This document describes an e-Twinning project called "Traditional Games" between schools in Greece and several other European countries. The project aimed to share and preserve traditional children's games through activities like playing games together via Skype, exchanging drawings and songs, and creating a blog about different games. Students learned about each other's cultures and improved skills like collaboration while having fun. The project was well-received and helped socialize students while addressing a lack of physical activity, imagination and joy in modern childhood.

1. OUR PROJECT
“Traditional games” GR
step by step
“We do not stop playing
because we grow old,
we grow old because
we stop playing…”
Benjamin Franklin

2. E-TWINNING PROJECT
“Traditional games”
Kosmidou Maria
PE teacher
Lioliou Anthoula
teacher
2013 - 2014

3. PARTICIPATIONS
 GREECE
 SLOVENIA
 ROMANIA
 TURKEY
 LETONIA
 ITALY
 SPAIN
 BULGARIA
 POLAND

4. Why we have chosen this project
 Because… game satisfies a primary
need of children
 Improves memory , skills
 Gives emotional pleasure
 Helps to eliminate aggressiveness
 Aims to improve their social evolution

5. Origin of the game goes
back centuries

7. Aims of the project
 Knowledge and spreading of
traditional games
 Maintenance of tradition and way of
leaving from previous generations
 Contact with other civilizations
 Discovery common elements

8. Additional aims
 Εxpression of emotions
 Development of sense of space,
distinction,co-ordination,subtle mobility,
speech
 Collaboration, harmonious coexistance,
interaction
 Listening skills, co-operation, resolution of
confrontations
 Self-awareness and understanding of others
 Equality among those taking part
 Reinforcement of many detailed aims of the
programme
 Joy, fun and entertainment

9. Parents take place in the project
“Tsiliki”

10. “Tzami”

11. “Andrela”

12. Blind fly

13. We also played
α.Little statues

14. b. The Bee

15. GR-SLO “game with string” - “elastics”

16. GR-ROM “shark and the fish” - “entagled”

17. GR-GR
“up and down” “hidden treasures”

18. Greece-Rhodos “Kilindri”

19. Turkey “I sell butter I sell honey
(in Greece “to mantilaki-handkerchief”)

20. GR-SLO “John Marion”

21. Older students teach to
the younger “koutso”

22. interdisciplinary approach

23. Digital poster Glogster

24. Skype communication SLO-GR

25. Skype communication GR-GR
(Chalastra-Rodos)

26. Drawings

34. Logos

35. They sang an offhand song

36. Promotion of our school to the local
society through internet and press.
newspaper “DELTA”
and
www.takalantablogspot.com

37. We have posted the link of traditional games
blog to our school web site so parents can see
our activities

38. The evaluation of project
 Gave pleasure to students.
 Improved student’s skills.
 Had a motivation to work out moreover
they had joy, communication, teamwork,
experiential, improvement of physical
and mental skills.
 The contact that our school had with
parents gave an other dimension to the
rule of school and to the emotions of
students for school
 Gave parents the opportunity to
participate and to have material to play
with their kids at home.

39.  Mobilized other students from our school to play
the games in brakes, in neighborhood.
 Interdisciplinary work.
 Students learned European countries, flags,
even other Greek places.
 Gave the change to talk with European
colleagues about common elements in tradition,
in culture.
 Communication with students from other
schools gave the opportunity to make new
friends, to cooperate with them, to share
feelings, pleasure.
 It was a very creative occupation that “opened”
our school to the community.

40. Today’s children are growing up with….
Lack of time
Lack of motion
Lack of
imagination
Lack of joy

41. Game is one of the basic rights
of children
“What a child’s soul
needs is: sunshine,
game, a good
example and love”
F. NTOSTOGIEFSKI