| "I'm tired of always being the youngest
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| | of various colored tissue paper which
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| in the family," sputtered the rebellious
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| | represented balls of Grandmother's
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| Linda one day. Her mother laughed at her
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| | yarn.Each girl was then given a cardboard
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| crossness and then had an idea."How would
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| | fan (file folders make good fans). Then
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| you like to be a grandmother for a day?"
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| | each girl tried for one minute to fan as
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| she asked.Linda forgot her crossness and
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| | many balls of yarn as possible into the
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| brightened up, "How?" "How could I?""We
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| | work basket. Linda's mother timed each
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| could plan a Grandmother's party and
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| | contestant and awarded a small prize to
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| invite your friends in for an afternoon
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| | the most successful. This game is very
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| tea like Grandmother used to enjoy when
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| | tricky because the thin paper blows out
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| she was young."And this was the start of
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| | of the basket as easily as it blows in.In
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| Linda's "Grandmother's" party. To give
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| | Grandmother's childhood homemade feather
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| her invitations an old-fashioned touch
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| | beds and pillows were common in every
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| Linda pasted colored rickrack braid
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| | home, so Linda planned a feather relay.
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| around the edges of small white cards. On
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| | Her guests were divided into two groups.
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| the cards she printed "Come to Linda's
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| | The first player of each group was given
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| for Grandmother's Day."When her excited
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| | a feather. Each girl keeps her feather in
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| guests arrived they were directed to the
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| | the air by blowing on it while she
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| back bedroom where they found two large
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| | crosses the room and returns. She then
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| boxes - one filled with old long dresses
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| | hands her feather to the next in line.
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| (one for each little guest), the other
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| | The side finishing first wins the
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| filled with hats, gloves, beads, and
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| | relay.The next game was "Grandma." Linda
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| other fancies.Around the room Linda had
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| | was the first Grandma and stood with her
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| pinned a few old-fashioned pictures which
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| | face to the wall. The other players stood
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| the girls studied to get ideas about hair
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| | in a line across the room. The idea of
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| styles. Also they were not familiar with
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| | the game is for the players to creep up
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| the black court-plaster beauty spots
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| | on Grandma without being seen.Grandma
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| until they saw an old photograph.After
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| | could turn at any time to look over her
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| considerable hilarity over "dressing-up"
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| | left shoulder or her right shoulder, but
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| and a proper time devoted to primping,
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| | she could not at any time turn all the
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| Linda announced a style show to discover
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| | way around. If Grandma caught sight of a
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| the prettiest costume, the funniest, and
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| | player moving she sent her back to the
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| the cleverest. Winners would be judged by
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| | starting point. The player who first was
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| the applause of the guests and awarded
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| | able to creep up on Grandma and touch her
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| prizes.After all this excitement the
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| | took Linda's place and became the next
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| girls went to the living room for a
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| | Grandma.Teatime came all too quickly. It
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| "Quilting Bee" - so popular when
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| | consisted of thin nut-bread sandwiches
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| Grandmother was a girl. Each girl was
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| | cut with fancy cookie cutters, and cocoa.
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| given a small square of tarlatan and
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| | Old-fashioned snowballs and plenty of ice
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| enough tiny squares of gay cotton
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| | cream satisfied the sweet tooth.
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| material to cover it plus a tube of glue.
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| | Snowballs, so popular in Grandmother's
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| Each girl then glued her cotton squares
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| | day, are squares of white cake frosted on
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| to the tarlatan back to make a doll-sized
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| | all sides with white coconut
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| quilt. The girl with the nicest looking
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| | frosting.Linda and her guests all decided
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| quilt was awarded a prize.Because even
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| | that having a "Grandmother's" party was
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| interested girls do not like to sit still
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| | lots of fun.John Lenaghan writes about
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| too long, the next game was an active
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| | party ideas and other party-related
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| one. Linda put a work basket in the
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| | topics for the Party Ideas 4u website.
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| center of the floor and around it circles
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