Show I GAMES FOR CHRISTMAS I They Will Add Interest to the Family Home-Coming Home Party By GLADYS BE BEATTIE CROZIER AKING AlONG the ChrIstmas Christ- Christ runs mas home coming party enjoyable to toV toof l'- l' hI V Q all members of or the 44 81 family young and old is always a aV V v. v j problem Grandmother Grand j D d mother molher is parties J i 6 anxious to toi please the little y os folks and In doing 4 l' l J so ao she will also Q- Q 9 13 Please the older V e ones But the chit r t I It JI dren drew are best entertained en en- w when h hen e n their pleasures are participated In by parents and aunts and uncles an and to accomplish the desired desired desired de de- de- de sired en end nothing is more appropriate than games The ones described below are simple aim sim pIe and easily arranged for In any home There is an added interest in them wh when n Inexpensive prizes are area a awarded warded the winners and these prizes will be especially attractive if It they are made by grand grandmothers grandmother's mothers nother's own hands A program of ot games may be outlined outlined out out- lined as follows 1 Blind mans man's buff butt played with wooden spoons s. s 2 Blowing out the tho candle b blindfold blind blind- Ind fold 3 Throwing cards into a hat 4 Pattern matching competition 5 Silhouette cutting competition For blind mans man's buff butt with wooden spoons a small chair a cushion a large handkerchief for blindfolding r 39 Blind Mans Man's Buff With Two Spoons purposes rind imd a couple of at wooden spoons will be required To begin the game a blind bUnd man manIs Is B chosen to sit blindfolded on the chair a wooden spoon in each hand The rest of the company are then marshaled up to kneel before him one by jy one cue whets when the b blind in man endeavors ors to discover t their identity by feeling feel feel- Ing ng them with the wooden spoons The blind man is anI only allowed one guess so that a good number of the company company com corn pany pant have as a rule to go through ugh the he ordeal before one of them is guessed aright and has to take alee the blind mans lla place e when the game game g goes es on as before Blowing out the can candle le blindfold isa Is 15 Isa a far more difficult feat than it would appear appeal at first sight and the fruitless efforts of or the players rs to perform this apparently simple task afford much merriment to the onlo onlookers To begin the game place a lighted candle on a small but steady y table or pedestal at one end of or the room while the he players stand stan at the other To start tho game the competitors are blindfolded and turned round three rah t S r Blowing Out the Candle times before groping their way to the spot at wl which they imagine tho the candle to o be situated and endeavoring to puff It tout out Throwing cards Into a a. hat makes avery avery a avery very amusing competition in which much skill may be exhibited A top bat a couple of packs of cards with different backs backs and and a piece of white tape tapo to mark out a barrier rl from behind which the players must kneel to compete are all the accessories re re- To begin the game the tho two players throw In hi turns one card at a time Ume and ind whichever succeeds in getting the tho highest number of cards into the hat wins the game In a large party this would be played played played play play- ed in heats beats on the principle of or a tournament tournament tournament tour tour- and to expedite matters several several several sev sev- eral bats hats and packs of or cards might be 30 provided The pattern matching competition is most moat exciting and is best played in ina n na a long hall or corridor so that the may havo a long run home borne A A. largo large number of pieces of stuff from a rag-bag rag must be placed in several several several sev sev- eral baskets and from among mong the ragin rags rag in ea each h basket a small pattern must be taken and placed In an envelope To begin the game the competitors are sorted into pairs a man and a girlin girl girl girlIn in each the girls standing at one em end of the tho corridor each one with an envelope envelope en en- and the men at the other each one just behind the special basket in which his partners partner's pattern may be matched At a signal the men run down the corridor to the spot where th the girls are standing and each one receives die Mie envelope held by his partner opens it takes out the pattern before dashing lashing back t to his basket bastet to match v f S rc a Throwing Into a Hat It from the pile of or cuttings from fancy dress materials within The competitor who first succeeds s sin In matching his pattern wins tho the game which if moro more convenient may maybe maybe maybe be played In heats timed by b stop stop- watch rhe The silhouette cutting competition a as a rule provokes the greatest mer mer- L A sheet Is hung up against a wall walland walland walland and drawn fiat flat The competitors are aro sorted into couples and take their places beneath It seated seated on a row of or chairs Each player Is next presented presente with a sheet of or black backed paper and a pair of ot scissors scissors scissors-no no pencils are ure allowed and allowed and thus armed must pr pro proceed pro pro- teed to cut out the silhouette portrait of ot his or her next-door next neighbor After Arter a ten minutes' minutes time-limit time has y ll w tW 1 a v y r. r i r J vY Pattern Matching Competition expired the hostess must collect the silhouettes and turning them back backside backside side aide outwards she pins pina them up on to the sheet Voting papers are next passed saed round roundS to the entire company and a first prize awarded for tor tho the makers of ot the best and worst portraits displayed |