Games We Played
as Children
Games for Toddlers
We played some games when we
were very young. Here are three games that we played as toddlers (very
young children) in Germany, Switzerland, and Korea.
Topfschlagen
(Hit the Pot)
Caroline Behne from Germany
In Germany, small children play
a game called Topfschlagen (Hit the Pot). It is a lot of fun. One person
is it and has to close his eyes. Somebody else puts a little present under
the pot and hides it somewhere in the room. The person who is it has to
take a cooking spoon, get on the floor and look for the pot. He has to
keep banging the cooking spoon on the floor. When he finds the pot, he
can take the present, and someone else is it.
In Germany, all the children
really love to play this game. When I was a child, we always played it
when there was a birthday. It is a game for very small children. They like
to play it because they get a little present.
I Spy Something
Nicole Meier from Switzerland
The game is called I Spy Something.
It can be played by two to five players, and lasts five seconds to five
minutes.
The person who is it is the
questioner and the others have to guess what object with this color the
questioner has inmind. For example, he says, "I see something red that
you don't see." So the players mention red objects in the room. (For example:
"Is it the red chair?") The questioner doesn't answer "Yes" or "No", rather
says the words: "cold", "colder", "very", "cold", or "warm", "warmer",
or "hot." These words give a hnt in which direction the red object is.
Whoever finds out which object the questioner was thinking about is the
winner.
MuGungHwaggochipiudsubnida
(The Wolf!)
Jae Hee Shim and Cho Hee
Yoo from Korea
We played this game when we
were very small. One player was the wolf and stood with his back turned
to the others, about five meters from the others. The others called out
"MuGungHwaggochipiubnida" and the wolf turned to face the others and shouted
out. The others had to touch the wolf, but not get caught by him. If the
wolf turned his face to us, then we didn't move.
When we were children in
Korea, we often played this game, and we liked it very much, but now Korean
children don't play this game anymore. Children watch videos, read books,
watch movies, and do their school homework.
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