Chinese Chicken
Source:
Games For The Playground, Home, School And Gymnasium
Category:
MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVE GAMES
_5 to 30 or more players._
_Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom; seashore._
This game is played with small blocks of wood or bean bags. Stones,
or, at the seashore, bathing slippers, may be used instead. These are
placed in straight rows of five to fifteen each, with intervals of
about ten inches between them. The players are divided into groups
numbering from five to ten each, and line up as for a relay race, each
before one row of blocks or bags.
The game is played in the same way by each row of players, and while
the game may be competitive between the different groups, in its
original form it is for one group only. The first player in a group
represents a "lame chicken," and hops on one foot over each bag until
the end of the line of bags has been reached. The last bag is then
kicked away by the "lame" (lifted) foot, after which it must be picked
up and carried back over the same route to the first end of the line,
when the same player hops back on the opposite foot, kicks away a
second bag, picks it up and returns, and so on until he fails. Only
one foot may touch the ground at a time, and may touch it but once in
each space between the bags. No bag may be touched except the one at
the end of the line, which is afterward picked up, and this must be
secured without putting the lame foot upon the ground.
When the "chicken" infringes any of these rules, he must at once give
place to another. The winner is the player who has at the end of the
game the greatest number of bags.
This is a Chinese game, taken by kind permission of the author
from Miss Adele Fielde's _A Corner of Cathay_. The Chinese
children play it with their shoes in place of the bean bag or
block of wood.
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