I'm really enjoying looking at all the links! Were the ball&stick game and hoop&stick game popular in Kirsten's time, if you know? I think one of Kirsten's books has a drawing of a man making one (hoop)...that might be an easy toy to make.

I made a little board game for Kirsten. I took a 4.5x4.5" piece of wood and drew a 9x9 grid for checkers. I drew this in watercolor pencils, then went over it with water and (after that dried) varnish, so the wood looked weathered.

On the other side, I drew a Fox and Geese game grid. (Now I need to read the instructions to find out how to play. [img]wink.gif[/img] ) Wood furniture plugs, half painted blue, half left normal, and a red wood piece for the fox, made up all the pieces. I sewed a mini gingham drawstring bag to hold the pieces.

I think it's sad that AG is getting away from having the girls' games and pasttimes! Hopefully that will be something they'll bring back sometime...and mini board games especially would be so much fun! Can you all tell I'm a board game nut? [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ March 17, 2003 11:04 PM: Message edited by: Melissa ]</font>