Backyard fun for kids – Animated Giraffe – The Giraffe is one of the rarest of animals, and very few are to be found in captivity. So if you make a giraffe, which is not difficult to do, you will…
Fun activities for kids outside - The Elephant is one of the oldest forms of animated animals, and is at the same time one of the most popular.
Lay out the form of the capital letter Q with coins on a table and ask someone in the audience to select a number and then ask that person to count up from one until the number is reached, beginning…
Ring Throwing Game - The board for this game is made of a cover from an old candy or lard pail, washed and painted black. When the paint is dry...
This interesting toy, with its funny animal targets, and a harmless pistol with which to shoot at them, will provide an endless amount of fun for a winter’s evening or stormy afternoon. Excerpt from: HOME-MADE TOYS FOR GIRLS AND…
A Toy Jumping-Jack is always amusing, and Fig. 110 shows a simply constructed home-made model. You will see by Fig. 113 how the figure is made. The peaked hat is half a spool tapered down from the end to the…
A Tailless Kite – The frame of a 3-ft. kite is made of two sticks, each 3 ft. long. These are tied together so that the cross stick will be at a distance of 15 percent of the full length…
To make this harmless and loud toy – the Paper Banger, we need strong sheet of paper size 6,3 x 9,5 inches (16 x 24 cm) (or other sheet of paper with edge ratio 2:3). How to make paper bangers?…
The relay game – Games for youth groups Playing the relay game shows how easy it is for relayed messages to be changed or misunderstood.Make up a group of eight or more people in a circle.One person whispers a 10-word message…