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Black and white line art of children playing hopscotch, skipping rope, and jacks, in a coloring book style.

Black and white line art of children playing hopscotch, skipping rope, and jacks, in a coloring book style.

Create a separate black-and-white line art illustration for each of the following activities, drawn in the style of a children’s colouring book, showing the activity being played or used by children in the 1950s. Each illustration should have clean outlines, no shading, no colour, and be easy to colour in. Each image must include a bold, centred word label in all capital letters underneath the illustration that says the exact name of the activity. The images should be rectangular, with enough white space for printing. Activities to illustrate: Hopscotch Skipping Rope (Jump Rope) Marbles Jacks (Knucklebones) British Bulldog Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses Blind Man’s Bluff Tin Can Cricket Queenie, Queenie, Who’s Got the Ball? Skully (or similar chalk/pavement games) Tag (various versions: chasing, "it") Leapfrog Hide-and-Seek Duck, Duck, Goose Pussy in the Corner Hula Hoop Yo-Yo (Coca-Cola Yo-Yo craze) Slinky Silly Putty Mr. Potato Head Play-Doh Tiddlywinks Pick-Up Sticks Lincoln Logs Tinkertoys Barbie (introduced in 1959) Betsy Wetsy Doll Matchbox Cars or Dinky Toy Cars Ludo Snakes & Ladders Happy Families (card game) Snap (card game) Dominoes Cluedo Monopoly Scrabble Swap Cards (collectable picture cards) Cigarette Cards Marbles (as collectables, with "cat’s eyes" and "tombollers") Dressing up as TV characters (e.g., Disney’s Frontier Land) See more