1. Traditional games from Latvia
Presented in May, 2012
In Rena

2. Pebble, jump out!
• The game can be played by four and more
children.
• All the children sit with crossed elbows and
holding palms together.
• The leader has a pebble in his hands holding
palms together.

4. • The leader goes along the players and tries
to slip the pebble in one of the player’s
hands, imitating the same action with all the
other players. Nobody knows who has got
the pebble.
• Then the leader shouts : “Akmentiņ, lec
laukā!” “Pebble, jump out!”

5. • The player with the pebble should try to
jump out.
• The other players have to guess who has got
the pebble and they should try to stop the
player with the pebble.

7. Namiņš deg!
House is burning!

8. • The game can be played by unlimited
number of players.
• The players stand in a circle with the faces
to the centre. One player goes round the
circle behind the players and touches
somebody’s back saying: ”Namiņš deg!”
“The house is burning!”

9. • As soon as the player touches somebody’s
back and shouts:”The house is
burning!”, both players run round the circle
each taking the opposite direction. They try
to reach the empty place.
• The player who can’t reach the empty place
the first goes round the circle and the game
is repeated.

10. Rooster fight

11. • A circle should be drawn on the ground, the
circle should be 3-4 metres in diameter. The
participants should split in two teams that
will stand in two queues on each side of the
circle.
• One player from each team goes in the
circle and stands on one foot about 1.5
metre away from each other, their hands can
be put together at the back or one hand can
be used to hold the raised up leg but the free
hand goes behind his/her back.

12. • After the signal “roosters", the players start
to jump on one leg and with their shoulders
try to push the opponent out of the circle or
make the opponent stand on both feet.
The winner gets one point for their team.
After that, other two players go (from each
team one) to play the same game. And so on
until all the players have played the game.