Presents instructions for approximately 100 outdoor action games filled with chases, surprises, and good-natured roughhousing for all ages.

Describes various games played by children in countries around the world, describing the places where the games are played and the directions and equipment needed for each game.

"Sims' pencil drawings...capture the energy and chaos of the playground. Kids, teachers, and parents...will enjoy having a wide range of games and short clear directions in one volume."--Booklist From Freeze Tag to Double Dutch, this bright and lively companion to Sidewalk Chalk presents some of the best traditional street and sidewalk activities ever. For every game, you'll find out how many people can play, along with instructions, tactics, and tips. Charming childlike drawings in crayon, plus diagrams, capture the fun and illustrate the rules of play, too. A kid alone can try Seven Up, as long as there's a ball and a wall. Go Shoebox Bowling; enjoy that old favorite, Kick the Can; and check out how limber everyone is with Limbo, a Jamaican dance-game. The good times will keep on going!

Easy-to-follow instructions, using drawings, showing how to play Cat's Cradle and create other classic string figures.

Are you looking for exciting games to play anywhere, anytime, with little or no equipment or preparation? Do you need an old game, a new game, an active or a quiet game? With some kids, chalk, a jump rope, marbles, jacks, a ball and a bag of rubber bands, the fun in this book is yours! Game for a Game? shares the special secrets, folklore, lingo, hand signs, rhymes and rules of all sorts of games from the school yard to street, from the playroom to classroom. If you want to know games inside and out and take part in the natural learning that occurs with participation, then just ask yourself one simple question: Are you game for a game?!

Presents a variety of games meant to be played outside--in such settings as yards, fields, playgrounds, and beaches--giving suitable ages, number of players, and space requirements for each game.

These are 36 of the greatest impromptu card tricks ever invented. Longe shows you not only how each one works, but also how to put them over, with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations. A special chapter in the back even explains how to bluff your way through a trick if it goes wrong. Great for kids from eight to eighty. 128 pages, 17 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.