Özgür GÜNDÜZ 

      Şehit İskender Ercan Primary School 

                      Melis DUYGULU

                       Önder Primary School

               "Aç Kapıyı Bezirgan Başı"

That is an outdoor game which you will play a crowd. You will chose two players. Both two players will choose a name which can be the name of a flower, fruit, colour Etc. But rest players won’t know about the names. Let’s grant that, one of them will choose ‘Apple’ and the other one will choose ‘Pear’. The chosen players will sit face to face, they will put their arms up and hold hands. The other players will make a queue and sing ‘Aç kapıyı bezirgân başı, bezirgân başı’ melodically. The chosen ones will answer it, ‘Kapı hakkı ne verirsin, ne verirsin?’.

The players; will start passing through the chosen ones’ arms, by singing “Arkamdaki yadigâr olsun, yadigâr olsun” The chosen ones will put their arms down while the last player is trying to pass through. They will trap the last one between their arms and ask “Which one do you want Apple or Pear?” 

 If the player says “I want Apple.” player will stand behind the ‘Apple’.And chosen ones will pick another name, other players will sing the same lines again, they will catch the last one and until the last person, it goes like this. When everyone is in a queue (behind the chosen two)You should draw two parallel lines with the one-meter interval. The chosen ones will stand front of the queue, and the players keep each other in the waist.

The chosen ones will put their feet on the lines and star pulling each other. And the team that can make the other team pass the line will win.

                ESRA BAYINDIR

TOKİ ŞEHİT NAZİR ELİTOK İLKOKULU

                      “İSTOP”

The MIDWIFE is selected before the game starts.Children who are in a ring around the midwife carefully wait for the name that the midwife will say.

                        ISTOP

The child, whose name is called by the midwife,runs and holds the ball thrown into the air by the midwife and screams ISTOP.The children around her run left and right to get away from the midwife until the midwife grabs the ball and says ISTOP.

Children who run to the right and left freeze where they are with the sound of ISTOP, and attention is paid to the color that the midwife will say.The midwife tells them a color and they try to find that color before the midwife hits them with the ball.The person who can't find the color and is shot first by the midwife becomes the midwife of the new game.(The midwife has said the color blue and is running to shoot the one who cannot find the color.)

The midwife becomes the first child who can't find the color and gets hit,takes the ball to the middle of the ring and starts the ISTOP game again by saying the name of a friend.

Despina Tsiliviti, 2nd Primary School of Panorama, Greece

Greek Traditional game 

"Περνά περνά η μέλισσα", which means

"Here comes the bee"

Game rules: 

Children choose 2 leaders. The leaders stand opposite to eachother and they sing the song "Περνά περνά η μέλισσα..." while they clap. The children form a line and walk between them. When the song ends the leaders pick the child between them and they ask him/her a question (our questions were what they would do in an everyday situation). 

One leader represents the correct answer and the other the wrong one. When the child chooses an answer he/she goes behind the leader who had thought of the answer the child had chosen. At the end they form two lines facing eachother and they pull. The winning team is the one that manages to pull the other team to their court.

Sofia Dalabyra, 

2nd Primary School of Panorama, Greece

Greek traditional game 

"Βασιλιά βασιλιά", 

which means "oh king my king" 

and is a pantomime game.

Game rules:

The first king is chosen by everyone in a democratic way. He/she thinks of an action to describe with pantomime. In our game the action was an everyday problematic situation. The king describes the situation with movements, without talking. The other children are trying to guess the action. The child who first guesses correctly becomes the new king. The game ends when all children have become kings. The winner is the child who has become a king more times.