School: Clarecastle (C.)
- Location:
- Clarecastle, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Aoife Ní Mhíodhcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0607, Page 458
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- The games I play are Musical Chairs, Skipping, and Hide and go seek. Musical Chairs are played by placing a number of Chairs in the centre of the floor, turning each Chair in an opposite direction having one chair less than the number of players, with an outside person playing a march on the piano. As the march starts the players march round the chairs in single file keeping time with the music.
When the music stops, the players make a rush for the chairs, and the one left without a chair has to fall out of the game. Then a chair is taken away, and the game is carried on as before untill the game is reduced to two players and one chair. Whoever gets the last chair is declared the winner of the game.
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- Collector
- Nancy Costello
- Gender
- Female
