Russia Childrens Games
Russia childrens games reflect their society as a whole. These games strengthen the notion of group importance and strength, although the individual has recently gained a more important role in modern-day Russia.
Two russia children's games that are popular for individual emphasis are tag and marbles. Another similar game to our "red rover," acting out the social importance of a group, is called "Boaire." Boaire recreates a historical social event ? marriage ? and depicts one group approaching another in order to demand a bride. This game is played by children ages 9 to 14.
Players stand in two teams, in lines facing each other. The lines are several feet apart and the teammates link hands. Each team takes turns yelling or singing a poem or song (with an opposing teammate's name in the lyrics) while walking back and forth in front of the other team.
The other team does not want to surrender, but sends someone over to the other team. That person has to break the link of hands in order to be successful. If that doesn't happen, the person joins the opposing team.
However, if the bond is broken, the player can choose someone from the opposing team and take him or her back to his or her original group. This Russian childrens game teaches the significance and strength of group bonds.
A popular rainy-day russia childrens game is a card game called "p'yanitsa", which is played like our card game called "war". All you need is a deck of cards!
This children game is normally played between two people but can be played with three and four players as well.
- Deal all the cards out (face down) to the players.
- Each player turns the top card of their pack face up and places it on the table.
- Whoever has the highest rank card wins the trick and collects all the cards on the table.
- These cards are put at the bottom of his pack face down, in no particular order.
- Play continues.
There are two variations: You can play to see who runs out of cards, or who ends up with the most cards.
Think about some of our children's games and compare them to either the group or individual structure that Russia childrens games.
