Games from India

Each week as we worked on the Other People create-a-challenge badge, we would play a game or learn some basic language from India. Sometimes both, as you will see in one of the games below! Every game was fun (and successful). It is always a lovely surprise when new games go over well! 

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Bulbul Volleyball

Source: World Sangam Day Activity Pack

Equipment: Balloons

How to play:

1. Players sit in two lines facing each other, feet out in front of them touching the feet of the person opposite. 
2. The leader stands at one end of the line and throws a balloon into play. 
3. The players have to bounce the balloon around, trying to keep it from going behind their own line while getting it to land behind the opposite line - and players must keep their behinds on the floor at all times! 
4. Teams score one point each time the balloon lands behind the opposing line.

Hindi Colour Game

Source: World Sangam Day Activity Pack

Equipment: 

• Hindi colours written on coloured paper. Eg. Lal (Red) written on red paper.
• Youtube video to assist with pronunciation.

How to play:

1. The Leader calls out a colour in Hindi.

2. The girls must all run to touch something that colour.

Elimination: The last girl to touch the colour or someone that touches as incorrect colour is out. Or alternatively, can lose a life.

Added difficulty: The Leader can call out two or three 
colours all at once and the girls have to find a way of touching all of the colours at once.

Hindi Colours

Lal = Red

Narangi = Orange

Pila = Yellow

Hara = Green

Nila = Blue

Gulabi = Pink

Zambla = Purple

Kala = Black

Safed = White

Elephant, Giraffe, Eagle

Source: "International Game for Brownies", Trefoil New - April 2006 

How to play:

1. Everyone stands in a 
circle with one person in the middle. This person points at one girl and says either ‘elephant, giraffe or eagle’.

2. The girl they are pointing at and the girls on either side must act out whichever animal was chose.

3. If any of these three girls gets their action incorrect (or do it too slowly) they sit down. 
4. The game continues skipping over the girl that is sitting down so the person being pointed at may have a new neighbour to work with.

5. The last person standing is the winner.

Actions:

Elephant – The middle girl holds arm out in front of face as trunk. The girls on each side, hold up their arms to the middle girl, creating a half circle. These are the ears. 

Giraffe – The middle girl holds her arms above her head to be the long neck and head. The girls on either side have their hands and arms pointing down to the ground away from centre person to be the legs.

Eagle – The middle girl makes a beak shape with her hands in front of her face. The girls on each side, use one arm (away from the centre girl) to make moving wing motions.