MATERIALS: Sixteen-pound paper bags. The boys are blinded with sixteen-pound paper bags over their heads. Then they are turned around rapidly three times, headed in the right direction and instructed to crawl backward, crab fashion as described in the Crab Race. The contestants are so bewildered they are likely to go in almost any direction.
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MATERIALS: Beanbags or similar suitable objects. If there are twenty boys in this contest, they line up as for a race. Fifteen beanbags are placed along a parallel line about sixty feet from the starting line. The boys race for the beanbags, with instructions to bring them back. Since there are twenty boys in the
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MATERIALS: Beanbags. Contestants are required to assume the same awkward posture for racing as they did in the crab race described above, but in this variation of the contest each boy must balance a beanbag on his bare head. Should a beanbag slide off a contestant’s head as frequently happens when the boy tries to
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MATERIALS: Paper napkins. Paper napkins, one for each contestant, are spread out flat on the ground in a straight line about two feet apart. The players line up opposite the napkins about seventy feet away. The boys race to the napkins, get down on hands and knees, pick up the napkins with their teeth and
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