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Show I Fun For Your Family By MISS ABBIE CONDIT National Recreation Association. With picnic days here, some of the old but always popular stunts begin to come to mind. There are other social occasions, too, when these "hardy perennials" bloom anew! Do you remember these? You're Out. On a goal line place a number of 2-by-twelve-inch" blocks of wood on end, three feet apart. If for example 12 blocks are used, players stand three feet apart behind be-hind a starting line parallel to the goal line. On signal contestants run and grab one of the small blocks. The two who fail to secure them are eliminated. Ten blocks are now placed in a row and the 12 who secured them during the first race run again. This elimination is continued con-tinued until two contestants are trying try-ing to secure the one remaining piece. Barrel Koll. Place an empty nail keg or small barrel on its side on the starting line in front of each contestant. At a given signal, the runner rolls the keg around a designated desig-nated goal and back to the starting line. Permit players to use both hands. For variation insist that players roll keg by kicking it with their feet only. Air Line Race. Pieces of wrapping wrap-ping string about 30 feet long are needed for each contestant, one end of each threaded through empty paper pa-per cups. The ends of each string are then held taut shoulder high by individuals not participating in the game. The cups are all ar. ranged in line at one end of the strings with open ends toward the contestants. At a given signal each player is to blow his cup to the other end of the thread, by blowing into the open end. The first one across the finish line is the winner. Contestants should be warned that the use of the hands and any other part of one's body in getting the cup to the finish line is not permitted. permit-ted. Ice cream cones can be substituted sub-stituted for paper cups. Bottle Filling. Provide each player play-er standing behind a starting line with a small cup or water glass. Directly behind him put a can or pail of water. In front of each participant, par-ticipant, at a distance of 30 feet, place a large, small-necked bottle. On the word "go" each player fills his cup, runs to the bottle and pours the water in it. The player returns to the pail of water as many times as is needed to fill the bottle. bot-tle. The winner is the player whose bottle is first to be filled. This might also be conducted as a single sin-gle file relay with players taking turns in running back and forth and filling the bottles. Remember, that all cups and bottles should be of the same size. Farmyard Conversation. Contestants, Contest-ants, one at a time, imitate the sounds of familiar farm animals cow, calf, sheep, chicken, duck, turkey, tur-key, pig, dog, cat and others. Judges decide as to who is the best imitator. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |