amusements

Collects over fifty ideas for activities children can do with their mother, from arts and crafts to games, cooking, picnics, gardening, and bingo, with lists of materials, step-by-step instructions, and helpful tips.

Collects over fifty ideas for activities children can do with their father, from road trips to arts and crafts, garage sales, games, cooking, and magic shows, with lists of materials, step-by-step instructions, and helpful tips.

Provides information, ideas, and activities designed to keep young readers entertained and to promote engagement with the wider world.

Describes many of the most popular parlor games of the Victorian era.

A guide to campfire fun with advice on starting a fire, warding off bugs, and making cooking devices; and offers suggestions for games, recipes, sky watching, stories, and songs.

Over sixty learning activities explore shapes, numbers, the alphabet, and counting.

A collection of puzzles, riddles, and brainteasers.

A collection of entertainments geared toward boys, containing instructions for skipping stones, coin tricks, making a quill pen and bottle rockets, and other activities.

A collection of entertainments geared toward boys, containing instructions for skipping stones, coin tricks, making a quill pen and bottle rockets, and other activities.

Describes the different kinds of entertainment technology and how it has changed over time.