RECREATIONS FOR GIRLS

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Indoor
and
Outdoor
RECREATIONS FOR GIRLS

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EXPLANATORY NOTE TO NEW EDITION

Since the publication of this volume two years ago as "Handicraft and Recreation for Girls," it has occurred to us that "Recreations" alone much more accurately defines the contents, for the handicrafts represented are only those that in effect are recreations. Therefore we have thought it best to drop the word Handicraft and issue the new edition under the more appropriate title, "Recreations for Girls."

September, 1906.

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PREFACE

This book, like a girl's life, is divided into two parts: occupation and amusement, or handicraft and recreation.

It is not equally divided, for handicraft is so much more like play than work, and is so entertaining in itself, we find difficulty in drawing a distinct line between that and recreation. The one insists upon blending with the other and the book, after all, is a book of entertainment.

With the old handicrafts coming back into favor and new ones constantly being brought forward, a girl's life may be full of delightful employment. To work with joyous enthusiasm and self-reliant energy, as well as to play with light-hearted enjoyment, cannot fail to make her sensible, wholesome, and happy, and it is with this end in view that we have written and illustrated the book. Our wish is to help our girl friends to make the most of their girlhood and to enjoy it to its fullest extent.

We have had practical experience in the actual working out of all the various handicrafts and recreations, and therefore give only that which we know can be well and easily done by the average girl.

Thanks are due to the Delineator, Harper's Bazar, Woman's Home Companion, and Good Housekeeping, for their courtesy in promptly returning for this work the original drawings and material used in their respective magazines.

Flushing, August 2, 1904.

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CONTENTS

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CHAPTER IV. An Armful of Shavings, and What to Do with Them 36
CHAPTER V. Primitive Reed Curtains 43
CHAPTER VI. Things to Make of Common Grasses 53
CHAPTER VII. Possibilities of a Clothes Line 62
CHAPTER VIII. How to Weave a Splint Basket 68
CHAPTER IX. Modelling in Tissue-Paper 75

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CHAPTER X. Nature Study with Tissue-Paper 86
CHAPTER XI. A New Race of Dolls 103
CHAPTER XII. An Indian Encampment on a Pastry-Board 111
CHAPTER XIII. A Toy Colonial Kitchen with Fac-simile Colonial Furnishings 133

138; Little Dutch Oven, 139; Two Andirons, 141; The Fire, 142; Iron Pot, 143; The Peel, 144; The Toaster, 144; Pot-Hooks, 145; The Spinning-Wheel, 147; The Little Spinner, 150; The Costume, 150; Flint-Lock Rifle, 151; The Bellows, 153; Colonial Pewter Dish, 154; Grandfather's Clock, 155; Colonial Churn, 160.
CHAPTER XIV. Little Paper Houses of Japan 162
CHAPTER XV. Some Odd Things in Russia 175
CHAPTER XVI. Pottery Without a Potter's Wheel 185
CHAPTER XVII. Baby Alligators and Other Things of Clay 193

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CHAPTER XVIII. Funny Little Apple Toys 206
CHAPTER XIX. Marvel Pictures 215

PART II
RECREATION
CHAPTER XX. Egg Games for the Easter Holidays Lifting for Pasch Eggs 227
CHAPTER XXI. May Day Amusements 237

class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">240; Keeping Score, 243; May Baskets and Spring Flowers, 246; How to Erect the Pole, 249; Dressing the May-Pole, 250; The Balls, 252; The Game, 252.
CHAPTER XXII. Hallowe'en Revels 254
CHAPTER XXIII. The Magic Cloth and What It Will Do 264
CHAPTER XXIV. Finger Plays for Little Folk 273
CHAPTER XXV. How to Arrange Fresh Flowers

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CHAPTER XXVI. Open Air Playhouses 298
CHAPTER XXVII. Keeping Store 308
CHAPTER XXVIII. A Frolic with the Roses 320

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CHAPTER XXIX. A Straw Ride Picnic 333
CHAPTER XXX. A Paper Chase 345

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PART I
HANDICRAFT

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