Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games

by Victoria Rowell, Paul Tukey

Overview

Get the whole gang outside and enjoy hours of family fun! Discover the pleasures of lawn games with this guide to 40 time-tested favorites — from classics like capture the flag, croquet, badminton, and bocce to the lesser-known Cherokee marbles and kubb. Authors Paul Tukey and Victoria Rowell provide a quick overview of the basic structure of each game, then offer playing strategies and tips for creating fun variations. Spice up those long summer afternoons with some old-fashioned friendly competition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603428095
Publisher:	Storey Books
Publication date:	03/27/2012
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	845,654
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Victoria Rowell is a former television actress (Diagnosis Murder, The Young and the Restless) and the spokeswoman for the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a charity helping disadvantaged children. She founded the Rowell Foster Children Positive Plan in 2000 to give emotional and financial support to foster children. She is the author of The Women Who Raised Me, a memoir about her own experience as a foster child. She is the co-author of Tag, Toss & Run with Paul Tukey.

Paul Tukey is the co-author of Tag, Toss & Run with Victoria Rowell, and the author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual. He is the national spokesperson for SafeLawns, a nonprofit advocacy group for chemical-free lawn care. He was formerly host of People, Places, and Plants on HGTV and is an award-winning film producer. He and his family enjoy playing lawn games in their yard in Rhode Island.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Who Goes First?
Calling All Players

Backyard Golf
Badminton
Blind Man's Bluff
Bocce
British Bulldogs
Capture the Flag
Cherokee Marbles
Chinese Jump Rope
Cornhole
Crab Soccer
Croquet
Dodgeball
Double Ball
Double Dutch
Field Hockey
Flag Football
Flying Disc
Follow the Leader
Fox and Hounds
Ghost in the Graveyard
Hoop Trundling
Horseshoes
Kick the Can
Kickball
Kubb
Lacrosse
Ladder Toss
London Bridge
Mexican Kickball
Molkky
Quoits
Red Light, Green Light
Red Rover
Sack Race
Scavenger Hunt
Sepak Takraw
Tug of War
Volleyball
Wheelbarrow Race
Wiffle Ball

Five Prized Pavement Games
Authors' Notes
Resources
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index