Have you ever been called a stick in the mud? Well in Rede, Tanzania this might not be such a bad thing! Children in this area of the world have a popular game involving a stick, dirt, and kids. I always love finding games where all of my materials can be found in nature, even better when it can involves mud!
First thing you need to do is find a nice straight stick. If you want to make it a bit more challenging you may want to find a few different shapes of sticks and switch them out between rounds. Take your stick, shove it in what ever type of dirt you have, and pile up more dirt around it. You want to make the dirt pile big enough to hold the stick steady for a few rounds.
Sit in a circle around the stick and take turns moving the dirt. When we played I would specify if it had to be a big hand full or a little hand full. You can also change the amount of handfuls that a child takes if you want to up the challenge level.
When the stick drops you are supposed to either run around the circle or get to base before someone tags you. The person who gets tagged four times loses. We on the other hand just wanted to play that whoever made the stick fall loses. We were relaxing a bit after the hard work of making mud pies.
I have to say that this game was a HUGE success. I didn't expect the kids to get as into as they did. It was a lot of fun and built up our sensory skills at the same time!
If you decide to give it a try send us a picture! We would love to feature other people playing this game. Think you have some cool new rules we should try? Leave a comment!
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