Children’s Georgian
National Games
Georgian national games are
very multifarious. Georgian children learn these games from their childhood.
Many games are spread in Georgia, these are; mobile and role playing, didactic
and musical-didactic plays.
Such games help children
to formulate their faculties and habits. For example; the role-playing
formulates children's theatrical faculty, the mobile-plays formulate children's
physical activities and the didactic plays develop children's intellect.
According to each age there
are many different national games.
'Wolf
and geese
During the play 'Wolf
and geese' children elect a leader, and a wolf and other children are geese.
Geese flies, when the leader shouts, the geese come back. The leader
shouts geese; there is a wolf'. The wolf run for the geese and if
he catches the geese he takes them in his den. The wolf can not come into
the geese's den. It’s better for a wolf to catch as many geese as
he can if he wants to become a winner.
There are many other Georgian
games: ’’horse-ball “, ‘’jumping”, ‘’stoppage “.
The rule of the mobile play
‘’stoppage " is: there is one runner and more than three children.
When the runner runs to the children and if he or she manages to catch
a child, this boy or girl stops. The runner continues catching other
children. The children try to keep the stopped children alive by
touching and if the runner manages to catch all the children the game is
finished and now they elect another runner.
Nishkha-nishkha
During this play the players
divide into two teams. They stand opposite to each other. The
first team shouts to the second team ‘’Nishkha-nishkha’’ and the
second team answers ‘’Balba-luka’’. Then the first one elects one
boy or girl and the elected child runs to the second team and tries to
break the fence quickly. If he or she breaks it, then he or she can
elect one member of the second team and takes him or her to their team.
If he or she does not manages to break the fence, then this member of the
first team stays in the opposite one.
This play continues until
one of the team collects many children.
Ball in
the round
This play is very merry and
mobile. The players divide into two teams. After ballot one
team stands in the middle and the second one stays out of the round.
The second team throws the ball towards the children. If the ball
touches a girl or a boy then he or she goes out of the play. If the other
player, who stays in the middle, catches the ball, he or she has one point
and the girl or boy outside can continue playing again. This play
continues until all the children go out of the round. Then the
second one can go into the middle.
Georgian national games are
very interesting. It is impossible to say all, but they play a big
role into developing the Georgian children's physical, intellectual and
moral faculty.
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