IF YOU ARE BORN AND BREAD IN NIGERIA,YOU CAN NOT ESCAPE THESE CHILD'S PLAY GAME.

      Children want to grow up fast and do what adults do but ironically, adults want to be children again. With the struggles that comes with being a grown up child, every once in a while, people find an escape, merely by reflecting on childhood memories.
       Anyone who grew up in Nigeria, probably had the best childhood in the world. From street football on raining days to suwee during weekends and long holidays.Nigerian kids passed all the courses in the childhood university.
 

      ELVISUPDATE has in this piece put together seven memorable childhood games that would definitely make you love your childhood more and more
1.                Who Is In The Garden
    Here, the children make a big circle, starting with...
singing “form a big circle”. After that, the anchor then stays in the middle and runs in the circle singing, “ Who is in the garden a little fine boy/ girl( depending on the s*x of the child) can I come and see him/ her, then everybody then responds “No” “No” “No”  , then the anchor someone else and says “follow me”. This cycle is repeated until the last person remains, then others go in hiding while the last person goes searching for them.
2.                Ten Ten
    In playing this game, girls stand facing each other and clap their hands as they move their legs to a rhythm. The goal of each girl during this game is to ensure that she does not raise the same leg directly facing the other girl – which means it is no problem for a girl to raise a left leg when the other girl raises a right leg. The moment a girl raises the wrong leg, the other girl scores a point.                   
3.              Thug of war
     Although kids back then didn’t know what this one was called but it was definitely fine to play it back then. Here, there are two leaders facing each other holding tightly onto a rope with a line drawn in-front of them, then their team members queue behind them. Both teams will start to pull simultaneously and the team that is able to completely pull the other team over to its side is declared the winner.                        
4.           Fire on the mountain
     Kids are arranged into two circles, one with one more member than the other. When a signal is given, they begin to run in opposite directions singing “fire on the mountain, run, run, run” until a whistle signalling – “fire is up!” is blown. Then each player tries to get a partner from the other circle. After the scramble, the player without a partner is penalized to do certain stunts or made to squat in the center of the circle. The removal process continues until one pair is left and the pair are crowned the winners.  The name for this game varies across Nigerian cultures.
              
5.            Tinko Tinko
    Girls especially loved this one. It involves two partners facing each other, while the theme song is sang by both as the game goes on. With hands held half way up, they begin the game which involves interchanging of hands front and back and slamming of hands by both partners. In this game, a lot of clapping happens in this game.     
                    
6.           Police and thief
    This was like Nigerian kids replicating action blockbusters. In this game, there are the good guys (police) and the bad guys (thieves) but the stolen object is imagined. The kids then divide themselves into two groups, then the police group will try to find and catch those people playing thieves.
    
7.                Boju-Boju
       This is the Nigerian version of hide and seek. Every other person goes into hiding and the person seeking will start by singing the song, ‘boju boju o…’ and after singing, he starts to chase and anyone he/she catches will be the next to seek. Every seeker starts his/her chase by sing the song.

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