Desk Relay
Source:
Games For The Playground, Home, School And Gymnasium
Category:
BEAN BAG AND OAT SACK GAMES
_20 to 60 players._
_Schoolroom._
_Bean bags._
The pupils sit on their desks facing the rear of the room and with the
toes caught under the seats. The rear player on each line holds a bean
bag. At a signal, the bag is passed over the head backward to the next
player, who in turn passes it, and so on until it reaches the player
at the front, who jumps down from the desk and hops on one foot to the
rear of the room. As soon as this player has reached the rear seat,
all the players in the line stand and move forward one desk. The rear
player takes the desk thus vacated and starts the bean bag again.
The line wins whose bean bag first reaches the front of the room after
the pupils have all changed seats until original places are resumed.
The teacher should indicate which foot is to be used in hopping, so
that in successive playing of the game, each pupil will hop
alternately on the right and left foot.
This game was originated by Mr. James J. Jardine of New York
City, and received honorable mention in a competition for
schoolroom games conducted by the Girls' Branch of the Public
Schools Athletic League of New York City in 1906. It is here
published by kind permission of the author, and of the Girls'
Branch, and of Messrs. A. G. Spalding & Brothers, publishers of
the handbook in which the game first appeared.
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