Excerpt from Games and Dances
Increased attention to the physical welfare of children and adults, also the greatly increased number of playgrounds, has created a demand for a separate and enlarged edition of those activities of the Philadelphia "Handbooks of Lessons in Physical Training and Games," found under the headings of Games, Song-Plays, Dances and Roundels.
The plan followed in the other books is also adhered to here, namely, the games and dances suitable for children or adults of each particular school-grade or age-group are printed together. This procedure places into the hands of a teacher a graded selection of tried and effective games and dances. The games and dances are arranged in nine progressive grades. Games marked (R) can be played in a room as well as in a playground. In an appendix a limited selection of "quiet games" and "problems" for hot weather is presented. This is followed by a list of track and field events which may be undertaken on the average playground, and by the records which the ordinary boy and girl should make. Then come seven compositions suited for mass drills on play days or field days. Lastly comes much valuable information relating to the space necessary for different kinds of play, to play-courts, to the preparation playground teachers should have, to programs, salaries, etc., etc.
Games and plays may be classified (a) into play activities upon stationary apparatus of various kinds, and (b) into play without stationary apparatus. Into the first group fall the playful activities upon the swinging and traveling rings, giant strides, swings, low horizontal bars, ladders, poles, teeter boards, and like forms of suitable play apparatus for children and adults. These are all forms of appliances upon which any one without gymnastic training and without the aid of a teacher of gymnastics or of play may amuse himself to his heart"s content. Quite a number of easy "stunts" may be performed upon such apparatus.
Into the second group, namely, play without stationary apparatus, fall all the play activities we know under the name of games.
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