Traditional Games

TRADITIONAL GAMES

L.O.-V.E. Learning Outdoors - Vivid Exploration
2019-1-ES01-KA229-064069

SPAIN

RAYUELA

La "Rayuela” is a popular and traditional game from Spain. You just need a plain surface and a chalk to play this game. Through this game children can improve their balance and coodination.

La "Rayuela” requires some basic skills and it also helps children to learn the numbers.

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STEPS

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1. Before you start playing, draw a diagram on the floor with chalk. It contains several squares with numbers between 1 and 10 inside. You can draw the squares with diferent sizes, taking into account the age of the children. You can also use different colours too.

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2. To start playing we need a flat stone. The child must stand behind the first number and throw the stone. The square where the stone falls is called “casa” (home) and the player can not step in this square.

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3. The child starts to play the game jumping with just 1 leg (lame leg) in the squares, or with the two feet if there are 2 squares together.
The aim of the game is go through each square with the stone until you arrive to the number 10 and then go back to the start.

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EL PAÑUELO

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SET UP:
Divide the group into two teams.
Line up about 30 meters across from each team. The teacher or student with the bacon (for example a handkerchief or a towel) is placed in the center of the play area.
Have each team count off so that each player has a number - one, two, three and so on. You can even pick topics like wolves, foxes, bears, etc.

INSTRUCTIONS:
The referee (teacher or student) will start the game by calling out one set, like number one. From both teams a player will come out and try to steal the Bacon without being tagged. The first one to grab the Bacon and get back across his/her line without being tagged by the other player earns a point. If you are tagged while stealing the other team receives the point. Play up to 20 - 25 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U7vaay5Nmk

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LA MURALLA

SET UP:
Location: a wide space divided by a central line.
All the participants except one will start on one of the sides.
One student will stay on the central line. That person is the wall.

INSTRUCTIONS:
The players will try to pass through the line (the wall/la muralla) without being touched.
The students who get tagged will stay on the line and will become part of the wall.
The game ends when all players are part of the wall.

SLOVAKIA

A small country in the heart of Europe. Our school is in the north-western part of the country.

We have found 3 interesting games that our children like to play.

JOHNY´S CLOCK

Johny approaches the time movement differently. He uses animal movements to express the reality: - rabbit jumps (jumps from standing position) - elephant steps (walking with arms imitating the elephant´s trunk) - duck walking (walking by kneeling) - frog jumps (jumps from the ground) - crawfish walking (backward steps) - dog walking (walking on four) - mice feet (really short steps) and you can imagine some more if your kids want to.
Children are on the starting line and the teacher says different kinds of movement how children can access the final line. The first child who reaches the final line is the winner.
We played a game using English and it was funny.
Divide the class into 5 groups, you´ll have 5 winners and finally the winners will be competing together to discover who is the best one.
The game can be played easily indoors and outdoors.
Watch a video to know more :-)

KING, KING, give us a soldier

The class is divided into 2 groups. They are standing
at least 5 meters far away one from another.
Group members are holding their hands.

Group 1 says: "King, king, give us a soldier!"
Group 2 asks: "Which one?"
Group 1 replies: "A girl with short brown hair and a red jumper with no hat. Julia"

Julia has to run and divide 2 people. If she divides them,
she chooses one person to join her team and they go back.
If she doesn´t divide them and their hands are still holding each other,
Julia has to join a new team.
The game continues and the winning group is
that one with a bigger number of members at
the end of the game.
The game is ideal for outdoors.

IT CAN FLY

The teacher says:
It can fly, it can fly. Everything with feathers
can fly. The _ _ _ _ can fly.

If it can really fly, children give their arms up.
If it can´t fly, their arms stay down, on the table.
If someone makes a mistake, he/she has to pay by giving a thing
under a scarf on the teacher´s table.

Then, a teacher is touching someone´s thing under a scarf and
tell what this person has to do to buy it back. For ex. singing, dancing,
writing, drawing, jumping etc.
The game can be easily played outdoors.