Bean-Bag Cases
June 30th, 2007 by admin
CRAFTS
Are there any of you who do not know the game of bean-bags? It is capital exercise for rainy days, besides being very good fun, and we would advise all of you who are not familiar with it to make a set at once.
Usually, there are four bags to a set, but any number of persons from two to eight can play at bean-bags. Each player holds two, flinging to his opponent the one in his right hand, and rapidly shifting the one in his left to the right, so as to leave the left hand free to catch the bag which is thrown at him.
A set of these bags would be a nice present for some of you to make for your brothers and sisters; and there are various ways of ornamenting the bags gayly and prettily.
The real bags must first be made of stout ticking, over-handed strongly all round, and filled (not too full) with white baking-beans.
Over these are drawn covers of flannel, blue or scarlet, and you can work an initial in white letters or braid on each, or make each of the four bags of a different color—yellow, blue, red, green; anything but black, which is hard to follow with the eye, or white, which soils too soon to be desirable.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5,
Nov 1877-Nov 1878; No 1, Nov 1877
(Now in the Public Domain: not copyrighted in the Unites States)
NOTE: see the Games For Kids page on this website for Bean Bag game descriptions. Also, a description of “ticking” mentioned above is: a strong cotton fabric, often twilled, that is used to cover mattresses and pillows.