„Come home my little geese!” (traditional antdoor games)

„Come home my little geese!”

Age of participants:  4– 7 years

Participants: minimum 10

Time required: 10 minutes

Place: both indoors and outdoors

Goal:

-To develope inner hearing with the help of moving game which contains singing dialogical parts.
-To colour the emotional world:a different exiting thing to be a goose or a wolf.
-To develope imagination, attention, and memory.
-To srengthen the consciousness of rules.
-To develope the ability of body and motorskills (cleverness, speed,physical codition).

How to play?

We choose a housewife, 2 wolves, and the others are the geese. On the playground, in the middle on two sides the wolves are esquating on their heels, so that they can stand up fast if they have to. The hausewife is whispering to the geese the words (calling word) that can be some food names (for example: potatoe, meatsoup, pancake). Then the hausewife goes to the ofter side and turns towards the geese, end begins to call them home:

                                          

Farmwomen:

Ø  Come home my lovely geese!

Goose:

Ø  We can’t.

Farmwomen:

Ø  Why?

Goose:

Ø  We are afraid.

Farmwomen:

Ø  Of what?

Goose:

Ø  Of  wolf.

Farmwomen:

Ø  Where is the wolf?

Goose:

Ø  In the bush.

Farmwomen:

Ø  What is it doing?

Goose:

Ø  It is washing it’s face.

Farmwomen:

Ø  In what is it washing?

Goose:

Ø  In gold pool.

Farmwomen:

Ø  In what is he drying?

Goose:

Ø  Into the little cats tail.

Farmwomen:

Ø  Come home for beansoup!

Goose:

Ø  We don’t go.

Farmwomen:

Ø  Come home for………..

Now she can tell some foods, but at last she tells the name of food they discussed inadvance. This time the geese run home to the housewife, but they are very carefull that the wolves can’t catch them. Each wolf catches a new wolf instead of himself/herself.

Who reaches first to the otherside gets the role of the housewife.

The aerlier characters will be the geese. They discuss a new callword, and they begin the new game.