Popular games of 1920s

The Pop culture during the s was characterized by the flapper, automobiles, nightclubs, movies, and jazz. Life moved fast as a new sense of prosperity and freedom emerged at the end of World War I.

Products were manufactured in mass-produced packaging and with this new level of manufacturing Board Games and the s go hand in hand. With people looking to reconnect with there families after the horrors of world war 1 and the technology developing in plastics to create them cheap its the decade of a resurgence of older games and the creation of new ones however these popular Board Games from the s may surprise you.

These are the board games to predate your copies of Monopoly , Scrabble and Pictionary and pave the way for modern board games. Pegity is a game where players insert wooden pegs into a punch board. This Game is probably best known by most as something to create art on and not actually as a board game with the concept being redeveloped over the years with not many people actually remembering or knowing that it is a board game from the roaring twenties.

This Classic Board Game that you probably have in our house at the moment is actually from the roaring twenties as you race your game piece from Start around the board to your Home in this Pachisi type game. Slides are located at various places around the game board. Game moves are directed exclusively by cards from the play-action deck.

If one plays the normal version in which one card is drawn from the deck each turn, the outcome has a huge element of luck. In this version, at the end of each turn, a new card is drawn from the deck to replace the card that was played, so that each player is always working from five cards. Roaring 20s Theme Party Food Ideas. Back to Roaring 20's Theme Party Hub.

The Theme Party Hub. Home About Us Themes. Roaring 20s Theme Party Activities and Games. Roaring 20s Theme Party Activities and Games 2: For those more outgoing guests, provide an opportunity to star in their own silent movie!

View some silent movies that you can find in at your local library video rental stores also have them, however the library is free and find some SHORT snippits of scenes that your guests could act out. Try to limit the snippits to seconds for the sake of preparation. Boys were influenced by a consumer culture that made purchased toys readily available. Parents often bought toy rifles and guns for their sons.

Children in the s frequently played street games, or those played outside of school, home, or playgrounds. The games had regional names and flexible rules. Boys often played early versions of baseball. They also played other team sports, such cricket and hand ball. Children used an old can in lieu of a football for Kick the Can. Girls were more likely to jump rope and play hopscotch, and invented songs and rhymes to accompany their games. While baseball was considered the national pastime, basketball, football and boxing gained popularity as well.

Children played games to mimic their sports heroes, forming neighborhood baseball and football tournaments.