So that the old games are not forgotten, tell your children about them. See how to make rounders, spillikins, attributes for playing in small towns, how a horse on a stick and a rocking horse can master. At the dacha or outdoors, you can keep children busy by showing them old games. Attributes for such entertainment are easy to do with your own hands.
Old Towns game for kids
This is an old-fashioned entertainment. Previously, this game was played by various classes: townspeople, nobles, peasants. Perhaps it is your children who will enjoy such entertainment, and they will teach them to their friends.
In this photo you can see how you need to arrange the blanks in order to get certain shapes from them. Each consists of five towns, they are also called ryukhs. These are wooden cylindrical chocks with a diameter of 4 cm and a length of 20 cm.
It is necessary to prepare them, as well as the platform, which will become a square with a side of 2 m. This place should be level so that the figures are well installed on it.
You also need a bit. For an adult, it will be up to a meter long, and weigh 1.5-2 kg. For a child, make this blank according to his height and weight.
You can see how you need to arrange the towns to make it look like a cannon. For the "fork" the blanks are placed on one plane, and for the "star" the fifth is placed vertically. The "arrow" really resembles an arrow, and the "well" is this object. The "crankshaft" is located in several planes.
The rules of the game in Gorodki are such that you need to throw a long bat so as to knock out as many wooden chicks as possible from the prepared area. Such entertainment will develop the child's accuracy, allow the whole family to have fun and remember the old game.
Here's how to make townships out of scrap material. To do this, take:
- jigsaw;
- shovel cuttings;
- sandpaper;
- on request, an antiseptic impregnation for wood.
First, you need to cut the handle from the shovel into 20 cm long pieces. You will just get 5 pieces. They need to be sanded.
The game Townships implies the presence of a beat. You will also make it from the handle of a shovel. Cut it 90 cm so that it is slightly pointed on one side. If the stalk is straight, then you yourself can, taking a mini plane, make one of the ends thinner. The surface of the workpiece is sanded with sandpaper.
Now you can invite children to play Gorodki, you already know the rules of the game. Agree on how you will arrange the pieces and start fun fun. Playing Gorodki with two teams is even more interesting, but you can even play two or three.
Lapta game - rules and attributes
This is another old-time entertainment that was once very popular. Teach children this game, and you will see how much excitement and joy they will have. Tell them the rules of the rounders game.
It will need a rectangular area. If you have one in the country, it will do. You can also have fun in the yard or on a suitable playground. You will also need a ball and bat. How to do it will be told later.
The selected player must hit the ball with the bat and guide it as far as possible. While the ball is flying, you need to run the entire area, go back. In this case, the enemy should not have time to grease the runner. If everything works out, then the team gets a point. The photo shows what the site should be, and what each zone on it means.
- For classic rounders, two teams of 10 people each are recruited and mark the site. Next, a draw is made, according to its results, one team must be on the field of play, and the other goes and stands outside the city line.
- The players who are located outside the city, choose the one who will hit the thrown ball. In this case, this person must throw him as far as possible in the field, then throw the rounders and run through the opponent's field. He must cross the line and come running back unbroken.
- The team in the field must quickly catch the ball and fire the runner.
Learn the rules of the rounders game and see how to make the main attribute. To do this, you need:
- board 2 cm thick;
- coarse and fine sandpaper;
- stationery knife;
- pencil.
Take a solid wood plank for making rounders. Light species such as birch and pine are suitable. Draw the bat on the board and saw out along the lines with a jigsaw. In this case, the length of the handle should be 25 cm, and the entire product should be 60 cm. The width of the striking part will be 6 cm. Be sure to place a wide emphasis on the end of the handle. It is needed so that during the blow the rounders do not slip out of the hands.
Make the handle itself a rounded shape, then it will be comfortable to hold. You can grind the surface of the product using a grinder or first coarse and then fine sandpaper.
The main attribute is ready, now you can try it in action. You can play these old games by making the necessary attributes for them with your own hands. But there are other types of entertainment from the distant past.
Spillikins - an old game
Probably, many have heard the expression "to play with spillikins". This is the name of the old game, the attributes for which you can make with your own hands. Spillikins include toy items such as chopsticks, dishes, hats, and so on. The goal of the game is to use a crochet or hand to pull the object out of the pile of toys so as not to scatter the rest and try not to hit them. To make it convenient to do, spillikins are made so that they have handles or holes.
Therefore, the meaning of the saying "to play with spillikins" takes on a different meaning. In this case, I mean doing nonsense, instead of doing some important thing. But in fact, making spillikins is a creative process that takes effort. You can make a box from birch bark and put spillikins here.
They can also be made from birch bark. See how to do it.
Such a small basket will be a great subject for this old game. To do this, you need large and small strips of birch bark. Roll a large ribbon of this material to make the sides of the basket, and turn a thinner strip into a handle. Glue these items together. Also, using glue, you need to attach the oval bottom to the bottom of this item.
Do-it-yourself rolling pin is also quite simple. To do this, you need to cut out an object of this shape from a wooden chock, grind it, hammer in a metal hook on one side so that it is convenient to play spillikins.
Turn a piece of mosquito net into a sieve bottom, giving it a round shape. Glue a strip of birch bark to the net, which will become the side pieces of this item. To better glue the mesh with birch bark, cut out a very thin strip of birch bark and glue it between these two materials.
Don't forget to make a mug with a handle. Then the old games will be even more interesting for children.
Children will have many small items from which they can then feed and water the doll. To do this, make a deep plate. Turn into it a wooden block that needs to be cut in this shape. Remember to make a hole in the side to hook the cymbal as you play. You can also craft this piece of kitchen utensils from birch bark by gluing together its fragments.
See what the hooks should be. You can twist them from thick wire or take, for example, old ones from a locking door device.
Spillikins are a game for which small copies of objects of that time were made. It can be: a wheel from a cart, a saw, a tub in which water was stored or a wooden board for washing. All this wealth is folded into a wooden box, which can also be made by hand.
Kids can be offered other old games. They will gladly ride a horse on a stick or play on a rocking chair. See how to do these things with your own hands.
DIY rocking horse and stick horse
First, prepare the necessary materials and tools, and then proceed. The first and second master classes will help you with this.
Wooden rocking horse
Take the following material:
- shovel handle;
- furniture board;
- wooden chopiki;
- pattern;
- joiner's glue.
You will also need tools:
- drill;
- electric jigsaw;
- ruler;
- pencil;
- sandpaper;
- brush;
- milling cutter.
You can transfer the presented patterns from the monitor screen to transparent paper, and then zoom in, redraw them on a Whatman paper or on a newspaper.
Let's say you took a newspaper. Then attach the patterns cut from it to the wooden shield, outline and cut out. For this, a jigsaw is used.
Cut out the rest of the wooden horse in the same way.
Using a drill and a nib, punch round holes in all parts.
Here's how the rocking horse is made further. With your own hands, you need to fasten the parts with a clamp in order to trim and sand them.
Using a router, make all sharp corners smoother so that the child does not get hurt by them.
Cover the items with wood stain or varnish, or use paint. When the coating is dry, cut into pieces the cutting and insert into the holes made, fastening with wood glue. Attach the saddle on top, using also wood glue, and also chopiki.
When the glue dries, the rocking horse will be ready. For children it is an interesting toy, and for adults it is an opportunity to remember their early years.
Such ancient games were in the homes of wealthy people and those who knew how to make wood and had a suitable instrument. But another horse on a stick was available to almost anyone. After all, it can be made for a child from scrap materials. Nowadays, these can be a mop stick and a sock.
Horse on a stick - master class
To make such a friend for your child, take:
- large sock;
- buttons that differ from the base in color;
- thick yarn that will become a mane;
- a thick and regular needle;
- piece of fabric;
- synthetic winterizer;
- metal rings;
- stick;
- belt;
- ordinary threads.
Instead of a wooden stick, you can use a mop handle or a rake handle. Saw off the wooden stick so that it is convenient for the child to use the finished toy. Sew on the toe of the eye buttons and the rounded patches of fabric that will become the ears. Sew on the pieces of thread, turning them into a horse's mane on a stick.
To make the eyes more expressive, sew on large light buttons with dark ones, which will become the pupils.
Stuff the product with padding polyester, pull the thread over the part of the sock to turn it into the horse's lips. Wrap the horse's face with a belt, tie a rope to it on both sides. You can fix it on rings.
It is better to make the ears from two patches, so they look better.
Put the sock on the stick and rewind here tightly with the rope, connecting the two blanks.
Such a horse on a stick can be not only from a sock, but also from felt. To do this, you need to cut it out as shown in the photographs, and then sew the two halves of the muzzle.
If you have a baby club that has become small for a child, then put this blank on it. You will have a wonderful horse on a stick.
Here are some wonderful old games you can take on board, make the attributes for them yourself. If you want to see the process of creation, then watch the following videos. The first tells how to make a wooden horse with your own hands.
The second will teach you how to play spillikins.
See how to make a PVC pipe Township bat.
And the next video will teach you how to play Gorodki.
