These are always a great deal of fun, for they mean “dressing up,” and who doesn’t enjoy that. Some good words for charades are car-pet, pilgrim-age, tea-sing, in-dolent (inn-dough-lent) and child-hood. Of course you will need mother’s help when you play charades.
HOW, WHEN AND WHERE
Send one player from the room and then choose some object, such as a flower. Call him in again and let him try to guess what you have chosen. So he must ask each player in turn, “How do you like it?” The first may answer, “I like it pink.” The next, “I like it fresh,” etc. The guesser then asks each in turn, “When do you like it?” and the others reply, “When I am going to a party,” “When I am sick,” “When I am going to make bread,” This last will be puzzling because it means another kind of flour. If he is not able to guess when he has asked all these questions, he can go round once more with the question, “Where do you like it?” Whoever “gives it away” must be the one to go out.
PEANUT GRAB
For this game place a pile of peanuts on a table. Now form in line and all march around it. Each one, as he passes the pile of peanuts, takes a handful, and when all have marched past they can count to see who has been able to hold the most in his hand.
FEATHERS
This is a game in which you have to “pay attention,” and perhaps you have played it at school. You must all sit in a circle and let your hands hang down from the wrists. The leader of this game begins, “Cats have feathers, dogs have feathers, rabbits have feathers, geese have feathers.” The minute he names something that really has feathers, you must all raise your hands and wave them. Whoever doesn’t do this must pay a forfeit. As the leader must speak very, very quickly, it is easy to be “caught napping.”