Nowadays, many parents have headaches because their children are “addicted” to TV and video games, but children in the past were happy and healthy with games…
Horse Jumping Game: Practice running skills combined with jumping, develop speed, leg strength and coordination and precision. You play the role of a “horse” standing sideways, shoulders facing your friends. The friends jumping the horse will run from a distance to the horse, put both hands on your back and then jump with both legs over your friend.
Blind Man’s Bluff: Just enough space for the number of players. The game requires a volunteer to blindfold everyone with a scarf so they can’t see, the rest of the people stand in a circle around the blindfolded person. Everyone runs around the blindfolded person until that person says “start” or “stop”, then everyone must stand still and not move anymore. At this time, the blindfolded person starts to go around to catch someone, if he guesses the name correctly, that person will have to do it very well, if he guesses wrong, he will be forced to continue. This game is quite simple but trains children’s hearing and judgment.
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Marble Shooting Game: Marble shooting is also one of the games that many boys are fascinated by, even many girls are equally interested. That is why in the past, every child had a collection of colorful marbles. In just 10-15 minutes of recess, schoolboys could play a few marble games. The tools to play are very simple, just spherical marbles with a diameter of about 0.5 cm to more than 1 cm. The marbles can be made of terracotta, bricks, stones or glass. This game helps children bond with each other and develop the habit of collective activities, as well as manual dexterity.
Top-up Game: A game that is often favored by boys is top-up. The more people playing top-up, the more fun it is. The toy is very simple, just a wooden top, with an iron leg and a string wrapped from the bottom up, then hold one end of the string and release it strongly to spin it. Whoever spins the longest will be the last to play, whoever’s top dies the earliest will have to release the top first. The person who comes after has the right to throw the top into the tops in front to slow down the spinning speed and make it die sooner. Many boys are extremely happy when they collect dozens of tops, not because their parents bought them for them but from victories in top-up competitions. To have endurance, the person releasing the top must be very skillful, know how to keep the center of gravity, pull the string strongly and decisively and more importantly, know how to calculate the timing and position to release the top.
Tug of War Game
Game Dragon Snake up to the clouds: is a game associated with a nursery rhyme to practice agility, dexterity, promote the spirit of solidarity, respect for discipline and the ability to respond, related to the rain-praying ritual of agricultural residents: “Dragon Snake up to the clouds/ There is a núc nác tree/ There is a house to command troops/ Ask if the doctor is home or not…”.
The game O An Quan: is a familiar game for most Vietnamese children. With just a small piece of land and pebbles, O An Quan has become an interesting strategy game. Not as simple as other games, O An Quan requires players to use more intelligence to think of the smartest way to win more pieces than the opponent.
Jump rope game
Jumping Rope Game: Requires players to have high jumping power, dexterity and technique to be able to play for a long time and move up to a higher level.
Game of Planting Buds and Flowers: This game can be played by 3 or more people, in which two people will be chosen to sit on the ground, facing each other, stacking their feet and then their hands, holding and spreading them out in turn. The remaining people will jump over. When there are 4 legs and 4 hands spread out and the jumper is not touched, the jumper has the right to continue playing another game until he loses his turn and must sit down to replace him.
Playing volleyball: perhaps the game that most people are passionate about. Whether in class or at home, groups of children sit together and spread each volleyball stick on their feet or on the ground to play. The volleyball stick is usually made of small bamboo branches or bamboo shoots. Some children are so fascinated that they even bring out their chopsticks to play, and then put them back in the tube. The volleyball ball is usually made of grapefruit, small oranges or eggplants… later, the volleyball ball is also used as a ping pong ball, tennis ball…
There are ten lessons, from lesson one to lesson ten. When you get to lesson ten, you throw the volleyball hand down. This is the most exciting moment. The volleyball is thrown high. Both hands hold the two ends of the volleyball, passing one end to the other from the left hand to the right hand starting from 2 laps and then up to 5 laps. There are a total of 10 times the volleyball is turned, and on the tenth time, the volleyball is thrown down and a new game begins.
Verse of the Passing Game
Table one: Lolot leaves – river bones – rose – small – rabbit – white cotton – I look – love it – white – go to the table in pairs.
Table in pairs: Our pair – their pair – dog pair – cat pair – climb three.
Table three: Three leaves of banyan – three leaves of Bodhi – three roots – one goes to four.
Table four: Four old monk – four old lady – two scratch five.
Table five: Five I lie down – five go to six.
Table six: Six odd four – four goes to seven.
Table seven: Seven eggplants – three goes to eight.
Table eight: Eight diamond – two goes to nine.
Table nine: Nine pillars – one goes to ten (or one goes to pass).
Hit fifty – grab ten.
Pass one – One pair
Glutinous rice – Two passes
Chicken – Three passes
Taro – Four passes
I lie down – Five passes
Rinse hands over – go to table one.
