We have already recalled what we played as children, but those were word games, and now let's go back to the courtyards of thirty years ago (a nightmare!)... With sports and role-playing games, everything is clear: dodgeball, badminton, mothers and daughters, Cossacks and robbers. But there were a number of games that miraculously combined sports and linguistic components. The first thing that comes to mind is the ball game "Edible-inedible", a cool, fun and simple game for all ages.
The whole honest company danced and simply twitched to the words of the host: "The sea is worried once, the sea is worried twice, the sea is worried three times, sea figure, freeze in place!" Then came the name of the sea animal in whose pose you need to freeze, and everyone considered it their duty not just to bend like a seahorse, for example, but also to make the most stupid grimace in order to amuse their comrades. And then the host chose who was the most beautiful.
Another game with freezing in an awkward pose: the leader stood facing the wall, and the others lined up behind him in a line about 20 meters away. The leader shouted, "The car was moving, moving!" and everyone raced to be the first to reach the wall while the water was not looking. "Stop!" the leader shouted and turned around. Here you had to freeze and not move, otherwise you were out. While the leader was looking and shooting the participants for the slightest movement, you could rush to the wall, touch it, and there it was, victory!
"Boyars, we have come to you, young people, we have come to you!" sang one team, holding hands and moving towards the other team. "Boyars, why have you come? Young people, why have you come?" - the second team retorted. Then the evening ceased to be languid, because the conversation was about matchmaking. The first chose the bride, the second did not really want to give her away, there were strictly regulated chants for everything. It all ended with the chosen one running and trying to break the chain in the opposing team. If she succeeded, she returned to her own, taking someone with her. If not, she remained in someone else's family. The goal of the game is to recruit as many players as possible for your team. How many knees and palms were broken by brides rushing into battle!
Before going out for a walk, it would be advisable to choose a brighter outfit in case of playing "Traffic Light". The host turns away from the other participants and names any color. If your costume has one, feel free to pass, if not, you will have to break through with a fight. Voda was as funny as he could, inventing names of colors, and everyone was looking for at least a thread of the right shade. You could use a life hack - put some bright candy wrapper in your pocket and feel like a rainbow unicorn.
And, of course, the elastic band, a favorite game of Soviet girls, which, as I found out while writing this post, actually comes from Asia. Thanks to the Chinese for our happy childhood, I don’t even know what we would have done without “ryaz”! Now it’s hard for me to imagine how you can jump the whole walk, but back then I was so crazy about it that when I got home, I would stretch the elastic band between the chairs and continue jumping. Did everyone do this? Does anyone remember what the combinations were called? I remember there were “Simple”, “Bows”, “Pedestrians”. And now I haven’t seen girls jumping for a long time. Perhaps the technology has been lost.
And they also played spiderweb with a rubber band. Two people with some unintelligible saying "Olympics, mommy's lipstick, daddy's underwear, one-two-three!" They tangled the rubber band with their hands and feet, and the third one crawled through.
I am writing this post while sitting on a playground and watching how modern children are having fun. I conclude that children's transport has replaced everything else: everyone is racing on scooters, balance bikes, bicycles, and hoverboards. Games are picking up speed!
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