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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Feb 18, 2008 14:18:15 GMT -5
To keep our picnic attendees entertained, I've been mulling on ideas for games and activities in addition to eating, sauntering about and taking pictures.
Do you have any ideas of some games that might be appropriate for a Regency picnic?
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Post by cosmoblue on Feb 18, 2008 14:49:59 GMT -5
Oooh a sack race.
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Post by cosmoblue on Feb 18, 2008 14:52:25 GMT -5
And a maze
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Post by cosmoblue on Feb 18, 2008 15:01:07 GMT -5
And Kites
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Post by cosmoblue on Feb 18, 2008 15:07:26 GMT -5
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Post by dawnluckham on Feb 18, 2008 15:47:52 GMT -5
Graces is a lovely girls and ladies outdoor game. Will you have little boys there? Hoops and sticks or "rolling hoops" is neat.
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Feb 18, 2008 15:54:58 GMT -5
We won't have lots of space to run, since it's a public park and there will be other normally dressed folk walking through. I just got declined for croquet. I may set up another picnic later on in the summer where we can do things like croquet and hoops and games that require a nice space to run about.
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Feb 18, 2008 15:57:45 GMT -5
How does one play Graces?
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Feb 18, 2008 15:58:02 GMT -5
I like Blind Man's Bluff
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Post by dawnluckham on Feb 18, 2008 22:30:41 GMT -5
Graces is an outdoor ‘catch’ game, played with a hoop (roughly 10" to 12” diameter) and each player has two sticks. The hoop is thrown and caught with the sticks. It’s not a running about game like Frisbee but more like playing catch with a ball where you actually throw the object to the next person. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_gracesI had to laugh. When I googled “graces” this came up: the lower right picture of the girl in blue tossing the hoop to a girl in striped petticoat and blue stays is my daughter and her friend. fairetymetoys.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Graces
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Feb 18, 2008 22:33:18 GMT -5
OOh. I wonder if we can find some of those hoops and sticks for the picnic!
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Post by dawnluckham on Feb 18, 2008 23:03:21 GMT -5
Dollar store embroidery hoops with brightly coloured ribbons as streamers.
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Post by Lady Serendipity on Feb 19, 2008 0:38:50 GMT -5
I'm probably the ONLY (grown!) person who thinks this would be fun, but I always think about the game they played in "Little Women", where they made up a story together, taking turns leaving off and picking it up....
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Miss Kate did know several new games, and as the girls would not, and the boys could not, eat any more, they all adjourned to the drawing room to play Rig-marole.
"One person begins a story, any nonsense you like, and tells as long as he pleases, only taking care to stop short at some exciting point, when the next takes it up and does the same. It's very funny when well done, and makes a perfect jumble of tragical comical stuff to laugh over. "
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Maybe an abbreviated version of this could be each person adding just a certain number words or sentences?
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Post by Lady Serendipity on Feb 19, 2008 0:48:26 GMT -5
OOOO, how about you make up some sort of Regency themed "Mad-libs" story?!
Or take a well known passage from Jane Austen and Mad-lib it! Or maybe a condensed version of "Pride and Prejudice"!
Or vice versa....make up something really silly, and tell your guests that all the names/exclamations/verbs they provide have to be inspired by Jane Austen.
"Give me an adverb".
"Prodigiously!"
lol
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Post by The Major on Feb 19, 2008 10:14:36 GMT -5
A fun game for children, and adults also played, is Duck Duck Goose.
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Feb 19, 2008 10:52:02 GMT -5
I have been making a list of all these suggestions. Thanks!
Major, I see you chose my favourite avatar; Colonel Brandon and a Friesian... two of the world's best things in one small 100x100 square! LOL.
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Post by The Major on Feb 19, 2008 11:18:15 GMT -5
I have been making a list of all these suggestions. Thanks! Major, I see you chose my favourite avatar; Colonel Brandon and a Friesian... two of the world's best things in one small 100x100 square! LOL. Colonel Brandon is quite possibly my favorite character of all the JA movies. And his horse was absolutely beautiful (at least to my eye which hasn't been around horses much since childhood).
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Feb 19, 2008 11:20:44 GMT -5
He is my favourite hero too. And friesians are those lovely heavy dutch horses; they were bred to carry heavy knights... If you've seen LadyHawke, it's the same breed.
I vow to own a farm-full of them some day. ::sigh::
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Post by maudelynn on Feb 19, 2008 14:30:01 GMT -5
Anagram is a fun game! You can use scrabble pieces or any other flat blocks with letters on them. You each take turns making up words with the letters. You hand the jumbled letters to the person on your right and they go around the circle until someone sorts what the word is. It was played in Emma, when Frank spelled out Blunder and Dixon.
Skittles (or lawn bowling) is another fun, outdoor game!
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Post by lahoo88 on Sept 25, 2008 20:29:59 GMT -5
My Guild (Australian Costumers Guild) are holding a Regency picnic on Sunday and I have take quite a few suggestions from this wonderful thread - so a big thanks.
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