Mixed Grill
A box for each player is filled with various kinds of small objects, such as buttons, beans, etc.-two or more of each (We use the small round cheese boxes, as the lids are useful to put the objects in, for most of our children are lying down).
The leader calls out the name of an object and a number.
For instance,
"Three buttons, one piece of wool, two peas, five beans ".
The game is not to see who can be quickest but to find out who is most accurate. 

Museum Hunt
Give lists of certain things to be found, i.e. a stone 'with a hole in it, etc. (About six.)

Musical Knots
Each Patrol sits in a circle with about two yards between each chair.
The leader has a piece of rope, and at the whistle he throws it to the next child, who catches it and throws it to the next, and so on round the Patrol.
The rope should be kept well rolled up or it cannot be thrown properly.
The leader blows his whistle and calls a knot, and whoever has the rope at the time must tie that knot.
The, first child to hold up the correctly tied knot wins for his Patrol.
This game is nicer if played to music.
Whenever the music stops a knot is called, and tied–something like musical chairs.

A New Tag Game
Tag games are always popular where there is sufficient space for a short run, and the following is a good one for either Troop or Patrol.
One child is IT.
The remainder is chased, and may be tagged at any time except when standing on one leg with left arm under the left leg and holding the nose with the hand!
The position described is not an easy one to hold, neither is it easy to stop running suddenly and assume it.

Nursery Rhymes
This game which we play with ordinary Cubs would be convenient for hospital cases.
Most boys will sing lustily if given the opportunity.
It is also something the whole ward can join in for the chorus.

Nature Alphabet
Find something in nature beginning with each letter of the alphabet.

Non-Stop Cricket
(Indoor Game)
Apparatus: 3 stumps mounted on a base to stand on floor, a soft ball (rag one preferably) and a bat. Any numbers can play.

Divide the boys into equal teams, one batting and one fielding. Batsmen line up in bay behind and to the right of the wicket. Bowler stands in a circle at appropriate bowling distance from wicket. Runs are scored by running from the wicket to the side of the room at right angles to the line of the bowled ball and back to wicket again. If batter touches the ball he must run.

The ball when fielded must immediately be returned to the bowler who will bowl at the wicket whether the batsmen is ready or not. If batsman is put out by bowler or caught the next bats- man must immediately take over and defend the wicket as the bowler will bowl non-stop whether there is a batsman at the wicket or not.

The ball is never dead. It is possible for a batsman to be put out before he ever gets the bat. Continue until all are out and change over. Side scoring most runs is the winner. A fast, exciting game.