TRADITIONAL CHILDREN GAMES

This book includes traditional games from these countries :

TURKEY

ITALY

GREECE

ALBANIA 

GEORGIA

FİRDEVS YÜKSEL ÇETİN

BIG FOOT : Team members standing on a flat and rope platform; They try to walk by holding the ropes on the platform. The important thing here is to be able to perform the same steps as a team at the same time. Whichever of the two teams reaches the finish line first; That team will win.        (  FİRDEVS YÜKSEL ÇETİN  )

        EKİNCİLER SECONDARY SCHOOL 

                                presents

Children games 

The picture shows us 

'Yağ satarım bal satarım' game.

It is played with more than five kids.

children sits in a circle. One of them 

rolls around them and children sings all together. 'Yağ satarım bal satarım ustam ölmüş ben satarım.' The one holds a handkerchief and while the others sing he puts it one of them back. when they say 'dönde arkana bak' everyone check its back who has the handkerchief srats to run the one who rolls. Who sits first the space he wins.

The song goes like this ; Yağ satarım bal satarım ustam ölmüş ben satarım. Ustamın kürkü sarıdır. satsam 15 liradır. Zambak Zumbak dön de arkana bak. 

SOFULAR PRIMARY SCHOOL

ÖMER ÇETİN ) 

I SELL OIL I SELL HONEY

In the game, a midwife is chosen and the handkerchief is delivered to the midwife. The other players form a circle facing each other and sit on the floor. Sitting players should never look back during the game. They can only touch with their hands. The midwife turns the handkerchief in her hand and starts to spin and leaves the handkerchief behind without showing it. If there is a player who cannot notice the handkerchief in the game I sell oil, the midwife returns one more round, but this time he touches the shoulder of the player he left the handkerchief with, so the player becomes a midwife. As soon as the player takes the handkerchief, he starts chasing the midwife. Other players keep pace during this time. The tempo is in the form of ”how many greyhounds rabbits hold it”. If the midwife completes the round without being caught and manages to sit in the place emptied by the player, the player is now forever. And the game starts again.  ( ÖMER ÇETİN )