Eagle catches chicks

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Eagle catches chicks

This is a traditional Chinese game for children and it is a fun, easy to play and a perfect outdoor game for kids.Another name for this game is “the weasel eats the chickens”. In this games, can help to develop children sensitivity and co-ordination, and cooperation.

Brief

Eagle catches chicks is suitable for many people took part. Eagles act by one person, one act old mother hen, the rest is chicks. the chicks stand in a line with the hen in the very front spreading both arms to protect the chicks and each one clasping the clothes tail of the one right in front of it. The eagle should seek every opportunity to catch the chicken. If one chick is caught, it should exchange the role with the eagle. If the eagle cannot catch any chicken, the game would proceed until its final success.

Beginning

• determine the characters.(who going act the hen,chicks and eagle)

Start

This game needs at least five kids to start, and the more kids participating, the more fun it would be. Choose a kid as the eagle and another kid as the mother hen. The rest of the kids will be the chicks. In the game, the eagle tries to catch one of the chicks so he will be no longer the eagle, and the mother hen tries to protect the chicks from the eagle.

The chicks will line behind the mother hen one by one. The first chick behind the mother hen will hold on to her waist or cloth, the one behind the first chick will hold on the first, and so on. The eagle can catch the chick by tagging the chick, and the mother hen can protect the chicks by spreading her arms shoulder high. When the chasing begins, the eagle is free to run anywhere to catch the chick. The mother hen will try to be in front of the eagle to protect the chicks.

The eagle has to go around the mother hen to catch the chick and he will try to avoid any contact with the mother hen. To help the mother hen, the chicks will try to run out of the way of the eagle. The chicks don't have to be in the line all the time. They may run out of the line and play tag with the eagle.

If the eagle catches a chick, this game will be over and that chick will be the eagle in the next game.