Ten recreational parties
by Helen Durham
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About This Book
This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Helen Durham's "Ten Recreational Parties" offers a treasure trove of inventive party ideas designed to inject vibrancy and interaction into social gatherings. This guide is particularly valuable for recreational directors seeking to create memorable experiences through group participation. The book explores a wide array of themed parties, each crafted to engage participants creatively and collaboratively. The Peanut Party introduces a playful spirit with a series of peanut-centric games, including relay races an...
Chapters (78)
- Ten Recreational Parties
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- A PEANUT PARTY
- 1. GUESSING GAME
- 2. PIERCING GAME
- 3. GRABBING GAME
- 4. PEANUT RELAY
- 5. PEANUT THROWING
- 6. PEANUT PASSING
- 7. PEANUT ALPHABET
- 8. MUSICAL PEANUT
- 9. PEANUT BAGS
- 10. PEANUT HUNT
- 11. PEANUT PRIZE
- A NEWSPAPER PARTY
- 1. POLICEMAN AND NEWSBOY
- 2. PREFERRED NEWSPAPERS
- 3. MUSICAL NEWSPAPER
- 4. NEWSPAPER RELAY
- 5. PROTECT THE NEWSBOY
- 6. CATCH THE NEWSBOY
- 7. PREFERENCE OF LOCAL PAPERS
- 8. NEWSPAPER FIGHT
- BALLOON PARTY
- 1. BALLOON RELAY
- 2. BALLOON TOSSING GAME
- 3. MUSICAL BALLOON PARTNERS
- 4. BALLOON VOLLEY BALL
- 5. BALLOON SNATCHING
- 6. TABLE BALLOON
- 7. BALLOON DANCING
- DOLL PARTY
- 1. DOLL DRESSING CONTEST
- 2. CHILDREN’S GAMES
- 3. MIDNIGHT IN THE DOLL SHOP
- Midnight in the Doll Shop A pantomime by Barbara Wellington.
- Doll Dance
- 1. 8 measures.
- 2. 8 measures.
- 3. 16 measures
- 4. 8 measures.
- 5. 8 measures.
- Interlude. 4 measures.
- 6. 8 measures.
- 7. 6 measures.
- 8. 8 measures.
- A JAPANESE PARTY
- THE STORY OF “MADAME BUTTERFLY”
- JAPANESE SONG AND DANCE
- Japanese Dance
- PANTOMIME OR PLAY
- FOOTNOTES:
- COLONIAL OR WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY PARTY
- AMERICAN GIRLS
- FOOTNOTES:
- A CIRCUS PARTY
- THE BIG SHOW
- PROGRAM
- JATO, THE JAPANESE JUGGLER
- DAISY, THE DARING AND DAZZLING TIGHT ROPE WALKER
- FOOTNOTES:
- AN ITALIAN STREET SCENE
- LA PEPPINETTA
- GYPSY DANCE
- COSTUMES
- A CHRISTMAS SERVICE
- Tune: Traditional Melody
- Tune: Carol, by R. S. Willis
- Tune: Old Traditional German Melody.
- English version by Frederick H. Martens; tune: Old French Noël, arranged by Herbert Tones.
- Tune: Antioch.
- Adeste Fideles.
- SETTING
- DESCRIPTION OF THE PICTURES
- The Three Wise Men
- The Angel and the Shepherds
- The Nativity
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