#children's games

[peaceinthestorm]

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916, American) ~ Hide and Seek, 1888

[Source: phillipscollection.org]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Girls playing jump-rope on DeKalb Avenue, Williamsburg, in the 1930s.

Photo: Joe Schwartz via the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture

[curiouscatalog]

Fun activities of the past.

Warner, Benjamin. The Book of Games, or, A History of Juvenile Sports Practised at the Kingston Academy : Illustrated with Twenty-Four Copperplates. Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin Warner, [171?] Market Street, 1821.

GV1203 .B72 1821

[huariqueje]

Children’s games  - Cipriano Mannucci ,1936 .

Italian, 1882–1970

oil on cardboard ,   50 x 32 cm

[intothestacks]

Cool Board Games for Your Library

Kids Dungeon Adventure – $6 USD

Type: RPG Players: As many as you want! Mechanics: RPG Playtime: Variable Age: 4+ Skills You Practice: Imagination, Strategy, Cooperation

An RPG game designed for parents to play with preschoolers and kindergarteners (the parent is the dungeon master/narrator while the child ultimately guides the story, using their toys and building blocks to play out the tale).

Why it’d be good for a library collection:

Popular topic

Family-friendly

Makes a popular kind of game accessible for beginners

Small storage space

Cheap

[matt-barber58]

[marmelade-sky]

going through summer play activities for kids (for work), and I feel like it could just be very good and healthy for all of us adults if we maybe did some squirt gun painting. Played some sponge water bomb catch. Made some salt dough pendants. Blew some giant bubbles, even.

[photoblogdujour]

Little one, where are you? You've hidden too well and mommy (and the rest of the PBDJ team) can't find you. Such a clever little blossom, such a good hider. Please show yourself, there's a drink of 10-10-10 waiting for you if you want.

[girl-in-the-library]

Did anyone ever play this handgame as a child?

"Tarzan, monkey man, swinging from a rubber band. Fell down, broke his crown. What color was his blood?"

And then the person who it landed on would pick a color, the group would spell it out, and then the last person it landed on would be out for the next round.

[arconinternet]

Gaminours and the Puzzle (DOS, Régis Lorival & Pierre Doussot, ~1989)

You can play it in your browser here.

[apwtstationery]

Printable Animal Match Game  (Volume 2) - From APWT Stationery

Match the Picture to the Word - includes (10) Different Animal Cards, (20) Cards Total - Just purchase, download, and print

[cassowary-rapture]

From The Complete Works of Primo Levi

[queerstudiesnatural]

funny how celebrities will raise $26M for a fashion institute but can't be bothered to mobilise even a fraction of that energy and money to help the people being tortured and killed in an unapologetic genocide as we speak. love that for society. what a moment for The Culture.

[spyres]