Childrens birthday parties

Great party games to entertain your children for birthday and christmas
Come one. Come all. See daring lions defy the flaming hoop.
(Dogs will do, too).
Juggle in a jiffy with lemonade-bottle pins.
Or win a prize with the clown toss or balloon launch
--all under the blue-sky big top.

Juggling pins game for childrens parties
What you need:
Empty 20 oz. lemonade bottles, rinsed and labels removed Coloured duct tape
Curling ribbons, shredded gift wrap, pom-poms, or stickers for decoration

Fill plastic soda bottles with brightly colored curling ribbons, shredded gift wrap, or pom-poms.
Affix stickers to the outside of the bottles, if desired.
Screw the lids on, then place two bottles together, lid to lid. Wrap duct tape around
the bottle lids and necks to join them together. One pin alone is fun to throw and catch,
but a master can juggle three in the air.

Ring the clown ideal for younger childrens parties and for christmas
What you need:
5 paper plates, 2 for the base and 3 or more for throwing
Locking sandwich bag filled with 1 cup of sand

Coloured paper
Markers
Stapler
Long balloon

1. Using markers, draw a clown face with markers on the backside of the top base plate.
2. Cut hair and a hat out of colored paper and glue them under the rim of the top plate.
3. Poke a small hole with a pencil point in the middle of the clown's face. Inflate and knot the balloon, then push the knot
through the hole.
You may secure the balloon by taping the knot to the underside of the face plate.
4. Set the bottom the table and place the sand-filled bag in the Position the face plate over the bottom plate, then staple the rims
of the plates together.
5. To make flying discs, carefully cut the centers out of the remaining paper plates. Throw them over the clown's face,
trying to ring the nose.

The Traveler's Alphabet (good for christmas)

The players sit in a row and the first begins by saying, "I am going on a journey to Athens," or any place beginning with A. The one sitting next asks, "What will you do there?" The verbs, adjectives, and nouns used in the reply must all begin with A; as "Amuse Ailing Authors with Anecdotes." If the player answers correctly, it is the next player's turn; he says perhaps: "I am going to Bradford." "What to do there?" "To Bring Back Bread and Butter." A third says: "I am going to Constantinople." "What to do there?" "To Carry Contented Cats." Any one who makes a mistake must pay a forfeit.

The Family Coach

This is a very good old game, and is most amusing if you can find some one who is a good story-teller.

The players sit in a circle and every one, except the story-teller, takes the name of some part of a coach or its equipments; for instance, door, step, wheels, reins, box-seat, and so on.

When all are ready, the story-teller begins a tale about an old coach and what happened to it, how it went on a journey, came to grief, was mended, and started off again. The story should be told fluently, but not too quickly. Every time any part of the coach is mentioned, the player who has taken that name must rise from his seat and then sit down again.

Whenever "the coach" is mentioned, all the players, with the exception of the story-teller, must rise. Any one who fails to keep these rules must pay a forfeit.

Drop the Handkerchief

A ring is formed by the players joining hands, whilst one child, who is to "drop the handkerchief," is left outside. He walks round the ring, touching each one with the handkerchief, saying the following words:

When he says "It was you," he must drop the handkerchief behind one of the players, who picks it up and chases him round the ring, outside and under the joined hands, until he can touch him with the handkerchief. As soon as this happens, the first player joins the ring, whilst it is now the turn of the second to "drop the handkerchief."