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(Also Great for Dads, Babysitters, Grandparents, Teachers, Camp Counselors, Big Brothers and Sisters and anyone else who is responsible for thinking up "GOOD CLEAN FUN!")
"There's nothing to do!"
"I'm Bored!"
Ever hear that from kids? If so, here's the antidote.
The Handy Book of Backyard Games provides guidelines for a variety of games and activities that range from the ancient to the ultramodern. Including rules from everything from One Old Cat to Ultimate Frisbee, this book will keep boredom at bay -- even during the seemingly endless days of summer!
Got kids with time on their hands and nothing to do? This book -- along with a few props available in almost any garage -- will solve the problem. Happy, Active Kids Are No Accident!
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From the Introduction: One day, during a summer vacation at the New Jersey Shore, I witnessed an amazing development. A large group, consisting of several grownups and enough children to choke a van, arrived and claimed its section of beach. While the kids helped the grownups lay down blankets and set up beach umbrellas, one of the adult males began digging an elaborate sand castle with an army entrenching tool. Fascinated, I watched him dig - first a moat, then a spiraling mountain fortress with a winding highway that went all the way to the top. After completing this garrison, the man dumped out on the sand a boxload of soldiers and military ordnance that would have made General Patton green with envy. He then turned to the kids and said: "Have fun." Then he tossed his hat, t-shirt and sunglasses onto a blanket and took off for the surf while the kids began what turned out to be an all-day round of play on his marvelous mountain of sand. When it came to child's play, that man had the right idea. Too often, adults stifle their children's natural creativity with supervised and well-defined (and well-intentioned) activities. Like that unknown Jersey Shore sand sculptor, this book aims to provide children with the groundwork for fun: activities with minimal adult supervision, and ground rules that the kids can bend and shape at will into their own form of entertainment. The activities outlined on these pages range from ancient to very modern. Some games and rhymes were handed down by my grandparents to my mother and father, and from my wife and I to our own children. Others were spawned in the 1990s, when our kids and their playmates blasted off into that magic world of backyard play and were left to their own wonderful devices. To kids everywhere - from Ralph, Janis, Carol, Regina, Albert, Raymond, Donald, Dougie, Andrew, Louie and the rest of my gang from so long ago, to Andy, Nancy, Kent, Brock, Jill, Jenny and the others who currently fan the flame of fun and play -this book is dedicated.
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Equipment Needed, Number of Players Required, Gray Ghost, Search Party, Simon Says, Tug of War New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Square One by Rey King on page 28, and page 29
- Victorian Parlor Games: 2 by Beaver in Back Matter
- Tales from the Cubs Dugout by Pete Cava in Back Matter
- Around the World (Fantastic Journeys) by Steve Skidmore in Back Matter
- Baseball: The Early Years (Oxford Paperbacks) (Vol 1) by Harold Seymour in Back Matter
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