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WorksheetsTraditional games
Total questions: 7
Worksheet time: 4mins
There is no limit to the number of players that can play. Players sit in a circle with the leader in the middle. Each player adopts a name of a tree or flower that is given by the leader.
(a)
One it chases after players who are allowed to run on level ground ("lupa") and clamber over objects ("langit"). The it may tag players who remain on the ground, but not those who are standing in the "langit" (heaven).
Juego de prenda
Kabitang Bakod
Langit lupa
Hwego de Anilyo
When the it or tagger is chosen, the other players run from place to place and save themselves from being tagged by holding on to a fence, a post, or any object made of wood or bamboo.
Langit lupa
Kapitang Bakod
Hwego de Anilyo
Iring iring
It involves riding a horse while holding a dagger and "catching" rings hanging from a tree or some other structure using the dagger.
Iring Iring
Juego de prenda
Nanay tatay
Hwego de Anilyo
After the it is determined, he/she goes around the circle and drops the handkerchief behind a person.
Iring iring
Kapitang bakod
Nanay tatay
Juego de prenda
How many games are known in Filipino games
33
36
38
39
Let sing along!
Complete the chant of Nanay tatay game.
