National Migration Week 2008
January 6-12, 2008
Objective: To capture the most boxes.
Equipment: A smooth play area at least 6 feet square and sidewalk chalk. A hopscotch field shaped like a giant snail (escargot) divided into 15 - 20 boxes. (See illustration).
Number of Players: Two or more.
Rules: The first player must hop on one foot to the center of the snail (where she can rest) and out again without stepping on a line or setting down her other foot. If successful, she can pick one box to initial as her "house." from then on, all other players must jump over her house, while she may use it as an additional resting spot.
Each player who completes a successful trip in and out of the snail gets to claim any free box. If a player steps on a line or sets her foot down, play passes to the next in line, and she does not claim a box.
The game continues until it is impossible for anyone to hop into the center space or until all spaces have someone's initials in them. The winner is the player with the most spaces.
Objective: To find the missing "sardines" (a hide-and-seek game.)
Equipment: None
Number of Players: Five - many. The more the better.
Rules: One person who is it hides; then the other children seek the person who is it. Whenever a child finds the person who is it, he or she has to hide with them. Soon, only one person is left to seek for the person who is it and all the other children. As soon as the last child, who is the loser, finds the "it" group, the game is over. The next person who is it is the loser of the first game.
Objective: For the player in the middle to break through the circle.
Equipment: None
Number of Players: Many
Rules: All the players form a circle holding hands, around a player in the middle who is "it". The players in the circle must keep their hands linked at all times.
The players in the circle chant the following rhyme, moving as indicated:
Caraway, Caraway, (circle to the left)
You can go any way (circle to the right),
You can go to your left, (circle to the left)
You can go to your right, (circle to the right)
You can be very tall (stop, stand on tiptoe and raise
their arms),
You can be very small (they squat and touch linked
hands to the ground).
Can you get out of the circle at all? (they stand up
and step backward until their linked
arms are fully outstretched.)
The one in the middle at this point tries to run and break through the circle, while the children in the circle yell "Run Caraway, run!.
If he succeeds, he joins the circle and chooses another player to take his place in the middle. If he fails he remains in the middle. Either way, the play begins again with the chant and the movement. Play ends when every child has had a chance to be "Caraway".
Objective: To be the first to tag the wolf without being "eaten".
Equipment: None
Number of Players: three - ten
Rules: The player who is chosen as the wolf stands turned towards a wall; all the other players stand side by side in a line, about 15 feet from the wolf.
Then all the children ask: "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?"
The wolf answers calling out a number included between one and twelve. If it says, for example, "ten", the players must take ten steps. After taking ten steps they will ask again: "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?" The wolf can still call out another number, but if it says: "I'm hungry!" the players must run and "shelter" behind the starting line while the wolf tries to catch them. If one of the players is touched by the wolf, he/she becomes the wolf.
The rules for this game are include:
- do not push the other players in order to go behind the line;
- the children who have been touched by the wolf must stop,
- the wolf can not turn its head towards the children while they are taking the steps;
- when the wolf is chasing the players, it must not make them fall.