FOR the indoor garden party, you will need a large sheet for a screen,
and plenty of pictures cut from magazines and catalogues. These
pictures must be of houses, barns, stables, trees, animals, anything
that will have place in an outdoor scene. You will also need a paper of
pins, some large sheets of white paper, and, if you like, a couple of
little gifts for prizes, such as a box of crayons or a box of paints.
After your friends have come, arrange the sheet in place, and pin in
the center a large picture of a house which has been cut out. Now let
your guests help themselves to the pictures which you have cut out,
each taking one. For example, one child may have a barn, another a
rose bush, another a dog kennel. Blindfold each in turn, and let him
pin the picture on the sheet. When all have finished you will have a
queer-looking landscape, for a dog kennel may be on the roof and a rose
bush growing from a lawn mower!
After this game, get out your sheets of paper, scissors, and pictures
which you have ready. Let each one try making a garden with his eyes
open! Paste a house in the center of the paper, and arrange trees,
bushes, fountain, etc., about it as tastefully as possible. Then after
mother has decided which is the best, you can give the prize which you
have bought.
You can serve your refreshments from a little table just as you would
at a garden party.
When Christmas time is drawing near
With all its mirth and merry cheer,
In midst of all your Christmas joys
Remember other girls and boys!
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