TRADITIONAL GAMES

European Food Adventures

GREECE
TURKEY
CYPRUS
PORTUGAL
SPAIN
CROATIA

These games were played by partnership schools' students in May,2021

Project Title: EUROPEAN FOOD ADVENTURES

Project Number: 2019-1-EL01-KA229-062400_5

Erasmus+ KA229-School Exchange partnership
(Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices)

GREEK TRADITONAL GAMES

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ELASTIC BAND

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It takes two or three people. We put the rubber on the legs as you see in the photo and we start. At first the legs are open and the rubber band on the ankle, and then the rubber band goes up to the knee and the thighs and after that, in the same order but with the legs closed. And in the end the most difficult of all with one foot!
With a series of moves, you move on to the next and each time more difficult phase of the game. The movements are: you put one foot between the rubber band and then you put the other one, taking out the first one. Then both feet inside, and finally both outside.

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MARBLES

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MARBLES
The game is played in different ways.
One of them is: we draw on the ground a starting line, two concentric circles and the center of the circle. The children throw their marbles, in turn, making sure that the ball reaches as close to the center as possible to be the winner.
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Another variation is: we place 5 marbles in a row and at equal distance and perpendicular to the line of balls, two players sit. Each player throws his marble and tries to score one of the 5. The first to score 3 goals wins.

It passes, the bee passes

The game is played by 5 players and up. To play the game, two children build a bridge with their hands and the other children go under it.
The children who make the bridge choose two words, one for each.
Then they sing a song: "Passes - the bee passes with the bee chicks and the crocodiles".
The child who will be under the bridge, when the song is over, is caught by the children who make the bridge.
Then they tell him the two words they chose and the child must choose one of the two.
Whichever word he chooses goes with the child who chose that word.
So it is with the rest. Whoever gets the most in his team wins.

The handkerchief

A team game played outdoors by boys and girls.
The children are divided into two equal groups and placed next to each other in two parallel lines that are about 10 meters apart.
Players are numbered -each row separately- from 1,2,3, and so on. to the last, so that 1 of one team is opposite to 1 of the other team, 2 to 2 and so on.
In the middle of the space and at an equal distance from the two lines (therefore from both teams) stands the "leader" of the game, who holds a handkerchief with outstretched hand.
At the beginning of the game the leader utters a number and immediately the children who have the number in both groups run to get the handkerchief.
Each of the children, while planning with his mind how to take the handkerchief and leave without being caught by the opponent, at the same time takes care to monitor his opponent so that he does not take it and get away from him.
Whoever decides to take the handkerchief runs to his team, while his opponent chases him to catch him. If he manages to get the handkerchief to his team, then his team makes a "loop". In other words, he wins a point. But if the opponent catches him, then the opponent's team does the trick.
The leader usually calls more than one number at a time. So there is confusion and it is easier for someone to grab the handkerchief and escape.

Playground game "Mosque"

Four children or more can participate in this game. They are separated in two teams. Children need 7 roof tiles or wide stones to play this game. The stones or roof tiles must be placed in such a way as to form a tower. The first team stands behind the stones while the second team stands seven or eight steps in front of the stones. The children of the second team try to throw the tower of stones down with a ball. Every child has got one opportunity to destroy the tower. If a child throws the tower of stones down with the ball, then the two teams scatter in the surrounding area. While the first team tries to "burn" the players of the second team hitting them with the ball, the second team tries to rebuilt the tower of stones, i. e. the mosque. If the second team rebuilds the tower in time, without its players being "burnt", it is the winner of one part of the game. The player who puts the last stone on the tower, shouts out "Mosque" and ends the game. If the first team "burns" all the players of the second team before they rebuild the tower, then the game starts all over with the teams having reverse roles. The winner of the game is the team which rebuilds the mosque the most times.

TURKISH TRADITIONAL GAMES