to play that I have them. What could I have at a party I made myself just for fun?" "I suppose," suggested Happy Thought, ^'that might depend upon your Mother or your Daddy or your — ^your governess, maybe. Perhaps it might de- pend upon the cook or whether you could make your own refreshments. Can you cook?" "I know how to boil an egg; I can make toast without burning it; I have helped Mother make peanut-butter sandwiches; I know how to squeeze lemons and make lemonade Oh, and once I made some cocoa!" "Then you could go right ahead and make your party yourself," laughed Happy Thought. "You might make jelly sandwiches in place of peanut-but- ter or make bread-and-butter sandwiches. Wouldn't [6] Party Candy-Boxes Cut from Wallpaper. Party Letter Paper Stenciled with Water Color Paints. HOW TO FIND FUN they be enough 'party' with some cocoa or lemon- ade?" I nodded. ''If it were to be a very, very big party, I'd like ice-cream," I mused. "But, of course. Moth- er would plan that kind of a party for me and Cook would fix the things. I wouldn't need to bother." "Can you fix up a party table?" asked Nimble- fingers, "because I can show you how, if you don't know. I can make very pretty tablecloths, I can!" "How?" "Well," admitted Nimblefingers, "they do cost something. They cost ten cents at the ten-cent store. I buy white crepe paper cloths and napkins and I decorate them myself. Really, it may sound funny but it really is beautiful: I cut paper flowers from wallpapers and paste them in a border all around my cloth. I paste them on lily-cups and napkins and on cardboard handles that I fasten to picnic plates with paper fasteners to make sandwich trays. One can make a lovely table decoration with ten cents and some pretty flowered wallpaper." "I'll try it," I agreed. "I could shake ten cents out of the bunny-bank, perhaps. How about invi- tations? Don't parties usually have invitations?" Play smiled. "One doesn't really need them — not for little parties. Make the invitation by telephone or run over to your playmate's home and ask the children there to come to the party. Be sure not to forget that all the children might like to come. Don't ask just one and leave out the little one, if she could [7] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT come. You don't like to stay at home when your sister goes to a party, do you?" "But the little brothers and sisters are in the way," I objected. "I don't want them." "They aren't in the way at all," snapped Happy Thought. "You are in the way yourself when you talk like that. I shan't like you if you say that again. You are the one who is in the way: you're in the way of their fun, you are! Haven't you heard it said that ^The more there are, the merrier it is'?" "We aren't talking about invitations," I avoided. "Supposing that I wanted to have a party with real written invitations that could be sent by the postman — could I make a magic with everyday paper and make something lovely for party invitations?" "You could buy an everyday box of letter paper and stencil it with beautiful designs. That would make splendid party invitation paper. Stencil en- velopes, too." "You'd have to buy the stencil unless you could make some yourself," put in Happy Thought. "Japanese stencils come in boxes that cost about twenty-five cents. But you could easily cut a stencil of a four-leaved clover in some bit of heavy wallpaper or paper cut from the cover of a pamphlet. Three- and four-leaved clovers are easy to draw. Just cut out the drawing and paint with as dry a brush as pos- sible over the opening in the paper. Dry the brush on blotting-paper before you use it to paint the stencil on the letter paper." [8] HOW TO FIND FUN *'Hooray!" I cried. "What fun! Let's try it! I want to play the party right away. Let's go into the house and you help me!" So the fairies went with me into the house and we began to make the party fun. It was to be a fun party made from almost nothing at all but ordinary everyday things. We thought we'd ask about three or four children from next door, if their mother would let them come. There wasn't going to be much beside lemonade and cake or bread and butter and cocoa but there was going to be a splendid FUN and a very, very happy time indeed. The Happykid's the kind of child That's happy all the day: He's happy in the schoolroom And happy when at play; No stormy rain or winter wind Makes Happykiddie blue — He finds no end of happy games And jolly things to do! The happiness of Happykid Is very much worth while For every one who sees him Is sure to catch his smile : They cannot help but smile right back — Like measles and the mumps, Real cheerfulness is catching As well as horrid grumps ; So don't you be a Grumpykid To sulk and whine and pout — The Happykid 's the youngster Folks love to have about ! [9] THE PARTY MADE FROM ALMOST NOTHING AT ALL It was in the morning that Nimblefingers, Happy Thought and I had decided to start a party. We found out that Carol, Dorothy, and Richard could come. That would make a party of four. (I count the fairies and myself as one, you know.) I told the children to come dressed in costume. It sounded something like Cinderella's ball but the cos- tumes were mostly things we had worn at school entertainments. Carol's dress was made for a But- terfly Drill. It was green crepe paper sewed onto an underslip. Paper butterflies had been pasted here and there all over it. Dorothy went to Kin- dergarten and didn't have anything but a Hallowe'en cap and an Indian play-suit but we thought she could wear a wreath of some artificial flowers that she had and with a pink gingham dress and a little bouquet, her costume might represent Spring. Rich- ard had an apron that he used in school in manual training class, carpentry. He carried a hammer and said he was in the costume of Carpenter. (If Elea- nore could have come, she had a costume of a wood- nymph, and if Marjorie had been at home, she had a fairy dress with gauze wings that she might have [10] J| j"|^ ^^v- m^nkmlMmm m^ . ;■• .^-^ Party Dresses that were Made at Home — for Fun. Our Party Table Set for a "Four-year-old-Birthday." PARTY MADE FROM ALMOST NOTHING worn. And if Francis had come with Eleanore, she could have borrowed a Puritan costume that Rich- ard's sister had.) One can make up a party costume very easily. Even newspapers will be useful, if there is no cloth; but I won't tell you about newspapers yet because that is going to be a party all by itself and I'll keep it for a surprise later on. I will tell how Nimblefingers taught me to make masks, too. As this was to be my first lucky funcraft party, Mother let me make some lemonade and have some cake. I am going to show you in a picture how pretty our party table looked. You will see in the center of the table the Jack Horner Pie that had four of my little plaything toys put into it for party favors. Shall I tell you how to make it? First, cut a nine-inch circle of cardboard and make another exactlv the same size. Next, cut two strips of soft green crepe paper each about a yard and a quarter long and one wider than the other by a half inch. Take some paste and, after you have covered the circle neatly with the same shade of colored tissue crepe, gather the strips of paper, beginning with the wider one to start, and pasting the edge around the upper cardboard crepe- covered circle. Afterwards, gather the other on top of it and you will have made a ruffled flat center- piece on which to rest your Jack Horner Pie. (If you like, you can do without this bit of decoration and use just the Jack Horner Pie to stand alone. [II] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT The ruffled circle just adds style. At an everyday fun party you may not need it though it is well to know how to make a table unusually lovely — and you can add this touch to its daintiness some time for a special birthday party where there is to be ice-cream, maybe, and where Mother and Cook plan the things to eat.) The Jack Horner Pie itself is just a broad strip of pink crepe paper about twelve inches wide and a yard long. Paste the two ends together and make a bag after you have gathered and pasted the strip around two cardboard circles as you made the ruf- fle. A strip of dark green crepe paper cut six or eight inches wide and snipped irregularly into points may be pasted under the base of the bag to make a finish and suggest the green leaves of a big pink flower. The favors that go into a Jack Horner Pie are usually little toys. One might use lollypops. One might use paper snappers and party caps, if one wanted to, inside. Sometimes, if Nimblefingers has no toys to use as favors, she cuts jokes out of papers and lets the party guests read them. I suppose you know how the Jack Horner Pie works: there should be a little gift for every one who is asked to the party. Each little gift is wrapped in tissue paper and a long ribbon is tied to it. The ends of these ribbons are outside the pie. At a given signal, *'One, two, three!" everybody must pull hard, taking a ribbon end. Then out come the surprises! [12] Party Prizes that Anybody Can ^Fake for Fun. A Jack Horner Pie Made Like a Bag with Crepe Paper. PARTY MADE FROM ALMOST NOTHING Oh, don't you think that that is fun! Nimblefingers said that it was the nicest thing she knew. I thought so, too. Carol, Richard and Dorothy came over about half- past two that afternoon. They wore their party cos- tumes and I was the hostess. I showed them where to take off their wraps and then I told them about the everyday luck that was finding fun everywhere in the things that were right at home. I told them about my clovers — by that time the play fairies had flown away and hidden but I told the children about them just the same. Carol and Richard and Dor- othy at once said that they were going to look for fun the same way and make a party and ask me to it, too! We hunted for the paper clovers that Nimblefin- gers had made. It was really fun! It took quite a good bit of our afternoon, for I had forgotten where I put them myself and when there was just one left and nobody could find it, we wondered who could find the last! It was under a box on the table and Dorothy found it! Then we added up the numbers on the clovers we had found. My score was fifteen; Carol's was twenty-one; Richard had fifty-six and Dorothy won with ninety-three. I gave her the prize of the rubber eraser done up in tissue paper. She thought it was lovely. I didn't keep the apple that was the booby prize, for I was hostess and the hostess doesn't keep [13] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT a prize she may win: I gave it to Carol and Carol took it home to eat. After the clover hunt, we played games. We knew quite a number: Bird, Fish, Animal was one. To play it you must have a pencil and sit in a circle. One person is chosen It. The one chosen turns to any player he may wish and points with the pencil saying either, ^'Bird" or "Beast" or "Fish." Then he counts as fast as he can, "One, two, three, four, five!" And before he reaches "five!" the one pointed to must give the name of an animal, or a bird, or a fish. Sometimes one can't think in such a hurry. Then one has to change and be It. And the same animal, or bird or fish mustn't be named more than once! One can play charades, hide the thimble, corner- tag, spin-the-plate, magical music, and other party games. One may also play board games, if one has them. Carol's mother told her to come home at five, so we had the lemonade and cake at a quarter to four and hid the paper clovers all over again, just for fun. There wasn't to be a prize for the second time and Richard hid them. We couldn't find them all but it didn't matter because the clock struck and we had to hustle Carol into her coat. We all agreed that a fun made out of almost nothing at all was really FUN and that we'd had a splendid afternoon. I'm going to tell you in this book about some of the funcraft parties that were like my lucky party [14] PARTY MADE FROM ALMOST NOTHING and you can make their magic yourself in your own home. I know you'll have fun and that my fairies Nimblefingers, Happy Thought and Play will help you, too. A butterfly is just a little thing, A bit of sunlit joy on golden wing; We, like the butterfly, may in our play Live joyous in the sunlight every day. A butterfly may seem so very small, It scarcely counts for anything at all — Yet it is pleasant in the summer hours To find it friendly w^ith the garden flow^ers. Most every little tiny thing, I guess. May hold a vs^inged soul of happiness — Just like the butterfly of joy, We may be butterflies, my girl and boy! For, in the garden w^here we meet for fun. There's only sunlight when we seek the sun: And though our pleasure is a little thing, Yet it may always flit on golden wing. [15] A NEW YEAR'S PARTY Material Required to Make a New Year's Party Game: The numbers from some very large busi- ness calendar and some advertising calendars with sheets that tear off each month. It might be gay to have a little fun party on New Year's Day. At it, you can play a New Year's Game with some beans and some old calendars. At New Year's time one can always find plenty of calendars for banks and grocery stores — drugstores and busi- ness firms all give them away for the asking. When your friends come, pin some month of the year in a calendar sheet upon each back where it cannot be read except by others. Each must guess what month is on his back. He can only do this by asking questions about his month like this: ^'Do apples grow in my month?" He may never directly ask, ''Am I August?" or, ''Am I October?" It should be, "Are there thundershowers in my month?" One may often guess quickly by asking about holidays: "Does Christmas come in my month?" or, "Does Thanksgiving come in my month?" When every one has finally guessed, you may play a blindfold game with sheets cut from a big busi- [i6] A NEW YEAR'S PARTY ness calendar that has leaves to tear off each day. Arrange at one end of the room a big blank sheet of paper low enough for every child to reach. Give each in order as he has guessed his month, a number taken in order from the big daily calendar. Blindfold each child in turn. Let him have a pin and go toward the big blank sheet of paper to put his 'May" on the calendar. He must put his pin into the first thing his hand touches. The one to get his "date" or ''day" closest to the sheet of paper wins the game. Next, give each child a sheet of calendar that has one month's days. On these different sheets, cross off enough of the days to leave only twenty. On each sheet or month, cross off different days. ' Then cut up some sheet of a calendar month into squares. Put these in some small bag. Seat each child at a table with his month before him. Take one "day" at a time from your bag and call its number. The children who have that num- ber raise hands. Each is given a bean to place upon the calendars on that number. The first to fill his sheet, wins. For a prize, give some pretty fancy calendar. I wish you Happy New Year — May every single day Be full of fun and happiness And pleasantness and play! [17] JANUARY SNOWFLAKE FUN Material Required to Make Snowflake Fun: Some white pad paper, some colored cardboard. Tools Needed to Make Snowflake Fun: Scissors for every player and a jar of paste, some small saucer. Have you ever been out in a snowstorm and had snowflakes fall on your coat? Did you look at them and did you observe that each is a beautiful design, no two of them alike? The snowflakes are so tiny you wonder how so small a thing can be so perfect, and they melt so very quickly while you look at them that you have hardly time to compare one with an- other. But did you know that you could cut these lovely snowflake designs in white paper and repro- duce in large form the beautiful designs? To do this, you will need a pair of scissors, some thin pad paper that is white, and some paste and colored card- board. After you have made these snowflake pat- terns and know how to show other children how to make them, you can give a little funcraft entertain- ment to your friends if their mothers will let them come over to play. I will tell you about it. [i8] JANUARY SNOWFLAKE FUN First, you will have to know how to cut snow- flake designs from white pad paper. Find a small china saucer that is about three inches in diameter. Place it upon a sheet of white pad paper. Draw around the saucer's rim with a pencil till you have made a circle. Cover all your sheet with circles and be careful not to waste the paper but to arrange the drawn circles to best advantage and economy. When you have drawn the circles, cut each out. Each will make a different snowflake design. Isn't it strange that something round will be transformed to something that has points? If you look at the picture of the snowflake pat- terns in this book, you will see that each pretty pat- tern has six points and is star-shaped. It seems almost magic that the circle should change so with a few scissor-snips! Take a white paper circle and fold it evenly into half. Then fold the half twice, evenly, to make three folds. Now take your scissors and with them cut the edge at each folding of the circle. Unfold the circle and see the finished design! You may have to try several times before you become expert. Then, when you have learned the art, just see how many differ- ent patterns you can cut. You may try to reproduce the pine-tree forms that you see in the tiny snow- flakes outdoors. If you go to the big encyclopedia, you will find out all about the snow crystals and you will probably see pictures of various forms. I [19] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT think you will find it most interesting amusement for a stormy indoor day in January. Perhaps when you have learned about these things, you will want to show your friends and make a little funcraft ''party" at home. If you write an invitation write it something like this: Dear Playmate: If your mother will let you come to play with me for a few hours on Saturday afternoon, It would make me very happy. Some of the children that I know are go- ing to come over to have some fun and we are going to have a Snowflake Party in- doors. Please bring a pair of scissors with you. Your friend, WOPSIE. Now, when you have sent this note, you will be busy fixing things for the "play party." Any number of children may play the game and have fun with you but I should choose about three or not more than six, I think. There should be four large sheets of thin white pad paper for each child and you should have a large sheet of colored cardboard. Cut this cardboard into squares that are large enough to use for mounting the snowflake patterns. Have a little pan of starch paste or a bottle of library paste. You will not need more. [20] JANUARY SNOWFLAKE FUN The largest table you can have to play upon will be right for the use you wish to make of it as a work- table. Place a chair for each child at the table. Give plenty of space. Cover the table with a white sheet, if you can have it — if not, place newspapers over it to catch the snippings of snowflakes. At each place where your guest is to sit, place four squares of colored cardboard and four sheets of white pad paper. At the center of the table and for use by all should be the paste with a good brush and a small china saucer. When all the children have come, tell them about the snowflakes and how to cut them. Then let each use the scissors he has brought and try the cutting himself. Each child may make more than four pat- terns but each has the chance to enter only four of his snowflake patterns in the snowflake contest and exhibition. Each may choose which of his designs he thinks best and may paste four of these on his cardboard cards. Work should be neat and well done, you must point out. Have each child write his name on the back of his four designs and hand them in. Then mix up all the designs so that nobody knows or remembers which belongs to another. Place all the cards in a row and let the children pass around another table where these are displayed. Each cardboard card should be numbered by you as it is placed on the table but nobody should be permitted to touch the cardboard designs of snow- [21] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT flakes after they are placed on exhibition and no child is permitted to tell which ones are his own. When all have looked at them, each chooses which one he thinks the best. Then he takes a slip of paper and writes the number down. This slip of paper is to be folded so that nobody can see the number writ- ten on it. Place all in a box that no player may touch. When all have placed their slips in it, take them out and see who received the most votes. If there is a tie, vote again. You may have a small prize for the one who is winner. I think you can manage that yourself. At ten-cent stores, you can sometimes find round boxes made to represent snow- balls. These are to be filled with nuts or a few small candies. This would make an appropriate prize but / think that a red apple done up carefully in cotton with its stem tied with ribbon to hold the cot- ton fast would look quite like a snowball and be a prize you could make yourself, don't you? A snowflake party will take about an hour's time and after it is over you may play other games or have some cocoa and crackers or cookies, if Mother thinks best. You will find it fun even without that, I think. Outside of my window there hung the toy house Of the little barometer man and his spouse; In stormy dark weather he stood in the rain, While his "Fair Weather" partner might call him in vain! When out came the sun, then he hurried inside — It was only a glimpse of his wife that he spied! [22] Here is January Fun. Snowflake Patterns. Here is Fun for Washington's Birthday. JANUARY SNOWFLAKE FUN While, If a storm threatened and Joan hastened in, It was always to find the house empty within ! (Oh, never together that couple might stay — Alas, the barometer made them that way!) In unsettled weather each wavered about, Reluctant to say which had better stay out; One fancied In passing, the two cried, '*Oh, dear! How cozy 'twould be If we both could stay near !" So tragic, indeed, was their fated distress I welcomed the temperature's changeableness. And when it poured torrents one day, and then froze, The barometer broke, and now no one knows What the weather will be — They're both inside the door And Darby will never leave Joan any more ! I'm glad they are happy, although I feel sad. For I miss the wise knowledge of snowstorms they had. [23] THE LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Material Required to Make Games for the Lincoln's Birthday Party: a sheet of brown cardboard, some little penny flags and a picture of Abraham Lincoln. Tools Needed to Make the Games: a ruler, a pen- cil and scissors. Lincoln's Birthday comes on February 12th and maybe you and your friends will like to celebrate it with a little Funcraft Party at home. Such a cele- bration may be quickly arranged. You will need to buy a big sheet of cardboard that is colored brown and you will also need to have a penny flag for each child who is invited. Find some heavy white paper and cut it into cards, each about one by three inches. Find some red ribbon or blue ribbon that is narrow and, punching a hole in each card, tie one to the staff of each small flag. Write on each card the name of one of the children. Give each one of the guests a flag with the card when he arrives. These are to be kept to play the first game. The first game is made and played with a por- trait of Abraham Lincoln. You will probably have [24] THE LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION some small picture that you can use. Place it upon a table at one end of the room. Next, count out among the guests for order of play in the game. Blindfold each in turn and see who can place his flag closest to the portrait. Flags must be laid flat on the table and put where the hand first touches — no fair feeling around! The prize for this game may be a postal-card pic- ture of Lincoln framed in small glass passepartout frame. It may be a little Lincoln's Day favor or a silk flag. After this game, there is another you may arrange to play. It will need to be made beforehand and it is played with strips of cardboard cut into narrow lengths to represent the logs with which you and your guests are to construct a small cabin. This is all a game. Take any large sheet of cardboard that is dark in color. Rule it the short way making it into strips a half inch wide. Rule the entire sheet off this way. Next, take half the sheet and cut its strips into four inch lengths. Mark a cross in pencil on the back of half of these. Turn them all back again so that no- body can guess if there is or is not a cross upon them. Mix all well and place these in the center of a big table around which you have put the guests' chairs. Take the other half of the paper and cut it into longer lengths, each about twenty-eight inches long. Divide these in two piles and mark crosses on half. [25] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT Then turn these over right side up again but put them in a second pile, well mixed. Seat the children around the table and tell them that they are to play a game with the strips of card- board and that the short bits of cardboard are to be used to build the outline of a log cabin. Each piece of cardboard represents one log and the cabin is to be made upon the table, flat like this : Each child, as his turn comes, may draw from the pile of short logs one log. He turns it over when drawn and then if there is a cross upon it, he may keep it. If there is a cross, he is entitled to choose another log and keep on drawing till he obtains a strip of cardboard that has none. Then play for him stops at that turn. The cabin's foundation is to be built first by plac- ing four of these logs in a row, allowing for doorway. The Lincoln cabin had just one window and one door, you remember. So after three logs are laid in [26] THE LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION a row, leave a space for doorway and next place another flat log just beyond. Then, above this begin by making a window space as the diagram suggests. After the first log is placed to the left at the second row, skip one space for the window and lay another log. Then skip the door space and lay the next. The window must be two log lengths high and after this lay the logs right along for two upper rows. When a player has done this, he is allowed to start to make the cabin roof by choosing from the pile of long logs. The roof is merely made with two of these placed one above the other. To finish the roof with a chimney, choose from the first pile again and place two short logs one above the other. The player to make his cabin complete first wins the game. Award some little prize for this. It would be very nice to give a book, if you could do so. The books that Lincoln had as a boy were very few. They were Msop^s Fables, Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim s Progress, The History of the United States, and Weem's Life of Washington, You may play some lively game chosen by the winning player, after this table game. Then you may use all the logs of the game again for another play. Place all the short ones face up on the table to rep- resent the rails that Lincoln split. You remember that when he was a young boy he had to buy his own clothes and he did any kind of work that came to hand. This paid him a small sum usually and it is [27] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT said that he once agreed to split rails for a pair of jeans, four hundred rails for every yard that was needed. Mark numbers upon half of the cardboard strips where the crosses are. Use numbers above ten. Then turn the strips back and mix them well. Play for the game is the same as for the former cabin- building. The player whose turn it is may choose a rail and keep on as long as he obtains a number. The one to make the sum of four hundred first wins. The game may be played in longer form by trying to buy six yards of stuff and this means that the one to obtain the winning six times is the real hero. The game may be played with sides, an even number of players to each. This is a quick way of playing. All scores are added together and the side to make 400 six times wins. There was a rude log-cabin once, One window and a door Was all the cabin ever had — And only earth for floor. But in that little cabin There lived a child who grew To be the grandest hero That ever the world knew. [28] A WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY GAME Material Required to Make a Washington's Birthday Game: A sheet of white cardboard, some green paper that can be easily cut to make leaves, some brown manilla wrapping paper, some bright red paper. Tools Needed to Make a Washington's Birthday Game: Some paste and a pair of scissors. You may like to know of a game you can make and play with your friends on Washington's Birth- day. It will be easy to make a little cherry-tree and you can do all the work of preparation your- self. Buy a sheet of white cardboard or cut a yard of straight white cotton cloth from some old piece of goods you have at home. The cardboard or the cloth should be placed flat upon a table. Next, take the sheet of brown manilla paper and draw upon it the trunk of a small tree. From the upper part of the tree draw branches. Five or six of these are sufficient. From your green paper, cut a number of leaves, each about an inch or an inch and a half long. These should be placed with ends that join the tree's [29] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT branches. Put some paste at the end of each leaf and on its under side write some easy question that pertains to United States history. From the red paper, cut big round red cherries and on the under side write, "I cannot tell a lie." Some may have, ''I did it w^ith my little hatchet." On a cherry near the top of the tree write the date of Washington's birthday. Two games may be played with this cherry-tree. For the first game, blindfold the players in turn and see who can place a little red, white and blue ribbon-knot nearest to the date on the top of the tree. The one w^ho does this should receive some small reward. Perhaps you have a print of George Washington that you can frame yourself. Or you may give a wee flag. The second game that can be played is played with- out blindfolding. Each player in turn goes to the tree and chooses a leaf or a cherry. He does not know, of course, that the leaves and cherries are unlike in what is WTitten on them. If he chooses to pick a leaf from the tree, he must answer the his- torical question upon it. If he does this, he may have another turn — but the question must be answered in a correct way. If he chooses a cherry and receives, ^T cannot tell a lie" or 'T did it with my little hatch- et," he must give a forfeit. At the close of the game, when all leaves are taken from the tree and when no cherries are left, the win- ner is the one who has answered most of the ques- [30] A WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY GAME tions correctly. He may also impose all the forfeits and tell the other players how to redeem them. Then, in turn, each player must pay his forfeit for the amusement of all others. The forfeit may be a recitation or the singing of a song, or the telling of a joke. Be careful to impose no very hard forfeits and none that are dangerous. Make each contribute in some way to a celebration of the holiday: the speak- ing of a school piece about Washington, the telling of a story about W^ashington, or the recitation of some little verse or poem. After this game, you may have a cherry hunt and look for small red paper disks that are hidden about the room. The first one to find twenty-two, the date of the birthday in February, wins. After this, you can play games that are usually played at little party gatherings. If you have a real party there should be a Washington's Birthday cake. Small cardboard hatchets may easily be cut from cardboard to make place-cards. If you tie a bow of red, white and blue ribbon on these it makes them more festive. On the blade of the hatchet write the name of the guest. With these toy hatchets, later, you may see who can "cut down" the dismantled cherry-tree. Blind- fold each player in turn again. Mark off a certain place upon the trunk of the tree that shows where the trunk must be ''cut." See which player can place his hatchet upon it, and continue to play till [31] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT one successful player is able to do this. He is said to have cut down the cherry-tree and may choose the next game to play. George Washington, he was once small — Oh, just a little boy: They gave him a small hatchet That was a little toy; I wish they'd let me have one too — A little one, maybe — I'd like to have a hack with it At some old cherry-tree! [32] VALENTINE PUZZLE FUN: Material Required to Make Valentine "Puzzle Fun: Some empty envelopes, some pretty fancy pos- tal cards or other valentine cards, also an empty shoe box with its cover. Tools Needed to Make Valentine Puzzle Fun: Scissors, pen or pencil. Every one enjoys the fun of valentines! You may have a little gathering of your friends and make for them a Puzzle Party and a valentine mail-box. To make a valentine puzzle, take a pretty card and turn it over so that you can write upon its white side and not upon the picture. On this free side of the card write some valentine verse — not a long one: The rose is red, the violet blue, Sugar is sweet and so are you. or you may write: If you love me as I love you, No knife can cut our love in two. Sign your name to this, if you like. It may be part of the puzzle to solve the sender's name also. [33] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT When the cards have each been written, address the envelopes you wish to send to each friend. Then take your cards and, one at a time, cut each in irreg- ular pieces. Be sure to put the pieces of each card in one envelope and do not mix the pieces of differ- ent cards. One card should go into each envelope. Ask every little friend to bring with him some pos- tal card valentine without any writing upon it. Let him direct it to somebody at your little gathering. All are '^mailed" in the shoe box into the top of which you have cut a mailing-slit. Put the box upon a table and count out to see who shall be postman and distribute the valentines. Each must put the valentine you have sent him together in picture form. The first to do this should have some small prize — a candy heart or a valentine you have yourself made. It will be quite exciting if you tell your friends that the first one to make the picture and turn his valentine over so as to read its verse aloud will win the valentine game. Afterwards, if you like, all the different valen- tine pieces that were cut into puzzles may be mixed in one big heap upon a table and the one who can make a complete puzzle first will win another new valentine. Afterwards, you may play round games that you choose. If there are not many at the little party, let everybody choose one game to play. I am sure you will have ever so much fun. Pin a surprise of some valentine — either a red heart or [34] VALENTINE PUZZLE FUN a penny valentine — to the coat of each little guest when you say good-bye. The postman brought a valentine — It was a postal card — I knew who sent the valentine For guessing wasn't hard : The wiggle-w^aggle writing there Could not be a disguise For Mother crosses t's that way, I've seen it with two eyes! Maybe she thought I didn't know — Maybe she thought I would Because she loves me all the time When I am very good. [35] FUN FOR VALENTINE'S DAY Material Required to Make Motto Candy Val- entines: A sheet of cardboard and about a pound of assorted motto candies. Tools Needed to Make Motto Candy Valentines: A pencil, some water-color paints or black and red ink, some paste, a pencil, some scissors, a ruler. Have you ever made valentines? Of course you have — but have you ever made them with motto candies? That is something quite interesting and new. With some cardboard cut to make mounts, a bag of heart-shaped motto candies of all shapes and sizes, you can make most amusing valentines. By reversing the candy hearts, so that the mottoes do not show, you can make odd little candy folk. When you have arranged the candies upon the col- ored cardboard, you will see that it is easy work. A small heart will be the head, perhaps; an oval candy will make the body; small hearts will form a string and make arms and legs. The skirt of a lady may be made with a triangular candy or with a square or oblong one. The trousers of a funny little man may be oblong candies. You will easily [36] FUN FOR VALENTINE'S DAY see for yourself how the shapes may be adapted to picture-making. When you have made a picture, cut out a mount for it, if you have not done this first. Glue each candy in place upon it. Library paste will do. Be careful not to use too much glue or paste on your brush because none must push beyond the rim of the candy and make a mussy place. When you have glued your figures to the mount, take a fine paint-brush and outline eyes, nose, mouth on each motto candy person. If you have no paints, use crayon or red ink and black ink and a pen. You will need clean fresh pens, should you use ink. The eyes and nose may be drawn with black and the mouth be made with red. Then, if you have a paint- brush afterwards, dip your brush into the red ink and then into some water. Dry it off a little and dab the cheeks to make them red. Be careful not to make them too bright. Red buttons may be drawn on dresses, red necktie or ribbons may be drawn also. After this, find some motto that is funny and glue it so that its verse makes the verse of the valentine under your picture. Animals, houses, flowers, birds, butterflies, trees, in fact, almost everything you can think of, may be made in motto candy pictures. Even a funny St. Valentine himself may be represented. You should draw or paint a halo around his heart-shaped head — either in ink or gold paint. For making animals, use small hearts for ears, [373 THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT medium-sized hearts for legs, and larger ones for bodies and heads. Very comic valentines may be constructed in this way. If you want to make a picture of a house, choose the largest motto candies you can buy. They often come two or three inches high. They sell "Two for a penny." Turn the heart over to stand upside down on the mount: the point will now be the peak of the roof. You may take red ink and color a red roof on the upper part of the candy. Then outline two win- dows and a door in black ink or black paint. You may make green blinds, too. On either side of the house you can make a tree out of a heart, inverted with a smaller inverted heart for its trunk. A green heart would be the right thing for a tree with a little brown candy to make the tree-trunk. Very pretty flower designs may be made. Five pink hearts turned over so that their mottoes do not show and points put together at a common center form a pretty wild rose. Small green candies will make a stem and leaves. In the same way, four green candies will suggest a four-leaved clover. Two heart-shaped candies joined with another two make wings of a butterfly. The body should be a long and narrow motto candy. Borders for valentine trimming may be made out of the very tiny hearts. Upon the colored cardboard mounts, the colored candies show up well. You may cut your cardboard mounts large or small. A good [38] FUN FOR VALENTINE'S DAY size is seven or eight inches long and six or eight inches high. If you want to have some valentine fun with friends in honor of Valentine's Day, you may make a game to play with these motto candies. You may have a simple little party, on Valentine's Day, if you like. I will tell you how to make it. Your invitations — if you give them in a formal way in a little envelope, can be written upon paper that you cut heart-shaped. Take some good pad paper; cut a piece the size of your envelope; fold this to make a pattern. Fold it once and then cut half a heart in the paper. Unfold and you will have the pattern for your note-paper. Now, fold a piece of paper double the size of the envelope and put your pattern upon it. With your scissors cut out the shape of the note-paper leaving the edge where the fold comes uncut except at top and base. Then make as many of the sheets as you have invitations to write. Your little invitation may read like this: Please come and play, On St. Valentine's Day. If you like, you may print the invitation with red ink on pink paper and this will suggest a motto candy when you have painted a little red rim all around it at the rim of the paper. Use only one side of the paper and sign your name. Write the date. Give the hour, too. The invitation may be sealed with a wee red heart-shaped seal. To make [39] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT one, just take your scissors and cut some red hearts from paper. Paste one on the flap of each envelope. When you have sent these little invitations, you will have to prepare for the fun to come. Each little friend will need six cardboard cards. These you will need to cut yourself from sheets of red, green, yellow, and gray cardboard. Arrange a big table with chairs for each party guest. Place at each chair the four cardboard mounts. In the center of the table, have a jar of paste and two dishes with motto candies in them. Seat the children and show them how to make the valentines. After everybody has made a valentine, you should start a valentine picture contest. See who can make the best picture! Originality, neat- ness, cleverness of plan all count. Put the pictures in a row and let everybody cast a vote for the one he thinks the best. Award a prize of a big fancy valentine. After this game has been played, you may play one of matching hearts. To make this, you will need a sheet of red paper. Cut out half as many hearts from it as there are little guests. Cut each heart zigzag through its center in a different way. Give a half a heart to each child and see who can match pieces first. If you want to have a valentine mail-box, you may make one from a big cardboard box merely by cutting a mail-slit in the side of the box. Give every child present some paper to wrap up the val- [40] FUN FOR VALENTINE'S DAY entines that have been made from motto candies and let everybody direct his to somebody present. After all are mailed, distribute them as directed. Be quite sure to have in the valentine mail-box one valentine for each little guest so that nobody will be overlooked. You can put these in yourself when you make the mail-box before the party. You may serve glasses of lemonade at your party. Tie a red paper heart to each glass tumbler and put all the tumblers on a tray. If you have cake, have small cup-cakes and place on each a motto candy. This is easy to do. Your mother will make a little white sugar icing and this may be used under each candy to fasten it to a cake. Or, if you use one large cake, the candies may be used to trim it in the same way. Place them in a circle all around the rim of the cake and in designs upon its top. Perhaps you can make a motto candy picture. If you do, don't use paint upon the candies as it may be poisonous. And after the candies are inked or painted, they are merely meant for play — not to eat. You may have a heart hunt by cutting small hearts out of paper. Let some older person hide these all around the room and then see who can find the most hearts. I am sure you will think of other jolly games to play. I made a funny valentine for somebody to-day, I made it with red paper that I'd put aside for play — I'll tell you how I made it for I made it all alone And you might like to make one, too, all for your very own. [41] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT I cut a square of paper and I folded It in half, And then I cut a half a heart and tried to make it laugh — I cut a funny smily mouth, a little nose, one eye — And when I opened out the heart, it did laugh, for, oh ! my !- There was a happy smiling face a-laughing just like mine And so I gave my Happy Heart to mine own Valentine! [42] Some Valentines Made \V^ith Motto Candies. Some Games to Play on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th. FUN FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY Material Required to Make St. Patrick's Day Games: A sheet of white cardboard, some toy pigs, green paper, a small-sized cardboard box. Tools Needed to Make St. Patrick's Day Games: Scissors, crayons, and a few pins. St. Patrick's Day is March seventeenth. At that time, the shops begin to show all manner of funny little Irish dolls, toy pigs, shamrocks, and green bows. These are all meant for St. Patrick's Day fun but you can make your fun yourself just with crayons and scissors and you can have a fun party after school, maybe. I dare say that you draw at school and that you have a box of crayons ; so first, take a sheet of card- board and outline the head of an Irish paddy. He should be simply drawn like the paddy in this St. Patrick's fun party here in your book. Do not put the pipe in his mouth. That is slipped in there and is another part of the game. The hat should be green. The hair of the man should be red and you may make his suit green or brown. Next, cut the outline of a pipe about three inches long. Use this for a pattern and cut as many more [43] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT pipes from thin cardboard as there are to be players. Write each player's name upon his pipe. Give each player a pin. Blindfold each player with a big thick handker- chief or towel. Do this in turn, one after the other when you have counted out to get the right order for play. Then turn the player who is starting three times. At the last turn, start him straight toward the picture of the Irishman you have drawn on the cardboard and hung low enough to reach easily when the player's hand is outstretched from the shoulder. Tell the player to try to put the pipe in the mouth of Paddy. He must put his pin into the first thing he touches. And then wait his new turn to try again, if unsuccessful. You will all laugh to see where Paddy's pipe goes! Of course, everybody will play fair and be prop- erly blindfolded! You may play the game till some- body gives Paddy his pipe where it should go — right in his mouth! If you like, you can give as a prize for this a small green ribbon bow mounted on a long pin and meant to pin upon a dress or coat. Any little toy piggie will be a good prize, too — or a soap- bubble pipe! Another game you can play is to try to put a sham- rock in Paddy's hat-band. You may cut the sham- rocks like large clovers, three-leaved. Mount them each on thin cardboard and cut them out again. Use them to play the blindfold game as you used the pipes. [44] FUN FOR ST. PATRICK'S DAY Another game Is played with little toy pigs. You may make a pig-pen for them using the half of some cardboard box. If you like, you may make it with a gate that opens. Place it upon a table where play- ers may reach it easily. See who, blindfolded, can put Paddy's pig into the pen. No fair feeling around, mind you! Put the pig down as soon as you touch something! If you like, you may cut paper pigs to use in play- ing this game. They are first cut in pattern from thin white paper and then the pattern is used to make other pigs that are cut with scissors and fin- ished up with markings of crayons. A St. Patrick's card game is not hard to make either. Draw on a sheet of cardboard twenty-five cards. If you use a ruler and measure, it will be easy to make all the same size. Each card should be about two inches wide and about four inches high. When you have made all and cut them out, write upon one, St. Patrick. Number the others, two and two alike beginning with I. There should be two of I, two of //, two of III and so on up to twelve. To play the game, place all the pack together and mix the cards well. Don't let any of the players see what the cards are. Any number up to six may play. Deal the cards out face down, one at a time to each player, dealing to your left. There will be one extra card. Never mind who has it. That will not really matter. As soon as all the cards are distributed, each play- [45] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT er matches the numbers on his cards. He puts those of like number together and discards all that are matched. These should be put face down before each player and no player may tell what he is discarding. The object of the game is to hold the card named St. Patrick after all cards are matched. When all have discarded like cards, the player at the dealer's right offers the dealer an exchange of cards. Nobody may see what card he is choosing. Backs should be kept straight toward the one who draws a card. As soon as any player draws a card that matches one in his hand already, the two are discarded and he obtains another turn to draw from the same player. Exchange goes on till players drop out, one by one, and at last, the final matching is done with un- usual excitement. The winner holds St, Patrick's card. I think you will find this a jolly game to play al- most any day! Just after Valentines, you know, That is the time when shamrocks grow — In all the windows they are seen A-growing in their pots all green: Where do they come from every year? Across the sea from Ireland here? It would be far across the sea To travel over here to me! [46] THE TOPSY-TURVY FUN FOR APRIL FIRST Materials Required to Make Topsy-Turvy Fun Party: A sheet of thin cardboard, some colored crepe papers, some waxed paper and white paper, tissue paper. Tools Needed to Make a Topsy-Turvy Game and Topsy-Turvy Fun: Scissors, pen or pencil, paste. Any day in the year is appropriate for Topsy-Tur- vy fun, but April first is the time when, perhaps, everybody will appreciate it most. It is not nice to play practical jokes on that day, but a fun party will be just the thing for merriment. You should plan for your Topsy-Turvy fun beforehand by sending your friends topsy-turvy invitations written in topsy- turvy writing. That sounds interesting, doesn't it! This is the way to write topsy-turvy writing: take a sheet of paper — pad paper. Use a pencil to write upon it. Write your invitation as you would write anything in the usual way. The invitation may be something like this: Dear Wopsie: If you can come to see me on the after- noon of April first, we will have a good [47] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT time with some other friends. We are go- ing to play a Topsy-Turvy Game and just have fun. I hope you can come. Your friend, TOPSY. When this is written, take a piece of thin tissue paper and transfer the writing wrong side to the sheet of paper you expect to send as invitation. When it is transferred, go over the writing of pencil in ink. The writing must be clear enough to hold to a mirror. When held up to a mirror, the writing can easily be read right. It looks, however, very unusual and queer on the invitation. If you have asked your mother's permission to have the fun, she will not mind your doing some unusual things that are funny and appropriate for that day — though not for other days. It is really an April Fool party. You might arrange the table in your play-room topsy-turvy upside-down and the chairs in the same way and tie to each a card with April Fool upon it. Every little guest should have a foolscap that you have made beforehand. You may easily take some newspaper, roll it into a cone, cover it with some pretty Dennison crepe paper and paste around its border a rim of pictures cut from crepe paper or col- ored magazine prints. At the top of each pointed cap there should be tied a yard of narrow ribbon [48] THE TOPSY-TURVY FUN and each cap should fit within the other. These make a fitted ^^nest" and when each child has chosen an end of ribbon, each in turn pulls from the "nest" his foolscap. At the end of the cap's ribbon is a small card with April Fool written on it. Every one should put on his cap. The game of Topsy-Turvy should begin right after this. You may turn the table and chairs back and play at the table. It is a card game and you will need to draw the cards upon a sheet of card- board, make the game and arrange all this before the "party." Draw on the cardboard with pencil and ruler, mak- ing sixty cards. This sounds like a great deal of work but it will take only a few minutes when you rule by measure on your cardboard. Make each card about three by two inches. Cut each out. Divide the pack into two packs of thirty cards each. On the thirty cards in one pack write the word topsy, wrong side transferred as you wrote your invitations. On the thirty other cards write the name turvy in the same way. A pack of sixty cards will answer for as many as six players. Any number under this may play the game. All cards must be well mixed and shuffled before starting to play the game. Deal out one at a time, face downwards to each player, beginning to the left of the dealer. No player may look at the cards in his pile. When all are dealt out, the dealer begins the [49] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT game by turning over his top card quickly so that all can see what it is. He puts this card in front of his pile. The next player to his left follows suit and the next and next as fast as possible. All must watch the cards carefully for when topsy and turvy oc- cur, the first one to call out "Topsy-Turvy" wins such cards as his opponent may have placed upon his second pile. If he does not himself have one of the matching words but if he is the first to see the ^'match," then he wins the piles of the two players. (Where there is any doubt as to who first said "Top- sy-Turvy," nobody may take any of the cards but play continues till next matching.) The one to gain all the cards wins the game. The players who do not obtain new cards take up their second piles and use them over and over for play, shuffling them anew each time they need cards to turn over and start anew. For a prize for the April Fool Game, give an April Fool Doll made of paper braided. This is the way to make a doll: Take some white crepe paper about three or four folds ten inches long. At one end, tie a string to make a knob for a dolPs head. The string forms the neck. Next, where the dolPs waist should come, tie another string. At the waist, divide the paper into two halves for legs. Cut each half, if you like, into three strands and braid these three to make each one leg. At the ankle, tie a string to make a foot and cut both feet and legs evenly. The doll's arms are strands of braided paper forced through the [50] THE TOPSY-TURVY FUN upper part of the paper body. The doll should have a colored paper foolscap on his head. Eyes, nose, mouth may be cut from black paper and pasted on or may be outlined with water-color paints on the doll's head. After the prize is awarded, you must pass the "refreshments," and these are April Fool candy sticks that look so real you will feel they are good enough to eat as well as to fool and make fun with. These candy sticks are easy to make. You will need to make one for each guest. To make a stick of April Fool "peppermint," begin by rolling a tube of thin cardboard to the size and length of an or- dinary stick of candy. Paste the tube together and cover it with white crepe paper pasted on smoothly. After this, cut very straight and narrow strips of red tissue paper and run one around and around your candy tube to look like the stripe in peppermint sticks. Paste the red strip lightly here and there. Roll each "stick" in a roll of waxed paper twisted at either end, and when you have finished, nobody will ever detect the "fool" till the waxed paper is removed. It surely is fun! Molasses sticks should be made in the same way but of brownish tan paper with dark brown paper strips. Red candy sticks may need no stripe. You may make an assortment and pass them around. I think everybody will like your party. You can pin an April Fool label on every coat and hat to be found when little guests seek their wraps to go home. [51] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT But remember never to make personal practical jokes and never do anything that will hurt. Have fun but don't be impolite. Never do anything that may hurt another's feelings. Just have a jolly good time at your April Fool Topsy-Turvy party. Maybe that April First's the time To make a funny joke — But you should be quite careful At whom your fun you poke: Some people have a sense of fun — But other people, they have none! Maybe that some one plays a joke That is a joke on you And you can't chuckle at yourself The way the others do: Some people have a sense of fun — But other people, they havQ none! Maybe that April First's the day When you should have a care To make no jokes that are unkind And every one can't share : Some people have a sense of fun — In unkind jokes, you'll find there's none! [52] April Fool Candy, Foolscaps." and an April Fool Doll. Games to Play at an Easter Party or for Fun in April. EASTER-TIME FUN Materials Required to Make Easter-Time Fun: Some cardboard, some pictures of Easter bunnies and chicks, some artificial flowers, Easter toys, white pad paper, pin-wheel papers, crepe papers, cotton bat- ting, blown egg-shells. Tools Needed to Make Easter Fun: Crayons, paste, pins, a pencil, scissors. If you want to make your own Easter-time fun with your own friends, you can make an Easter Egg Hunt and play games after it. These will be Easter games and played with chicks, bunnies, and flowers. The games are very simple and easy to make. If you have the picture of a big bunny, cut the bunny out and paste him upon a sheet of cardboard. The bunny should be at least twelve inches long. I cut my bunny from some Dennison crepe paper that was meant for Easter decoration. If you use the same thing, be careful to paste only around the rim of the cut-out, as the crepe paper stretches out of shape un- less it is so handled. The bunny game is to be a blindfold game like Donkey Party. Each player is given a little round of white pad paper upon which a bit of white cotton has been pasted to make a cotton [53] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT bunny taiL Every player's name is written on the paper at the back. A pin is run through the cotton tail and every player, when blindfolded, in turn must try to pin his cotton tail on the '^cottontail." The one to do this successfully may lead out in the next game or receive a prize. The next game is played with artificial flowers. Upon a piece of card- board about twelve by fifteen inches, draw with your crayons a flower-pot and the stem and leaves of a plant that has no flowers. Hang this picture up as you hung the rabbit's picture at one end of your room low enough to be reached with outstretched straight arm. Give each player a pretty artificial flower of some different variety. Count out for order of play. Blindfold each player in turn and see who can put his flower on the plant. The play continues till one player is successful. After this, you may take a pretty Easter basket and lay it on a distant table. It should be arranged like a little nest. You may play a similar game to the bunny and flower game by cutting little yellow paper chicks from paper, mounting each on card- board, writing the player's name one upon each. Blindfold the players in turn and see who can put the chicks in the nest. You may play the game with white cotton bunnies that come ''six for five" at the ten-cent store or with small downy cotton chicks, sold at Easter everywhere and made of yellow cot- ton. [54] EASTER-TIME FUN You, of course, know what fun an Easter Egg Hunt is. If you live far away from a city, you cannot, perhaps, have the tiny candy eggs that are often used for this. But you may cut egg-shapes from colored cardboards and paste pretty scrap-pictures or pic- tures cut from magazines upon them, making cards. Or you may just cut colored cardboard cards, egg- shaped. These should have numbers on the back of each one. No tgg should be numbered like another. Better number all at once and run the numbers in a series. You can make a great many egg-cards if you cut them from folded paper. But if you have time ahead to prepare your fun, use colored card- boards for the egg-cards. The paper is apt to tear more easily. Fancy wall paper may be used for Easter egg cards and decorations, too. Hide these paper eggs everywhere about the rooms in the house where you are allowed to play. When your friends have come, start the hunt and see who can find the most eggs. Then add up the numbers on the back of each and see who has the largest sum. Each winner should receive an Easter prize — a pretty card or a dyed egg. You may also play Hide the Egg as one plays Hide the Thimble. One player is given an egg to hide and all others must leave the room. The egg is then hidden by the first player and must be hid- den in such a way as to be in sight somewhere in the room. When this is arranged, call in the others and let them hunt. "Hot" means you are near the [55] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT object. ^'Cold'' means you are far from it. By ask- ing, ''Am I hot?" or "Am I cold?" the players find the egg. See who can find it first. The one who finds it is the one to hide it next time. There are some little favors for Easter-time that you will enjoy making yourself. Have you ever made surprise cards? Easter egg surprise cards are some- thing you can make from white pad paper and col- ored pin-wheel papers. You will need scissors and some paste. First draw the shape of an egg on your pad paper. Make the egg about five inches long. Cut a number of eggs from paper using the first as a pattern guide. Next, from some yellow pin-wheel paper, cut out a chick and make others like it. After this, run your paste-brush around the edge of a white paper egg. Place a yellow paper chick upon it and paste another paper egg-shape on top so that only the edges of both eggs have paste upon them. After the paste is dry, crayon or color a fancy rim around both sides of the paper egg-shape and write upon one side: Open this egg and you will see What Easter brings to you, maybe! Flufify cotton chicks that are very cunning may be made with absorbent cotton and cardboard. Cut out paper chicks and paste over their bodies some white cotton. Cut it off to the proper shape all the way [56] EASTER-TIME FUN around and your chick will be a fluffy cotton one. You may like to put one like this in your Easter sur- prise. If you glue a little easel-back to the chick you can make it stand upright. If you have a small black bead, glue or sew it in place for an eye. Cooked eggs may be made into bunnies. Did you ever try to make an Easter bunny this way? When your egg is cooked hard, take some cardboard and cut from it two long bunny ears, four bunny legs and paste these in place on the egg-shell to make a bunny. A bit of white cotton will make a tail. Crayons will do to outline pink eyes and nose. If you use the best of paste and let the egg bunny dry thoroughly before you attempt to play with him, he will stand by him- self. Of course, you know how to ^^blow" an egg that is not cooked. If you make a hole in either end of the egg-shell very carefully and blow downward through the upper hole, the egg itself will go out of the hole and leave you the pretty white shell to use for making Easter-eggs. Run a ribbon through each hole, after you have washed and dried the egg-shell. Make a little loop of ribbon at the top hole and a bow at the lower one. Paste a picture or an Easter sticker of a chick or rabbit on either side of the shell, and there you will have finished a pretty Easter eggl Even though you have no money to spend for sugar eggs or candy-box bunnies, you may have just as good a time as anybody with Easter fun that costs nothing. [57] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT If you could choose the kind of toys You'd have on Easter Day, Which would you take — an Easter egg Or bunny made for play? I think I'd choose a yellow chick, And eggs and bunnies too, And then I'd wish for more of them, Now, really, wouldn't you§ [S8] OUTDOOR MAY DAY FUN Material Required for Outdoor May Day Fun- Making: A shallow dish, some woodland moss and wild woodland plants, pebbles, toy figures and a bas- ket with which to go a-Maying. Springtime and Maytime! Isn't it fun? You be- gin to watch for the first signs of it about Valen- tine's Day, but it doesn't really and truly seem spring till you can see the big fresh outdoors in the woods — and the time to see this and celebrate it is in May. On the first day of May, in olden times, it was the custom to go to the woods. Nowadays, we have May Day parties in the park. We choose a May Queen and, perhaps, a May King, too. We have the old, old May-pole dance and we play games. But some few of us who live near the woods just make a May Day celebration of real brooks and wild- flowers. That's the best May Day fun there is! If you like, you may choose a May Day Queen to go with your party. I think you will want to choose the nicest little girl you know. You will not dress up to go on this May Day fun party. You will wear warm clothes and sweaters and, most likely, [59] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT it would be wise to carry a good pair of rubbers. Everybody must have a basket. This each child may bring w^ith him, or you may make the baskets out of cardboard shoe boxes. To make a basket, remove the cover of the box. Cut a strip of cardboard an inch and a half wide and about eighteen or twenty inches long. Fasten one end of this cardboard strip with a round brass paper-fastener to one long side of your box. Put it exactly in the center of the box- rim. Fasten the other end in the same way, oppo- site. This makes a basket with a handle. If you place in this basket's bottom some waxed paper such as sandwiches are wrapped in, it will keep the mois- ture from spoiling your basket when damp plants are placed in it. The box should have a lining even if this be but newspaper or thick brown paper. Your May Day fun party should carry a trowel and perhaps a dull round-bladed knife. You are going to the woods to find spring surprises and you are going to bring these home and make indoor gar- dens to grow for you. You are going to see who can make the loveliest. This, you see, is a May Day game — your game. Into your baskets go all the pretty stones you may find at the brookside. The mossy small pebbles are just the very thing! You will find wee violet plants that may be dug up by the roots. Use the round- bladed knife and lift the wee plants carefully into your basket. Three or four are quite enough. Don't [60] OUTDOOR MAY DAY FUN injure the woods for a later party by spoiling the flowers! Be careful to pick only the plants you know well. Remember that some wild things are poisonous. There will be plenty of green growing things that are not — violets, Jack-in-the-pulpits, ferns and other wildflowers. And be sure to bring lumps of green moss. You will need this later on when the May fun party reaches home. When you come home, find some newspapers and some old flower-pots — wee ones and flat drainers. If you do not have these, each child should have an earthen baking dish or shallow dish of some sort. With moss, pebbles, plants, see who can make the prettiest bit of woodland. Each child must put his moss, pebbles, and plants on a newspaper. The work does not take long. First plan what you want to do. Place the plants in the dish. Arrange them firmly with earth around them. Place moss over this to cover it entirely and then put the mossy stones where you think they would be pretty. You may make a dish landscape that suggests a grotto by a brook. Very tiny pebbles that are laid across the dish will make a brook's bed — a dry brook, it is true, but still "a brook!" If you and your friends have little toy fairies or birds or frogs, place these in amongst the Jack-in-the- Pulpits and fern and moss. The pretty bits of wood- land in your dishes should be displayed in the form [6i] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT of an exhibition and you can give a small prize to the one who has made the most beautiful one. Have those who come to view the exhibition cast votes on folded slips of paper. Place these in an open basket or box. The prize should go to the prettiest wood- land nook that has been voted best. The prize may be a package of flower seeds. If you have Jack-in-the-Pulpit plants left from the contest, place these with moss to stand upright in some dish. Fit moss over their bulbs. They will be wonderfully interesting to watch. If you have carefully gathered them without breaking stems or bulbs, the Jacks will grow and develop day by day for you just as they grow in the woody places. Even tiny green sprouts of Jacks, tall and pointed without sign of green leaf yet — these may be carried home with their bulbs and day by day you can watch the progress of unfolding leaves and blossom. This will be a real Maytime happiness! If you like, you may pot these wee Jack-in-the-Pulpit sprouts and place each in a small-sized flower-pot. It will make a lovely May-day gift to give a friend. Crepe paper may be tied around the earthen pot with a strand of ribbon or colored raflia. Upon the First of May, one time, I had a splendid play: We carried baskets to a wood And had a Queen of May — And each of us, with mossy stones, And pretty things all green [62] A Woodland Party Made in a Dish. Trophies Brought Home from a Real May Day Party in the Woods. OUTDOOR MAY DAY FUN Made in a dish a fairy dell — The dearest ever seen! I put a Kewpie doll in mine — Maybe you have one too And you can make a fairyland — It would be fun to do. [63] INDOOR MAY DAY FUN Materials Required to Make May Day Fun : Tis- sue papers of assorted colors or Dennison crepe pa- pers that have flower patterns, wire, string or rib- bon, some cardboard and flowers cut from wallpaper patterns, paper dolls, artificial flowers, some small cardboard boxes to make into baskets, some very small picnic plates to make into May baskets, some paper clips with which to fasten handles upon bas- kets, twigs from trees. Tools Needed to Make May Day Fun: Scissors, paste. It seems strange that May Day is usually a day that is rainy. Or, if it is not rainy, it never is as warm as it should be for outdoor fun. The real place for a May Day fun time seems to be right in the house if you are thinking of making a little party in honor of the day. You can still have a May Queen and a May-pole and May flowers! In order to prepare for an indoor May party, you w^ill need to find some colored tissue papers. Bet- ter than the colored tissue papers are the Dennison crepe papers that have flowers printed on them. These you can cut right out of the paper and make into [64] INDOOR MAY DAY FUN garlands and spring-like blooming twigs. If you have some flowered wallpaper, this, too, you may use. Cut the flowers out in clusters. You will need to have flowers scattered all over the rooms where you intend to play. These you must cut out before the party day. An easy way to cut blossoms from plain tissue papers is to begin by making a number of small circles outlined upon pink, yellow, white and red tissue paper. You may make several folds of tissue and cut about ten blossoms at a time after you have made a pattern to use in cutting. This is a white paper circle. Fold the circle in half and cut three scollops with your scis- sors. Each should be deep to make the round petal of a flower. Then unfold the circle and you will have cut a blossom. Use this pattern, if it is good — if not, try again till you make a good pattern. Then make a number of folds of tissue paper, first one color and then another. Cut a large supply of blossoms. You will need to use at least six sheets of colored tissue papers. When these blossoms are ''crinkled" a bit at each center, they may be strung upon a ribbon that has been threaded on a darning-needle. A knot should be tied in the ribbon between each blossom and thus you make a garland of tissue paper flowers. Each child should have a darning-needle threaded with pink, white, green or tan-color baby ribbon. Of course, everybody must have a garland to wear! Every one must make May Day twig blossoms, too. These are done by pressing the paper blossoms on [65] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT dead twigs, much as if the twig were like the ribbon you threaded. When the blossom reaches the place where you think it should be placed, '^crinkle" it with your fingers at its center and paste it in place tight. By putting these blossoms on the dead twigs, you may make a pretty May Day wand for the May Queen. Your party should open with a choice of May Queen. Have some slips of paper and pencils and let everybody vote. You may chose a May King in the same way, if you like. After this, give each child a basket to use in gathering blossoms that have been scattered all about the rooms in odd nooks — every- where. It is easy to make pretty fancy May baskets by taking wee picnic plates and fastening small handles to them. The plates are about three inches square. You can buy a dozen of them — or more — for five cents. Make a pretty colored tissue-paper mat to put in the bottom of each little dish, fringe the edge with some scissor-snippings or scollops. Then cut from colored cardboard some half-inch strips about seven inches long. Fasten the end of a strip inside upon a little fancy paper picnic plate. Use a paper fastener for this work. Then fasten the other end to the opposite side of the picnic plate and you have made a cunning little May basket. Each one to enter the fun of gathering blossoms must have a basket. When all have done this, give out the ribboned needles and let each make his own garland. From [66] INDOOR MAY DAY FUN these, the Queen and King may choose later the ones they are to wear. They may choose their scepters or flower wands the same way, if you like. Then, of course, there comes the crowning of the King and Queen of May. You should have a throne arranged with shawls or chairs and cushions and crown the chosen royalty with the garlands. After this, you may like to play a flower game made with wallpaper flowers pasted upon cardboard cards. If you have no wallpaper from which to cut flowers, you may write the names of flowers upon plain white cards cut to the uniform size of three by four inches. This is the way to make a Flower Game: take cardboard and rule it off evenly into cards each about four inches high and about three inches wide. Make twenty-four cards. Write the names of six spring flowers upon the cards: first, four cards of one name and then four cards of another name, and so on. There should be four similar cards in each series. If you have flowered wallpapers, you may illus- trate the cards by pasting on each of four cards a similar flower. Be very careful to make four alike — exactly alike. Use six varieties of flowers for the game. Mount each cut-out flower design very care- fully and neatly on each card. The Flower Game is played by four or more play- ers. No more than six may play it and not less than four. When cards are dry, they may be placed in a pack to await the time when you wish to use them for your May Day fun. Then, when you play the [67] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCK\FT game, begin by seating the players around a table. Shuffle the pack of flower cards thoroughly and deal a card at a time, face down to those seated around the table. When all are distributed, tell the players that each must obtain a handful of four similar flow- ers. (If you have illustrated the cards with wall- paper flowers, it may be well to show players before the game starts just what flowers are in the pack and name them so there need be no mistake. If you have written names only upon the cards : violet, bloodroot, windflower, Mayflow^er, Jack-in-the-Pulpit and like names, you will not need to do this.) Play is made in turn. Each player may ask any other for the kind of flower he wants to collect. If that player has the flower, he must give it up. Then the player is entitled to another turn till he fails to obtain what he asks for. The first to make a bouquet or handful of four similar flowers wins the game. There is still another May Day card game you can play. It is played with the same cards and is called May-flower. Deal out the cards, one at a time to each player. When all are dealt, the players may take up their cards. Each must put a flower in the center of the table as his turn comes. If any player can put down a May-flower, this takes all the cards that are in the center of the table. The one to take all the cards wins. A pretty prize for the winner of a game is a wee [68] INDOOR MAY DAY FUN May-pole. You may make it yourself. You will need some green crepe paper of two shades, some narrow baby ribbon, and some artificial flowers. First, cover a smooth stick about ten or twelve inches tall with green crepe paper. This is done by cutting a narrow strip and pasting an end at the end of the stick to cover the point. Then twist the strip carefully and smoothly around the stick to cover it. Fasten it again at its base and cut off any end of crepe paper that there may be. Next, while the pole is drying, make a pretty green circle to put the pole upon. This is made by cut- ting a big circle of white or green cardboard. The circle should be at least eight inches in diameter. On this circle, you must paste grass cut from dark green crepe paper. It sounds strange to say that you can make grass but if you look at the picture you will see how this grass looks. It is easily made by cutting one inch strips of the paper and snipping this doubled. Then paste these strips around and around the flat circle letting each plain under part be pasted over the first plain part till your circle is covered. Begin at the outer rim of the circle and work inward. When all is dry, ruff up the snipped paper to look like grass. Make a circle of narrow cardboard about ten inches in diameter and cover it with twisted tissue paper to form the ring of the May-pole's top. Tie this with ribbons that fasten tight to it and fasten again at the top of the wooden paper-covered pole's [69] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT top. Then tie a knot of little artificial flowers with a bow of ribbon to cover any ribbon ends or pasted paper that is there. The ends of the ribbons — there should be about four — hang down to make the May- pole streamers. Paper dolls fastened at the back with wire standards may hold the streamers of the May- pole. If you like, you may have the May-pole upon a table and serve lemonade and crackers from the table. In this case have a paper doll for each child and have all numbered. Give one to each little guest. The numbers tally with little favor gifts of artificial flower nosegays that are passed around in a basket with the crackers. Each must find his own by num- ber. Then, of course, everybody pins his nosegay on with a pin. After the refreshments, the Queen and the King choose games to play — and then the May Day party says good-bye and runs home, each with his or her little May Day basket and nosegay. I think every- body will have had a good time, don't you, when good-bye is said at your May party? We had a party at my house, Upon the First of May: We chose a May Queen and a King Just for a May-time play. We hunted paper flowers And we strung some garlands, too, Though all were made of paper, It was great fun to do. [70] ^ ^^( 1 ^^^^M V ( , 1\ m ^ \ V K;MI w MM r-i^:-! 'T— ^ » -^ ^ '^^^^ # 1. f 1 -^A ^^'^VitiT Here is Fun for an Indoor May Day Party . June Fun is All About Birds, of Course. JUNE FUN Materials Required to Make June Fun: Pic- tures of birds, cut from Dennison crepe paper or from printed bird pictures; cardboard to cut for a game made of cards, bird stickers that come as gummed seals. Tools Needed to Make June Fun: Pencil, scis- sors, ruler. Bird Fun is splendid play for June weather. You may plan for it in advance, for you will need to find at least ten or twelve large pictures of different vari- eties of birds. With these you are to make a row of hanging illustrations. None of them must have upon them the name of the variety of bird it repre- sents. Your friends, when they come to share your fun, must guess. See who can identify each bird in each picture! To help the fun, you will need to prepare tally cards: cut big cards from pasteboard. Each card should be about six inches by four inches. If you can buy some boxes of colored bird seals, ornament each card with one sticker at the top. Make a hole at the side of the tally. Tie a pencil to a strand of colored raffia and loop the raffia through the hole. [71] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCPIAFT Each one who plays the game must have one of these tally cards. Each must look at the bird pictures care- fully and, without talking with another player or exchanging notes, must write opposite the number one on his card what number one bird in number one picture is. This may or may not be guessed right but you must have everybody write an answer. Then number tivo is looked at and guessed the same way. This continues till all the set has been guessed. Now, gather together all the cards after the chil- dren have written their names on the backs. Give them out again so that nobody has to correct his own list of guesses. Then read aloud the right list be- ginning with number one and continuing in proper order. The wrong guesses on each card are crossed off each time by those who are correcting cards. At the close, the card that has the most correct list wins and the child whose name is on its back may receive as a prize a pretty picture of a bird that you have yourself mounted upon a pretty paper mat. After this, you may have a bird hunt. Cut from some Dennison bird pattern paper all the birds il- lustrated: bluebird, robin, woodpecker, sparrow, and so on. The Dennison papers may be secured in any town. If you cannot get them, you may cut outlines of birds from colored papers and write a bird's name upon the back of each bird you make. Hide the birds around the room. There should be about twenty birds hidden here and there. Place them in easy places, not too difficult to get at or too [72] JUNE FUN hard to find. Then let the little friends hunt for them. See who can find the most birds. At the close of the round of the game, each child must tell what his birds are. (If paper patterns of birds are used and names written on the back, the child who holds the birds must tell what the distinguish- ing feature of each variety he holds is — bluebird is all blue, robin has a red breast, sparrow is small and quarrelsome and has a speckled breast of brown and white.) If the player to whom a bird belongs cannot properly describe the species, he cannot keep the bird. The birds that cannot be kept are taken by one of the players who has the largest number himself and hidden about the room again. Then players are called in to try again. This continues till all birds have been properly found and identified. The one who has most successfully identified and found birds wins the game. After this game, you may play another: take pen- cils and papers and see who can write the longest list of birds. Who knows the most birds? There is still another game you may make and play. It is called Bluebird. It is made by cutting cards from bristol-board. Each card may be ruled from a series mapped out with ruler and pencil on a big sheet of thin cardboard. Make the cards about two inches wide by three inches high. Write upon two, robin; upon two more, woodpecker; upon two more, thrush; upon two more, oriole; upon two more, [73] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT catbird; upon two more, sparrow; upon two more, blackbird; upon two more, goldfinch; upon two more, lark; upon two more, thrush; upon two more, warbler; upon two more, blue jay, and then write on one card bluebird. This makes a set of twenty- five cards. You may add other pairs of birds to it if you like and there are to be a number of players. Any number of players may play if you add cards enough. For twenty-five cards, as many as six may use one pack. Place all the cards together and shuf- fle them well. Then deal out one at a time all the way around your table, face down. Nobody may see what the cards are till the dealer is through. Then, without letting other players see what cards are that each player discards, each must proceed to mate pairs of like birds. Two robins or two woodpeckers and so on. Wherever two of a kind happen in the hand of any player, the cards are put together and placed face down on the table beside that player. After this, each player in turn exchanges cards with the player at his left. In doing this, hold your cards so that nobody but yourself can see them. When all cards of birds are mated, the player to hold the bluebird wins. If you live in the city you may illustrate your game with pictures of birds. At the stationery shop you will find that they sell gummed stickers of bird pic- tures in wee boxes. Each box costs ten cents and the sticker pictures are used for sealing letters or packages. They come in assortments of varied bird [74] JUNE FUN pictures and the seals may be pasted on the card- board cards to make your bird game. It will be fun to play with it at other times than just in June, I think, don't you? You may make a set of these cards for a prize to give at your June Fun party, if you like. June's the time of bird song, June's a time of glee, June's the time for parties. Fun for you and me. Little birds are singing, Everything is gay. We, too, will be making Jollity to-day. [75] FUN FOR JULY FOURTH Material Required to Make July Fourth Fun: Red tissue paper, white string, thin cardboard, pa- triotic flag stickers in five-cent envelopes, some pa- triotic crepe paper napkins with flags printed on them, some sticks of candy. Tools Needed to Make July Fourth Fun: Scis- sors, pencil, paste, ruler. July Fourth, I suppose, means to you fire-crackers and noise, parades and patriotic speech-making. But there are more ways than these to enjoy its spirit of celebration. It may be that you live away from places where fire-crackers go off bang! In this case, you and your friends may have fun with some patriotic games. These are all quiet games that you may play at a fun party. They are quite as much fun as noisy ones and, I think, better fun than most noisy ones! Your fun may include fire-crackers too. But these fire-crackers are not made with powder and do not go off bang. They are prizes for your games. You will need to make the fire-crackers before the day of the celebration — unless, just for fun — you think others might like to help make fire-crackers and learn how. [76] FUN FOR JULY FOURTH In the picture of July Fourth's fun, you will see the fire-crackers. They look real, certainly! They are so real that you'd believe them truly-ruly fire-crack- ers, but there is inside of each candy! You will need to have some sticks of candy and be- side these some thin cardboard that will roll easily. (Maybe, if your mother thinks you can't have candy, you can make the crackers without. I made some without.) First, divide your candy sticks into three parts, if you have them. Roll each part in some waxed paper. Cut some pieces of thin cardboard two by four inches in size. Put one bit of candy roll upon the cardboard and then roll this to form a tight tube. After this, roll the tube in red tissue paper that comes a penny a sheet. Tie at one end with a white string and then poke both twisted ends back into the tube — and the fire-cracker is all made! It takes no time at all! One sheet of red tissue paper is enough to make a number of crackers — all sizes. You may make very wee ones as well as large ones but keep the sizes uniform: little ones all alike, big ones all alike. This is done by cutting the cardboard in similar size always. If you have some crepe paper napkins that have flags at either corner, you may make real little flags for decoration by cutting these from the napkins and pasting each upon a strip of heavy cardboard or a stick. The shield of the United States may be cut in the same way. With the flags, you may play a game. Cut a pic- [77^ THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT ture of Uncle Sam from some magazine. Mount it with paste upon a large sheet of cardboard. Gather the children who want to play the game with you and have a big handkerchief to blindfold each in turn. Put the picture of Uncle Sam at one end of the room and see who, blindfolded, can place his flag closest to him. That one should receive a fire-cracker reward. You may play the game as long as you like in as many rounds as you think fun. Each time, there should be a reward for the successful winner. In the same way, you may make a similar game to play with a five-cent flag. If you have no flag, you may cut a large oblong of white paper and make one by pasting strips of red tissue or red paper to form stripes upon it. From some paper, cut out a star for everybody who wants to play and see who can put his star upon the ground of the flag where Uncle Sam's stars should go. Another game is a test for your knowledge of Unit- ed States history. You may make it with a package of five-cent flag stickers and a half a sheet of white cardboard. Find a pencil, ruler, scissors — and your book of United States history. Rule off upon the cardboard fifty-three cards. Each card must be about an inch and a half or two inches wide and about three inches high. Make every card the same size. Divide the pack — twenty-six cards in one pile and twenty-seven in another pile. Take the twenty-seven cards and divide this pack, excepting one card. On [78] FUN FOR JULY FOURTH thirteen cards, paste flag stickers. On the extra card write the date of the Declaration of Independence and under it paste a flag. The other pack of plain cards, thirteen in number, should each have an important date of history writ- ten on them. Begin with early Colonial history and carry your dates up to the present time. These twenty-seven cards may then be put in with the plain cards of the first divided pack. Mix all up well. Seat players around a table — as many as six may play. As few as three may play. Deal out five cards from the big pack to each player. Deal with backs down so that nobody may see them. Only players playing may see their own hands. There may be no questioning between players as to what numbers of dates stand for. Reference may be made to the his- tory book but only between deals or rounds of play. To begin, the first player must lead out a date. If he has none, he plays a blank card. If he has no blank card, he plays a flag. But the player who fol- lows a date card must try to take it with a flag and tell, in so doing, what that date stands for in United States history. When new hands are needed, the play- er at the dealer's left deals out new cards to each play- er again. These are all taken from the complete pack first made. The first player to gain a score of thirteen that stands for the original States wins the game. Shuflle all cards after each round, taking every play- [79] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT er's gains back into the pack with all plain cards that have been put on the table. Another nice thing to do at a Fourth of July fun party is to find some big railroad map of the United States and mount this upon a big piece of cloth or cardboard. With it, you may play a United States game. Give every player a pin with a piece of round paper a quarter of an inch large. Write every play- er's name on the back of his paper. Run the pin through. Then count out to see who shall begin the game. Blindfold each player in turn and as you start each toward the map, blindfolded with arm outstretched and pin on paper, tell the player to try to reach Wash- ington and put his circle on the District of Columbia. It will be very funny to see where some players locate this, but the play is continued till some one of the party is successful. Then give out the little Fourth of July favor or prize you have prepared. If you have lemonade and cake afterwards, put flags on the tray or table where you serve the refresh- ments. If you can arrange to give everybody a piece of cake with a crepe paper flag upon it, it will make an appropriate little remembrance of the fun party to carry home. And I'm sure if you show the chil- dren how to make the fire-crackers — even without candy in the cardboard roll — they'll think that is jolly to know. Inside each you might roll a little patriotic verse, maybe. [80] Patriotic Games are Fun for the Fourth of July. Butterfly Fun Comes in August. FUN FOR JULY FOURTH I like to look up In the sky And see there in the breeze The Stars and Stripes a-floating high Above our tallest trees: It is so very beautiful I'm glad that I can say, Fm glad I am American Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! [8i] AUGUST FUN Material Required to Make August Fun: Just some colored tissue papers. Tools Needed to Make August Fun : Pencil, scis- sors, pins. August is such a warm month that it is fun to play- outdoors when the weather is fine and the lawn shady. But I'll tell you of a game you can play either in- doors or out. First, you will need to hunt for your box of colored papers and cut out some butterflies. That sounds harder than it really is! A good way to begin is to cut a butterfly pattern in white pad paper. Take a square of white paper from five to six inches in size. Fold it in two. Then with pencil, outline the wings of a butterfly — just one side of the butterfly with the body coming at the fold of the paper. Next, cut around your marks with scissors that go through both folds of paper at once and you will find, that the butterfly is all made. Perhaps you may like to put colored crayon markings on his wings. Make a num- ber of these butterflies, and when your friends come, pin one to the back of each friend. On each of the butterflies that are pinned onto the dresses or coats of your guests, write the name of a different flower. Each [82] AUGUST FUN must guess what flower is upon his own butterfly. No- body may tell him. He may ask questions but only such questions as may be answered by ''Yes" or ''No." When all have properly guessed, you may start an- other butterfly game. This may be Find the Butter- fly. Select one of the butterflies and count out for one of the group who shall be first to hide it. No butterfl^^ may be hidden under any object or placed higher than the height of the one who hides it. It is not fair, of course, to peek : that's mean ! All who are to hunt for the butterfly go off and count in unison up to one hun- dred. Then they call, "Ready!" The first to find the butterfly is allowed to hide it next time. Everybody ought to have at least one turn to try this. The one to find it most frequently may have the chance to begin the next game. This may be a blindfold game played with a large flower and butterflies. Each player should have a big paper butterfly with his name written upon it. The flower chosen is placed flat on a table at a distance. See who can put the butterfly on the flower. The handkerchief should be tied on for a blindfold and the player's vision should be tested. Then with out- stretched arm, the player who has been turned around three times and started toward the flower, must put his pin and butterfly on the first thing his hand touches. The flower is the prize of the butterfly's owner who comes closest to it. [83] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT I wonder — don't you like to snip with scissors? I do too! And I've made up the nicest play — I'll tell you what to do: You can make splendid butterflies, as easy as can be — And afterwards, you make them fly! Oh, just you wait and see! First, find some tissue paper — some yellow and some white ; Cut out four inches in a square (I think that is just right) Then fold the square and cut — snip-snip one scollop and one more, Then you will need a tiny twig. I'll tell you what that's for: The tissue paper makes the wings of your big butterfly, His body is the tiny stick. Glue it and let it dr/. It goes between the pretty wings, and when all this is done. You and your pretty butterfly can have some lovely fun : Tie some black thread about the stick. Hold one end in your hand, The butterfly will follow you as if at your command : You run — the butterfly behind floats after through the air, Wherever you go it goes too. It follows everj-where! And you can make it light upon the flowers, bushes, trees — I think I never knew before tame butterflies like these ! [84] SEPTEMBER FUN: A LEAF PARTY GAME Materials Required to Make a Leaf Party Game : Bright colored papers in sheets of green, yellow, brown, red. White paper may be used in place of colored papers and colored with some crayons. Each player must have a fan made of paper or newspaper. Tools Needed to Make a Leaf Game: Pencil, scissors. In September the frost begins to turn the trees' leaves to beautiful shades of red, yellow, brown and bronze. Probably you have many times picked the leaves up and admired them. Did you ever want to keep them? Did you ever take a beautiful spray of leaves and iron it? If your mother will let you have a small bit of paraffine and a warm iron, you may put a bit of the wax on each leaf and iron it over the leaf so that the leaf will stay bright and last for a long time. If every leaf of a spray is so treated, the whole may be kept all winter lasting and lovely. Be sure to use only a warm iron and only a little wax that goes all over the leaf. Iron upon newspaper and iron both sides of the leaf. This will make a pretty prize for a leaf game, if you want to have fun-making and playing with a group of friends some day indoors. [85] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT I think almost any one of them would like to possess a spray of autumn leaves that will last so long. Placed over a picture frame or in some vase, they will be beautiful to keep and enjoy when snow is on the ground. If you want to have a Leaf Party some afternoon, send your invitations out written upon leaves — that's fun, doesn't it sound so? The leaves that you write upon will not be real leaves: they are white paper leaves that you will need to cut from real leaves that you pick up outdoors. Find some maple leaves or any others. Take a leaf and place it flat on a sheet of white paper. With a pencil, draw all around its rim. Then cut out the outline of the leaf you have drawn. You may write upon this your invitation, Dear Wopsie: Please bring a fan with you and come over some afternoon when your mother will let you. I want to play a leaf game with you. Some other children are com- ing too, I hope, and we'll have some fun. Your friend, TOPSY. The invitation should go in an envelope to all lit- tle friends whom you want to invite. You can easily arrange for a time that will be convenient for all. When they come, show them how you cut the invi- tation leaf pattern and let them try cutting leaves from colored papers. Each should have paper of dif- [86] SEPTEMBER FUN ferent color but each should have a differently shaped leaf to use as a pattern. When each has cut out six leaves, then the game is almost ready to begin. You will need to mark off a goal, for the game is to be a race. It should be played in two or three rooms. The start should be in one room and go through the doorway into another. At the end of this second room place a strip of white cloth so that it will make a goal across one corner. Leaves must be fanned from the starting-place in the first room through the second and across the goal line. Only one leaf may be start- ed at a time. No hands may ever be touched to any leaf except when it is placed on the floor to start toward the goal. To start the race, see that every player has his fan in his right hand. If you like, these fans may be made from newspaper tied into fan-shape. The fan should be short and must never be used to brush a leaf — one must fan. All players stand in a row with their first leaf on the floor before them. Upon each leaf's back is written the name of the child to whom it belongs. Give a signal : Start! Then let every player fan his leaf as carefully and as quickly as he can to pro- gress toward the given goal. Remember: no hands upon any leaf and no brushing of any leaf with a fan. If these two rules are broken a player must begin all over at the start again and lose all gain. As soon as any player's leaf is over the goal line, he may come back to the starting-place and start another. [87] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT This play continues till one of the contestants has placed six leaves successfully over the line. Then the others may finish, if they like to see who will win next, but the prize you have made of the lovely au- tumn spray will belong to the winner who first puts six leaves over the goal line. Small prizes for the other children may be sepa- rate autumn leaves upon which you have pasted some picture. When these leaves are waxed over, they make useful and pretty bookmarkers for school books. You may also arrange a Tree Game. There should be some small favors, one for each guest. You may take some lollypop candy sticks and fasten a gay pa- per leaf on each side of the candy's paper. Tie the stems of both leaves to the lollypop stick with ribbon or raffia. Do the candies up in packages and put a number on each one. Other little favors may be used with the lollypops. You can plan one for every child who is to be asked to your fun party. These are to be used in playing your Tree Game. You will need to make the Tree Game by drawing a tree on a big sheet of cardboard. Use your crayons and make the trunk brown. Put plenty of green leaves upon your tree. When the picture of the tree is made, cut some green leaves from paper — as many as there are chil- dren invited to your party. Each leaf must have on it a number. These numbers correspond to the num- bers marked on the little gifts. Hang the tree picture [88] SEPTEMBER FUN at one end of the room and when your friends have had their fan race, you may play the Tree Game. Blindfold each small guest in turn and start him forward in the general direction of the tree, from which he must pick the first leaf that his hand touches. The usual calls of ^^hot" or ^'cold" will serve to guide him to the tree and to pick a leaf. When everybody has secured a leaf, then the little presents are passed around and each matches the number on his leaf with the number of the package. Don't you think that that is fun? If you like, you may then play another form of Leaf Race: one at a time in turn see how you may fan one leaf to a given corner of the room in as few strokes of the fan as possible. Count is kept of every stroke of the fan and the child whose count is least, after all have tried, wins the game. You might have a Leaf Hunt, too. Play it as you would Find the Thimble, only number ten leaves: I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, lo. Count out to see who shall hide them. Send everybody else from the room. When all leaves are hidden call the children back and let them hunt. As soon as the leaves are all found, count up the scores and the one who has the largest score is winner and can hide the leaves for the others for a second game. All may ask, ^^Am I hot?" or "Am I cold?" but no further directions maybe given. By the end of this game, I think, it will be time for the children to say good-bye, but if they stay longer [89] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT you can find and choose games that you have played before. I think the elves take autumn leaves To make their party things — The scarlet and the yellovi^ cloak They slip on over wings. I've seen the leaves a-dancing And wheeling here and there And under each one is an elf A-hiding in it there. I never saw a little elf Dressed in a leaf that way But when the leaves are dancing so, It must be elves at play ! [90] September Fun is a Leaf Race with Bright Colored Leaves. October Fun is for Hallowe'en and a Funny Witch has Made Alagic Ink for It. OCTOBER HALLOWE'EN FUN Material Required to Make October Hallowe'en Fun: A sheet of cardboard to make a Witch's Cat Game, some black paper from which to cut cats, some orange-colored crepe paper and cotton with which to construct pumpkin favors, some lemon juice to make magic ink, some small kitchen kettle for a cauldron and three stout tree twigs for its supports, some white pad paper to use in making ^^fortunes." Tools Needed to Make October Hallowe'en Fun: Some crayons, scissors, pins, a clean steel pen with pen-holder, paste. Hallowe'en is always fun. I dare say you will want to plan for a party yourself. Maybe you will like to play the old, old games, but maybe, too, you will like to make some new ones, so I'll tell you about some. First, you will like to make your invitations. If you can get as many correspondence cards and en- velopes as you have guests to invite, each card may be decorated with a black cat cut from black paper. To make these, first draw the outline of a cat on white paper and then use this as a pattern to guide in the cutting of cats from black paper. If you have some pieces of black velvet, this may be used in place of [91] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT the black paper. The invitation cards should each have a wee black cat pasted upon them. When the invitations have gone, you will then need to start other preparations that will make plenty to do to keep you busy in spare time. First, there are the pumpkin favors to make. They are not hard to construct but they take time: cut as many circles of cardboard as you have guests. Each circle is to be the foundation of a pumpkin. A circle that is about three inches in diameter — or less — is easy to manage. Put one of these upon a circle of crepe paper that is three times as large. Gather the edge of this big crepe paper circle into bag-shape. Stuff it tight with cotton, and when you have made it look like a pump- kin, tie a string tight at the top. You will need to make a pumpkin stem by twisting the ends of paper above this pumpkin with paste. A big green paper pumpkin leaf may be pasted on each pumpkin. If you like, you may outline pumpkin faces on each pumpkin. You will have to do this carefully or else your work of pumpkin-making will be lost. Use a paint-brush with dark paint and do not use much water on the brush. If you use much water, there will be a blot and all your work will have to be started anew. To make a game of Witch's Cat, take a sheet of cardboard and paste upon it some picture of a Hal- lowe'en witch. The pictures are not hard to find. You will always find them in the gay crepe papers used for Hallowe'en decoration. If you cannot find [92] OCTOBER HALLOWE'EN FUN this picture, you may easily draw the picture of a witch and her broomstick. After you have all bobbed for apples in the usual Hallowe'en fashion, see who can put the witch's cat upon her broom. Give each guest a small cat cut from black paper. Every- body should have a pin, too. Blindfold each child in turn, and turn him three times. Then start him, hand outstretched with pin run through the cat, to- ward the picture of the witch hung at the end of the room within easy reach. The one who can put his cat on the broom wins the game. It will be funny to see where the other black tabbies go — anywhere but the right place! A pumpkin is, of course, the prize. You may prepare Witch Fortunes. They are great fun for Hallowe'en. First, you will need to squeeze a lemon into some clean little jelly jar. Strain the juice. This is magic ink! The lemon juice is truly wonderful, for I dare say you never before realized that it was possible to make writing-ink with it. It seems perfectly clear and colorless. But take a piece of white paper and a clean steel pen. Write a few words with the pen after it is dipped into the lemon juice. Let the paper dry. You can see nothing upon it afterwards! And now for the magic! Just take a warm iron and pass it over the paper — lo, out of the white sheet come the words that you wrote, all black, as if written in ink! The sheet may be held toward the screen of an open fire quite [93] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT as satisfactorily for bringing out the hidden writing as using the hot iron. Now for the making of Hallowe'en fortunes: Take a pad and write short ''fortunes," one on each leaf. When the sheets are dry, roll each one and put it in a kitchen kettle, that you may easily make into the cauldron by tying three stout twigs together and let- ting the cauldron hang below them on a loop of string. Witch ink will blot as easily as real ink, so be careful about having all sheets dry before being rolled and placed in the pot. After you have played the usual Hallowe'en games, have a black-clad ''witch" (that may be you or some other boy or girl) enter the room and beckon the guests toward the fireplace. Seat them in a half-cir- cle around it. Then ask each guest to take from the magic pot one "fortune scroll." When each has taken one, begin at one end of the half-circle and let each guest read aloud his "fortune." Each fortune will have to be held toward the warmth of the fire before it will appear, and as the children have not before seen this most magic wonder, it will be very mysteri- ous, and great fun for you who know that it is only everyday lemon juice! When all fortunes written on the papers have been made clear, let each guest read his aloud. That is part of the fun, you know. The fortunes, for this reason, must be made short and funny. For another "round" of fortune-telling, prepare- papers with witch writing that have the names of [94] OCTOBER HALLOWE'EN FUN various careers upon them: rich man, poor man, beg- gar man, doctor, lawyer, chief, cook, boarding-house keeper, writer, artist, editor, newspaper man, police- man, president, are many of the professions you may name. Never mind if girls get them — that's all the more funny! You will think of many professions and you may choose those that you think might be most amusing for your friends. Next, prepare a third ''round" of fortune-telling by drawing pictures — yes, real pictures on the pad paper with the witch ink. Let the outlines be simple, of course. Write under each what it is intended to represent. Mark, for instance, The House You Will Live in Some Day Soon, A Future Friend Who Will Influence Your Life, The Place Where You Go to School, Where You Ought to Go to Buy Candy, The Place Where You Will Find a Bag of Money, Your Lucky Sign, and many other things. Illustrate these with drawings of simple things like houses or land- scapes or objects. Then use these in the magic for- tune pot to try at the Hallowe'en gathering around the fire. Still another form of fortune telling that you may play with the magic witch ink is to write upon half of the papers the word Yes and upon the other half the word No, Then tell all the children to make a wish and turn around three magical times: bring in the potful of papers on which Yes and No are written and let every one choose a fortune scroll again. It will be said that those who receive ''Yes" will have [95] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT their wish come true and those who have ''No" will not. That, as everybody knows, is just Hallowe'en play and nothing more — simply fun. If you intend to have a little "party" at a table after this fun, decorate it with big cardboard pumpkins shaped first from patterns you drew. Cut these out for place cards and paste over each some orange-col- ored crepe paper. Outline on each a Hallowe'en face. These may be your place-cards. They can be made to stand with easel-backs pasted to them. Your last ''round" of w^itch fortune scroll reading might, if you like, have some papers with the names of the guests written on them. One at a time, let half the company draw till all have chosen a partner to take to the table, or to play a game again. They say upon All Hallow's Night That witchcraft will come true, But I hope that lots of funcraft Is what may come to you! [96] CARROT FUN Material Required to Make Carrot Fun : A meas- ure of large carrots. Tools Needed to Make Carrot Fun: A small knife for each contestant in the game. The carrot fun party is a gingham apron party. It is possible to use the game either for a Thanksgiv- ing or Hallowe'en celebration or for play in summer. Carrots are cheap and often you have them in your own garden. Some day they may be picked and you may make this game with them. Big, coarse car- rots are best. Pick at least two carrots for each one who is going to play. Pick the large carrots. Wash them and dry them. Then put them into a big basket. Collect enough knives for everybody. You are going to carve the carrots into all manner of shapes and see who can make the best ornament with one carrot. You will find that when the tough outer skin is peeled off, it is easy to cut the carrot, and with the blade of your knife you may make many things, such as baskets, flowers, heads of animals and people, toys, geomet- rical figures. The game may be played in several rounds, if you have plenty of carrots. You will first [97] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT need to explain that the carrots are to be made into objects of some kind. Write upon slips of paper names of objects to be made. Fold these papers and pass them around. Each child will have ten min- utes to make the thing named for him on the paper. When the ten minutes are up all players take the slips given them, turn these over so that the name of the object does not show, and place the finished — or unfinished — object upon the paper. Each paper must be numbered so that its number plainly shows. All finished and unfinished objects are placed on a long table and then new slips are given out with new carrots. The time is kept and carving begins again. When time is up, the new things are placed on the new slips again and the slips numbered and placed on the table. You may have as many rounds as you wish. The one who is making the fun party will need to have a pencil and a piece of paper for each child when the last round is finished and all have put their work on the table. Of course, some objects will be good while others will be unfinished and poorly done. To begin with, take a vote as to which object made is the best. Each child must write this number upon his paper at the top with the number of the object he votes for and what he thinks it represents. Next, he goes over the list of objects on the table numbering his paper to correspond with the numbers in the order of the things on exhibition. Each must write the full list as far as he can guess it. When [98] CARROT FUN everybody has guessed the written answers, then you must go to the table, and tell aloud the number of the article and its name. The children exchange papers so that nobody will correct his own. It will be funny to hear what the carrot things were intended to be. After you have read the right name, have each contestant in turn read what his paper called the ob- ject. Some will call it one thing and some another. The guesses may be far from what was intended. Do this with every object in the exhibition till the full list of things has been guessed. Then see who has guessed most of the objects correctly. The winner should have some amusing little gift. You might buy at a ten-cent store a carrot pin-cushion for five cents or you might make an amusing necklace out of small carrots by stringing them upon a heavy strand of green raffia or cord. Do the package up in many, many, many thicknesses of paper, so that it has to be unrolled a great deal and untied many times before the final opening. See which object is voted to be the best and give that, too, some funny little prize. Almost anything will do. It is not so much the prize that counts but the winning of a reward that is amusing. You might cut a little badge from ribbon and tie a wee carrot to the ribbon. Pin this on as a "decoration of honor" — that is all the prize you need for the fun. Shoo! Don't 5^ou tell the secret: On Hallowe'en, look out ! [99] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT Vm goin' to play a-goblln An' dress up an' run out! I've got a Jack-o'-lantern, I've got a rattle too — Maybe I'll come to your house An' try to frighten you! Shoo ! Don't you tell the secret I'll dress up in a shawl I'll maybe wear a dreadful mask — You won't know me at all! [loo] THE THANKSGIVING FUN MAKING Material Required to Make Thanksgiving Fun: A baking dish with wide brim, a large piece of brown manilla wrapping paper, some string and enough home-made jokes to fill the pie so every one will re- ceive a ^'helping." Tools Needed to Make a Thanksgiving Fun Pie: Scissors and brown or black crayon or paints. In November every one is thinking of fun for Thanksgiving Day's dinner party. Probably you will like to make something to contribute toward it too. Did you ever make a fun pie, I wonder? A fun pie is easy to make and it's the very thing of all jolly things for Thanksgiving. It is a pie made of jokes with a crust of brown paper — and it doesn't even need to be baked, for you may easily brown its crust with crayon. Keep your pie-making a secret, if you can. Pos- sibly you will need to let Mother into the joke be- cause she will be the one to lend you the baking-dish — but I'm sure she won't tell! How many are going to be at your Thanksgiving dinner party, I wonder? There is Grandma, Grand- [lOl] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT pa, Mother, Father, Auntie, Cousin Tom, Sister, Brother, Baby and yourself, perhaps. That makes ten. Maybe there are more or less but you'd better make a list. Then you must prepare some funny lit- tle joke for each member of the circle. These jokes may be appropriate little verses cut from magazines or newspapers — things about Thanksgiving. They may be little gifts that you can make yourself. If you have any money to spend, you may like to buy small favors to put into your pie. These you can get cheaply at a ten-cent store and all should be very small things, not more than two inches large at most. The ''penny store" is a good place to buy "jokes" — maybe for Grandpa who is always losing his glasses, you might buy a penny pair, and for Grandma who is afraid of spiders, you might buy a big wiggly Jap- anese toy spider to make her laugh, and for Daddy who is always on time, a penny watch. You can think up the appropriate joke and write something to go with it. Then do up every little gift carefully in white tissue paper and tie it with string or with a long length of ribbon at least seven inches longer than its looping knot. Put all packages into the baking dish and see if they fit in nicely. If they do not, you will need to put some ''stuffing" of tissue paper into the baking dish and fit it down first. Then the presents may be put in afterwards. But before you do this finally, get the shape of your pie-crust! [102] THE THANKSGIVING FUN MAKING Take the baking-dish and invert it upon your brown manilla wrapping paper. Take a pencil or crayon and draw all around its rim to get the size of your dish. Cut this circle out, allowing at least two inches extra rim all the way around. Then turn it over on the side where nothing at all is marked. On this side, mark off the baking-holes at the center of the pie, as cooks cut them in the crust. Make one hole for each member of the Thanksgiving party. Cut through the paper crust at each marking — just a slit — and pull through it one of the ribbons or strings. Then take your long string and tie the paper crust tight to the rim of the baking-pan. When the crust is tightly secured, cut it where it may need cutting around its base. Make this neat. It should look like a real crust. Your brown or black crayon will help you to mark around the edge of the pie-crust. Then all is done. When dinner is ready, let the cook into your secret and have her put your pie upon a plate and serve it before Daddy. Then everybody will take a string and when you count, ''One, two, three!" every one will pull at once — and out come jokes for every- body! When Mama's bakin' cookies, the kitchen smells so nice — All cinnamon an' ginger an' different kinds of spice — I like to go an' stay there : I kind of hang about : Sometimes I get a cookie, sometimes I go without I But if I'm very quiet an' very good, you know, My Mama's sure to give me some of her bakin' dough. [103] THE JOLLY BOOK OF FUNCRAFT An' then I'll make a cookie man when all the work Is done — He'll maybe be quite hard an' black but baking Is such fun! Most nobodj' will eat him. It's funny but It's true — He never tastes at all at all as Mama's cookies do ! [104] A Pieful of Fun for a Thanksgiving Party. ■ ^H ^H^l^^n r^ ^^^^^^1 ^^^^^^^^^^^B ShEV 1 M ^^^^^1 jf^ 1 1 ■ *