Who is in the Garden?
The players of the game stand
in a circle- the garden- with face to the center and they join their hands.
Some boys and girls- they are "bees"- go into the circle.
Now they start singing "Who
is in the garden, who is in the garden?
The bee is in the garden
of roses (twice)".
Meanwhile the players of
the game who are making the circle are walking in the direction of dance.
"The little bees" are walking in the garden. When the players are singing:
"Creep, the little bee, through the leaves and branches", the participants
who are forming the "garden" raise their hands and stop. "The little bees"
start creeping through "the leaves" and "twigs". While the participants
are singing "If you find somebody else, put him in your place", "the little
bees stand behind a boy or a girl- a boy stands behind a girl and a girl
stands behind a boy- and push them into "the garden".
The game starts from the
very beginning.
Salt -posts
If you are more than 2 children,
you can play the following game. You must elect a catcher. The others must
to try to run away from the catcher. The caught player is to "freeze up",
it means, he must not move and be like a "salt -post". Somebody must touch
him to "unfreeze" him. Then he can move again. That's why the catcher tries
not to let the others to get near the "salt - post". The catcher has to
"freeze up" all the players. The last "salt - post" becomes the new catcher,
and the game starts from beginning.
There is a saying in Latvian:
"You are standing like a salt -post". It is used to characterize somebody
who is so frightened that he can't move.
Messages
The players divide into two
teams. One of the teams has to write 10 messages on separate bits of paper.
In the first message they have to write the place, where the second message
will be hidden. In the second message they have to write where the third
message will be hidden and so on. They write all the messages in the same
way and hide them in the right places. But in the last message they write
the place where all the team will be hiding. Then they give the first message
to the second team. The second team has to find all the messages one by
one. For example, they read the first message and the following words are
written there:" Under the tree!" They find the tree, and under the tree
they find the next message, where the words: "On the table", are written
etc. While the second team is searching for the messages, the first team
hides in the place the name of which is written in the last message. When
the second team finds all the messages, they have to find the first team.
Then the teams change places and the game starts again.
Students from
9 A class and 3rd grade
Viesite Secondary School,
Latvia
Teacher: Ruta Aukspole
<[email protected]>
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