THE BLIND CHICKEN

Choose a person and cover his/her eyes with a 

After that, he or she start walking and the other people make sounds. The "blind chicken" should catch one of this people by listening to the sounds. 

BE CAREFUL IF YOU ARE THE BLIND CHICKEN!!  DON'T GET DIZZY! 

ANA GONZALEZ - Primary School- CEIP Río Segura. Beniel (Spain)

Mª DOLORES MONZÓ SOLDEVILA, CEIP SANCHIS GUARNER, ONDARA (SPAIN).

DUCK DUCK GOOSE

At our school, we play a variation of this traditional game to review English vocabulary. 

This is how we learn English by having lots of fun! Keep reading!

HOW TO PLAY  DUCK DUCK GOOSE:

1. Sit down on the floor forming a circle.

2. Choose someone to be "it".

3. "It" goes round the outside of the circle tapping heads while saying "duck, duck, duck..." for each head until he/she says "goose" and that person has to stand up and run to catch "it" before he/she sits down on his/her place. 

4. If "it" catches the "goose" now it will be the turn for the "goose" to be "it" and, if not, "it" will play that role again. 

OUR VERSION TO REVIEW ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN A FUN WAY:

The chosen person to be "it" taps his/her classmates heads while saying words from a same semantic field (colours, numbers, animals, food items, etc) instead of saying just "duck" all the time, and then he/she says a word that doesn't belong to that semantic field instead of saying "goose". This is how we learn by having fun!

Nalan SEZEN

Velimese Ataturk Primary School-Tekirdag/TURKEY

Hands and Feet

  HANDS and FEET

The "Hands and Feet" is a  hand-foot coordination game. At the same time, it supports to think fast in English. How does that work? Let's check it out together. ;)

The students queue. There are hands and feet painted before in threes on the floor. First student starts the game. When s/he reaches to the fourth line, the next student joins the game. It continues like this. The important things that students have to do are:

1. Hands and feet are drawn in different places in each line and their number varies. Students touch the ground with different hands or two hands and step on the ground with different feet or two feet.

2. While doing these movements, they say what their hands or feet are touching the ground at every turn. For example two hands, one foot...etc. Those who fail to do like this are out of the game and the last student is the winner.

Zeynep Kaya

Sehit Hazım Bey Primary School/Burdur/Turkey

HOT POTATO

 The Hot Potato Game is a fun, active game for young kids that has been around for ages. 

 Find out how to play it and adapt it to your kids’ level. There are also some ideas for Hot Potato game songs.

 Hot Potato is a classic party game that’s fun and simple to prepare. Kids enjoy it and it gets everyone participating.

It is also a great game to play at home with your children or in class as a group.

 Kids must pretend they have a steaming hot potato in their hands and pass it around, making sure to let go of it as quickly as possible so they don’t get burnt.

Hicran KAYA YILMAZ, MİRALAY HALİT AKMANSÜ PRIMARY SCHOOL,UŞAK,TURKEY

     WHO TOOK THE COOKIE FROM THE COOKIE JAR?

'Who took the cookie?' is a classic childrens game that you can play anywhere,anytime. First of all, learn the song 'Who took the cookie?'and focus on the rhythm of the chant. Rhythmic clapping make it a lot of fun to chant along. As we chant, we try to find who took the cookie by asking eveyone in the circle if they took the cookie until we find the one who did. 

Before the game starts, everyone closes their eyes and the teacher walks around the outside of the circle and picks a student to be the person who took the cookie. The teacher'll give that student a cookie prop or a cookie flashcard. Then everyone opens their eyes and the game starts by tapping and clapping. Students will make a guess who took the cookie. The chant continues until someone guesses correctly. Once the person who took the cookie is revealed, they can show the cookie and offer to share it with the rest of the class.

Who took the cookie from the cookie jar?

..........took the cookie from the cookie jar.

Who me?

Yes, you!

Not me!

Then who?

I took the cookie from the cookie jar.

Yummy yummy cookie from the cookie jar.

Are you hungry?

Let's share.

 DODGE BALL

    100.Yıl Primary School   Samsun/ TURKEY

        Sait Gümüşoğlu

Dodgegball is a team sport in which players on two teams try to throw balls and hit opponents, while avoidin being hit themselves. The objective of each team is to eliminate all members of the opposing team by hitting them with thrown balls, catching a ball thrown by an opponent.

 DROP  THE  HANDKERCHIEF

100. Yıl Primary School Samsun/ TURKEY

                    Ilkay Banu TAMIN

A person  will go around  the circle and drop a handkerchief behind one player.The person that drops the handkerchief will race around the circle in hope they won't get caught by the person the handkerchief was dropped behind. The game goes on like this.

 The person where the handkerchief was dropped picks up the handkerchief , chases after the person. The first one to sit in the empty spot wins. The one who loses will chase next.

Demet DAKAK

Fehmi Bilge Primary School/Erzurum-Horasan/Turkey

               ISTOP

It is a fun, traditional game with the theme of hitting players with a ball, which has been played in our country for years. There are two types of stop game as stop and colorful stop. Today, more colorful istop games are played. In short, the aim of the game is to hit the players with the ball.

          How to play Istop and what are the rules?

Firstly, the players form a circle. Then the midwife is chosen among players. The midwife tosses the ball into the air, saying the name of one of the players. The person whose name is called catches the ball and shouts istop. Other players stay where they are without moving. The midwife says a color and the other players run off to find that color. The midwife tries to hit them with the ball. The person who is hit with the ball becomes the new midwife and the game continues.

SIMON SAYS...

MİRALAY HALİT AKMANSÜ PRIMARY SCHOOL / UŞAK-TURKEY

                        ÖZGE ÜNVER

HOW TO PLAY SIMON SAYS..

-First choose a child to be 'Simon'.

-This child will stand at the front and give instructions to other children.

-The other children gather around Simon, who gives instructions by saying, “Simon says…” telling the kids to perform a physical action. For example, "Simon says touch your nose,"

-However, the players must only obey commands that begin with the words “Simon Says.”

-If Simon says, “Simon says touch your nose,” then players must touch their nose. But, if Simon simply says, “jump,” without first saying “Simon says,” players must not jump. Those that do jump are out.

           TÜRKİYE / BURDUR - MERKEZ

TOKİ YAHYA KEMAL BEYATLI PRIMARY                                  SCHOOL / Dilek Sivri

Hopscotch

How to Play Hopscotch

1.Draw a hopscotch diagram on the floor with chalk.

2. Write numbers from one to nine, one by one ,on each of the squares.

3. Throw a small stone on the square written ' 1 ' and start the game.

4. Hop on one foot  (right or left ,it doesn't matter) into the first empty square and then subsequently into the other squares, skipping the other one with the stone..

5. Jump with both feet when you step on the pairs ( 4-5 , 7-8)

6. When you reach at number 9, you'll turn your back to come back to the start.

7. On the way back , jump on the numbers coming back one by one by skipping your stone again.

8. Now, it's  turn for others.

Note :  If you step on the line drawn with chalk or your stone goes out from hopscotch diagram when throwing the stone , you lose your turn...