MULTICULTURAL GAMES BOOKLET

Here you can find our multicultural games booklet. I hope you like it.

www.scribd.com/doc/37212793/Multicultural-Games-Booklet

Rules of the "ballon prisonnier"

To play this game, you need :

    Two teams

     One ball

     One playground

 

The playground is divided into two camps, each camp into two parts. The two central areas are free to each team. The other two areas are the prisons.

 

Team’s 2 prison

Team’s 1 Area

Team’s 2 Area

Team’s 1 prison

 

 

The goal is to prisoner all the players of the other team. 

You are a prisoner when you were hit by the ball sent by a player from the other team. When you are prisoner, you’re going on the other camp prison with the ball. To be delivered, you must touch one player of the opposing team.

If the ball leaves the playground, it’s called into play in the prison area where the ball is out.

If you touch several players at once with the ball, they are all prisoners.

You can make passes in your area or to your teammates who are in prison.

When you have the ball, you mustn’t walk.

Video: le ballon prisonnier

Turkish Playground Game

“ÜÇGEN”

It means triangle in English.
It is a very popular game especially among girls. They play it whenever they have time and place.
You need six people and a long rope to play this game.
While 3 of the people are playing, 3 of them stand inside the rope. They hold the rope around their ankle first, then on their knees. It looks like a triangle.
You can decide the player who starts first and the order of the players by means of rhymes.
After you decide it the last three players stand inside the rope and hold it.
The first player starts playing.
1st part
The rope is on the ankles.
1st step:
First player jumps inside the rope, jumps again and the rope will be between her legs. Tour the rope as it is stil bewteen the legs. The second and third players do the same things. All the players have to turn to the direction where the first player turns. If the players trip on the rope they change their place with the next player holding the rope.
2nd step:
Turn by jumping as the rope is between your legs. Tour the rope.
3rd step:
Jump inside and outside the rope.
Move the rope on the knees
Do the same movements.
2nd part
The rope is on the ankles
1st step:
Jump inside the circle as your feet are adjoining to each other. Jump as taking the rope between your legs and tour the rope.
2nd step
Turn as the rope is bewteen your legs and tour the rope.
3rd step:
Jump inside and outside the triangle as your feet are adjoining.
Move the rope to the level of your knees and do the same movements.
3rd part
1st step:
Step on the rope by jumping as there is some space between your feet.
Jump inside, jump again and take the rope between your legs then tour the rope.
2nd step:
Jump on the rope, turn and tour the rope.
3rd step:
Jump on the rope, jump inside and outside.
Take the rope to the knees and do the same.
4th part:
1st step:
Tour the rope by hopping inside and outside. You can change your foot for three times if you need.

here is the video telling you how to play it with instructions.

this video is without instructions

The sack race - Portugal

The sack race is a competitive game in which participants place both of their legs inside a sack and hop from a starting point toward a finish line. The first person to reach the finish line is the winner of the race.

Tervapata, Finnish playground game

Tervapata

Tervapata is a traditional finnish playground game for four or more players. You can play this game inside or outside where ever you have enough room. The more players the more space needed. The play field is circular, diameter from 5 to 10 meters, with half circle for every player on the circumference and one smaller circle called “Tervapata” in the center of the ring.

When the game starts one of the players is so called “Kiertäjä” and he starts to walk or run around the rink behind other players, who are standing in their positions on the circumfence. “Kiertäjä” has got a stick or a cone in his hand and he is trying to drop it to the ground behind other players backs so that they don´t notice it. The players on the circumfence are not allowed to look behind themselves until “Kiertäjä” has passed them by.

When “Kiertäjä” drops the stick behind somebody he then tries to go around the circle and reach the free place where he dropped the stick before the player now with a stick reach the place running opposite direction.

If a player looks behind too early must he go to “Tervapata” , the place in the center. Player must also go to “Tervapata” if he doesn´t notice the stick behind him until the “Kiertäjä” has gone around the circle. Player gets free from “Tervapata” after someone else has to come there. Other players can free the one in “Tervapata” by running around him three times. Of course there is a possibility to loose your own place while you are trying to free the one in the center.

Hope you´ll enjoy the game.

THE DUCKS AND THE HUNTERS (ROMANIA)

This is a game that is played by all the children on the streets, in the schoolyard, everywhere.
What you need: - a playground or a gym - unlimited number of players - a ball You mark on the ground 2 concentric circles, one with the diameter of 3-4 m, the other one 6-7 m.
Split the players in 2 equal teams: a team stays inside the little circle: they are „the ducks”, and the other team stays around the big circle: they are „the hunters”.
„The hunters” team has the ball and they throw it to each other. After 3 or 4 passes they start throwing the ball at the ducks, trying to hit them.They may move around the big circle, but must not step inside it.
„The ducks” have to move quickly inside their circle and try not to be hit. A hit duck is considered a point for „the hunters”.
After a few minutes the teams can change: „the ducks” become „the hunters”. The points are counted and the game continues.
The winning team is the one with the biggest number of points.

"LA TANGUILLA", traditional Spanish game

TANGUILLA

Castilian traditional children's game that still practice on a regular basis or as a tradition in various populations. . It is played at least since the twelfth century, although you may have Roman origins. In addition to Castilla, its different variants are played in Galicia and Aragon.

It is a game of marksmanship or "launching precision" and as the town receives different denominations: manga, tarusa, Tuta, pillar, Tanganyika Canutillo etc. Tanguillo The name is commonly used in the village of Palazuelos and generally in the hills north of the province of Guadalajara and surrounding areas of Segovia and Soria

Nowadays in the school we play an adaptation of this game.

This game can be played with as many players as you wish.


























You need sticks and circles to be able to play the game. The number of the sticks, which are called “tanguilla”, on the ground depends on the number of the players you have. The more players the more sticks.







Each team consisting of two players, or more, gathers in front of its stick; or there can be one stick for all teams, depending on how you wish it to be.

The players should stand about 2 meters before their sticks to make a shot. This length is changeable for the age levels.
Each player has three shots with three circles. The player in turn has to pass a circle through the stick to get one point.

And for the points, a chart is drawn on the ground by a chalk, or just on a piece of paper, with the initial letters of the players' names and three blanks for each player, and, also, a blank for each player's total point.










After all teams, with their players, finish shooting the circles, the points are counted to find out the winners of each team and the winner of all teams.

Here, the explaining video