Partner countries:

Austria

Cyprus

Finland

Malta

Serbia

Indoor games

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    Indoor games

"Carrot game" - Austria

"Yero vasilia (Old King) - Cyprus

"London Bus" - Finland

"Iz Zunzana ddur iddur" - Malta

"Day and night" - Serbia

"Blind granny" - Serbia

"Spread, spread" - Serbia

Game rules:

"Carrot game"

The players tuck their shirts into their pants. 

They lie with their shirts stomachs on the floor, heads towardsthe center and form a circle.

They then attach themselves to the arms of their two neighboarsso that the connection is as stable us possible. The arms must be streched out. Those children are the carrots, that are stuck in the ground.

A start player is chosen. This child is the "gardener" who tries to harvest tha carrots. They can now chose  a carrot and try to pull it out of the ground. To do this, they grab it by the legs and tug and shake it, until the vegetable has come out of the ground.

The harvested carrot becomes the new gardener. The remaining carrots, on the other hand, close the circle and try to make the rest of the harvest as difficult as possible.

Last carrot is the winner.

You tube: https://youtu.be/bMN0RcSUMg4

"Yero Vasilia (Old King)"

One is the King and the rest are the Subjects, who ask for jobs from the King.

The Subjects decide secretly what job they want to ask from the King.

The Subjects stand in front of the King and say altogether the poem "Old, old King with the twelve swords, we want a job. 

The King replies "What kind of job?"

The Subject reply "Like the one you see" and they start miming the job that they decidedfrom before.

The Kinghas three guesses.

If the King does not guess correctly, they stay as the King and the Subject win (1 point each)

If the King guesses the job, then they run to tap the Subjects up to the gate.

If the King does not manage to tap the Subjects, they remain the King and tries again.

The Subjectwin (1 point each).

If the Kind manages to tap one of the Subjects before passing through the gate, then the Subject, who taped loses one point and becomes the next Kin. Only the King gets one point. The kids play the game from the beginning.

You tube: https://youtu.be/PRbMqXBnUXg

"London bus"

This game is often used as awarm up exercise in PE classes. 

Before you start, the students need to know six different actions that are London bus, Wanderer, Bench, Toaster, Wheelbaroow and Bunk bed. 

Play some nice music on the background and ask your students to move forward in different ways each round. 

They can run, gallop, go backwards, spin, crab walk and finally have their own style to move. 

Every time the music stops, they will grab the nearest person and do the action requested together. 

You tube: https://youtu.be/hX42s5LyY0I

"Iz Zunzana ddur iddur"

The grown-up or class instructor will instruct the students/children togather in a circle on the floor.

The adult/teacher selects a child/student to movie around the circle, pretending to be a bee (zunzana) and starting to circulate clockwise among the the seated children/students sing the song "iz Zunzana ddur iddur (refer to the attached chant), when they reach the word "Zan" the child who was circulating clockwise should gently touch another child/student on the head or shoulder. The touched child then stand up and chases the first child is caught, they lose the game and must resume circulating. If not, they are allowed to be seated and the player who caught them would assume their role.

The translation of the Maltese chant "Iz zunzana ddur iddur, fug il - Bejt tal-kaccatur, meta tasal tant il-minam tagћmel zinn, zunn, zann"

English translation:

"The bee goes around, on the hunter's roof, when it reaches under the mine, it makes a move, buzzes, goes."

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