aka :
- “Limpando minha casa”
- “Oscar’s Garbage Can(Seasame Street)”
A simple but highly energetic game being promoted by Prof Marcos https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14Ypzxmptw2/
This one needs lots of energy, so great for exhausting any group of children with too much energy… and probably feels very much what the never-ending cycle of cleaning a house feels like (from experience).
It does need a lot of small light balls, like pool balls, and a smallish area with sides that can stop the balls escaping. Like an inflatable pool or 3 or 4 gym benches on their sides set up into a triangle or square, which is how Prof Marcos set it up. You can also choose whether to play this outside or inside. Playing this inside in an enclosed space has the advantage the balls can’t escape so far… but then maybe that’s not what you want 😉
The game does work better with a fair number of children eg 10 or more. Have a number of them inside the enclosed space with the balls. This is the ‘house’. Their job is chuck all the balls they find into the house outside the house. Everybody else is outside the house and they have to retrieve the balls and put them back inside the house.
Keep playing for a set amount of time, as it’s a never ending process 🙂
One way of keeping score is to have various groups inside the house and the winning group is the one with the least number of balls remaining in the house after a set amount of time.
Ecological impact
Rated as medium because of the use of plastic pool balls, but let us know if you have found a more ecologically friendly alternative (scrunched up paper balls?).
