by

Aylin Leventoglu

Danuta Dąbek

Esther Serramia Sanchez

Ksenija Laisic-Miletic

Maria Rellia

Carmela Cundari

Mirela Djeska

Tetyana Pavlenko

TRADITIONAL GAME FROM SERBIA

`` `A pussy is around you...`

` A pussy is around you, be careful not to scratch you. Keep Mio tail off so you do not get blind. If you get blind, your tail will fall off`!

One child holds a handkerchief and the other children are in a circle and they squat. This child circulates with a handkerchief in her hand while singing

a song.

During the song, she leaves a handkerchief behind one child. A child, if he sees a handkerchief, will run after her, if he gets her with a handkerchief, then she, who held the handkerchief, repeats, but if he does not reach her and she takes his place, he will be the one who  will circulate.

"Geese, geese, come back home"

the classic Polish game

"Gąski, gąski do domu"

the classic Polish game

You will need quite a lot of space to play this game! 

HOW TO PLAY:

One child is chosen to be the Mother. Another one is the Wolf.

The Mother stands at one end of the playing area.

The other children stand facing the mother at the other end of the playing area.

The Wolf stands behind a line between the mother and the children.

"Geese, geese, come back home"

the classic Polish game

The mum calls out: "Geese, geese, come back home!"

The group replies: "We are scared"

The mum asks: "Who are you scared of?"

The children reply: "We are scared of an angry wolf!"

The mum asks: "Where is he?"

The children reply: "Behind the fence!"

The mum asks: "What is he doing?"

The children reply: "He's eating the geese!"

The mum calls out: "Geese, geese, come back home!"

"Geese, geese, come back home"

the classic Polish game

At this point the children run forward to reach the mother. They must move as quickly as possible trying not to be caught by the wolf.

The wolf has to chase the children and catch them before they can reach the Mum.

If the wolf catches anyone they become the new wolf.

There is usually much screaming and excitement at this point!

"I QUATTRO CANTONI"

"THE FOUR CORNERS"

a typical Italian game

Prepare the game field (more or less a square) by placing 4 pins (but they could be big stones, flags or anything else) in the four corners.

Four children will be placed in the four corners, while the fifth will be positioned in the center.

At the start, the children must run from their canton to the next; the child in the middle will try to reach one of the cantons before the others.

If he succeeds, the player left without a canton will go in the center and the game will start again, while if he fails, he will return to the center.

If the players are more than five, variants are possible by increasing the number of cantons and even the players in the middle.

SPANISH TRADITIONAL

GAME

TERRA, MAR I AIRE

GROUND, SEA & AIR

You can draw the game on the floor but you can also use 3 different steps from the stairs, use colored tape to trace the lines, use printed pictures..... be creative!

All the players stand in the yellow lines.

There is a captain that starts giving instructions:

1- GROUND !

2- SEA !

3- AIR !

The captain keeps giving random instructions and changes the speed of them while the players jump from one place to the other.

If a player jumps into a wrong place, he/she stops playing until the next round.

Care, care gospodare (Czar, czar my master)

Croatian game

A group pf children stand on one side, alined one next to another. On the other side there's one child "the Czar" with his/her back turned to the group of children.

The children take turn and ask: "Czar, czar my master, what time is it?"

"The Czar" answers differently to everyone.

He says, for example: "2 horse steps" (long steps)

or "5 mice steps" (short steps)

or "3 cat steps" (middle steps)

or "1 ant step" (one foot in front of

another)

The winner is the one who comes to the Czar first and that child becomes new Czar.

The Czar can trick other players and say "The clock fell down the well." Then the player needs to go back to the starting point and start from the beginning.

To make it more interesting, children can change their voice so the Czar doesn't recognize them.

Ukraine.    

 “Blind man” catching

1. Choose the person to be the “blind man” in the game

2. Cover his/her eyes with the head scarf.

3. Check whether the “blind man” sees. “No cheating!

4. The group of the participants makes a circle around the “blind man” .

5. The children try to touch “the blind man’s” shoulders”, his task is to grab the student who is standing on his way .

6.To make a work a bit easier the children clap their hands which helps the “blind man’’ identify the location of the student.

7.The student who was caught by the “blind man” becomes the “blind man” him/herself for the next round.

8.The game should be run in the strictly notified space. No violation as the person doesn’t see.

Traditional Turkish Game - Coloured Stop ( Renkli İstop)

It is an outdoor game. There must be at least four

children. They need a ball to play the game.

Firstly the children make a circle.They choose one of them to start the game.

The child throws the ball up by saying one of the children's name. The child tries to catch the ball before it falls to the ground. Meanwhile, the other children run away as far as possible.

If the child can't catch the ball before it falls, he gets one point. After he catches the ball, he has to say a colour. The other players need to find an object with this colour. While the players are trying to find an object with that colour, he need to shoot a player before finding an object .If he can shoot a player before finding that coloured object, that player gets one point and takes the ball to continue the game.If all the players find objects, he gets one points.He throws the ball up again by saying one of the player's name......Game goes on like this way.....If any of the players gets three points,he gets out of the game.The game goes on until two players are left. The player with the least point wins the game.

Traditional Greek Games