Sidewalk-chalk games:

On a warm and sunny afternoon you don't need so many things to have a lot of fun: a ball and chalks are enough! There are a lot of sidewalk chalk games, for example the traditional Hopscotch or the tic tac throw. On these pictures the kids are playing 4 squares.

Four Squares - How To Play

• Each player stands in one of the four squares.
• To start the game, the player in square four serves the ball by bouncing it in their square once and then hitting it towards one of the other squares. The receiving player then hits the ball to any other player in one of the other squares.
• The ball must bounce in another player's square, and they must hit it to another player before it bounces a second time.
• If a player hits the ball so that it misses another player's square, or fails to hit the ball before the second bounce after it has landed in their square, they are "out".
• When a player is out, the other players move up to take their place, and that player moves to the last square, or to the end of the line, if there are more than four players.
• The object of the game is to move up to and hold the server's position.
  
  

Fruit steps: How to play

• Draw a circle and divide it in spaces. 
• Each player stands in one of the spaces of the circle. Each space has a color.
• One player stands on the center where is written STOP.
• The player on the middle says "I like to eat a fruit with the color..." while the rest of the players run inside the circle. When the player on the middle says the color everyone has to run outside the circle except the person who has this color who has to run to the middle and say STOP.
• When someone says STOP everyone stops and stays in his place. The player in the middle will chose another player and will guess how many steps separates both of them. If he/she is right she will have a point, if is not, the other player has a point. 

The river: How to play

• Draw a long river with some stones of different sizes.
• Each player has to jump on the stones without step in the water.
• Each time the difficulty of the game will increase: jump in pairs, without one leg...

We also drew on the floor!! Some kids wrote beautiful messages, and in different languages!!

Al :)