Inexpensive gifts are fastened on one end of
long, brightly colored strings or ribbons. To hide these gifts,
the hostess takes one at a time, hides it in some part of the
house, and takes the string and makes takes a devious course
back to the room from which the hunt is to start. She may tie
the string in a loose knot on a bed post ; run it out in the
hall, where it is fastened to a coatrack ; down the stairs,
fastening it to two or tree of the bannister posts, and so forth
and so on, until the string finally ends up in a room in which
the guests are gathered.
At this end of the string will be found a plain white card on
which is written one of the names of the players, if the hostess
wishes to make sure that certain guests get certain gifts. If
there are to be boys and girls at the party, boys’ strings
may be one color and girls’ strings another.
Knots should be easy to untie, and no two strings should come
so close together that they could be mixed. If all games are
to be played in one section og the house, the game of necessity
must come first. As soon as all the guests have arrived the
hunt is announced. It is preferable, though, to have this game
come last, and to make this possible, gifts will have to be
hidden and strings will have to woven in some parts of the house
is not in active use during the other games of the party. An
upstairs, or laundry, or if possible, an attic, make ideal hunting
grounds. |
