Done so many of these fun things (love pea shooters)- good thread (deffinately FOLK and not BS)
Some not mentioned:
DOLLS from two Hollyhock bloosems
Homemade paper (from lots of things) with leaves/flowers sandwhiched inbetween two dippings in the slurry.
Picking, washing, and scattering violet, pansy, hollyhock, nasturium petals into a green salid for confetti color.
Potato Shuttle Relay
From Bancroft (1916)
LEAF BY LEAF A basket of leaves is proved, no two of the leaves being alike. (trees, shrubs, flowers)
The players are each proved with a card or slip of paper and a pencil, and are seated. One leaf is handed to the first player, who passes it on to the next, and so on until it has made the round of the group. Each player, in turn, if he can identify the leaf writes the name of it on a card. Player wins who has the laargest number correct.
PLANTING A GARDEN
(5 to 30 players)
Each player is proved with a sheet of paper and a pencil. The game consists i8n one player writing down something that he has planted and the next player stating what came up. Anything may be planted, though the questioner must have in mind something that could come up from what he writes. He must sign his initials.
For example, a player writes, "I planted a kitten; what came up?" The paper is handed to the next player who writes, "Pussy willows."
After the questions are written, the papers are collected and redistrubuted, and each writes an answer the question he has drawn. Thare then collected again, and hostess reads the questions and answers. Any question not answered must be replied to by the player who wrote it. I.E:
1. Plant an angry wise man; what will come up? - Scarlet Sage
2. Plant a stale box of candy; what will come up? - Candytuft
3. Cupid's arrow - Bleeding Heart
4. Some steps - Hops
5. Days, month, and years - Thyme
6. Cristmas Eve - Star of Bethlehem
7. A sermon - Jack in the Pulpit
8. Grief - Weeping Willow
9. Cinderella at midnight - Lady's Slipper
10. A ship that goes no where - Portulaca
11. Claws and a roar - Tiger Lily
12. Labyrinth - Maize
Sincerely,
Gargoyle