Transcript COLONIAL GAMES and FUN

COLONIAL GAMES
and FUN!
By Kristen Pavlounis
7A1 ID4
Introduction
• Children would play games to help them with
skills- running, jumping, throwing, and solving
problems.
• Children would make up games, songs, riddles,
and contests to make chores and work fun.
• Games were all homemade and made from
things that they already had.
• Some games that children in colonial times
played are still popular today.
Games
BOYS’ GAMES
GIRLS’ GAMES
• Boys’ games would usually
focus on skills like throwing
(making hunting easier) and
aim.
• Boys liked to play games
with balls. In colonial times,
balls were leather bags
filled with feathers.
• Boys also liked to fly kites,
shoot marbles, and spin
tops.
• Girls mostly played with
dolls that they made
themselves. Dolls would be
made with rags and
cornhusks.
• Girls also would sew
samplers.
Games
• There were also many games that both boys and girls
liked to play.
• One of the most popular and favorite games of the
colonial children was hoops.
• Colonial children also played hop scotch (they called it
scotch-hopper), leap frog, tag, hide and seek, quoits,
and nine pins (kind of like bowling). Another popular
game was Blindman’s Bluff.
• Nine Man Morris was a board game that colonial
children played.
• They played with Bilbo catchers(cup and ball),
whirligigs, tops, Jacobs ladders, dice, and marbles.
Rolling Hoops
• Children loved playing with hoops.
• Sometimes the children would race each other
to see who can get to the finish. They would
use the sticks to push the hoop.
• Boys liked to run and push their hoops.
• Girls liked to try to throw and catch their
hoops with 2 sticks.
Nine Man Morris
• Nine Man Morris was a popular board game in the
colonies. Most of the time, the game was played in the
dirt with rocks and acorns as markers. The game is
played with 2 players who each have 9 markers.
HOW TO PLAY
1. Take turns putting markers at points where lines cross.
Try to get 3 in a row while doing this.
2. Now start moving your pieces along those lines. Again,
try to get 3 markers in a row so you can take your
opponents’ pieces.
3. You win the game once your opponent has only 2
markers left. You can also win when you have
surrounded your opponents’ pieces.
Bilbo Catcher
(Ball and Cup)
• This toy has remained popular throughout
American history.
• OBJECTIVE- In the simple version, you toss ball
and try to get it in the cup attached to a stick.
In the harder version, the ball can be caught
on the bottom tip of the stick as well.
(it seems really easy, but its really not!-at least
for me…)
Whirligig
(Buzzer)
• Whirligig toys were played in Europe and the
English colonies in the colonial times. They
were also called buzzers because of the loud
noise they make at full speed.
Colonial Riddles
RIDDLES
• What can be seen falling
down, but never crying?
• What kind of room is not in a
house?
• What has 3 feet but cannot
walk?
• What flies up, but is always
down?
• When is a boy most like a
bear?
• What has a tongue but cannot
talk?
ANSWERS
• Rain
• Mushroom
• Yardstick
• Goose feathers
• When he is barefoot
• A shoe
SONGS
• “Ring Around a Rosy”
• “London Bridge is Falling Down”
• “Here We Go Around the Mulberry Bush”
SOURCES
• http://www.ssdsbergen.org/Colonial/games.htm
• http://www.ehow.com/about_4569303_entertainmentpennsylvania-during-colonial-times
• http://www.historylives.com/toysandgames.htm
• http://www.pencaderheritage.org/main/teachtool/games.pdf
• http://parentchildeducation.com/2010/12/02/colonialamerica-riddles/
• Fun and Games in Colonial America
By: Mark Thomas
• Children in Colonial America
By: James Marten
• Colonial Life
• By: Brendan January
• Growing Up in the New World
• By: Brandon Marie Miller