Japanese page : Piggyback Ride Janken

How to play and the rules

Make a pair and do the Janken.

The loser will give a piggyback ride to the winner.

Walk around doing the piggyback and look for the other pair.

When you found the other pair, both people on the back will do the Janken.

The looser pair will give the piggyback ride to the winner pair.

Walk around doing the piggyback and look for the other pair.

Continue this until time is up.

Japanese page : Catching Finger

How to play and the rules

1.Make a circle, facing inside.

2.Put up your right index finger.

Make a circle with your left thumb and left index finger.

Put your index finger into the finger circle of the next person on your right side.

Start the Game.

3.Leader says, “Ca, ca, ca.”

4.When the leader says “Catch!” you have to put out your right index finger and hold tight the left hand circle to catch the next person’s finger.

When your finger is caught, you lose.

Know-how and the Points

Leader can make a feint and say “cat”, or “candy” and confuse your friends.

We don’t have to prepare things and we can play for an instant.

Japanese page : Janken Train

How to play and the rules

1.A leader gives a starting signal. Then all the children find someone and do the Janken.

See information of “Janken”

2.The loser put their hands on the winner’s shoulders and connect.

3.A leader gives a starting signal. Then all the team finds another team and the person taking the lead do the Janken.

4.The loser team sticks to the back of the winner team.

Repeat this way until the line will be one.

Know-how and the Points

When the line gets into one and the end of the game, walk making spiral.

The person taking lead should not run, unless feet of the children will hit each other.

Japanese page : Catch the Tail

How to play and the rules.

1.Prepare red and white tapes.

2.Cut them to 50cm each.

3.Make two teams, red and white.

Start the Game.

4.Take the opponent team’s tails.

5.A child who has been taken the tail has to go back to his team’s area and sit.

6.As much as you take the tail within a time limit, will be the winner team.

Know-how and the Points

It will be fun if you prepare spare tails in your area and if you had been taken the tail, you can put the spare and you can revive.

Instead of using the tape, you can use a towel, handkerchief, or a newspaper that is cut long and narrow.

Japanese page : Giving the Hula-hoops

How to play and the rules

Make some teams.

Make a line and hold hands.

Give a hula-hoop to the person in the front.

Start the Game

Give the hula-hoop to your next person without releasing your hands.

The team that gave the hula-hoop to the last person first will be the winner.

Know-how and the Points

You can play with a rope or a sash that is ring shaped, instead of the hula-hoop.

Instead of a race, just sending the ring makes fun, too.

You can make some teams and do the race.

Japanese page : Fruit Basket

How to play and the rules

Prepare chairs with the number that is one less than the children who plays.

Put the chairs in circle facing inside.

Decide one “It” and he stands in the center of the chairs.

All the children sits.

A leader makes three teams, apple, banana, grapes, among the children including the “It”.

Start the Game

The “It” announces one of the three kinds of fruits loudly.

When “It” announces “Banana!”, the banana group member will stand up and find a new chair to sit.

When “It” announces “Apple!”, the apple group member will stand up and .find a new chair to sit.

When “It” announces “Grapes!”, the grapes group member will stand up and find a new chair to sit.

You cannot sit on the chair which you sat, or both sides.

“It” also finds a chair and sits.

The person who couldn’t sit will be the next “It”.

When “It” announces “Fruit Basket!”, everybody has to stand up and find a new chair.

Continue playing.

Japanese page : Anything Goes Basket

How to play and the rules

Prepare chairs with the number that is one less than the children who plays.

Put the chairs in circle facing inside.

Decide one “It” and he stands in the center of the chairs.

All the children sits.

Start the Game

The “It” can say anything.

For example. “Person who ate bread this morning.” “Person who is in the first grade.”

Children who are what the “It” said, stands and find a new chair.

You cannot sit on the chair which you sat, or both sides.

“It” also finds a chair and sits.

The person who couldn’t sit will be the next “It”.

When “It” announces “Anything Goes Basket!”, everybody has to stand up and find a new chair.

Continue playing.

Know-how and the Points

The “It” should announce loudly.

When “It ” couldn’t think what to say, the leader can help him.

Japanese page : Janken Basket

How to play and the rules

See information of “Janken”

Prepare chairs with the number that is one less than the children who plays.

Put the chairs in circle facing inside.

The “It” stands in the center of the circle.

All the children sits.

Start the Game

The “It” and all the children will do the Janken.

The children who lost will stand up and find a new chair.

You cannot sit on the chair which you sat, or both sides.

The “It” also finds a chair and sits.

The person who couldn’t sit will be the next “It”.

When nobody loose by the Janken, all the children have to stand and find a new chair.

Know-how and the Points

The “It” should raise his hand up high so everybody can see.

Japanese page : Drop the Handkerchief Game

How to play and the rules

Choose one “It”.

All the children except the “It” sits in a circle facing inside.

Start the Game

The “It” walks out side of the circle in clockwise holding a handerkerchief.

The “It” drops the handkerchief in the back of a child not to be noticed and continue walking.

The children cannot look back.

After the “It” had past, you can check your back by your hands.

When you find the handkerchief, pick it up and chase the “It” and touch him.

The “It” runs.

When the “It” could make a round and came back to the blank space where he dropped the handkerchief, he can sit there. Then the child who has the handkerchief will be “It”.

When the “It” was touched, he has to do the “It” again.

When the child who has been dropped the handkerchief didn’t notice it and had been touched by the “It”,
he will be “It”.

Continue this.

Sub-rules

When the child who has been dropped the handkerchief didn’t notice it and had been touched by the “It”,he will sit in the center of the circle.

We call this place (the center of the circle) “Toilet”.

The child who is sitting in the “Toilet” cannot play until next child comes to the “Toilet”.

Know-how and the Points

Be careful not to be too excited and injured.

Japanese page : Musical Chairs

How to play and the rules

Prepare chairs with the number that is one less than the children who plays.

Put the chairs in circle facing outside.

A leader puts on music. Children will walk around the chairs while the music is on.

When the leader stops the music, all the children will find a chair and sit.

A child who couldn’t sit is the loser.

He has to go out of the game.

Reduce one chair and start again.

Continue this and the child who could sit in the last chair is the winner.

Know-how and the Points

There is another way that instead of a music, everybody sings a song and sit when the leader blows a whistle.

Be careful not to sit too vigorously and bump and get hurt.