Complete Clue List
Across
1. The kids can do a bit of fortune telling with this; "___ Eight Ball"
4. Put them to work & have them carry these Belgian blocks while you pave (Plural)
7. Party game and you don't want to be the one holding it when the music stops; "___ Potato"
8. You need to tag to avoid being the picker; "Duck, Duck ___"
9. Get them into a battle of strength pulling a rope; "Tug ___" (Two words 2,3)
10. Give the kids a treat of crushed ice & juice from the "Snoopy ___-Cone Machine"
11. "Hot Wheels" and "Matchbox" make these (Plural)
14. Time to celebrate, but it's a card game set in a restaurant; "Sushi Go ___"
17. The aim is to be closest to the jack. Can be played on lawn or carpet with a little bias
20. The girls take their baby dolls out in these 4-wheel carriages (Plural)
23. Traditional children's toy, sometimes called "Ring & Pin"; "Ball ___ Cup" (Two words 2,1)
24. "Scrabble" and "Monopoly", for example; ___ Games
25. Talking device made from 2 tin cans attached to a piece of string (Abbrev)
26. I spy with my little ___
27. Perhaps a playground singing game will help; "Ring a Ring o' ___"
28. If they're old enough & don't shoot their eye out, teach them to use a "Red ___ BB Gun"
Down
1. This children's drawing toy will keep them busy for a while; "___ Doodle"
2. A children's hide and seek type game; "___ in the Graveyard"
3. Try and teach the kids strategy in this game with rooks & pawns & kings
4. Similar to baseball but the ball is thrown at a building to rebound to the batter; ___ Ball
5. Similar to "Jenga", you must remove blocks and add them to the top; "Tumbling ___"
6. Apologies, this board game is based on the ancient Indian cross and circle game "Pachisi"
12. Italian word for one or card game where you yell this out when you have one card left
13. Peaceable Kingdom board game for the wise ones; "Hoot ___ Hoot!"
15. When you don't have musical instruments you can always play "___ Guitar"
16. This marble is two to three times larger than a normal marble; ___ Bowler
17. Get them to read a book, like Jean de Brunhoff's elephant tale "The Story of ___: (1931)
18. Children's tag game; "___ the Time, Mr Wolf" (Contraction)
19. Before the kids can play Tee-Ball they need to pick ___ (Teams synonym)
20. Rock, ___, Scissors
21. 19th century game built on the rhyme "Here Comes ___ Soldier from Botany Bay" (Two words 2,3)
22. Another word for "gidgee" which the kids can use for fishing (with care)