Old Fashioned Children's Games: Over 200 Outdoor, Car Trip, Song, Card and Party Activities

by Sharon O'Bryan

Overview

Whatever happened to the old-fashioned children's games and songs? Old favorites like Kick the Can, Fox and Geese, and Red Rover encouraged camaraderie, physical activity, coordination and social interaction--as electronic and computer games never can. Family and campfire singalongs helped preserve the folksong and storytelling tradition while instilling in children a sense of community and a confidence in their musical capability.

Writer and poet Sharon O'Bryan has gathered a collection of the old games and songs. She brings the old days back to life with instructions for outdoor games like King of the Mountain; car games like Graveyard; card games including Old Maid; and favorite party games such as Blind Man's Bluff. Lyrics and music to singing games and campfire songs are added to this collection to offer old style amusement for every child and occasion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476602592
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	10/16/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	143
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Award-winning writer Sharon O’Bryan lives in Florence, Kentucky.
Award-winning writer Sharon O'Bryan lives in Florence, Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Introductory Note     

Outside Games
Angels in the Snow     
Balloon Toss     
Bear and Beasts     
Bird, Beast or Fish     
Birds     
Chain     
Chinese Ball     
Circle Relay     
Circle Tag     
Come and Get It     
Cross Tag     
Do This, Do That     
Dodge Ball     
Dress Up     
Fast Act     
Flower Jewelry     
Follow the Leader     
Fox and Geese     
Gypsy     
Hang Tag     
Heel and Toe Race     
Hide-and-Seek     
Home Tag     
Hopscotch     
Horse     
Hound and Rabbit     
I'll Draw the Frying Pan on Your Back     
Jacks     
Jump Rope     
Kick the Can     
King     
King of the Mountain     
Leapfrog     
Lemonade     
Letting Out the Doves     
Lightning Bug Hunt     
Lion in the Pit     
Marbles     
Marco Polo     
Midnight Sardines     
Minuteman Run     
Mother May I     
Nut Race     
Pass the Ball     
Pitch Pebbles     
Poison     
Pom, Pom, Pullaway     
Red Light     
Red Rover     
Ringolevio     
Rock School     
Run, Sheepie, Run     
Scavenger Hunt     
Serpent     
Shadow Tag     
Snowball Tag     
Spinning Bottle Tag     
Spoon Race     
Statues     
Still Pond     
Stoop Tag     
Three-Legged Sack Race     
Touch-Wood Tag     
Treasure Hunt     
Tug-of-War     
Twenty Steps     
Wolf     
Zigzag Relay Race     

Car Games
Alphabet Game     
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral     
Car Count     
Ghost     
Graveyard     
Hangman     
Minister's Cat     
Odd and Even     
Old Dead Horse     
Paper, Rock, Scissors     
Riddly, Riddly, Riddly D     
Squaring Dots     
State License Plates     
Tic-Tac-Toe     
Twenty Questions     

Card Games
Authors     
Beggar My Neighbor     
Crazy Eights     
Donkey     
Fish     
I Doubt It     
Memory     
My Ship Sails     
Old Maid     
Seven Up     
Slap Jack     
Snap     
War     

Singing Games and Campfire Songs
A-Hunting We Will Go     
Billy Boy     
Bingo     
Blue-Tail Fly     
Clapping Rhythm     
Did You Ever See a Lassie?     
Down in the Valley     
Farmer in the Dell     
Found a Peanut     
Froggie Went A-Courtin'     
Git Along Little Dogies      69 &
Here We Go Looby Loo     
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush     
Home on the Range     
Hush, Little Baby     
I Am a Funny Little Dutch Girl     
I'm a Nut     
In and Out the Windows     
Itsy Bitsy Spider     
John Brown Had a Little Indian     
Little Bo Peep     
London Bridge Is Falling Down     
Mary Had a Little Lamb     
My Mother Told Me     
Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow     
Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be?     
Oh My Darling Clementine     
Old MacDonald Had a Farm     
Playmate     
Pop Goes the Weasel     
Ring Around the Rosie     
Row, Row, Row Your Boat     
She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain     
Sing a Song of Sixpence     
Skip to My Lou     
There's a Hole in My Bucket     
This Old Man     
Three Blind Mice     
A Tisket, a Tasket     
Two, Four, Nine     
Where Is Thumbkin?     
Yankee Doodle     
You Are My Sunshine     

Party Games
Air, Water, Fire     
Balloon Ball     
Blind Bell     
Blind Man's Buff     
Blowing Feathers     
Bobbing for Apples     
Button, Button     
Buzz     
Cahoots     
Cat and Mice     
Clothespins in the Jar     
Coffeepot     
Ditto     
Do as I Say     
Drawing in the Dark     
Duck, Duck, Goose     
Ducks Fly     
Eggshell Race     
Farmer Is Coming     
Feelings     
Finger in the Bucket     
Fire in the Mountain     
Fish Race     
Fisherman     
Frog in the Sea     
Fruit Basket     
Geography     
Gossip     
Grandmother's Trunk     
Guess the Beans     
Guess Who?     
Ha! Ha!     
Here's the Church     
Hidden Treasures     
Hide the Thimble     
Hold Fast, Let Go     
Hot Potato     
How Many Words?     
Hunt the Slipper     
I Am Very Tall     
I Love My Love     
I Say     
Jack Be Nimble     
Jerusalem and Jericho     
Kaleidoscope     
Keep Moving     
Lost Child     
Mother Cat     
Musical Chairs     
My Name Is     
Noah's Ark     
Numbered Chairs     
One Potato, Two Potato     
Pass the LifeSaver     
Penny Pastime     
Pickup Sticks     
Pin the Tail on the Donkey     
Puss in the Circle     
Puss in the Corner     
Questions     
Remember     
Simon Says     
Stop, Thief     
Tell the Smell     
This Is My Nose     
Touch It     
Up, Jenkins!     
Where's the Leader?     
Who, Sir, I Sir?     
Zoom     

Index     

Editorial Reviews

has all the standard games together in one place...a quick easy reference...a useful title”—Reference & User Services Quarterly; “recommend[ed]...an excellent resource”—Library Reviews; “a collection of more than 200 outdoor, car trip, song, card and party activities...target audience is parents, grandparents, teachers, camp counselors, scout leaders, babysitters or anybody who works with kids”—The Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Publisher

"a collection of more than 200 outdoor, car trip, song, card and party activities...target audience is parents, grandparents, teachers, camp counselors, scout leaders, babysitters or anybody who works with kids"

The Cincinnati Enquirer

recommend[ed]...an excellent resource

Library Reviews

has all the standard games together in one place...a quick easy reference...a useful title

Reference & User Services Quarterly