A Christmas Box Party

Write your invitations inside of a cardboard box form. Place boxes instead of chairs for your guests. The first game may be a box hunt. Each hidden box should be suitably wrapped, tied and tagged, with Dennison's Christmas wrappings, gummed ribbons, tags, cards and seals, and each box should contain an appropriate gift for each guest, that which you know he most desires. For instance, one might contain a toy automobile, another a tiny house, another a check for $1,000,000. After the hunt, guessing games may be played with all seated on boxes. The supper may be served in paper boxes, picnic fashion, each couple sharing a box. Bon Bon Boxes No. X43, filled with candy, may be used as souvenirs.

The Bell Game

Decorate the cards on which these questions are written with Seal No. 205. Leave space to write in the answers.

1. What bell is used in a blacksmith's shop? Bellows.

2. What bell often describes the attitude of one nation to another? Belligerent.

3. About what bell did Poe write a poem? Annabel Lee.

4. What is a well-known bell in Ireland? Belfast.

5. What bell was connected with telephone inventions? Alexander Graham Bell.

6. What was the name of an ancient Babylonian bell? Belshazzar.

7. What bell is sold by the druggist? Belladonna.

8. What bell is sold by stationers? Label.

9. What bell had a lot to do with the discovery of America? Isabel. 10. What bell is a famous playwright? Belasco.

Trimming The Tree

(A Game for Small Children)

From sheets of Green Mat Stock No. 17 cut large Christmas trees. Give one of these to each child, together with an old magazine, scissors and tube of paste. Let each cut from the magazine pictures, suitable decorations and gifts to paste on the tree. Three of the children may be chosen as the three wise men to select the best trimmed tree. A small crepe paper tree, which has for its base a paper serving cup filled with candy, would make a good prize.

Choosing Partners

Paste a wreath cut from Crepe Paper No. X970 on Green Mat Stock No. 17, cut to shape. Suspend wreath in doorway and through it hang Bed Crepe Paper Streamers No. 1, H1, with ends reaching nearly to the floor. To one end of each streamer attach two Holly Seals No. 213, back to back, and to the other end two Poinsettia Seals No. 204. Ask the boys to stand on one side of the doorway, the girls on the other, and each to select a streamer, those with the holly seals to be held by the girls, those with the poinsettia seals by the boys. Then cut the wreath, letting the streamers fall. When they are untangled, each young man will find his partner at the other end of the streamer he holds.

A Hoop Race

Choose sides, calling one group "The Holly Reds," the other, "The Ever Greens." Form two lines. Give to the leader of each line a hoop, one wound with red crepe paper, the other with green. Ask each leader to hold the hoop over his head. At the words" Go," each must drop the hoop over his shoulders, down his body, to the floor, and step out of it. The next person in line must pick it up, drop it over his shoulders down to the floor, and so on. The line finishing first, of course, wins the game. This game should be played in a hall, but if in a home be sure to have plenty of "elbow room."

Memories

Hand to each guest five circular pieces of varying sizes, cut from white paper and fastened together at one corner by a bow of ribbon, these pieces to be arranged according to size, the smallest on top. On the first circle the guest is asked to write the first sentence given below after the hostess has read it once. On the second circle the guest is asked to write the first two sentences, which the hostess will read twice. For the third circle, the hostess will read the first three sentences three times, and so on. The guest cannot change any sentence after writing it, nor look at the first circles. The winner is the one who can most successfully reproduce all.

1. One ogling ostrich ousting owls.

2. Two tall tapers toasting tidbits.

3. Three tinsel triangles topping trees.

4. Four fat faces full of fun.

5. Five fitful fires flashing flames.

For a "Watch Night" Party

Give each guest a paper with the following questions to be answered by the name of some part of a watch. Draw or cut out the dial of a watch for an attractive heading over the title "Watch Contest."

1. What season of the year do you note on a watch? Spring.

2. What parts of the human body? Hands, face, back.

3. What signs of bondage? Chain.

4. What waits for no man? Time.

5. What will most interest a physician? Case.

6. What part of a flower is there? Stem.

7. What signifies it has been used before? Second hand.

8. What part is most necessary to an acrobat? Balance.

9. What parts do women most admire? Jewels.

10. What sign of honesty do many watches have? Open face.

11. What part would be appropriate for a wedding anniversary? Crystal.

12. What part would be worn by a king? Crown.