The children at the Rift Valley Children’s Village do not have a lot of toys and never watch TV, so what do they do with their spare time? Play! They come up with very ingenious ways to use natural materials and make games up. One of the games they play that is similar to one I played is a kid is hopscotch, they draw in the dirt and use a rock for the marker, but they play all of the way through by kicking the stone with their foot. Hard to explain, easy to play :)
The other game is a modified Jacks type game, they dig a little whole in the ground and place pebbles in the whole, they then throw up another stone and take stones out of the whole as fast as they can before the stone they threw falls down. Again….hard to explain, but very creative. The girls will play this game for hours literally on the weekends when there isn’t any school.
The other game is a modified Jacks type game, they dig a little whole in the ground and place pebbles in the whole, they then throw up another stone and take stones out of the whole as fast as they can before the stone they threw falls down. Again….hard to explain, but very creative. The girls will play this game for hours literally on the weekends when there isn’t any school.
Soccer of course is the most popular boys sport and they play it with gusto. They even have drills before each “game” 
I have put a few pictures of the
m practicing, which can be very cute.
I have put a few pictures of the
m practicing, which can be very cute. 
Tracie
ReplyDeleteI am having a great time reading all of this. Keep it coming.
Travis