Games for the Fourth, p. 6
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Title
Games for the Fourth, p. 6
Description
"Lawn hunts are splendid games for a Fourth of July party. For a contest hunt, for example, dozens of pieces of white note paper, each with a question of some kind, are hidden all over the lawn, in the bushes, hedges, the rustic seats, the flower borders- everywhere.
Some of them have quotations on them, with a request for the author’s name; some have a bit of bark or a leaf wrapped up in them and a demand for its source and name; some have the name of a tune and a request that the finder sing it, and so on. The one who finds the most papers and answers them correctly wins a prize.
The peanut hunt calls for any quantity of peanuts. Some are wrapped in blue tissue paper, some in pink, some in white, and then they are hidden all over the lawn, the blue ones always in the hardest places. The hunter who finds the most blue wrapped peanuts wins a prize.
A heart hunt needs dozens of little red cardboard hearts, to be hidden about the lawn. A dozen slightly larger ones are cut irregularly in half and the halves are hidden apart from each other. Each player finding a plain heart counts one; any player finding two halves of a large heart, which fit together properly, counts 20, and the one counting the highest at the end of the game wins the prize."
Some of them have quotations on them, with a request for the author’s name; some have a bit of bark or a leaf wrapped up in them and a demand for its source and name; some have the name of a tune and a request that the finder sing it, and so on. The one who finds the most papers and answers them correctly wins a prize.
The peanut hunt calls for any quantity of peanuts. Some are wrapped in blue tissue paper, some in pink, some in white, and then they are hidden all over the lawn, the blue ones always in the hardest places. The hunter who finds the most blue wrapped peanuts wins a prize.
A heart hunt needs dozens of little red cardboard hearts, to be hidden about the lawn. A dozen slightly larger ones are cut irregularly in half and the halves are hidden apart from each other. Each player finding a plain heart counts one; any player finding two halves of a large heart, which fit together properly, counts 20, and the one counting the highest at the end of the game wins the prize."
Creator
N/A
Publisher
Savannah Tribune
Date
1913-6-14
Collection
Citation
N/A, “Games for the Fourth, p. 6,” African American Fourth of July, accessed May 4, 2024, https://africanamerican4th.omeka.net/items/show/331.