School: Balrath (roll number 9770)
- Location:
- Balrath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Oirghiall
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 027
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- These are the games we play
Outdoors
Catching Tig
Fish in the Pan
Ghost in the garden
Wall flowers
Bluebells
Oranges and Lemons
Hide and go Seek
Hop Scotch
Cat and Dog
Skittles
Races with Jumps
Tip and Tig
High Gates
Hop Scotch
Eight lines are drawn with a chalk. A skin of an orange is got as it does not hop out of the spaces. The first child has to throw the skin into the first space and hop down through the spaces without tipping the lines. When you are coming back you have to lift the skin without putting your foot to the ground. The skin is thrown to the second and so on until it reaches number eight.(continues on next page)
