YES! Young European Scribes – European School Magazine
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The best place to play is a small open area. To
play. The game was called Chinese jump rope.
play we need 4-8 players aged 4, 5 to 10 or
They played usually during school breaks. Our
more years old. One person is the tag. Other
parents, uncles and aunts played the game
people try to escape before a tag, when the
too. This game has survived to this time and
tag is trying to catch them. If the tag catches
now we also sometimes play the game.
one of the participants, the person will become
the tag and the tag becomes a simple
To play the game you need to have a group of
participant of the game.
people and a rubber elastic band. We usually
play in groups of 3, 4 or sometimes more
people. If the group to play is not big enough,
the children use two chairs to stretch the
rubber band between them. We also need to
have the stretchable and white or colorful
rubber band. The rubber band is not expensive
so everybody can play it.
The rules of the game are very simple:
Firstly you need to jump over the rubber
bands.
The game is not interesting if we have too
Then you have to jump on between two lines
many or not enough players in the group.
of the rubber band.
There are many varieties of tag: rainbow tag,
When you are inside the rubber band, you
squatting tag and many others.
have to make a triangle and jump inside the
triangle.
by Maja Pachniak
The rules of the game can be modified freel B