A9-Top 10 Common Traditional Games of Europe

1. Traditional games A9 questionnaire
results

2.  55 grandparents questionnaires distributed
 60 returned
 Q. 1 ) Grandparents used to play:
 a) 26,3 % school playground, classroom
 b) 26,3% home
 c) 24,56% street
 d) playground, village, forest, public park

3. a) 43 % friends in the
neighbourhood
b) 30 % brothers and sisters
c) 17 % cousins
d) other: relatives’ children,
nephews, nieces, alone
Q.2 Grandparents used to play with:

4. Q. 3 Most popular outdoor games
 a) 16% ball games
 b) 15 % hopscotch
 c) 12 % skipping rope
 d) other : castles of sand, swings, marbles,
snowman, hide and seek, kite, knucklebones, etc.

5. Q. 4 Most popular indoor games
 a) 35% board games
 b) 16 % dolls
 c) 12 % cards
 d) other: drawing, table football,
making of games, puzzles, electric trains, cars
modelling clay, etc.

6. Q. 5 How grandparents used to get toys
 a) 56% parents and grandparents bought them toys
 b) 36 % used to create their own toys
 c) 8 % didn’t get toys.

7. Top 10 Grandparents’ games
1. Open air games
« Le Chat »

8. 2. Ball games
« Balle aux prisonniers »

9. 3. Skipping rope games

10. To be continued