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Leader doesn’t watch other players and
starts to say things like:
”Who has red in his or her clothes can
come three steps forward.”
Leader says always a new colour and
he/she can decide what kind of steps
others can take.
Steps can be called:
Chicken steps
Bear steps
Jumps
Giant steps
Pesäpallo and nelimaali
Pesäpallo (=Finnish
baseball) is a Finnish
national game
Pesäpallo is a very
popular school game in
Finnish schools
Nelimaali = four bases is
a school version of
pesäpallo
What you need?
a playing area
a ball, for example a tennisball
a bat (you can also use a wooden board, or a
tennis racket or… feel free to improvise OR
if you don´t have any, you can throw the ball)
two teams of players
(baseball mitts, or caps or just your hands to
catch the ball)
Playing area
you can draw it on the ground or
mark it otherwise
first base
second basethird base
fourth base
homewaiting area
Teamsteam A
team B
team A is catching
the ball
one player is
pitcher/fireman
team B is
hitting the ball
everyone on
their own turn
Pither (team A)throws the ball to the player (team B) whose turn it is to hit the ball
The player has three changes to hit the ball
If he hits the ball, he can run to the first base, then to the second and so on
If he doesn´t hit the ball, he goes to the waiting area and can run if and when the next player hits the ball
Team B is catching the
ball and throwing it to
the pitcher as fast as they
can
When the pitcher catchs
the ball, all the players
that are not at bases are
burnt and they have to
come home