Chapter VIII: Part 8

The pumpkin is made with a strong wire frame (can be made at any hardware store), and covered with a deep yellow cambric with an occasional green smutch painted upon it. It is in two hemispheres and is tied together strongly at the bottom and loosely at the top, so that the fairy inside can easily loosen the top string and step out when Mrs. Santa cuts open the pumpkin with a large carving-knife.

In case it is not practicable to have a pumpkin-frame made, substitute for it a gigantic snowball made of cotton-wool, covered with diamond-dust to sparkle like snow-crystals. Two large old-fashioned umbrellas that are dome-shaped will serve very nicely for the frame of a spherical ball, if the tips of the ribs are wired together. It should then be covered inside and outside with white cloth on which the cotton batting can be basted. With such an arrangement it would be necessary to dispense with the fairy, but the little folks might have the surprise of seeing the snowball slowly open at a snap from Jack Frost's whip, disclosing a nest of smaller snowballs. These Jack Frost might toss to the children and, when opened, they might be found to contain candy and nuts.

Index

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Acting Proverbs 3

Advertisement Items 4

All About Kate 4

Apple Social 6

April Fool Dinner 6

April Fool Party 7

Authors' Contest 9

Authors' Guessing Game 9

Authors' Verbal Game 10

"B" Sociable 11

Barn Party 12

Baseball Party 13

Bean Bags 14

Bean Sociable 15

Berry Guessing Contest 15

Bible Contest 16

Bible Evening 17

Bible Names 18

Bible Readings 18

Bird Carnival 19

Bird Guessing Contest 20

Birthday Party 23

Bishop's Riddle 23

Box Party 24

Cake Sale 25

Cake Walk (Novel kind) 26

Calico Carnival 27

Can Factory 28

Cat Guessing Contest 30

Chestnut Sociable 30

Children's Birthday Flowers 32

Children's Birthday Parties 32

Children's Christmas Party 34

Children's Christmas Tableaux 35

Children's Easter Party 37

Children's Souvenirs 40

Children's Sweet Pea Tea 41

Children's Tom Thumb Entertainment 42

Children's Valentine Party 43

Chinese Party 44

Christmas Costume Party 45

Christmas Menu and Table Decorations 47

Christmas Umbrella Game 48

Church Bazaar Suggestions 49

Cobweb Sociable 50

Conundrum Tea 51

Cook Book Sale 51

Cooky Sociable 53

Corn Husking Bee 53

Dutch Party 54

Easter Egg Hunt 55

Easter Luncheon 55

Easter Sociable 57

Fairies' Garden 58

Feast of Seven Tables 60

Feast of Nations 62

Fish Market 64

Flags of Nations 65

Floral Love Story 66

Flower Bazaar 67

Flower Guessing Contest 68

Flower Luncheons 70

Flower Party 73

Flowers Illustrated 75

Fourth of July Museum 76

Game of Nations 78

Geographical Game 79

George and Martha Tea 79

Girls' Names Contest 81

Golf Luncheon 82

Golf Players' Guessing Contest 83

Good Luck Party 83

Gypsy Fortune-Telling 85

Hallowe'en Box Cake 86

Hallowe'en Games 86

Hallowe'en Party 88

Hallowe'en Suggestions 89

Handkerchief Bazaar 91

Hatchet Party 91

Ice Festival 93

Inauguration Day Lunch 94

Independence Day Necessities 96

Indian Dinner Party 97

Indoor Lawn Party 98

Initial Characteristics 99

Jack-O'-Lantern Party 100

Japanese Card Party 102

Japanese Sociable 103

Literary Contest 104

Literary Evening 109

Literary People 111

Measuring Party 112

Medical Sociable 113

Medical Trunk 114

Military Sociable 115

Morning Glory Fair 116

Mother Goose Game 116

Musical Card Party 117

Musical Evening 118

Musical Guessing Contest 119

Musical Romance 119

Musical Terms Illustrated 121

Musicians Buried 122

Mystical Dinner Menu 123

Mystical Party 124

New Year's Eve Party 126

New Year's Resolutions 127

New Year's Sociable 127

Nineteenth Century Game 128

Nose and Goggle Party 129

Noted People 130

Nut Conundrums 130

Nut Party 131

Observation Party 132

Old-Fashioned Dinner 134

Old-Time Country School 134

Old-Time Spelling Bee 138

Orange Party 139

Orange Sociable 141

Patriotic Party 141

Peddlers' Parade 143

Penny for Your Thoughts 144

Photograph Party 145

Pictorial Geography 145

Picture Reading 146

Pictures of Prominent Men 147

Pie Party 147

Pilgrim Luncheon 148

Ping-Pong Luncheon 148

Ping-Pong Party 149

Pin Party 150

P. O. D. Dinner Party 152

Pop-Corn Party 153

Portrait Game 154

Poverty Party 154

Poverty Sociable 156

Presidential Couplets 156

Presidential Questions 158

Presidents' Nicknames 159

Pussy Willow Party 159

Red White and Blue Luncheon 160

"Riley" Entertainment 162

Self-Portraits 163

Seven Days in One 165

Shamrock Luncheon 166

Snowdrift Party 168

Sock Sociable 169

Spinning Party 170

Spinster Tea 173

State Abbreviations 174

State Flowers 175

State Nicknames 175

State Sociable 176

St. Patrick's Day Party 177

St. Patrick's Guessing Contest 178

Telegram Party 179

Tennis Sociable 180

Ten Virgins (Sacred play) 180

Thanksgiving Day Decorations 181

Thanksgiving Football Dinner 182

Thanksgiving Sociable 185

Transplanting Trees 187

Tree Guessing Contest 187

Tree Party 188

Tree Pool 190

Trolley Party 191

Unique Valentine Party 192

University Luncheon 194

Valentine Entertainment 195

Valentine Fun 196

Valentine Party--Danish 198

Valentine Sociable 200

Variety of Little Misses 201

Vegetable Party 202

Wedding Anniversaries 203

Wedding of the Operas 211

Which is Your Age 213

Which is Your Aunt (Ant) 214

Which is Your City 214

White Ribbon Sociable 215

Why We Never Married 217

Wife of Santa Claus 225