COLONIAL GAMES FOR CHILDREN

By Kevin Mao 7A2 ID1

This slideshow comes with report counterpart.NOTE: THE TYPING IN KRISTEN IS ME TALKING. THE TYPING

IN CALIBRI IS THE CLASS OR SOMEONE IN THE CLASS TALKING.

INTRODUCTION

When you think back to the Colonial Days, do you see kids playing Call of Warfare or Modern Duty White Cops on their Playstation 360s?

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Or do you see kids spamming on their FaceSpace accounts or Chirping on their MyGoogle accounts?

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If you did, you were completely wrong. We did not have computers or playstations back in the 1600s so kids back then could not have played anything that I just mentioned.

Colonial Days

Back in the Colonial Days, kids were very busy. Unlike kids today, they had to help their parents cook, farm, take care of livestock, and raise their little brothers and sisters. They also had to go to school, school was very different than our schools today. Schools were only one room and one teacher taught the entire grade.

Yes that’s true, they used paddles called hornbooks with their lessons attached to it to teach in school.

Colonial Days

Adults were many times more busy than children back then. Some jobs were Cooper, Silversmith, Cobbler, Hatter, Blacksmith, Wigmakers, Tanners, Cabinetmaker, Printer, and Apothecary. Even though the schools were very different than the ones we have today, students were taught the same subjects as us, such as math, science, and penmanship.

Don’t worry..this is the only

slide with only words on it..

Colonial Days(continued)

Teachers in the Colonial Days did not care about correct spelling and whatnot, as long as the word they spelled sounded like the word, it was fine. However, they did care about how neatly the person wrote.

COLONIAL GAMES

Four hundred years ago do you think that kids could just go to “Toys r us” and just buy a toy they wanted?

PSSTT…the answer is no.

Just kidding, there are only 20

No is the correct answer, who told you? Anyway, in the 1600s there were no factories so kids back then had to make their own toys to play with. Their toys were very natural, they were hand crafted from wood. Kids back then were very “pure” compared to kids today. They did not find shooting the brains out of zombies fun, they found things such as dolls fun. Like I said before, kids were much busier in terms of physical work. You may think “They’re extremely busy, why do they have toys???” because they’re still kids.

1.Colonial Games: “Cup and Ball”

OR

One hand made toy was called the “Cup and Ball”. Cup and ball is a cup and a ball.

DUH!!!!

The concept of the name is to get the ball into the cup by flicking the cup up and down. This game can get very frustrating, that is why you need to be patient and practice it. The first Cup and Ball is made hand crafted from wood. If you’re feeling lazy and you don’t want to cut out wood, you can choose the second Cup and Ball. Oh wait, they didn’t have Styrofoam cups and Aluminum balls back then, forget that picture.

2.Colonial Days: Whirligig

The “Whirligig” is another hand crafted toy. It is an circular object with a string in the center. To enjoy the Whirligig, you wrap the string around the sides of the toy and then you just pull. The pulling causes the toy to spin wildly and cause a whirling sound, thus the name “Whirligig”. There is also a modern “Whirligig”. The modern whirligig is shaped like a windmill and is also pushed by wind. The new whirligig is mainly found in backyards as decoration. The come in many different designs, the one above is a sparrow. Now we know how the whirligig originated.

3.Colonial Games: Buzzer

Here is yet another hand crafted toy called the “Buzzer”. The buzzer is a circular object with cut edges. This object also has two components tied to it, simply by rubbing the two components with the wheel will cause a buzzing sound.

It sounds kind of like a chain saw.

NO! We’re only on the third game!

4.Colonial Games: Top

This is the top.Dradle? NO!!!!!!!! IT’S A TOP.

ANYWAY, I’m sure most of you have played with the top before. It is a cone shaped toy that has a point on one end that you spin on. The Colonial Model has a string attached to it, you have to wrap the string around the top then fling it. This will unwrap the top and cause it to spin.

5. Colonial Games: Nine Pins

This game consists of nine pins and two balls. 3 pins and 1 ball???

I’m just going to ignore you.

Aww

So, the game is amazingly similar to bowling. The pins are set in a row and the objective of the game is to knock down all the pins. Now we also know that bowling evolved from Nine Pins.

6.Colonial Games: Backgammon

This is the oldest game in history. It is a board game and consists of a board, pieces, and a dice. Players use the dice to see how far their pieces can move and the objective is to knock out all the pieces and be the last one standing.

7.Colonial Games: Marbles

Here is another popular game….that.. I have never played before…

*bows head in shame*

Players first decide if they’re playing for “keepsies” or just for fun. If it’s for fun then all players use the same marbles every game. If it is for “keepsies” then the winner of the game gets all the marbles used in the game and they start with fresh marbles the next game. The players then draw a circle, the circle is the battle field. The players contribute marbles, they group the marbles in a cross shape.

Pfftt…typical of them huh?

The objective of the game is to knock out all the marbles in the circle with the bigger, shooter marbles and to knock out the most marbles.

8.Colonial Games: Jacks

Now, here is another game that I tried and failed at. I have tried to play Jacks many times, it did not work. This is a three step game.

1. Bounce the ball.2. Grab as many “jacks” as you can.3. Catch the ball.That is all. The modern game and the colonial game except that the ball is

wooden and the “jacks” are made from animal knuckles.

9.Colonial Games: Paddle Ball

Now class, based on the picture and the name what is paddle ball?

Psst...it’s a paddle with a ball attached to it and you bounce the ball on the paddle.

CORRECT! You bounce the ball tied to the paddle. Man, when did you guys get so smart? NOTE: People in the Colonies did not look like the man in the picture with his long neck and huge nose.

Be careful.. You can hurt yourself with the paddle ball, you could knock your nose off.

They looked like this.

10. Colonial Games:Yo-Yo

YAY! Another game that I fail at .Just like the p picture shows the “ Yo-Y0” is a circular

object with a string wrapped around it. The string is tied to one point inside the Yo-Yo. You would drop the toy on the ground and then try to make it fly back up by using its Kinetic Energy to bounce back up. Unfortunately, I was never able to get the ball back up.

Ohh.. A science word.

I wonder who name this toy…probably a guy who liked to say “YO”

11. Colonial Games: Rolling Hoop

Now class, seeing how smart you guys are. How is this game played?

Umm.. I think you roll around in a hoop?

NO!!!! You roll the hoop in circles.

Idiots…

Kids would race their hoops around by rolling them. There was another variation of this game on the next slide.

12. Colonial Games: Throwing and Catching Hoops

I’m going to give the class one more chance, ok so how do you play this game. Your clue: the title is “Throwing and Catching Hoops(with wands). Can you figure this out?

Uhmm..do you catch and throw hoop with wands? YESS!! That is the second

variation of the hoops. The entire game was to throw hoops and catch them with a wand.

Pretty obvious..

12. Colonial Games: Hopscotch

Hopscotch is played by first drawing boxes in the pattern of the picture above, then draw a number in each box. It is usually up to 10. You then toss a stone and whatever box the rock lands in, you have to hop from box to box until you reach the box with the stone. You hop in the indefinite pattern of: Dominant Foot, both feet, other foot, both feet, Dominant Foot etc.

Nice to know Waldo. When you flip the number 12 you get 21. This is the 21st slide .

OMG SO MANY HARD VOCABULARY!!! AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT FOOT MEANS

Cheezus, ask Mrs. Rubin, she’ll tell you. OKAY

13.Colonial Games: TAG

Here is a traditional game, If you tell me that you’ve never played tag before, you will get a 65 average.

Yes, I can do that..

The concept of the game is to run away from the person who is “It” and when that person tags you, you’re “It” and now you have to chase your friends and it keeps on going until you get bored.

BUTT, we have no friends and w

e have never

played Tag before because we have no friends.

You guys have no friends, never played Tag, and you said butt! SIXTY FIVE AVERAGE TO ALL OF YOU!!!

14. Colonial Games: Hide and Seek

I will be lenient this time class, anyone who says butt will get a 5 average.

Way better huh?

BUT-

FIVE AVERAGE TO THE PERSON WHO JUST SAID THAT

This game’s title is also self explanatory, one or more person has to hide while one person seeks out that person. The first picture shows a good sportsman by playing fairly. The second picture shows a cheater. Don’t be the cheater, no one likes him/her.

Peaking Female Dog

OMG HARD WORDSJust ask Mrs. Rubin

15.Colonial Games: Blind Man’s Bluff( Variation of Hide and Seek)

Blind Man’s Bluff is very similar to Hide and Seek. One man would be blind folded while the other men go hide. The man then does around looking for the other men, whoever he touches becomes the new “Blind Man”

Women

This is a man with Feminine features

Just kidding they’re all men!

Woman’s

Change all the “Man's” and “Men” to “Woman” and “Women”.

16.Colonial Games: Rounders

Rounders is very similar to baseball. There are three types of players. Strikers, Feeders, and the Sanctuary. The Feeder throws the ball anywhere the Striker wants and the Strikers has to hit the ball. When he/she hits the ball, the Striker has to run around the Sanctuaries in a clockwise direction towards a area that their team will call their “castle”. If the Sanctuary tags the Striker, the Striker is out and the Striker’s team lose the round. If the ball touches the Sanctuary, he/she is also out, the Sanctuaries can catch the ball. The castle has to be defended at all times or the opponent will take over.

So many words… Too bad, read them all!

17. Colonial Games: CheckersCheckers is a board game that has 12 circular pieces that was black and

red/white. The objective of the game was to trap all your opponents pieces or “kill” them all. You kill pieces by “jumping” over them with your pieces. Your pieces can only move in diagonals and can only jump when there is an empty space on the other side of your opponent’s piece. When you can jump again, you may do so in the same turn. Pieces can also become a “King” when you get two pieces to the end of the board on the same spot. The two pieces are flipped to the side with the crown and stacked. “Kings” can move backwards and forwards on the board while normal pieces cannot.

Wait what?? So you’re saying that checkers is a board game and not someone who checks homework?

Same word but different meanings.

I’m confused.

OR

You need some serious English tutoring from Mrs.

Rubin

I’m just so glad this is the School for the Gifted and the Talented, these guys are bad, but imagine me teaching kids about Colonial Games at the School for the Mentally Retarded and Stupid. Now, that would be funny.

18.Colonial Games: Rag Dolls

Another game from the Colonies was called “Rag Dolls”. The game was to make Dolls from rags.

I would never have figured that out…

Don’t interrupt me.

Failure.

To make Rag Dolls, you would first draw your pattern on two pieces of rags. I could be anything, it could be rainbow, or it could be black and white boxes.

Ooohh, racist…

Immature.

*Ignores* How does Mrs. Digi survive teaching us???Anyway, you sew the rags to create a body. You then repeat this process with the rest of its body until finally, you have a torso, arms, legs and head. You then sew them on. Unless you want an expressionless doll like the ones belong, draw faces on. Make sure to use string for the hair.

19.Colonial Games: Nursery Rhymes

It’s amazing how four centuries after the Colonial Days, things still remain the same. Just like we do, kids back in the Colonial Days had nursery rhymes that they sang to all the time when they were young. One example is “Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick”. Back in the Colonial Days, candles were made from wax and adults left the wet candles out to dry. While they were still wet they weren’t exactly “candles” yet, they were candlesticks. It’s natural for kids to find it fun to jump over them.

Alright fine I lied, this

slide has no pictures

either, but at least the

words spin.

20!!!! Colonial Games: Riddles

Of course, I saved the best for last. The riddles. I have to say kids back in the Colonial Days were pretty smart compared to seventh graders of today *looks at audience*

*picks their noses*

*shakes head*

Anyway, here are some riddles, because I’m so nice, I won’t include the answers in the sources page of the slideshow. It will be on the report source page though. So everyone needs to go read my 3000 word report and see the answer for these riddles. Next Slide ----

COLONIAL RIDDLES

1. What flies up, but is always down? 2. When is a boy most like a bear? 3. What kind of room is not in a house? 4. What has teeth but cannot eat? 5. What has a tongue but cannot talk? 6. What has 3 feet but cannot walk? 7. What has a mouth but cannot talk? 8. What falls down but never gets hurt?

COLONIAL CONCLUSIONIn conclusion, the Colonies and the States are

completely different. What we consider fun is evident of this. Today we find killing zombies fun, back then they found solving riddles fun. This tells many things about modern culture. I don’t want to be self-deprecating but Industrial Revolution in some ways weren’t good for the States. All in all the Colonies were very different yet very similar. Some games had survived hundreds of years until now. Who know? Maybe in another four hundred years another seventh grader will be doing the same project and seeing similarities and differences too.

SOURCEShttp://www.ssdsbergen.org/Colonial/games.htm

http://www.pencaderheritage.org/main/teachtool/games.pdfhttp://www.stratfordhall.org/learn/teacher/games.phphttp://www.historylives.com/toysandgames.htmhttp://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/sport.htmhttp://www.historicalfolktoys.com/guide/colam.htmlhttp://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_kids_in_colonial_times_do_for_games_and_recreationhttp://www.crfcelebrateamerica.org/index.php/trivia-games-and-quizzes/78-colonial-gameshttp://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/playing-learninghttp://www.ehow.com/info_7922128_colonial-kids-games.html

http://madisa.people.wm.edu/Colonial%20Jobs.pdfttp://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/invitation.htm

Book: Colonial Days by David C. King PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Picture URLs• Lazy Cup and Ball: http://www.mppl.org/images/kids/Crafts/7-08%20Cup%20and%20Ball

%20Game/8-%20cup%20and%20ball.jpg• Hand Crafted Cup and Ball: http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/assets/0712/0000/0127/cup__ball_mid.jpg• Waldo :) : http://images.wikia.com/waldo/images/9/9d/Character.Waldo.jpg• Gamming

Kid: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CBZGb5EBq8c/TV9O-kfwj5I/AAAAAAAABp4/9Hhe6LQwFWk/s320/video%2Bgame%2Bgrimace%2Bkid.jpg

• Kid Spamming Santa: http://www.toonpool.com/user/997/files/kid_computer_cant_spam_santa_1096535.jpg

• Whirligig: http://nmscarcheologylab.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/pc6_whirligig1.gif• Buzzer: http://www.onlinequilter.com/Portals/0/Mommy/Buzz-Saw.jpg• Top: http://www.homesteadtoys.com/018-Nov_23_2008_-_photo_0018__2_natural_top.jpg• Ninepins: http://www.historylives.com/images/ninepins1.jpg• Backgammon: http://images.wikia.com/lostpedia/images/0/0c/Modern_backgammon_set.jpg• Jacks: http://unceduc415.pbworks.com/f/1270130055/101_4648.JPG• Guy with paddleball: http://www.clipartguide.com/_named_clipart_images/0511-1008-1618-

5655_Bored_Businessman_Playing_with_a_Paddle_Ball_clipart_image.jpg• Colonial People : http://ushistoryimages.com/images/colonial-people/fullsize/colonial-people-3.jpg• Colonial Woman with Yo-Yo: http://media.photobucket.com/image/colonial%20yoyo/Penny2123/.alt/

640x480/350px-1791-Yo-Yo-Bandalore.jpg• Yo-Yo : http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/academics/ls/3/Colonial/ColonialDictionary/photos/yoyo.jpg

Rolling hoop: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Boys_with_hoops_on_Chesnut_Street.jpg/320px-Boys_with_hoops_on_Chesnut_Street.jpg

• Second Rolling Hoop: http://www.victoriana.com/antiquetoys/images/hoop-5.jpg

Picture URLs PART 2• Hopscotch: http://torinelson.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/hopscotch.jpg

Tag: http://kidzcoolzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tag-chase.pngHoop #2: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nhPLqAY0uZE/SwpTkF9A_eI/AAAAAAAAB4c/SkuWhxIZNyI/s1600/gracesmomma.jpg

• Hide and Seek: http://funnycrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/hide_and_seek.jpg

•  Hide and Seek Cheater: http://www.swotti.com/tmp/swotti/cacheAGLKZSBHBMQGC2VLAW==RW50ZXJ0YWLUBWVUDC1NB3ZPZXM=/imgHide%20And%20Seek2.jpg

• Blind Woman's Bluff: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Blind_mans_bluff_1803.PNG/300px-Blind_mans_bluff_1803.PNG

• Rounders: http://colonialcamp.org/Images/Activities/rounders.gif• Rounders Balls: http://cdn.oldsalem.com/images/uploads/56254-l.jpg• Checkers: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/

Checkersboard.jpg/220px-Checkersboard.jpg• Homework Checker:

http://us.cdn4.123rf.com/168nwm/michaeljung/michaeljung0906/michaeljung090600321/5125222-teacher-checking-homework.jpg

• Ragdolls: http://asliceofheritage.com/shop/images/uploads/ragdolls3B.jpg• Modern Whirligighttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/

Cardinal_Whirligig.jpg/200px-Cardinal_Whirligig.jpg 

COLONIAL ENDING

Before this project is graded I would like to blind you with the awesomeness of NYAN CAT

THE END