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Books about how to have fun -
Where To Get Them Online.
-- by Alan Detwiler
Below is a list of books each of which is about some aspect of having fun. Each book has a brief description. A clickable link will take you to the amazon webpage where you can purchase the book. Amazon's shipping charge is $3 per shipment plus $.99 per item.

Make your own decision whether a particular book is useful to you. Everybody's circumstances and attitudes are different. The list is too long to read the whole thing. You might want to read the titles, and when you find a title that is particularly of interest, read that description.

Most books on this page are grouped in these two sections:
Books available through amazon.com
Books available at barnesandnoble.com


  • Date Ideas: Fun Things To Do For Couples
    Describes 100 or so fun things to do when you are on a date. Most fun things are described with one or two short paragraphs giving you the basic idea so you can plan an enjoyable date.
     
    A few ideas are obvious things like seeing a movie and dinner at a restuarant, but most of the date ideas are interesting and enjoyable things most people would not think on their own.
     
    Short sections on how to ask someone out, how to make dates more fun, things to talk about, and how to improve relationships. Applicable to both new and established relationships.
     
    Here is the table of contents:
    A walk in the park
    Drive in a remote area
    Cook something
    Look at photo albums
    Play frisbee
    Watch a video
    Have a pizza party
    Check out a book store
    Go to a movie
    Neighborhood walk
    Take a one-day class
    Try a new food
    Rollerblade
    Explore a habitat
    Go fishing
    Play a sport
    Eat at a restaurant
    Go to a flea market
    Fair or amusement park
    Orienteering
    Make twenty wishes
    Bake cookies
    Browse a fave store
    Small boat cruise
    Tour a park
    Watch the sun set or rise
    Listen to music
    Lookout tower
    Canoeing
    Raft ride down a creek
    Check a greenhouse
    Conversation in kitchen
    Have a picnic
    Walk and follow a creek
    Sightseeing nearby town
    Check visitor bureau
    Write candidate policy
    Ping pong
    Pitch and catch
    Simulated power failure
    Go hiking
    Make snow sculpture
    See a planetarium show
    Launch model rocket
    Watch lightning storm
    Visit a museum/gallery
    Giant slide ride
    Play bocce
    Pose in scene
    Shoot pool
    Snowshoeing
    Drive-in movie
    Take on a corn maze
    Go to a county fair
    Tell likes/dislikes
    Star gazing
    Childhood memories
    Sand sculpture
    Ask questions
    Tell life stories
    Learn to dance
    Your job nitty-gritty
    Play with gadgets
    Relationship fears
    Paper airplanes
    Hike a mountain
    Simulate tropics
    Play air hockey
    Take factory tour
    Go on a bike ride
    Cookout home/away
    Walk in the rain
    Invent something
    Nature center
    Living history event
    Make a pie
    Walk your city
    Plant a garden
    Candlelight dinner
    Unusual dinner
    Overlook your city
    Know what you like
    Learn a card game
    Together times scrapbook
    Tour a grand house
    Pick your own fruit
    Sidewalk chalk doodles
    Teach each other
    Make something
    Join a club
    See an aquarium
    Skyscraper lookout
    Moonlight picnic
    Volunteer
    Walk in the woods
    See local attraction
    Coffee and talk
    Arts festival
    Walk in moonlight
    Found/natural gift
    Gardening together
    Playground
    Go birdwatching
    Browse charity store
    Make candles
    Walk the beach
    Travel video
    Play poker/solitaire
    Explore a park
    Deals at yardsales
    Shapes with clay
    Do doodle art
    Personal questions
    Tour a ship
    Tie-dye t-shirts
    Explore your town
    Bizarre dress up
    Window shop
    Christmas lights
    At the zoo
    Childhood play
    Photograph nature
    Meeting people
    Pick up lines
    Ask out a stranger
    Ask someone out
    Reducing date anxiety
    First date etiquette
    Ice breaking questions
    Make dates better
    Topics for conversation
    Making dates romantic
    Improving relationships
    Relationship turn-offs
    Can be purchased at eBookMall.com  in Adobe PDF format. Also available at KnowBetter.com in Microsoft Reader format.


    • Books available through amazon.com
  • Are We Having Fun Yet?: The 16 Secrets of Happy Parenting
    A book on parenting that makes you happy that you have kids. Encourages parents to enjoy the rewards of being parents. Having fun and staying in a good mood is important to raising happy children. Parents who feel stressed and worn down by work and the demands of parenting and in a bad mood tend to put the entire family in a bad mood. Parenting is best accomplished by parents who take time to enjoy themselves.


  • Having Fun With Agility
    A agility training method for dogs that's fun and without the rigid rules of competition. Explains positive methods—such as clicker training for your dog to perform feats seen at competitions. Use positive tools such as treats and over-handling. Master the basics—and enjoy doing it.
    $10.19


  • Inventing Toys: Kids Having Fun Learning Science A combination of invention and toy making. Experimentation and trial-and-error are used to develop designs for toys and playthings. Science and tool usage is learned in the process. Encourages students to work in teams. There are directions for seven workshops and suggestions for five more. Toys include cars, electric fans, rockets, etc. The science concepts and historical background involved in each project are explained for teachers.
    $24.95 plus shipping.


  • Playing Fair, Having Fun: A Kid's Guide to Sports and Games (Elf-Help Books for Kids)
    A book for kids about sportsmanship and fair play. Sports and games help teach kids about sportsmanship, teamwork, victory and setback, fairness, and personal responsibility. And there's a downside, anxiety about succeeding, pressure to defeat an opponent, time and energy taken from other interests.
    $7.95


  • If Life Is a Game, How Come I'm Not Having Fun?: A Guide to Life's Challenges (Suny Series in Communication Studies)
    Paul Brenner
    Advocates applying a spirit of play to everyday life. Treating life's events and everyday activities as a game, leads to a more socially functional and effective society. This game/play attitude makes individuals happier and improves the welfare of society as a whole.
    $18.95


  • Are We Having Fun Yet?: Wry Slices of Life
    Anecdotes that reveal the foibles of everyday life. From taking vacations to planting a garden to bringing in the mail and seeing a bizzare name on the envelope addressed to you, the stories are as recognizable as they are humorous.
    $14.95


  • Kids Gone Paddlin': The Young Paddler's Guide to Having More Fun Outdoors
    The safe enjoyment of canoeing, kayaking, rowing and rafting. The important skills and staying safe. Includes index. Chapters include: Kinds of boats: canoes, kayaks, sit-on-tops, tubes, rafts. What to wear: PFDs, general clothing, footwear, helmets, accessories. Special skills: navigation, chart reading, water reading, seamanship. Packing for a trip: equipment list, weight considerations, safety. Where to go: coastal, inland waterways, parks, foreign, guided trips. Not yet released.
    $10.36


  • Are We Having Fun Yet?: A Woman's View of Life in Canada's Far North, Where Men are Men and Women Are Too!
    Bonnie Traplin's memoir of her years spent as a hunting guide in the pristine backcountry of the Yukon. Most of the book is letters to her mother with added commentary and descriptive passages about what it is like living in the backcounty. Descriptions of the timbered mountains and the beauty of the wildlife.
    $19.95


  • 365 Activities for Fitness, Food, and Fun for the Whole Family
    Games, exercises, and healthy recipes that strengthening family bonds and improve health. Complete descriptions and directions for each activity. Resources list of magazines, books, websites, and organizations for each topic. Has easy activities without expensive equipment, and also more involved activities. Includes food recipes that appeal to children.
    $10.85 plus $3 per shipment and $.99 per item.


  • Making the Moments Count: Leisure Activities for Caregiving Relationships
    Leisure activity to improve the quality of life for both care givers and receivers in an end-of-life situation. How to have a good relationship. Useful for the geriatric nurse and anyone caring for a person with an illness or disability. Creating meaningful and enjoyable activities to make the most of the present. Practical suggestions for spending leisure time with people who are recovering from an illness, facing a terminal disease, or becoming dependent on outside help. Caring for the mind and spirit when the need for joy and meaning is greatest. Keeping the mind active. General body movement. Influencing self-esteem and outlook. Making plans for each day. Keeping outings simple. Hobbies, interests, and feeling useful. Suggestions for leisure activities, the benefits of the activities, and how to adapt them to fit different abilities, interests, and age groups. Includes wit and wisdom and is enjoyable to read.
    $19.95 plus $3 per shipment and $.99 per item.


  • Activities, Crafts and Ideas for Boys' Clubs
    Wood working, metal cutting, and hammering-type projects. Written for boys in 1st - 6th grades (but most projects are good for boys in the 7th - 9th grades). Getting boys to help others by the use of projects at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. General ideas about working with boys. The value of awards. Special Events to involve the families. Special events include Pinewood Derby, Chili Cook-off, Tractor Pull. 50 crafts projects presented in detail. Helping the boys to listen during group presentations using 'Story Recall Games'. Ten fun ways to help boys memorize pledges, mottos, or bible verses. Sources for materials, crafts supplies, and awards. A cross-indexed list of the crafts by uses: Christmas Projects, Easter Gifts, Father's Day projects, Games for group competition, Games for personal use, Mother's Day projects, Projects to take home, Puzzles, Science Games and Thanksgiving Projects.
    $17.00 plus $3 per shipment and $.99 per item.


  • Forgotten Neighborhood Games: Get Kids Back Outside and Loving It!
    Outdoor, active games for kids. Listed by activity level. Describes the rules, time needed, equipment needed (often just a ball), and comments on each game.
    From amazon.com $15.95 plus $3 per shipment and $.99 per item.


  • The Home Entertainer - Games & Activities For All The Family
    Parties and home entertainment, originally published in the 1920s. Ideas for fun things to do at home. The Art of Successful Entertaining - Planned Parties - Party Games - Puzzles and Paper Games - Indoor Pastimes - Fun for the Children - Simple Conjuring and Juggling - Amateur Theatricals - Community Songs - Simple Card Games - Auction and Contract Bridge - Billiards, Snooker and Bagatelle - Chess - Draughts - Music for All - Garden Games.
    $28.95


  • 365 Games Toddlers Play: Creative Time to Imagine, Grow and Learn (365 Games Smart Toddlers Play: Creative Time to Imagine, Grow & Learn)
    Practical ways to encourage caring, learning, and growing. Creative ideas for room décor, art and sculpture, grandparenting and floortime fun. Games to play while waiting in line, bath time games, nature activities. Most activities require things you have around the house. Starting a play group. How to display your child's art work. Ideas on how to have fun with your children.
    $9.57


  • The Gift of Play: Why Adult Women Stop Playing and How to Start Again
    How life can be better by enjoying play. How to enjoy play and have more passion. How you played as a child. When play stopped. How you can play again. How to find the time to play. Stories of women who stopped playing, and how they started playing again and how play made their lives better. Examples of how to play. Why play is important. Finding the play that is best for you.
    $14.95


  • Can't Play Won't Play: Simply Sizzling Ideas to Get the Ball Rolling for Children With Dyspraxia
    Sharon Drew
    Publisher: Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
    Pub. Date: February 2008
    ISBN-13: 9781843106012
    160pp
    Learning to roller skate or ride a bike can be difficult for a child with developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD, also known as dyspraxia). Practical information, tips and hints to enable children with DCD enjoy physical play. Developing the necessary skills to make physical play a fun and rewarding experience. Children with dyspraxia can enjoy football, rugby, swimming, skipping and skating. Games to improve physical organization and social skills. Equipment lists and safety tips. A resource for parents, teachers and everyone working with children with DCD.
    $17.95 plus $3.99


  • Usborne Book of Art Ideas (Usborne Art Ideas)
    More than 200 art projects with step-by-step instructions. Traditional and untraditional techniques using paint, pastels, inks, papers and crayons to create unique work and gain understanding of color, pattern and perspective. Includes art images to serve as inspriation for young artists.
    $8 to $12


  • Play With Plants
    Millicent Ellis Selsam
    Gardening with children. Directions for growing plants from the roots, stems, leaves, or seeds of common potatoes, beans, and house plants. How a seed grows. Simple gardening experiments.


  • Learning games for Threes and Fours: A Guide to Adult/Child Play
    Joseph Sparling and Isabelle Lewis
    Presents a selection of one hundred imaginative, entertaining, and educational games for parents and teachers to play with preschool-age youngsters.


  • Fifty Things to Do When You Turn Fifty (Fifty Experts on the Subject of Turning Fifty) (Fifty Experts on the Subject of Turning Fifty) (Fifty Experts on the Subject of Turning Fifty)
    Many contributors offer advice such as "keep a sense of adventure," and "get smart about the IRS" and "read the Torah." Financial advice. Attitude. Spirituality. The meaning of life. Contributors include people of diverse interests and ways of life. Short articles written by experts and celebrities from all walks of life. Includes information on medical tests, estate planning, insurance strategies... and poetry and humor. One contributor says "Stop complaining" and you'll get through many years after 50. How to deal with the concerns and fears that many fifty-year-olds have.
    $10.17 plus shipping.


  • The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution
    Claire Wolfe
    An expansion of a previous work. Ideas about avoiding the intrusion of big government and coporate America into our lives. Some of the ideas are for everyone, some are for more radical activists. Ideas for protecting your privacy and freeing your Inner Outlaw, to maintain your freedom and self determination. 179 tools to help negotiate the rift between an increasingly stifling pressure to comply and a citizen revolt to restore our individuality, including preparing for the worst possibilities.
    $13.60


  • How to Find Interesting, Rewarding, Fulfilling, and Fun Things to Do in Retirement
    How to avoid boredom in retirement. How to discover and rekindle old interests, dreams and passions. And how to build new ones. Find things you really want to do. How to stay healthy, interested, and connected to the important people in your life.
    $13.95


  • Things to Do with Toddlers and Twos
    The challenges and delights of interacting with toddlers. Ideas for playing with and teaching young children (18 mos-3yrs). Creative ways to interact while teaching important skills. The ideas are practical and inexpensive, for example a recipe for playdough. Special materials are not required for most of the activities. Recipes for homemade fingerpaint, instructions on how to make shape-matching games, and creating a picture file to expand a child's understanding of categories. Promoting creativity and learning through active involvement using household items and basic toys such as balls and sand pails.
    $15.95


  • Things to Do Now That You're...50
    Quirky ideas, advice, and thought-provoking quotations to encourage you to dream and transform your sedate life into a more exciting and rewarding existence. Ideas such as singing with a band, visiting a nudist colony, climbing a mountain, starting a new career, or relocating to another country.
    $9.95


  • 52 Fun Things to Do at the Beach (52 Series) by Lynn Gordon
    52 cards with 52 games and creative ways to play for 4 to 8 year olds. For example, instructions for making sand dough, casting shadow monsters, and sculpting sand portraits.
    $6.95


  • Discover Nature in Winter: Things to Know and Things to Do (Discover Nature , No 6)
    Experiments and observations about wildlife and the natural world.

    Informative background on melt-freeze cycles, winter stargazing, deciduous and coniferous trees, wildlife behavior, determining windchill, observing winter constellations, identifying tree branch patterns, studying life in frozen ponds. With a notebook, a hand lens, and curiosity, winter can be a time of discovery. What happens when the weather drops so that life can return with such abundance and profusion in the spring. How trees deal with winter, what happens to insects, and what mammals do to survive. Activities throughout the book for novice naturalists of all ages so they can get outside and explore.
    $11.21


  • 2DO Before I Die : The Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Rest of Your Life
    Encourages readers to think what to do with the time they've got left. In one- or two-page essays, 30-some writers tell their own experiences pursuing such dreams as saving an endangered animal or building something that lasts. The 100 experiences are grouped in chapters titled: Roots, Explore, Experiment, Challenge, Give, Learn, Express, Love, Work and Legacy. Inspiring in their simplicity and forthrightness. One aspiration is to 'Perform Stand-up comedy', another is to 'Open a restaurant', some are serious such as 'Come out of the closet' and some are less consequencial such as 'Grow a beard' and 'Plant a tree'.

    There are no grand revelations of the secrets to success or happiness or fulfillment. But there is some insights into finding all three in the circumstances that make up our lives. The shared stories are explorations of how to make meaning of our lives and why it is important to do so.

    Also presents thought provoking questions about what is important. Has other ideas of things to do in one's lifetime that are not full essays. The authors have a web site with more essays by people who have done the things you may be dreaming about. And you can submit your own account of something you have done that is important to you.
    $11.96


  • Simple Indulgence: Easy, Everyday Things To Do For
    Simple Indulgence : Easy, Everyday Things to Do for Me
    Janet Eastman
    What others have found as means of entertainment, grounding and relaxation. Has space for the reader to add notes to make the book into a personal journal that can be read months or years later to recapture good feelings from earlier times. Can be passed on to a son or daughter to share comfort and satisfaction with the next generation.
    $10.95


  • 365 Things to Do With Your Kids Before They're Too Old to Enjoy Them
    For parents who have children between the ages of 3-13 years. Enjoying your children's early years and childhood. Play is an intergral part of childhood. Ways to spend fun time with your child that is rewarding for both of you. Being playful and creative with your child. Watching shooting stars, looking at photos in a family photo album, talk about God, make neighborhood maps, and paint with pudding, and other activities to enjoy together. 365 ideas.
    $9.95


  • Hotel Hobbies: 50 Things to Do in a Hotel Room That Won't Get You Arrested
    You are in a hotel in downtown On-your-own-ville. Boredom dominates your perceptions. Television? - Too numbing and soul robbing. Hotel Hobbies gives you 50 ways to engage your drive for amusement, taken from the collective reportoire of hotel veterans. Requires only the items normally found in a hotel room. There’s little that's useful or particularly karma enriching, but you will find such diversions as towel origami and ensuite free-running. Price:


  • Fun Things to Do With Your Kids: The Family Book of Games, Hobbies, Trips and Activities
    Carl Dreizler, Phil Phillips
    ISBN: 9780883658956
    279 pages of ideas for things to do indoors and outdoors. Trips and activities to plan together. Writing your own fairy tale, building a birdhouse, playing hopscotch, mapping out a family trip, visiting a planetarium, going fishing, flying a kite and other ways for a family to have fun together.


  • Fun Things to Do With Kids During the Summer: 50 Plus One

    50 plus One: Fun Things to Do With Kids During the Summer
    Ann Kepler
    Publisher: Encouragement Press, LLC
    Pub. Date: March 2007
    ISBN-13: 9781933766102
    224pp
    Enjoyable, entertaining and educational activities designed to engage children and parents. For preschoolers to older children. Activities grouped by type and by age to help you choose which to do.

    Toys and games that promote creativity, fitness and exercise. Local excursions such as a museum trip, a day at the beach, a visit to a park. Indoor activities: arts and crafts, board and card games, and reading stimulate imagination and build listening skills. Outdoor activities such as fishing, learning about birds, and hiking. How you can adapt ideas to suit your kids and your situation.

    The activities are tools that teach skills, i.e., listening, counting, reading and exploring-and the kids have fun while they learn.
    $11.66


  • 365 things to do on a Saturday
    Marilee Robin Burton
    Learning through fun and play. Projects, crafts, and games to inspire curiosity, cultivate imagination, and increase skills. Together, you and your child review a project that interests the child. Then decide how much participation you will provide. Probably appropriate for ages 6 to 10.


  • The Family Garden: Clever Things to Do In, Around & Under the Garden
    Garden projects that involve the whole family. Ways to get children and parents working and playing together. Instructions on building an arbor, hopscotch blocks, a sailboat in which to grow vegetables, a small Tudor cottage hideaway for children, a scarecrow, a compost bin, a garden shed, a vegetable trellis, a sundial, a garden bench, and a bird feeder. The tudor cottage has a tudor facade with the roof and walls formed by pole beans. Some of the projects are quite involved and are more than the typical parent will want to tackle-a book for gardeners with time and ambition to satify their love to look. Access to a round saw and a table saw is required.

    An overview of gardens of the past. A discussion of the use of color, texture and space; plant height and arrangement. Photos and plans for gardens inspired by such things as quilts and honeycombs.

    Basic practical advice on planting timing, harvesting, growing from seed, buying seedlings, soil preparation, and maintenance. Basic instructions on composting, starting seeds indoors, watering, mulching, and cultivating, carving pumpkins, painting and decorating gourds.


  • 101 Comforting Things to Do: While You're Getting Better at Home or in the Hospital
    Inspiration and information, suggestions and tips, factoids, diversions, and amusements. Techniques for lessening pain, eliminating boredom, and dealing with sadness of a serious medical problem.
    $9.95


  • Office Pastimes: 50 Things to Do In an Office That Won't Get You a Pink Slip
    author: Marcus Weeks
    Publisher: Advanced Global Distribution
    Pub. Date: November 2006
    ISBN-13: 9781592236749
    Fun and frivolity. Make a cheery Corporate Snow Globe using supplies from the stationery closet; Paperclip Jewelry; Post-It Origami; Boardroom Karaoke; Office Olympics with events like Synchronized Chair Spinning, Photocopier Steeplechase, or Workstation Tag; and Extreme Office games like Trashcan Inferno and Meeting Room Roulette.
    $6.65


  • 365 Days of Nature and Discovery: Things to Do and Learn for the Whole Family
    Gaden Robinson, Phil Gates, Jane Reynolds Publisher: Abrams,Harry N Inc
    Pub. Date: September 1994
    ISBN-10: 0-8109-3876-6
    ISBN-13: 9780810938762
    The wonders of nature. 365 subjects with illustrations and thought-provoking text. Some topics are specific birds, animals, reptiles, fish, insects, and plants. More general topics such as adaptation and behavior common to many species, for example, long necks or acute hearing. Activities to illustrate scientific principles.

    Each day has a natural wonder to celebrate - Olives, killer whales and skunks are "celebrated" on particular days. There's Bioluminescence Day, Fish Partnership Day and Hair Day-not Bad.
    $18.95


  • 52 Silly Things to Do When You Are Blue (52 Series)
    Lynn Gordon, Susan Synarski
    Baker & Taylor Books; Gardners Books Limited; Ingram Book Company; NACSCORP, Incorporated
    From throwing a costume party for a few close friends to creating a personal "fun-o-dex," this series of inspirational ideas will bring anyone up who's feeling down
    $6.95
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  • Happy Together: 500 Things to Do for and With Your Sweetheart
    Ideas for inspiration and to dream about - some are purely innocent, some are a little raunchy. Outdoor things to do, indoor activities, philanthropy, family activities. For dating or marriage.
    $2.77 plus $3.99 shipping


  • Computer Fun for Everyone: Great Things to Do and Make with Any Computer
    Grade 2-5. 34 projects. No special programs required. The typical-invitations, stationary, and illustrated stories-plus drawing, writing, playing games while assuming the modus operandi of a spy, a newspaper reporter, a newspaper editor, an author, or a comic book illustrator. Print play money, create mazes, puzzles, word games, draw maps for treasure hunts, chat with your friends through circular E-mail. Interactive activities to build children's imagination and creativity.
    price


  • 50 Things to Do with the Rest of Your Life
    One person's goals and how he plans to achieve them plus suggestions and ideas that might help others in establishing their goals.
    $6.36


  • 198 Things to Do From Bed
    Susans Franzen
    Inventive suggestions and inspiration to do something fun, creative, and productive.
    $16.95


  • What Every Uncle (Or Aunt) Should Know - 101 Fun Things to Do With Kids
    Andy Newman
    ISBN: 0380771926
    Describes magic tricks, pantomimes, paper airplanes, paper folding, games, jokes, and handicraft ideas.
    $0.20 plus $3.99 shipping.


  • The Home University Bookshelf Volume VI Things to Make and Things to Do
    Date published: 1927
    The University Society Inc, New York
    Making things for oneself. Occupaions worthwhile for the curious child eager to experiment and experience, and develop and try new abilities. Includes chapters on drawing, picture Making, paper craft, home plays, dolls, cooking, basketry, woodwork, chemistry, electricity, and much more. 399 pages of children's crafts and entertainments. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings.
    $25.00 plus $3.99 shipping


  • Whistling With Olives: 54+ Things to Do at Dinner Besides Eating
    Dinner table games, tricks, and sight gags using food items, dishes, glassware, utensils, napkins and napkin rings, your fingers, your face, and etc. to amuse and entertain yourself and your dinner companions at the table.
    $37.00 plus $3.99 shipping.


  • 50/50 Fifty Fun Things to Do in Your Fifties
    Jeff Morgan
    ISBN-13: 9781595301192
    Whimsical and impulsive things to do to be young at heart. $2.05 plus $3.99 shipping. 50 testimonials, both actual and imaginative, about whimsically impulsive and dynamically youthful things 50-somethings have done or could do to prove to themselves that they are young at heart.


  • Things to Do Before You're 40: Over 100 Imaginative, Inspirational and Irresponsible Ideas to Try Before You Grow Up
    Michael O'Mara Books UK
    Original ideas—some frivolous and fun, some inspirational and thought-provoking, and some sexy and downright illegal—but helpful to live life to the fullest.
    $5.95


  • 101 Things To Do With Your Kids: Practical Tips for Raising Small Children
    Henry G. Brechter
    Help guide to parenting. Practical tips for raising young children, almost all of which don’t cost money. Wit, wisdom, and honesty. It's about parents being unremarkable, ordinary, focused, forthright, and a bit emotional with your children. Finding ways to inspire your kids to learn and to read. Making the most of what you have, like using junk mail and old calendars. Maximizing the time you have with your kids to nurture them. Preparing kids to prepare for change.
    new $17.95
    used $2.98 plus $3.99 shipping.


  • Things to Do Now That You're Retired (Things to Do...)
    Jane Garton, Karl Kesel M Q Publications, Octopus Publishing Group
    ISBN: 1-84601-243-0
    9781846012433
    256pp
    not yet released
    Pub. Date: March 30, 2008
    With 600 fun, practical and motivational ideas on how to live life to the fullest, this book will ensure you don't reach 80 saying 'If only'. Whether it's learning a language, taking up a hobby, travelling the world, or simply spending more time with friends and family, this book is full of ideas.
    $9.95


  • Back in The Day 101 Things everyone used to know how to do.
    Back in the Day: 101 Things Everyone Used to Know How to Do
    Michael Powell
    Publisher: Barnes & Noble
    Pub. Date: March 2006
    ISBN-13: 9780760780183
    191pp
    Skills from the past. Stuff we have forgotten that folks from days gone by knew how to do.
    Tips, advice, and suggestions. 101 of the most important things we don't know how to do anymore.
    Fight with a rapier and dagger, thatch a roof, plow a field, wear a Roman toga, lay siege to a castle, pluck a chicken, hurl a battleaxe, make fire without matches, embalm a body, and other know-how from the days of yore.
    Use a hula hoop, milk a cow, make soap, duel with pistols. Make a pair of shoes, keep your horse well groomed, live off the land, and pan for gold. Very brief descriptions of the basic procedures.
    used $9.31 plus shipping
    used $7.98 plus shipping

  • Grandma & Grandpa's Big Book of Fun: Great Things to Make and Do with Grandkids (Ravan African Writer's Series)
    Publisher: Marlor Press, Incorporated
    Pub. Date: September 2001
    ISBN-13: 9781892147059F
    Age Range: 4 to 8
    160pp
    Grandma and Grandpa's Big Book of Fun: Great Things to Make and Do with Grandkids by Jean Luttrell Games and activities to help grandparents interact with their grandchild through play. Games and ideas are divided into categories for each type of youngster personality and mood. Each activity includes a list of materials and step-by-step instructions.
    $7.95 plus amazon shipping


  • Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England
    Everyday life of the Tudor housewife, including marriage, childbirth and child care, chores, food and drink and life outside the home. All social levels are included.

    Chapters in the book include clothing, architecture, reading, dancing, theatre, and hunting & games, and others. Useful for anyone to improve upon their faire or SCA persona.

    About the Author
    Alison Sim is a freelance historian with a specialism in Tudor housewifery skills. She works as a costumed guide at the Tower of London and at Hampton Court, and has lectured on Tudor food at the Mary Rose Trust. She authored The Tudor Housewife (Sutton, 1996) and Food and Feast in Tudor England (Sutton, 1997).
    $24.00




  • Early Pleasures and Pastimes (Early Settler Life Series)
    Bobbie D. Kalman
    Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
    Pub. Date: December 1983
    ISBN-13: 9780865050259
    95pp
    Series: Early Settler Life Series
    Provides a glimpse into the nineteenth century. Illustrations of life in another era. One of a series of fifteen books of both Canadian and U. S. pioneer life.

    The simple pleasure of imagination and friendship. Pleasure in surroundings: a cosy fire, satisfaction of family life, fun in the barnyard and garden and the pleasure of fishing, hunting, swimming, boating, horseback riding, cycling, rollerskating and bowling. Pleasure in the simple things in life: the smell of homemade bread, the sound of a babbling brook, and the beauty of unspoiled nature.
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  • Pleasures and Pastimes in Medieval England (Sutton Illustrated History Paperbacks) How people from all classes of medieval society enjoyed themselves. Wrestling, jousting, chess, cards, gardening, prostitution, cock-fighting, religious festivals. Includes games, hunts, drinking, poetry, pets, dancing, music, food, clothes, architecture, literature, courteous behavior, and craftsmanshsip such as goldsmithing, leather working, woodcarving, painting, and etc. Religious practices of pilgrimmages, feast days, and etc. Table manners. Children's play.

    Provides a cursory overview of what the later medieval English did for fun rather than an in-depth study. A list of sources for further research.
    $65.80


    • Pleasures & Pastimes Medieval
    Reeves Compton
    Publisher: Budding Books
    Pub. Date: 1995
    How people from all classes of medieval society in England enjoyed themselves when not occupied by daily chores. Wrestling, jousting, chess, cards, gardening. prostitution, cockfighting, religious festivals, painting, literature, jewelry, music & the arts. Table manners. Children's play. Many illustrations, some in color. An overview of the delights of medieval life.
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  • Heirloom Skills and Country Pastimes: Traditional Projects for Kitchen, Home, Garden, and Family
    Deborah Krasner
    Publisher: Penguin Group
    Pub. Date: April 1995
    ISBN-13: 9780670851683
    96pp
    Simple skills and pleasures long lost to most families. Food and cooking, gardening, homemaking, decorating.
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  • Fixin's: A Seasonal Guide to Gathering, Growing, Preserving and Making Good Food, Drink and Other Unique Pastimes in the Manner of the Pacific Coast (A California Living Book)
    Jess Ritter, Thomas Hardy, Wendy Wheeler
    California Living Books
    ISBN: 0893950238
    Publisher: California Living Books
    Pub. Date: September 1979
    284 pages
    A year round guide for west coast living and cooking with recipes, poems and stories that reflect the Pacific Northwest. Learn cheesemaking, bread baking, gathering edible plants, mushroom gleaning, etc.

    A food growing, cooking and entertainment book with a focus on the Pacific Coast style, illustrated.
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  • Porching: A Humorous Look at America's Favorite Pastime
    284 pages
    The value of retreating and relaxing on the American porch. Porching is part of a lifestyle that includes hospitality and neighborly interactions and the inclusion of time to slow down, take stock of ones situation, reflect, and socialize.284 pages284 pages Includes impressive photography that documents porching. How porching influences people's lives. Light-hearted, witty advice on why you should porch, porching and love, and the overall medical advantages of porching.
    $21.75


  • Collecting: The passionate pastime
    Suzanna Johnston, Timothy Beddow
    ISBN: 0060156791
    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    Pub. Date: January 1987
    136 pages
    About 29 strange and spectacular collections including old sewing machines, old fishing equipment, advertising fans, unicorns, and other collections.

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  • What Did You Do When You Were a Kid?: Pastimes from Past Times
    ISBN:978-0312865900
    $15.00 plus $3.99 shipping




  • Country House Pastimes (Souvenir Series)
    Oliver Garnett
    ISBN: 0707802849
    Publisher: National Trust, Aylesbury
    Pub. Date: June 1998
    How country house owners passed the time and entertained themselves in the days before television and telephone. How their servants amused themselves. Many discriptions of leisure pursuits such as music-making, amateur theatricals, and watercolor painting.
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  • Favorite Hobbies and Pastimes: A Sourcebook of Leisure Pursuits
    Robert S. Munson
    Today's most frequently pursued leisure-time activities to help those in search of a hobby to make an informed choice. A concise history of each hobby's origin and development followed descriptive information. Each sport entry discusses rules, equipment, playing strategies, scoring, and game variations. Each pet entry gives general characteristics of the animal followed by specific breeds and breeding techniques, training methods, and uses, such as work, house pets, breeding/show, service (to blind and deaf humans), and sport. The Aviation discusses aircraft maintenance, flight planning, and navigational systems and then briefly lists spectator events and museums. Cooking includes directions for specific methods (frying, broiling, roasting, etc.), and comment about cookbooks. Each chapter has a brief list of related materials--books, periodicals, and associations. An enjoyable and easy to read book.
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  • Hobbyist Sourcebook: A Descriptive Guide to Sources of Information on Hobbies, Pastimes, and Avocational Pursuits of All Kinds
    Denise M. Allard, Cynthia Russell Spomer
    publisher: Gale Gengage 1990
    ISBN: 0810347482
    ISBN-13: 9780810347489
    459pp
    Publisher: Gale Group
    Pub. Date: January 1990
    Directs the hobbyist to sources of information--books, periodicals, organizations, associations, libraries, museums, suppliers, databases, and more--on 43 hobbies.
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  • Foraging for Wild Foods: A New Recreational Pastime (Part 1 - Some Common Wild Foodplants, Including Our Most Edible Weeds; and Part 2 - Wild Fruits and Nuts) L.G. Monthey, Larry Monthey part 1 is above currently unavailable no review at amazon not found at barnesandnoble


  • Wild Fruits and Nuts (Foraging for Wild Foods, A New Recreational Pastime - Part 2)
    L.G. Monthey, Larry Monthey
    Recreation Resources Center, University of Wisconsin 1974
    $8.99 plus $3.99 shipping


  • Games Manual of Non-Competitive Games
    $22.92 plus $3.99 shipping


  • Playing, Laughing and Learning With Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Practical Resource of Play Ideas for Parents and Carers
    Ideas for parents to help their child. How to break down activities into manageable stages and ways to gain a child's attention. Redirecting obsession and ritual to build on small achievements. Activities based on: music, art, reading, physical activities, puzzles, playing outdoors and turn taking. Can be used for toddlers and older children who struggle with play.

    Motivation. Making the most of television. Specific suggestions of how to involve and motivate a child in interactive play. A parent without specialized training can easily follow the advice offered. How to get a child to want to play with you.

    How to work, act, and play with an autistic child. Creative ideas of how to interact with an autistic child. For parents and therapists. Several useful ideas working with "typical" children.
    $12.89


  • Indian games, toys, and pastimes of Maine and the Maritimes (Bulletin - Robert Abbe Museum ; 10)
    Edith Favour
    $12.50 plus $3.99 shipping


  • American Indian Games: A True Book
    Jay Miller
    For younger readers. It has an easy-to-read text. Illustrated with many photographs. The games and toys of Native Americans, both in the past and present. Examples: "Jabber" toys used to challenge hand-eye coordination, snowsnake involves throwing a spear along a groove in snow or ice. Many photos, such as one of sled made from buffalo ribs. Lacrosse, probably the best known traditional American Indian sport. Native American participation in games and sports introduced by the Europeans.
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  • Homemade Fun: Games & Pasttimes of the Early Prairies (Prairie Heritage Series.)
    Faye Reineberg Holt
    Leisure and games of the children of the prarie settlers up to 1950. Kick the can, fox and geese, hide and seek, building snow forts, horseback riding, and picnics were a few.

    Traditional toys and games of Native children and those brought or created by settler children. The inventiveness of play. Indoor and outdoor activities. Some required only a little imagination, others used homemade or purchased toys.

    Photographs of games played by prairie children.

    $8.95 plus $3 per shipment plus $.99 per item


  • Pastimes For The Nature Lover
    Stanley C. Johnson
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  • Tudor Food and Pastimes: Life At Ingatestone Hall
    F.G. Emmison
    publisher: Ernest Benn Limited (1964)
    $18.00 plus $3.99


  • American Pastimes: A Treasury of Old-Time Crafts and Ideas
    Allen D. Bragdon
    publisher: Allen D. Bragdon Publisher, Inc. (1984)
    $4.94 plus $3.99 shipping


  • The American Boy's Book Of Sports And Games
    Jack McConnell
    Publisher: Lyons Press
    Pub. Date: September 2000
    ISBN-13: 9781585741151
    608pp
    First published in 1864
    Pastimes for boys (and girls) of any age, with over 1,000 illustrations. Sport in the nineteenth century. Physical and mental activities. Games played with homemade toys, fun with pets, magic, woodshop, playground games, marbles, King of the Castle, and Battle for the Banner, bowling, croquet, fencing, badminton, gymnastics, ice-skating, swimming. Making kites, a bow and arrow, fire balloons. Sailing boats and nautical terms. Caring for dogs, pigeons, guinea pigs, or aquarium fish. Parlor games such as Blind Man's Bluff, Dominoes, and Jack Straws. Magic and dinner-party gags, such as "Erratic Egg" and "The Decapitation" . A chapter on baseball, a relatively new pastime in 1864. Chapters on card games, arithmetical and scientific stumpers, puzzles with answers located at the back of the book. A snapshot of American leisure past.
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  • Early American crafts & hobbies: A treasury of skills, avocations, handicrafts, and forgotten pastimes and pursuits from the golden age of the American home (EH)
    Raymond F. Yates
    publisher: Barnes and Noble Books (1983), HarperCollins Publishers
    ISBN: 0064635759
    ISBN-13: 9780064635752
    Pub. Date: May 1983
    224pp
    Practical information on American folk art and crafts. 19 crafts. Illustrated. The things people used to do in their spare time a hundred years. $3.38 plus $3.99 shipping


  • American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It
    Daniel Carter Beard
    Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
    Pub. Date: October 1966
    ISBN-13: 9780804800068
    Age Range: 9
    392pp
    An 1890 manual of pastimes which includes instructions for making kites, fishing poles, a blow gun, boats, and theatrical costumes, and for raising dogs, stuffing animals, stocking an aquarium, and camping. Breaks down activities by season. For adults and boys or even girls age 7-15.
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  • The Modern Handy Book For Boys
    Jack Bechdolt
    ISBN: 0548451087
    ISBN-13: 9780548451083
    412pp
    Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Companyf
    Pub. Date: September 2007
    $26.56 Chapters on hiking, camping, nature, machines, building rafts, boats, airplanes, kites, masks, costumes, animated toys, puppets, marionettes, photography, movie making, magic and more


  • The handy boy;: A modern handy book of practical and profitable pastimes,
    A. Neely Hall
    publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co (1913)
    396 pp. with over 600 illustrations
    Activities for boys, arranged by season. Includes tool handling, easy home repair and home projects, clocks, electrical projects and toys, mechanical toys, Christmas ideas, a moving-picture theatre, magic, newspaper playhouses, snow tunnels, model airplanes, camp and scout craft, huts, kites, signal lanterns, gardening, skatemobiles, roller-skate sails, coasters, more.
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  • Pastimes for the patient Marguerite Ickis publisher: A.S. Barnes and Co. 1945 no review at amazon $4.75 plus $3.99 Not fgond a bip Not found at target from biblio: 285 pages with black and white illustrations. Things to do while you are bedridden. The book was originally done for veterans.


  • Three Hundred Games and Pastimes or What Shall We do Now? - A Book of Suggestions for Children's Games and Activities
    Originally published in 1900. Activities for children. Ideas for amusement. Republished classic work in quality, modern edition, using the original text and artwork. Games for a Party - Drawing Games - Writing Games - Table and Card Games - Thinking, Guessing and Acting Games - Garden Games for Girls - Garden Games for Boys - Picnic Games - Out for a Walk - In the Train - Without Companions - At the Seaside - In the Country - Dolls' Houses - Dolls of Cardboard and Paper - Indoor Occupations and Things to Make - Cooking - Gardening - Pets - Sunday
    $29.95


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