Two or more red stockings are hung up, the number depending on the number of contestants you have for each side. Each boy is provided with a teaspoon and three apples, or tennis balls. These apples must be picked up off the floor with the spoon, carried to the stocking, and dropped into it. It may be run as a relay, with each runner putting in just one apple, returning, and handing the spoon to the next runner. The apples must be gotten into the stocking without the aid of the extra hand.