As well as being fun, if carefully chosen they can also progress learning. I have always included games in my class program. Games without a winner, played for the fun of playing, are just as enjoyable. It takes some skill in problem solving to think up a new game that will be fun to play with just the right amounts of challenge and competition, and an equal chance of “winning”, if there is a winner. I cried, wondering what it would be like to be eaten alive! “We’ll have you for dessert,” he grinned. The adult pointed to the centre of the circle. “Plum pudding!” they all screamed hysterically. Suddenly “It” was running and children were scrabbling behind them. “One of you has picked it up and put it in your pocket. “It” skipped around the outside, waving a handkerchief. “I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it.” I’ll let my flash (non-) fiction explain. I was obviously not familiar with the rules or the ethos of the game. I think that perhaps, until this event, I had only ever played imaginative games with my brothers and sisters. One of my earliest memories of an organised game was of “ Drop the hanky” played at a birthday party. Johnny Automatic, cartoon of a girl and boy playing with a ball
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