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MEHMET EMIN YURDAKUL PRIMARY SCHOOL

Ankara/Turkey

OUR TRADITIONAL CHILDREN

GAMES

edited by ENGLISH TEACHER LAMiA BÜŞRA YEŞİL

Around the world, children have one thing in common.

They love to play games.

Here there are 12 games we choose for you.

SPINTOP (TOPAÇ)

A top (also called spinning top or spintop) is a toy designed to be spun rapidly on the ground. The motion causes it to remain precisely balanced on its tip because of inertia.

Traditionally tops were constructed of wood.

TIP-CAT (ÇELİK ÇOMAK)

A very widespread game with sticks is called Çelik Çomak.A Çelik is a small fairly thick piece of wood about a foot long. A longer stronger stick of three to four feet is called Çomak. A long narrow hole approximately two feet long, six inches wide, and three inches deep is dug in the ground. The Çelik is placed across it; one man raises the Çelik with his Çomak and sends it a field with a stroke and the other player tries to catch or touch it. If he succeeds in doing so, he gets possession of the hole and starts playing the game. If he fails, then the man who first sent the Çelik avails himself of the first chance.

FIVE STONES (BEŞ TAŞ)

This stone game requires skill and quickness, favourited among girs. In the palm of her hand each girl holds five small round stones which she tosses in the air and tries to catch on the back of the hand. While one is in the air, with the same hand, she must grab the stones that are on the ground and catch the one tossed before it reaches the ground.. This is repeated, grabbing two by two, then three and one, and then all together.

BEZİRGANBAŞI Playing Time: 20 minutes Number of Players : 18-20 people Game Material : Rope

Players through rhymes choose two people among them. They become ‘bezirgan’ and give themselves a name (red-green , apple-pear , butterfly fish , etc.). As opposed to holding hands, they form a door. Then other players make a queue, and pass through the gate . Meanwhile, the game's song has to be sung.

" Open the door per bezirgan per bezirganWhat do you give the right to the door , what do you giveWhat do you give the right to the door , what do you give1 rat2 rats3 closes at the door. "

How to play this game?

When there is a player gets into the door they ask , " Does fish , butterfly? «(The names bezirgan choose for themselves) Player chooses one of the name of the child and passes into his back and this continues until the last child on the queue.

In step 2, there forms 2 group. They hold a rope and they begin to pull the rope. Which group first release, that group loses the game.

TISSUE PUSS (MENDİL KAPMACA)

Children are divided into two groups. Between the two groups there must be distance . Before starting to play the game, a referee and the one who is going to hold a handkerchief are selected. S/he holds the handkerchief freely. With the referee's whistle or command, one person from each group runs quickly to get the handkerchief and he must bring it to his own group without being caught by rival group. The player who reaches his own group, beating his opponent player, gets 1 point. If he gets caught when running, opponent gets 1 point.

BLIND MAN’S BUFF (Körebe)

Blind man's buff is played in outdoors or in a large room, in which one player, designated as "It", is blindfolded. He attempts to touch the other players without being able to see them, while the other players scatter and try to avoid the person who is blindfolded.

GAME OF MARBLES(BİLYE)

Each player puts a few marbles into the ring and the goal is to shoot the marbles, from the starting line, out of the ring.

HOPSCOTCH (seksek)

A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another. The stone must land completely within the designated square and without touching a line or bouncing out.

LEAPFROG (BİRDİRBİR)

Children's game which is played by jumping one by one over the backs of kneeling players

SKIPPING ROPE(İP ATLAMA)

HIDE AND SEEK(SAKLAMBAÇ)

It is a game in which a number of players conceal themselves in the environment, to be found by one or more seekers.

BALL GAMESAnatolian ball games are also very rich in number and kind. One is the favorite game of girls. The ball is tossed up, and before it falls down a certain action is done ; before the ball touches the ground.

Another kind is a combination of a ball game with a racing game. Instead of touching by hand, a ball is thrown to the next runner. Or, the players of one team mount the players of the other team piggyback and they throw the ball to each other. If the ball falls to the ground or if it is caught by "it," then the teams reverse their roles.

DODGEBALL (YAKAN TOP)The goal is to be the last one to be hit with the ball. Players may only throw balls at people who are not on their own team. If a player is hit by the ball, he or she should go to the outside of the court to the other team. From the outside, players throw the ball at players still on the inside.

WORKS CITED:

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press^ A Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1889. p. 1151.

Jump up ^ “blindman’s buff,” Encyclopædia Britannica. 15th edition. 2. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2010. p. 283.

^ "hide-and-seek". Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Retrieved 22 December 2012.

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