Do any of you remember the games you played as a child? Children nowadays don’t really know the meaning of real games apart from what is on their iPads, PlayStation and smart phones. Back then, playing games was a collective and outdoor activities rather than hunch¹ over the TVs or computers. Let’s take a walk down memory lane of those games played in the good old times.

 

你还记得孩童时玩过的游戏吗？现在的孩子除了自己平板电脑和智能手机上的游戏都不知道什么才是真正的游戏了。在我们小时候，游戏是一种集体户外运动，而不是蜷缩在电视或电脑前。让我们敲开记忆的大门，回顾一下那些过去的好时光曾经玩过的游戏吧。

 

 

One acts as the eagle, one the hen and the rest the chickens. The game goes like this: the "hen" and the "chickens" stand in a line with the "hen" in the very front spreading both arms to protect the "chickens" and each one clasping the clothes tail of the one right in front of it. The "eagle" should seek every opportunity to catch the "chicken". If one "chicken" is caught, "it" should exchange the role with the "eagle".

 

 

The game is typically played by three players with a rope of about 5–6 feet in length that has been tied into a circle. Two of the participants face each other about 3 feet apart, with their feet together, and position the rope around their ankles so that it is taut². The third player (the jumper) then stands between the two sides of the rope and must accomplish a specific series of moves without making an error or pausing.

 

It is a child's game in which a large hoop³ is rolled along the ground, generally by means of an implement⁴ wielded⁵ by the player. The aim of the game is to keep the hoop upright for long periods of time or to do various tricks.

 

 

It is a form of origami used in children's fortune-telling games. A player asks a question, and the fortune teller⁶ operator answers using an algorithm to manipulate the fortune teller's shape. Questions, answers, colors or numbers may be written on the fortune teller.

 

 

Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object into numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop⁷ or jump through the spaces to retrieve⁹ the object.

 

 

The game starts with a string finely looped over the fingers. It is played in two versions joined by a single person or a group of two respectively. In the first version, a person would play with his own hands by intertwining, reeving or picking until a key overturn movement realizing a complete change, forming an intricate pattern between the fingers. In a game of two, the partners shall closely cooperate to vary the patterns successively to finally form an intricate pattern. However, if the cooperation is not good enough, the string may become entangled¹⁰ when transferred to the other's hands, and the game will have to stop by then.

 

 

It is a game of physical and mental skill. A bundle of 'sticks,' between 3 and 8 inches long, are held in a loose bunch and released on a table top, falling in random¹¹ disarray¹². Each player, in turn, must remove a stick from the pile without disturbing the remaining ones.

 

 

This may consist of one participant turning and jumping the rope, or a minimum of three participants taking turns, two of whom turn the rope while one or more jumps.

 

 

Create a circle while hopping¹³ on one foot

 

There are several versions of it. The blindfolded¹⁴ children should walk around the circle formed by their classmates and identify the one they touch. In other versions, the blindfolded children draw something, like a nose on the figure already on the board to complete it according to instructions given by their classmates.

 

Tug-of-war is a sports and recreational activity attended by two opposing sides consisting of equal number of people by pulling a rope to their own side so as to compete for strength.#p#分页标题#e#

 

 

Catching cicadas is a game loved by children at the dawn of summer. Children use long bamboo poles attached with paste or sticky stuff on the tip to catch the cicadas on the trees.