Contests, games, carnival fun. Games and fun for carnival Old games for carnival for children
Maslenitsa has always been the time of the spring equinox, the time when all nature comes to life and wakes up. The rites and traditions associated with Maslenitsa date back to the pre-Christian period. The ritual side of this celebration includes shades of the culture of the ancestors, it also correlates with the transitional period of nature, when everything comes to life and carries the function of stimulating fertility. This is due to the fact that Maslenitsa always preceded the start of field work. Also, Shrove Week precedes the beginning of Lent, during which believers do not consume dairy products. And on Maslenitsa this is allowed, hence the name. A special tradition has become festivities on Maslenitsa, burning an effigy symbolizing winter, visiting guests, all kinds of fun, fortune-telling, and, where without Maslenitsa.
Burning pesky winter
Now, like many years ago, a scarecrow remains one of the main symbols of Maslenitsa. It personifies winter, which is time to go home by this time and give way to spring. Usually men, women and children from the whole village collected straw in one place, and then made a doll out of it, dressed it in women's clothes, but brighter. They tied a scarf around the scarecrow's head, put on a skirt, a jacket and drove it in a sleigh throughout the village. Then they burned it, throwing Shrovetide pancakes into the fire. Around the fire, the children led round dances and danced. This glorious rite has been preserved to this day and attracts the participation of residents of both small villages and large cities.
Games and contests
An ice pillar is a competition that is held on Maslenitsa. For him, some high pillar with cold water and gifts are hung at a sufficient distance from the ground. To get them, you need to climb this pillar and not slip off it. The strongest and most stubborn always win.
Another popular pastime is throwing felt boots. Of course, it is better to do it outdoors. The essence of the game is simple: you need to throw the boots as far and as accurately as possible.
Children really like this game "Golden Gates". For her, two of the players (they can be adults) stand in the center, holding hands and raising them up so that they get a gate. The kids become a "train" one after another and go through the gate. At some point, the gate "closes", that is, adults lower their hands and catch one of the children. The one who was caught also becomes a gate and the "engine" decreases. The game goes on until the gate catches everyone.
Irina Mikhaleva
Dawn
Children stand in a circle, hands are held behind their backs, and one of the players - "dawn"
walks behind with a tape and says:
Dawn - lightning,
red maiden,
Walked across the field
Dropped the keys
golden keys,
blue ribbons,
entwined rings -
Went for water!
With the last words, the driver carefully places the ribbon on the shoulder of one of the
playing, who, noticing this, quickly takes the tape, and they both run to different
sides around the circle. The one who is left without a place becomes a "dawn". A game
repeats. Runners must not cross the circle. The players don't
turn while the driver chooses who to put the tape on his shoulder.
The game begins with the roll call of the driver with the players:
Ding, ding, ding!
Who's there?
From the city …
What are they doing in the city?
The driver can say that they are dancing, singing, jumping in the city. All playing
must do what the driver said. And the one who does the job poorly,
gives a fan. The game ends as soon as the driver collects 5 forfeits.
The players, whose forfeits are with the driver, must redeem them. The driver comes up with
interesting tasks for them. Children count poems, tell funny
stories, remember riddles, imitate the movements of animals. Then choose
new driver, and the game is repeated.
Give a handkerchief of sympathy
A gate with an inclined crossbar is installed on the site, on which
colored handkerchiefs are hung on thin threads, at different heights.
Competitors need to scatter, jump and break one
from handkerchiefs, and then name the girl and give her your torn one.
Petushki
A circle is drawn on the site. There are two players in a circle. Each of the players
stands on one leg, bends the other at the knee, supports it by the heel of one
hand. The task of the players is to push the enemy out of the circle without using
this hands and standing on one leg. (Push each other with shoulders.)
Malechena-kalechina
The players choose the driver.
Each player picks up a small stick (20-30 cm long). All
pronounce these words:
Malechena - kalechina,
How many hours
Left until the evening
Before winter?
After the words "Before the winter?" put the stick on the palm or any finger of the hand. How
as soon as they put the sticks, the host counts: "One, two, three, ... ten."
The one who holds the item the longest wins. The facilitator may give different
tasks: playing, holding a stick, must walk, squat,
turn right, left, around.
fun
Bag fight
To fight with bags, you need to fence the site. This kind of wrestling
one hand must be kept tightly pressed to the lower back, you can only act
with one hand. Here, the ability to move becomes more important,
feel the movement of the enemy, use his momentum.
Games
snow shooting range
In the winter town, you can install permanent targets for throwing snowballs.
It is best if these are wooden shields 1 * 1 m in size with drawn
on them with concentric circles with a diameter of 30.60 and 90 cm. Shields can be
install on poles dug into the ground, hang on a blank wall or on a fence.
Probably, it is worth making a special wall of the shooting gallery, on which you can put
targets, their guys will shoot down with snowballs.
tug of war
Let it be not quite traditional on Maslenitsa. Preparation - as in
the usual tug of war, but the teams take it, standing with their backs to each other
snow Hill
The height of the slide can be different, the presence of a large space is important here.
The corner of the slide should be three to four times longer than its height. Width
platforms where the guys are preparing for the descent, and the tracks on the roll - at least 1 m,
and the width of the toboggan track is 1.5 m. To make a slide, it is necessary during the thaw
roll up snowballs and pile them up. Then tamp the snow with your feet or
shovel, cut off excess snow and make a barrier or ladder out of it. pour over
slide with cold water, otherwise thawed patches may form. Can be built and
a more complex hill with turns, intermediate ascents and descents,
decorative arches. The difference between the start and finish levels should
be 3-5 m.
Contests
three legs
The players are divided into pairs, each pair is tied with legs (right leg
one with the left leg of the other). A couple on "three legs" reaches the turning point
flag and returns to the start line.
Wheelbarrow
Team relay where pairing is required. One of the pair will have to
become a wheelbarrow - a freight transport with one wheel and two handles.
The hands will play the role of the sausage, and the legs will play the role of the handles. On command, the player - "car"
lies on the ground, focusing on his hands, and the "driver" takes his partner by
legs so that the body of the "car" is parallel to the ground. "Wheelbarrow", moving on the hands,
must reach the turning flag and return back, where it is already ready for
the movement of another "wheelbarrow".
Russian broom
Comic superiority in throwing a broom at a distance. It is more convenient to take a broom without
Who is faster on a broom
Skittles are placed in a chain on the site. Gotta run on a broomstick
snake and not knock down the skittles. The one who knocks them down the least wins.
Elena Eremina
About the role of mobile games a lot has already been said in the system of training and education. And in our preschool educational institution No. 9, mobile organized games are a means of comprehensive development of preschool children, are used everywhere and every day. But I want to pay special attention folk outdoor games. In the upbringing of preschool children, they are an integral part. Participating in them, children get acquainted with the originality of life, language, customs of people of different nationalities. IN folk Games always have verbal content. They are mainly presented in the form of round dance folklore fun and practical jokes. Folk games are very entertaining, contain old little-used words, children really like it. They always create a joyful high spirits, which is a condition for the interest of children, emotional experiences in the game mobilize all forces to achieve the goal.
The unique flavor of the games is given by counting rhymes, draws, beginnings, nursery rhymes.
The traditional Russian holiday, which is celebrated annually by both children and adults in our kindergarten, is MASLENITSA. It's especially fun After all, children are very fond of ritual holidays.: skiing, various competitions, dressing up, games.
Maslenitsa- one of the longest holidays. The celebration lasts for a whole week, during which children make crafts, eat pancakes, compete, participate in a themed matinee
Friday, last working day Maslenitsa in kindergarten we celebrated on a grand scale. Dress the kids in folk costumes and started the celebration in the music hall. And I didn’t have to go far for games - our ancestors, the Slavs, had already invented them once, and they still delight children.
Russian folk mobile game"Brook"
This game was known and loved by our great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers, and it has come down to us almost unchanged. There is no need to be strong, agile or fast. This game is of a different kind - emotional, it creates a mood, cheerful and cheerful.
The rules are simple. The players stand one after another in pairs, usually a boy and a girl, a boy and a girl, join hands and hold them high above their heads. From clasped hands, a long corridor is obtained. The player who did not get a pair goes to "origin" stream and, passing under clasped hands, looking for a mate.
Holding hands, the new pair makes their way to the end of the corridor, and the one whose pair was broken goes to the beginning "brook". And passing under clasped hands, he takes away with him the one he likes. So "streamlet" moves - the more participants, the more fun the game, especially fun to play with music.
A game "Tug of War"
Children stand on both sides of the rope, at a signal they begin to pull in different directions. That team wins, which will be able to pull the rope over the line.
Relay race: Pancake from the heat, heat in a hot pan.
The kids love pancakes.
How delicious pancakes are!
Everyone in the world is in love
In delicious pancakes!
Round dance on carnival
Invocations for burning a scarecrow Shrovetide
To not go out!
To all the blizzards
They flew away together
For the birds to sing
The grasses are green
Chenille skies
And the ears are ripe!
So that all adversity
winter frosts,
Failures, tears -
Let them burn, burn
Flying towards the sun!
Burn, burn bright
To not go out!
Burn, burn brighter
Summer will be hotter!
Shrovetide lit up -
The whole world is fed up!
Walked merrily
She sang and played.
Hello, goodbye
Come that year!
Spring is at the door
So burn, burn quickly!
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Games and fun for Maslenitsa.
Shrovetide is an old Russian folk holiday. From time immemorial, it is the most cheerful and wild, because it lasted a whole week. This is a holiday of seeing off winter and welcoming spring. During the holiday, fun competitions, contests, and games were organized.
1. Game " Boyars, and we came to you »
Boys and girls stand in two lines opposite each other. The boys go towards the girls and sing, then the boys step back, the girls go towards them and sing.
The first team goes ahead with the words:Boyars, we have come to you!
And returns to its original place:Dear, we have come to you!
Another repeats this maneuver with the words:- Boyars, why did you come? Dear, why did you come?
The dialogue starts:-Boyars, we need a bride. Darlings, we need a bride.-Boyars, what do you like? Dear ones, how do you like it?The first team confers and chooses someone:-Boyars, this sweet one is for us (they point to the chosen one).Dear us, this is sweet.The selected player turns around and now walks and stands in a chain, looking the other way.
2. Song - the game "Maroma my Maromushka"
All children stand in a circle. “Maroma”, the role played by the girl, stands in the center. The children follow each other in a circle and sing.
Children:
My Maroma, Maromushka,
Curly head.
Maromushka has jelly and pancakes,
The hostess has hot pies.
The children stop.
Children: Are you well, Maroma?
Maroma: Hello!
Children: And what are you doing?
Maroma : I'm spinning a kudelechka!
Everyone goes in a circle and sings.
Children:
My Maroma, Maromushka,
Curly head.
Maromushka has jelly and pancakes,
The hostess has hot pies.
The children stop.
Children: Are you well, Maroma?
Maroma: Hello!
Children: And what are you doing?
Maroma: I shake the balls.
Everyone goes in a circle and sings.
Children:
My Maroma, Maromushka,
Curly head.
Maromushka has jelly and pancakes,
The hostess has hot pies.
The children stop.
Children: Are you well, Maroma?
Maroma: Hello!
Children: And what are you doing?
Maroma: I knit knitting!
Everyone goes in a circle and sings.
Children:
My Maroma, Maromushka,
Curly head.
Maromushka has jelly and pancakes,
The hostess has hot pies.
The children stop.
Children: Are you well, Maroma?
Maroma: Hello!
Children: And what are you doing?
Maroma: I'm crying! Finger pricked!
Everyone goes in a circle and sings.
Children:
My Maroma, Maromushka,
Curly head.
Maromushka has jelly and pancakes,
The hostess has hot pies.
The children stop.
Children: Are you well, Maroma?
Maroma: Hello!
Children: And what are you doing?
Maroma: I'm catching you!
After the words: "I'm catching you!" "Maroma" catches the children, trying to "blow" them, they scatter. The children she caught, they must “pay off” by telling on the topic “Spring”, a nursery rhyme, a rhyme, a saying, and make a riddle.
3. The game "We gathered for a walk"
Children stand in a circle, Dunyasha in the center
Dunyasha: Repeat the words after us, and then show yourself:Valenki and hat, fur coat and glovesWhere do we put on when we go for a walk?Children (clapping) We gathered for a walk,Dressed quickly.After these words, Dunyasha names one of the items of clothing (hat, fur coat, sweater, gloves, felt boots), while showing where to put it on; while she herself confuses the children, showing them incorrectly. The pace of the game gradually accelerates.
4. Game - fortune telling
Oh, come on, boots, appear
Dance, frolic!
To make it more fun
Lados, my friend, do not be sorry!
Children take turns throwing a pair of boots, whoever the socks of the boots point to, that pair is dancing.
5. Attraction "Running in bast shoes"
Spring is not far away, it's time to change boots for bast shoes
(large bast shoes are taken out).
Children are divided into two teams. Participants take turns putting on bast shoes on felt boots and run the distance, passing the bast shoes to the next player.
6 . Attraction "Braid the braids Maslenitsa".
Come out, don't yawn
Braid butterdish!
Children weave braids from ribbons attached to a stuffed doll: who is faster.
7 . Relay "Pancakes".
Each participant puts a “pancake” on the pan and runs with it to the tray, puts it on the tray, returns to the team, passes the pan to the next participant.
8. Relay "The most accurate".
Who will throw a “pancake” on a tray and not miss. Missing children are eliminated from the competition, those who have missed continue the game until one winner is revealed.
9. Game " Cats and mice »
Before starting the game, you need to choose two drivers: a cat and a mouse. The rest of the players stand in a circle, approximately at a distance of one step from each other, and join hands, forming a gate between themselves. The cat is behind the circle, the mouse is in the circle. The cat tries to enter the circle and catch the mouse.The players try not to let the cat inside the circle. If the cat manages to get into the circle, the players immediately open the gate and release the mouse. And they try not to let the cat out of the circle.The game ends with the victory of the cat and, accordingly, the defeat of the mouse.
10. The game "Centipede"
Host - Spring.
The guys stand one after another, holding on to the waist in front of the one standing. Spring directs the actions of the “centipede”: at first, simply move in a straight line, then move forward, jumping on one leg, and overcome pre-created obstacles. The players must not destroy it while moving.
11. Power fun.
Competition 1. Get a prize.
The participants are two people. Carpet measuring 2 by 3 meters, you want to put on the floor. On command, the participants begin to crawl on the floor. Whoever reaches the prize first wins.
Competition 2 . Standard competition, who will pull the rope.
Competition 3. Pushing (popularly fisticuffs, "cams")
Teams line up face to face, facing each other. The distance between them is about 40-50 cm. When a signal is given, they rest against each other with their hands. The one who pushes the opponent back behind a certain line wins.
12. Relay "Bake pancakes".
Children take paper with pancake circles drawn and cut it along the line to make a pancake. Whoever gets the most accurate pancake wins.
13. Game "Samovarschiki"
Each team has a samovar on the table. At the signal of the leader, the first player takes the samovar, runs along the second table, runs around it, returns, gives the samovar to the next participant. The relay continues. The last team member leaves the samovar on the table and returns to the team. The fastest samovar drivers win.
14. Game "Fill the samovar with water"
At the signal of the host, the first participant runs to the samovar, removes the lid from it, takes a spoon from the table, returns, passes the spoon to the next participant. The second player runs to the samovar, “pours water” (takes a ball (this is water) out of the bucket with a spoon and puts it in the samovar), returns to the team, passes the spoon to the next participant. The relay continues. The last player to run is the one who starts the relay. He transfers the last ball from the bucket to the samovar, covers the samovar with a lid, puts a teapot with tea leaves on top.
15. Invitation to the table
Each team has a Russian sundress and a scarf. At the signal of the leader, the first participant puts on a sundress and a scarf, runs to the table with refreshments, stands behind it, turns to face the team, spreads his arms to the sides and makes a bow (invitation to the table), returns to the start, takes off the sundress and scarf, passes them to the next player. The winner is the team whose members will be more artistic and finish the relay first.
16. Peddlers
Guests! Don't yawn!
Who wants what - choose!
Here the toys are noble,
Complicated, okay!
They are famous everywhere
You will like them too!
I brought in honor of the holiday
Various treats:
Gingerbread, sweets, bagels
For our lovely audience.
Children guess riddles about spring, get tokens, they buy sweets, toys.
Maslenitsa was and remains the brightest and most cheerful holiday. According to tradition, in preparation for Great Lent, the time of abstinence and restrictions, both in food and in entertainment, Russian people, as they say now, “came off to the fullest” on Maslenitsa week. Feasts, fun, sleigh rides, ice slides, booths, puppet shows and other fun marked the welcome of spring, the joy of a new life, farewell to all that was bad.
Rolling downhills even has a symbolic meaning: it was believed that the longer you ride, the better the flax will grow. Many entertainments and games on Maslenitsa have survived to this day, some, undeservedly forgotten, are returning again. So, let's remember how they had fun on Maslenitsa in Rus'.
Fights by the rules
Some of the games were related to competitions. Men demonstrated their strength and valiant prowess in comic fights, for example, with sacks. They walked in a specially fenced area. Moreover, it was possible to fight with only one hand, and the second, according to the rules, was tightly pressed against the lower back. The winner was the one who knew how to predict the movements of the enemy and dodge blows, but he himself could strike in time.
As a lightweight option, bags can be replaced with regular pillows. But if a log stood out as a platform for the players, then the battle ended much faster: it was enough to knock the enemy to the ground with a pillow.
If in fights with bags they fought one on one, then in fisticuffs they went most often, as they say, “wall to wall”. The inhabitants of different streets, different villages fought among themselves. Moreover, the fights were held in 3 stages in accordance with the age of the participants. Boys went first, then boys. And the older men were finishing the battle. The rules were also agreed in advance. The purpose of the battle is not to injure, but to drive the enemy from his field. Moreover, it was forbidden to beat a recumbent or even crouched enemy, just like grabbing clothes. They say that fisticuffs were a very popular Shrovetide fun, and not only Shrovetide.
Snowballs and snow forts
Seeing off the winter, which still did not want to give up its rights to spring, they used all its charms. Well, when else, if not in winter, you can play snowballs?! There were many options. firstly, they identified the most accurate, knocking down the established targets, and secondly, they were divided into teams and simply “fired” at each other with snow shells. The third, and most serious way in terms of preparation, is the assault on a snow fortress. Of course, for this it was necessary to build such a fortress in advance, with all the necessary loopholes and shields. But after all, such a game contributed to the education of real warriors.
As you know, in the Middle Ages in Rus', many cities had to defend themselves from enemy raids, and fighting skills, accuracy, dexterity, even strategy and tactics worked out in such comic battles were very useful in real battles.
However, competitions for strength and endurance could not be so militant. Tug-of-war was very popular - here you can measure your strength and develop team spirit.
Until now, one of the most popular carnival pastimes is a pole with prizes. Here everyone fought for himself and showed his skill. To make it even more difficult to climb a high pole, they poured water over it, and since winter had not yet receded, it was covered with ice by the time of the competition. Therefore, such fun was often called the "pillar of ice."
These days, it wasn't just men who had fun showing off their strength. Cheerful and active games on Maslenitsa were also intended for young people, accompanied by songs and sentences. Here are the most famous of them.
Burners
For this game, couples lined up in a column and raised their clasped hands up, forming the so-called gate. The couple standing last passes through the gate and stands at the beginning of the column, followed by another couple, and so on until the song ends:
Burn, burn bright
To not go out!
Look at the sky
The birds are flying
The bells are ringing:
Ding dong, ding dong
Get out quick!
At this point, the first pair disengages their hands and runs back from opposite sides of the column to join hands again. To prevent this, having caught one of the players, the “burning” one, who throughout the song stood with his back to the column at a distance of 5 - 6 steps, should. All other players cheer him up with a chant:
One, two, do not crow,
And run like fire!
If the "burning" managed to catch one of the pair, he himself stands in his place in the column, and the caught player leads.
Dawn
Here the players stand in a circle facing each other. The driver, who is also "dawn", walks around the circle with a ribbon, so that the players do not see him. At the same time, he or she says:
Zarya-lightning,
red maiden,
Walked across the field
Dropped the keys
golden keys,
blue ribbons,
entwined rings -
Went for water!
On the last words, “dawn” puts the ribbon on the shoulder of any player who must take it and immediately run around the circle and stand in his place. "Dawn" runs towards him and also seeks to take an empty place. The one who failed to do this becomes the leader, that is, “dawn” and the game continues.
Malechena-kalechina
For this game, you need to prepare equipment: sticks 20 - 30 cm long according to the number of participants.
The players speak in unison:
Malechena-kalechina,
How many hours
Left until the evening
Before winter?
At the last words, the participants put the stick on the finger of the hand or on the palm by agreement. The selected facilitator counts to ten and shows the movements that the participants must repeat without dropping the stick. The one who lasts the longest wins.
Bell ringer
Dance game, fun. Players stand in a circle and dance in place. Under the command
Dili don, dili don
Guess where the call is coming from.
the driver goes around the circle, stopping at the word “ringing” in front of one of the players. This is followed by a kind of ritual: you need to clap your hands three times and bow. The player answers the same, after which he stands behind the driver. Everything is repeated until the group of the driver is 5 - 7 people. To the clapping of those standing in a circle, she begins to dance. As soon as the clapping stops, the dancers look for a mate, but only in the leader's group. A good response is very important here. Left without a pair starts all over again.
All Maslenitsa festivities were crowned with the most important and spectacular event - the burning of an effigy on the largest fire. In it, along with a scarecrow, they burned a lot of unnecessary things, saying goodbye to evil and showing readiness to meet the new. Among other things, it was possible to warm up by the fire after numerous street fun, or you could continue them: jumping over the fire, round dances, rolling through burning gates, dancing - all this became a worthy end to a fun and hospitable Shrovetide week.
