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1. COMENIUS MULTILATERAL PARTNERSHIPLET’S KEEP THE MEMORIES ALIVE2008 – 2010Traditional games "This project has been funded with support from the European Commission." "This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein".

2. Old-time Fun and Games in Poland …stilljoyfullyplayed

3. ‘No Equipment’ Games Puszczanie kaczek Jumping Ducks The game is supposed to kill boredom on long afternoons we spend by the seaside, river banks or at the lakeside. The rule is simple – it’s just throwing little flat stones on the water surface in such a way that they jump few times before they will finally sink. The best result recorded was when ”the duck” jumped 86 meters. It made 56 jumps before it sank!

5. ‘NoEquipment’Games Pomidor Tomato • Tomato is a popular children’s game still played in kindergartens or first classes of primary schools. It requires at least 2 players but there can be much more. Of all the players one person is chosen to be the TOMATO. Other players will ask the TOMATO bunch of silly questions and will try to make the poor TOMATO laugh. To each question the TOMATO has to answer …”Tomato”. It is also forbidden for him/her to laugh during the game. The game can end in two ways: • the TOMATO will not resist and laugh or answer a question differently that required, • the TOMATO will be such a good player that others will give up. • Other variation of the game is when it is TOMATO who asks questions and others have to answer ”Tomato”. If they don’t, they have to give the TOMATO a personal item as a reward. You can bail the item back by performing tasks given you by the TOMATO. It can be singing a song or doing some simple gymnastics, etc.

7. TeamGames Gra w kapsle Cap Game Cap game was an extremely popular playground or street game over 30 years ago. The most important element of the game are beer bottle tops. The idea of the game is to perform a race of caps on a track (often with obstacles). You move the caps by snapping your fingers. The caps have to be weighted for the race: you sink them in wax or put some plasticine on them. In the 80-ties it was very popular to decorate the caps with flag of countries cut out of atlases or encyclopaedias [sic!] so that they could pretend to be rivals in international races. There are many different variations of the game: 1st – players throw the caps on the wall. The cap which lands the closest to the wall is the winner. The player can take cap as a reward from each of his rivals. 2nd – players compete in the race but additionally they are trying to „snap” the rivals cap out of track. 3rd – the most popular is the obstacle race. Players take turns and snap their caps on a track. The one who crosses the finish line first is the winner.

9. Open-air Team Games Podchody Creeping game PODCHODY is a kind of a simple field game often played on school or scout camps. Players are divided into two equal groups. One of the groups are runaways. On their way they leave arrows, clues and task (written on small papers) for the other group – the chasers. The chasers wait 15-30 minutes before they will start to follow the runaways. The aim of the game is to fulfil all the tasks and to find the runaways. - The runaways win if the tasks are not fulfilled correctly, - The chasers win if they catch the runaways before they cross the finish line of ”the race”. To play PODCHODY you need: felt-tip pens, pieces of paper, some thread to hang the letters on the trees and bushes, if you play it in the city – some chalk to draw arrows on the pavements and streets. You can play it in the city or in the woods (the arrows there are made of twigs or drawn on the sand).

11. Open-air Team Games Dwa ognie Two Fires TWO FIRES is a open-air game for two teams equal in number (the number can vary from 3 to even 20 in one team). To play the game you need to prepare a special field of at least 100 m2, rectangular in shape. The field needs to be divided into two equal parts so that both teams can move on their own part. What you also need for TWO FIRES is a volley ball. Each team chooses one person to be their MOTHER (the captain) – this person will stand behind the opponents’ field. The idea of the game is to hit the opponents with the ball in order to eliminate them. But there are also strict rules about it: no team member (except the MOTHER) can cross the line of their field. The MOTHER’S job is to stand behind the opponents field and catch balls that are crossing the line of the field. She can also hit the players. The player is eliminated if the ball hits him/her and then falls on the ground. The players who have been eliminated become MOTHER’S helpers. The team in which all the players have been eliminated, loses the whole game. There is also another possibility to play the game – if team loses all the players, MOTHER stands in the field and fights. When she’s been hit 3 times, the game is lost for her team.

13. ChantGames I’ve got an embroidered handkerchief Mam chusteczkę haftowaną It is a little children’s game. It’s good for a larger number of players. At the beginning of the game all the players are sitting in a circle. They chose one person who will be walking around the circle behind the others backs with a handkerchief in his/her hands. During the walk everybody is singing a simple chant: Mam chusteczkę haftowaną, co ma cztery rogi, kogo kocham, kogo lubię rzucę mu pod nogi. Tej nie kocham, tej nie lubię, tej nie pocałuję, a chusteczkę haftowaną tobie podaruję. The walking person has to throw the handkerchief behind somebody’s back and running around all the players quickly in order to take the chosen player’s place. The chosen person has to do the same running in the opposite direction. Another, very popular variation of the game is to throw away the handkerchief to a players you would like to kiss!

15. ChantGames The old bear is sleeping tight Stary niedźwiedź mocno śpi One of the players is the BEAR. He/she sits in the middle of a circle pretending to be asleep and other players walk around him singing: Stary niedźwiedź mocno śpi, (children leap one time) stary niedźwiedź mocno śpi. (one leap) My się go boimy, na palcach chodzimy Jak się zbudzi to nas zje, (one leap) Jak się zbudzi to nas zje. (one leap) Pierwsza godzina niedźwiedź śpi, Druga godzina niedźwiedź chrapie, trzecia godzina niedźwiedź łapie!!! When the chant is finished all the players run around the place because the BEAR has woken up. Now the BEAR’S task is to catch one of the players. The child caught by him/her becomes the BEAR and the game starts all over again.

17. OtherGames Ciuciubabka Blind man's buff It’s a very simple modification of popular chasing game. One kid is chosen to be CIUCIUBABKA. He/she gets his/her eyes blinded with a scarf. Other children shout: „Łap nas!” („Catch us!”). After that CIUCIUBABKA starts chasing other kids. If he/she succeeds and catches a ‘runaway’ he/she can unfold the blind on the eyes and pass it to the kid. Now the fugitive becomes the hunter!

19. OtherGames Gra w klasy Hop-scotchGame It’s a game played mostly by girls. The rules are very simple. All you need is a piece of chalk and a pebble. Using the chalk draw on the pavement a figure resembling a man. Divide it into 7-8 parts and number them. Your job now is to throw a pebble on number 1 part and jump on one leg on the rest of the parts ( you can’t jump on no 1!), and back. When you reach no 1 you pick up the pebble and finish the jumping. The most important thing is to jump with spread legs on „arms” and „head” of the figure. If you do that successfully you can throw the stone on no 2 – the sequence repeats except now you can’t jump on no 2.

21. OtherGames Zabawy na trzepaku Beatingcarpetsframecrazies This game requires only your imagination. But caution! To play it you must be very careful because it’s dangerous. You can’t play it without an obvious equipment – a frame for beating carpets. It helps also when you’re good in gymnastics. The idea of the game is to perform as many complicated gymnastics evolutions as possible, like somersaults and such using the frame.

23. TRADITIONAL GAMES Italy

24. JAM E SALAM This game consists in reaching and concluding a path. Those who take part in it have to draw on the street eight squares numbering them from one to eight. The player throws a stone on the number one, then they have to jump on one leg and have to go throw the path without either putting the other leg on the floor or touching the lines that sign it. After having finished it he has to launch the stone on the following number. The turn ends when a player misses or mistakes in throwing in the stone or on the other number. The winner is he who goes throw it first.

26. PITRU’DD (little stones) It is played with five stones and there are six levels. The game consists in throwing one stone in the air(about 20-30 cm) and picking another one before the one in the air returns in your hands ; you carry on until you finish all the stones in the hand you must have all five of them.

27. CARRETTONE The game is a home made “car” made with some pieces of wood to form the body of it; with some small wheels and a rope as steering wheel. the race takes place downhill, do you want to know how to brake ? with your feet or if you aren’t afraid of the hospital, you can stop next to a wall.

29. MAZZAJULO The game consists in hitting with a stick, previously made, a little piece of wood which has its ends as a pyramid. When it is hit on the end, it jumps in the air and in the meantime, before it touches ground you must hit it to launch it far. The winner is he who hits it further.

31. Traditional Slovak games

32. Playingwithmarbles Realisationpremises: 4-6 players, A small hole in theground 6 marblesforeachplayer Rules: Playerstry to get alloftheirmarblesintothe hole in thegroundthrowingoneafteranotherfromthedistanceofabout 0,5 metre. Ifplayersucceds, hegets to throwagain. Otherwiseanotherplayertakesturn. Game lastsuntilallballs are in the hole.

33. Mikado Realisationpremises: 4 playersat most 25 spillikins (coloredsticksmadefromwood or plastic) Rules: Thespillikins are freelythrown on onepile. Playerspulloutasmuchspillikinsastheycanwithoutmovingotherspillikins. Eachcolor has someamountofpoints. Three are for 7 points, five are for 5 points, seven are for 3 points, others are for 1 point.

34. TheCloset Realisationpremises: Jokercards (withoutjokers) 4 players Rules: On the top ofunorganizedpileofcards a caretfromtwocardsisbuilt. Playerstry to pulloutasmuch single cardsaspossible. Theplayerwith most cardswin.

35. Chairdance Realisationpremises: 16 players 15 chairs Rules: Playersdance to themusicaroundthechairs, whenthemusicstops, theplayersmustsitdown on thechairs. Theonewhoremainesstandingloses. Game isplayeduntilthereisonlyoneplayerleft (trickis, thattheremustbealwaysone more person thannumberofchairs)

36. Playschool Realisationpremises: Onesmall stone foreachplayer Patterndrawn on theground Rules: Theplayerthrowsthe stone insidesquareone. Afterthathehopsintoeachsquare, afterreachingsquare 8, hereturnssamewayback and picksthe stone up. Thenhethrowsintosquare 2, then 3...untilnumber 8. Thefirstplayerwhodoesallthelevelsisthewinner

37. Playschool SpecialRulesofthe Game Ifthere are twosquarestogether, player has to jumplandingwith onefoot in eachsquare; butifthereisonlyonesquare, hemust hop on onefoot. Theplayercan'tputhis/herfoot or feet on thelinesofthesquare Theplayercan'tfalldown.

38. Blindman'sbuff Realisationpremises: Onehandkerchief or a cloth more thanthreepeople to play Rules: Onechildis chosen to „beblind“ withcloth over theeyes, othersrunaround and „theblind“ has to catchsomebody and gueswhothat person is. Iftheblindisright, that person becomesthe new blind.

39. Hide and seek Rules: Oneplayeris chosen to beseeker. Hecountsfromone to ten withhiseyesclosed, so thateveryonecouldquicklyrun and hidesomewhere. Hestartssearchingfortheotherchildren. Ifhefindssomeone, heruns to one chosen place, touchestheplace and tellsthenameoftheplayerhe has found. He has to findeveryplayer, thenhejoinsothers and firstonewhowasfoundbecomesthe new seeker

40. Portuguese Traditional Games

41. Playinginthepast In those days life was less stressful and television or computer games were not the main entertainment.

42. Children would mostly play with toys built by themselves or bought for special occasions

44. Games commonly played during break time at school

45. “Macaca” Hopscotch • Children draw grids on the sidewalk or on the ground and then jump or hop from one end of the grid to the other.

46. “Pião” Spinning Top • Roll up the string around the top and throw it to the floor. • Try to knock over the other players' tops . • The person whose top is spinning in the end is the winner.

47. “Jogo do Lencinho”Handkerchief Game

48. Form a circle of players facing each other. A person will go around on the outside of the circle and will drop a handkerchief behind one of the other players. After finding the handkerchief, that person has to chase after the person that dropped it. The first one to sit in the empty spot wins.

49. “Cabra-Cega” Blind Goat • One person is blindfolded in the middle of a circle and spins around twice . • The other players mingle around him. • The blindfolded person has to catch a player and guess who he / she is . • If the guess is correct, they exchange places, if it isn’t , he keeps on trying.

50. “Jogo do anel” The Ring Game • The players sit in a circle with their hands out stretched and closed. • One participant hides a ring between his hands and goes by each player trying to let it drop in their closed hands. • A player is named to guess who has the ring. • If he guesses right, they exchange places, if he doesn’t ,the one who has the rings goes to the middle and repeats the game.