Childhood Games

Even though kids nowadays would rather play a game on the computer, tablet or mobile phone, there are still many old-school games that survived. These games bring children together, let them spend time outdoors and make them exercise in a fun way. No matter where you live, the games below are guaranteed to bring you back childhood memories. Yes, because i also has been a children and has play a various of games at my grandmother's village before. It such a really great memories that i will never forget.

  HIDE AND SEEK

First, a game that can be easily played by a group of children is hide and seek. The rules are simple, a child closes their eyes and counts to a number while the other players hide. When the counting is over, the child calls “Ready or not, here I come!” and goes searching for the other kids. The player found first will be the next seeker and the player found last is the winner.

 HOPSCOTH

Second, a well known games is hopscoth. To play this game, children need a piece of chalk, a rock and a sidewalk to draw the hopscotch board on. The squares of the board should be numbered from one to nine. Players take turns in playing the game. Each player starts by tossing the rock in the first square of the board, then he/she hops on one or both feet (according to the hopscotch pattern) until the end, then he/she turns around and comes back. When reaching the second square, the player picks up the rock in the first square balancing on one foot. The game is continued with throwing the rock in the second, third till ninth square. If you miss your toss, your turn is over. There are also some variations of hopscotch with only 6-7 squares or with 10 squares.

    SKIPPING

Third, skipping. Jumping the rope can be played alone but it is much more fun and difficult when played with other two friends holding the ends of the rope for you. The jump-rope game is also known as “skipping”. Children need to sing a song while jumping the rope and the game can be made even more interesting with two ropes instead of one. Also, using a longer rope, multiple players can jump at the same time while two kids hold and turn the ends of the rope.

 Written by:Noor Fatihah Binti Ahmad