TRADITIONAL CHILDREN GAMES

During the two-year-period of our project process, we made several activities and shared several moments together not only for working but also for having fun.

One of the most enjoyable activity we shared with our partners have been the activity we called "Traditional Children Games".

We aimed to revive oblivioned children games in this activity. We taught our traditional games to each other in mobilities and played together.

We enjoyed too much. We hope you enjoy also.

Below are the games we shared in project.

Traditional Italian games played in mobility to Turkey;

Traditional Spanish games played in mobility to Turkey;

Spanish game "The Nail" played in Utiaca school, Spain;

Spanish game "Twisted Nail" played in Utiaca school;

Spanish game "Bottle Top Fpotball" played in Utiaca school;

During the mobility to CEIP Utiaca (Spain) our partners developed traditional games from Estonia, Turkey and France.

Below is the Estonian game "The Master" at Utiaca

Here is the introduction  and words of the game:

“How to play A Master Takes A Wife

Players march clockwise in a circle holding hands and singing ’’A master takes a wife ... ’’         A boy (MASTER) is in the middle of the circle and marches in the opposite direction. He chooses a girl to be his WIFE and now they march together holding hands. While the second verse is being sung, the wife takes one player to be their CHILD. In the third verse the child chooses a NURSE, in the fourth the nurse chooses a MAID and in the fifth the maid chooses a HELPER. In the last verse the helper remains in the middle while the master, wife, child , nurse, and maid find a place in the circle of players. The helper becomes a new MASTER and the game starts again.”

"The Master" played in Estonia; 

Turkish game "Tombik" in Utiaca;

Rules and explanation of Tombik is like this;
"Tombik

 9 tiles, one ball and 2 teams needed.

 One of the teams is in  the middle. The other team try to hit the members of the team in the middle one by one by the help of ball. The team in the middle tries tol ine up the tiles over and over beside trying not to be hit. If the the team in the middle manages tol ine up the tiles before its last player is hit, it gets one point."

French game "La Thèque" at Utiaca;

The instruments for  "thèque" is a tenis racket and tenis balls.

 "La Thèque" in France;

"My Geese" Slovak Game;

And HERE is the Polish game..

We hope you enjoy!