What Shall We Do Now?

What Shall We Do Now? is a book of suggestions for children's games and employments by Dorothy Canfield and others, with the subtitle Five Hundred Games and Pastimes. The preface says the book has been made in the hope that the question which forms its title may come to be put less frequently. The preface adds that it is so easy for children to ask it, and so hard for grown-up persons with many other matters to think about to reply to it satisfactorily.

The games include Here I Bake, in which one player stands in the middle while the others join hands and surround her, their aim being to prevent her from getting out of the ring. The game called The Cobbler has the cobbler sit in the middle on a stool or hassock while the others join hands and dance round him. The book also describes collecting flowers as a quieter pastime, but a very interesting one, that goes on all the year round, unlike egg-collecting and butterfly-collecting.