School: Carlingford (C.) (roll number 13582)
- Location:
- Carlingford, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ní Mhártain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0657, Page 113
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- The Games I play
No1. Button.
Several players take part. One person holds the button and goes round pretending to drop it into each players hand until finally some person get it. Then each one is asked in turn to guess who has the button. The person who guesses correctly gets the button to go round with. The person who fails to guess correctly gets a hard slap. This continues until the players get tired.
No2. Hop-Scotch
To play this game a square with six divisions is drawn with chalk on the ground.
The first to play must get a small stone and kick it through each square with one foot while he keeps the other foot from touching the ground. If the stone lies on the line the player is counted 'out', but if he kicks it into the centre of each square three times in succession without touching the ground with his other foot he wins the game
No3. Little Bag of Blue.
In this game all the players sit in a circle in the middle of the play-ground. Then one girl walks round the circle with a handkerchief or small cloth in her hand. She drops it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Rice
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Newry Street, Co. Louth
