User:Andromachigika/sandbox

Children's team games
If anyone tries to recall childhood days, lots of memories of endless playing will submerge instantly from the deeper parts of the brain. Laughter, carefree mood, joy, fun...even memories of smells will create a reminiscing mood to this person. It does not really matter if the children are rich or poor. It does not make any sense if their social, financial or families' status differ. Not even the place they have been born does it really count. Children wherever they are or whenever used to live, back then or today, they have the same eagerness for endless play. On the contrary, today children are not so active as they used to be as their daily life has been overcome by TV, video games and Internet access. In some extent their useful but the harmful effects outweigh the good ones especially when the children overuse them. It is well known even from the past years that kids grow better if they have the chance to experience at the fullest in this particular age especially team games as it is the best way for them to learn

HOPSCOTCH
It is played usually by girls but boys sometimes cannot deny the challenge to beat the girls. So, on a piece of land lines are drawn with a piece of wood or a stone creating squares. the squares are numbered and each member of a team must pass through all the squares jumping on one foot without losing balance and sometimes kicking a piece of marble from square to square.

RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT
The children select the leader who has the role of the police control officer. When the leader says "Red Light" all the kids must freeze.Then the leader gives the order "Green Light". Everybody runs everywhere and suddenly the leaders orders them to freeze again. the one who loses balance,smiles or moves gets out of the game till everybody do so. The winner is the last one who will remain. then the winner becomes the leader.

ROCK,PAPER,SCISSORS (OR MORRA as the Ancient Greeks used o name it) The team of the kids are gathered in circle. One of the them hides his left or right hand behind his back and keep his fist tight. He keeps his fist tight or he opens his palm or make the shape of a scissors with his two fingers...the rest try to guess.. The one who has found the most correct answers is the winner. Noe he is his turn to do so.

KNUCKLBONES
We all have experienced this game. It needs five small stones and the race begins. every member of the team needs to throw all the stones on the floor- which must a smooth surface- and by choosing one of the five he must collect the other four by throwing the first on the air and simultaneously catch one by one the stones form the ground.The next step is to throw one stone and two simultaneously from the ground and so on .... if he manages to do so with all the stones.. hes continues to play... otherwise the next player carries out the task.

There are several games that used to play outdoors but gradually they were replaced by the electronic ones. The latter keep the children indoor and lead them to isolation, bad sight and obesity, needles to say, the psychological problems might face and the risks they run by logging in in inappropriate sites.No, there is no condemn for these tools but if people use them wisely and add in their everyday life outdoor activities it would be a valuable combination.

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