Aim of the Project

The main aim of the E-fest is the interest in fostering tolerance and respect for different cultures and traditions. By learning about other nations, sharing the folk traditions of their own country,searching the history, learning something new while enjoying ourselves will hopefully shape the students’ respectful attitudes and broadmindedness towards other worldview.

The subject of the project is to participate in the partnership and to motivate our students, encourage them to improve their knowledge of English, to raise awareness of other cultures and ways of life and their environmental awareness, to remember and value of the traditions of their grandparents and to raise awareness of other cultures and ways of life, to collaborate and co-operate on a project developing it.

               GREECE

4th Kindergarten of N. Ionia Volos

Salt thin salt thick

The children all form a circle together and sit down cross-legged with their arms behind and their palms open.
A child who makes the “mother” stands outside the circle and holds a handkerchief. The mother goes around the circle singing:
“Salt thin, salt thick,
I lost my mother and I’m looking for her
she doesn’t give me shoes to go to the dance “!

As the mother sings and runs around the circle, she secretly throws the handkerchief behind a child and continues to walk around the circle, until the others realize that she is no longer holding it. Then all the children look with their hands behind their backs to see if they have the scarf. The child who now has the handkerchief in his hands gets up and chases the “mother” around a circle. The purpose of the child who makes the mother is to be able to sit in the position of the child who got up, before he manages to catch her. But if the child manages to catch her, then the child who caught her sits back in his place and the “mother” continues as a mother until she manages to sit down.

Hopscotch

Hopscoth is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object, called a lagger,[1][2] into numbered triangles or a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces and retrieve the object. It is a children’s game that can be played with several players or alone.

Blind fly

Blind fly is played in a spacious area, such as outdoors or in a large room, in which one player, designated as “It”, is blindfolded and gropes around attempting to touch the other players without being able to see them, while the other players scatter and try to avoid the person who is “it”, hiding in plain sight and sometimes teasing them to influence them to change direction.

                                                                                                             TURKEY

Nar Fikret Aktekin Ortaokulu-Nevşehir

The dodge ball

The dodge ball game is played with at least 4 people.

Players are divided into two groups. With the coin flip, it can be determined which group will come first. Two hitters are chosen from the other group.

Batters try to hit the players in the middle with the ball, and the players in the middle try not to get hit. After one batter throws the ball, the other batter throws it again, and so on.

If one of the players in the middle can hold the ball in the air without touching the ground, he gains a life. So he gains the right to get an extra shot.

The player has the right to be hit as many lives as he has.

The game continues in this way until there are no players left, when there are no players left, the edge group comes to the center and the game continues.

The player who has the right to more life can also take a shot back into the game.

If that player is not shot in 12 shots after a player is left in the middle, the group in the middle takes the lead 1-0 and gets the right to play again. If he is hit in one of 12 shots and there is no more life, the other team will go into the middle.

If he is hit in one of 12 shots and there is no more life, the other team will go into the middle

Handkerchief

It played between two teams of equal number of players. The tools are arranged in a row, with the spacing between them being 20-25 meters.
A line is drawn in the middle of the two lines and a referee or captain chooses to run the game.
This referee can keep this wrist by holding the handkerchief.
The referee calls the players’ names mutually. Or say “3’s come out” and the third player from both teams runs and grabs the wreck.
The other player chasing the handkerchief door tries to catch him.If the handkerchief can return to its former position before the player is caught, the catcher comes out of the player’s play.
If he gets caught and ties the wand, he will come out.
Upon receipt of the handkerchief, the referee calls out to both wrestlers again and the game continues.
The group with more players in the game wins.
Set the number of rounds (3 or 5) to finish the game.

Mehmet Tarman İlkokulu-Kayseri

Topaç,Turkish Wooden Ball Spinner

Topaç, which is a toy made of wood, is also called by names such as bear, mill, dememe, kantir, mule, fir fir, firle and kiristek.

Turning the ball happens with the help of a “whip” or a “wand” wrapped in a rope at the end.

The length of the rope varies depending on the size of the heel. In some, the rope is 30-35 cm long, and in others it can reach up to 50-60 cm.

The ”whip“ or ”wand” is also made of wood, just like the topiary. In some regions, nails called “kabara”, “kopuza” or “kadak” are nailed to the tip of the heel.

Topac flip is a game played in many regions of Turkey.

Before starting the game, the midwife is selected by singing the nursery rhyme.

Then a circle is drawn in the center of the game area and the cloth (rope) at the end of the wooden whip is wrapped around the ball.

The ball is thrown to the ground with the tip perpendicular to the ground, and the whip is pulled up (to the player).

At this time, the other player/players also throw their own balls into the circle one by one to stop the midwife’s heel rotating in the circle or take it out of the circle.

The next stage of the game is the attempt to stop the lump of the midwife or to remove it from the inside of the circle.

At the end of the game, the player whose spinner rotates in the circle for the longest time wins .

Yedi Kule

We were going to play the Seven Towers, but the real owner of the games  the children would play better; we made them play…Let’s begin

Game Age: We started playing at the age of 5 and continue to play until the child among us grows up…

Playground: You can play in a beautiful large garden or you can play in your neighborhood for the pleasure of decamping to the streets…

Number of Players: At least 6 people who will be divided into two groups…(Can be played up to 8-10-12-14… people in double groups.)

Tools: Seven pieces of tile or marble… Actually find seven pieces of stone standing on top of each other is enough… We also need a ball to shoot at seven towers…

How to play:After the friends who will play are gathered together, they are divided into two equal groups.

After placing seven towers in a row, a distance of up to 8-10 steps is determined; the firing line to be fired at the towers with the ball is determined.

Which of the groups will start first is determined by counting. (Ooo piti piti …)

The group that will be the first to throw the ball into the seven towers is ordered to the firing line. The other group waits at the top of the tower.

The players of the first group send the ball towards the towers in turn.

If all the players of one group fail to knock down the towers, the turn passes to the other group…

If a player from the groups knocks down the tower with the ball;

The aim of the midwife group is to hit the elements of the group that toppled the tower with a ball without re-lining the tower.

The aim of the shooting group is to escape before the midwife is hit by the group and to line up the seven towers again.

If the midwife group hits all the members of the hitting group with the ball, both the order of the shot will be passed to them and they will get a point by winning that hand…

If the group that knocked down the tower at this time lines up the seven towers again before the midwife is hit by the group, they will have won the score and the hand, and they will have the shot order again…

Players who are shot in groups do not have the right to build a tower…

The game that continues in this way ends with the first place of the group receiving the specified game score (5 points – 10 points)…

                                                                                                                                                        BULGARIA

Third Primary School Bratya Miladinovi

Cat and mouse

The children line up in a circle, one child – the “cat” – slowly walks around the circle outside, and everyone sings: “I have a mouse at home, it bites cheese (2 times). And outside the cat throws itself at the mouse times) “and here the” cat “chases another child – the” mouse “, and the children in the circle sing:” Run, run, little mouse, the cat will catch you! (2 times) “. They chase outside the circle, go around it. And if the “cat” catches it, the “mouse” becomes a “cat”.

Rope

The children jump over the rope, which is rotated rhythmically by two other children according to pre-determined rules. The goal is for the jumping child not to trip over the rope and to make the maximum number of consecutive jumps. Often, a-s children ‘s skills progress, they begin to make different types of jumps (on one leg, on two, on arms, turns, etc.)

                                                                                                             ITALY

Istituto Comprensivo Andezeno

Let’s Colour!

                                TECHNOLOGY&TRADITIONS

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                                 November 2021