This brochure describes traditional children's games that can be played on the ground in different European countries. It includes descriptions of games like: - Campana (bell) from Italy, which involves hopping through a hopscotch design and picking up markers. - The Peace Race from Poland, where players flick caps along a track drawn on the ground towards a finish line. - The circles game from Turkey where children run between circles until the music stops. - Race numbers from Romania where teams compete to pick up a ball from the middle line when their number is called. It aims to share cultural games across Europe and suggests drawing country flags as a way to make the games more European

1. CHILDREN'SEYES,
CHILDREN'SHEARTS
2015
GAMESONTHEGROUND-
BROCHURE
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Szkola Podstawowa 171 im Stanislava
Staszica- Warsawa, Poland
Dimotiko Sxoleio Polisitou – Xanthi,
Greece
Scoala Gimnaziala Nr 29 Mihai Viteazul
– Constanta, Romania
Instituto Comprensivo no6 Cosme Tura-
Ferrara, Italy
Institucio Cultural Montagut- Vilafranca
del Penedes, Espania
Kirazli Orhan Seyfi Orhon Ikokulu ve
Ortaokulu- Istanbul, Turkey
Escola Basica Professor Alberto Neri
Capucho- Leiria, Portugal

2. Catalan game – Air, mar, terra
Catalan: Aire - Mar - Terra
English: Air - Sea - Ground
Italy: Aria - Mare - Terra
Poland: Powietrze - Morze - Ziemia
Greece: αέρας - θάλασσα - έδαφ
Turkey: hava - deniz - toprak
Romania:- Aer - Apa - pământ
Portugal: Ar - Mar - Terra

3. ITALY - CAMPANA (BELL)
HOW TO PLAY “CAMPANA”
Players: more players or alone
Materials: chalk is the best
1 Draw a hopscotch design on the ground; the square should
be large enough to fit on foot
2 Throw a flat stone or similar object (button, plastic toy,
plastic cap...)
3 Hop trough the squares, jumping on one leg, stopping the
one you have your marker on
4 Pick up the marker on your way back
5 Pass the marker on to the next person

4. POLAND - The Peace Race or Tour the Pologne
Tour the POLOGNE a shape of POLAND you can paint some spots for
towns and children will join the towns with roads of their own - with
chalk, or they can move along the border line
The game
We are bringing some counters for the play.
draw a track - double line about 6 cm wide - bends and narrower places
make the track more difficult
prepare some beer caps - fill with some plasticine / it can’t be too heavy/ ,
paint, decorate
find at lest one partner - or you can play alone with two caps / be honest! /
draw a start and finish line, place the cap on start and FLICK!
You can decide with other players if you go one flick at a time or three flicks
each
The one that is the first at the finish line wins!
Your cap cannot leave the track - it must at least touch the line.
If it does leave, the player must START OVER from the beginning. You
may however draw some lines to be the places to start over in case the cap
leaves the track.

5. Turkey – The circles
There are circles drawn just one more than the students (for
example 5 students 4 circles) then,the music starts and the
students will be running till the music is stopped by someone.
The student who can not get a circle loses the game.

6. Romania - Race numbers (Cursa pe numere)
We draw three lines at equal distances.
Students are divided into two equal teams. The teams will line up in
front of the lines from the sidelines. Each child receives a number.
Thus each student will have a correspondent in the opponent.
On line drawn midway between the two teams a ball is placed.
Teacher will call a number (of those worn by children).
When they hear their number, both children will run to the middle line
and will try to pick up the ball.
The first child who lifts the ball, scores a point for his/her team .
Finally, include the points and declare the winning team.
We can make the game a more European one. We draw and colour the
flags of our partner countries on the ground. The teacher calls a country
and a number. The children from both teams run to be on the right flag.
If they stop on the correct flag they are declared winners.

7. Other European games on the ground:
“The envelop” from Romania:
Dutch hopscotch