Walter Wellman says that hidden on Mr. Rooster are the names of many of his bird friends, each name containing five letters. Start with any letter and see if you can spell a word by using the letters connected with its direct paths. You can move in any direction but must not jump over any letters. Many of the letters must be used move than once. When you have all the words that can be made, all the letters will have been used. How many can you find?
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| Find Mr. Rooster's friends... |
Teachers, parents and ministers may download and print this October, pumpkin puzzle for kids!
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| Fall/Halloween fun crossword for kids. |
This race is much funnier if there are only a few contestants. There should be only two teams, with two on a team, the first one on each team being provided with a kiddy kar. These first two riders are asked to turn their cars around so that they are facing away from the goal, and then sit on their cars with their backs to the goal. When the starting signal is given, they start racing to the goal, backwards. When they reach this goal they are to return to the starting point, going backwards of course, and give up their kiddy kars to the second members of their teams. These second victims run the race in the same inverted order.
There are seldom more than two players on a team, that being sufficient ! The first one of each team is supplied with a hobby-horse. When the signal is given, these riders start riding their horses to the goal. If they ever reach it, they are to return and give their horses to the other member of their team. Experience proves that most second riders never get a chance to ride, for too many first riders fall by the wayside!
If contestants in this race are expected to look respectable for the rest of the party, a sheet should be provided for the race-course. There are not more than three contestants, each one of them being provided with a peanut, and, we hope, a long and practical nose. Contestants are asked to kneel at one end of the sheet, put their peanuts on the sheet before them, and when the signal is given, to push the peanuts to the other end of the sheet and back, using their noses as the pushers, their hands being clasped behind them.
The winner is not the only one who deserves a prize in this contest!
Children are paired off into couples, the two members of a team having their backs to each other, with their hands joined at the side. One of them is facing the goal. At the signal, all teams start racing to the goal and return, their method of locomotion being anything they choose. Usually they try to run, but they soon get over that foolishness, and finally discover that the best and safest means of getting there is to hop, both members of a team hopping at the same time. The relay plan may be used.
There is no prize good enough for the winners of this race!
In several cases a suggestion is made to the effect that the relay plan may be used. When this is used, all the children are divided into groups of equal size, members of a group standing in lines or columns or couples, as the case demands. When either the first runner or the first couple has run the course, the second contestants are touched off, and then the third and fourth, and so on until all members of a team have run the race. The team whose last runner or couple first finishes the required stunt, gets the prize as the winning team.
Relay races are particularly good for large groups, for a great many children can take part in a race which requires comparatively little space.
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| Find the fox before he eats the gingerbread boy. |
The Gingerbread Boy
Puzzle-Find The Fox
by Helen Hudson
The little old woman, and little old man
Follow Gingerbread Boy as fast as they can,
But he quickly eludes them as onward he hurries;
And cat, dog and pig and a hen hen then worries.
But alas, for our boastful and bold little friend!
With wiley old fox he soon meets his end!
If with your sharp eyes you search over this sheet
Old Reynard himself you will very soon meet.
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| Find the Goat Peter hidden in the mountain pasture. |
Find the Goat Peter Puzzle
by Helen Hudson
Happy little Heidi
With her flowers fair
Revels in her freedom
And sweet mountain air.
Faithful goat-heard Peter
Now is watching near;
If you search this picture
You will see him - here.
More About Heidi:
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| Puzzle - Find The Fish |
Find The Fish
by Helen Hudson
A Joyful day it is for us,
Tommy and Richard and me,
For our friend Bill Jones is taking us
Where the biggest fish may be.
If it should be our luck to catch
The fish Bill tells about,
I really do not see quite how
We'd ever haul him out!
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| Puzzle - Find Columbia |
Columbia
by Helen Hudson
We're very patriotic
As you can plainly see.
This birthday of our country
We celebrate with glee.
Columbia guides our footsteps
And, where her path may go,
We'll march along right valiantly
Though mighty be the foe!
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| Examples of "Five Dots" Drawing Game. |
