Table of contents

I. EARLY CHILDHOOD GAMES AND SONGS

The first games

• Peek-A-Boo

• Touching and teasing

• • Con la nariz y la boca
  • Con la oreja
  • Cosquillas. Kili-kili
  • Pellizcos
  • La estatura

• To eat and dress

• To make the child feel better

• To take their first steps

• Group games

• • Hau berex, hau berex
  • A vuelan, vuelan
  • Purran, purran, ardatza
  • Al burrico san vicente

Finger/toe games

• Names of the little fingers/toes

• Cinco lobitos

• Este compró un huevito

• Honek arrautza ekarri

• Aitia, pitia

• Hau ta hau ezkondu

• Atxea motxia

• Pin, pin, zarramacatín

• Tin, tin, palos de cotín

• Al Chinchi riminchi

• Mete el dedo

• Dos palomitas

Hand games

• Date, date, con la manita

• Eraiozu eskutxuari

• Katarra mixon

• Gatito michinito

• Esta manita se le anda al pobre

• Pon, pon, pon

• Ainsi font font font

• Palma sobre palma

Clapping games

• Tortas tortitas. Chalo chalito

• Txalopin txalo

• Txalo, txalopin

• Mi papá me prometió

• Mañana domingo, pipirripingo

Rocking games

• Din-dan, nor hil da?

• Dingilin-dangulun

• Bilin-bolon

• Din-dan, baleran

• Xingulu-mangulu

• Dinbili-danba

• Tilin-talán. Dilín-dolón

• A la silla de la reina

• Aserrín, aserrán

• Te tengo de hacer

• Cua-cua, cantaba la rana

Trotting games

• Arre borriquito

• Arre, arre mandako

• Kaderan, kaderan

• Txilin txili mañe

• Txomin txiki pastorea

• Antontxu

• Bat, bi, hiru, lau

• Arreburrichicos

• Decorative cadences

Lullabies in Basque

• Praising the child

• Getting the child to sleep

• To ward off fear

Recriminating the absent father

• Humorous

• Doting

• Evoking sleep

Lullabies in Spanish

• To get the child to sleep

• Different lullabies

Songs to entertain

• Amaren besta baita

• Jaun Kaputxin

• Hiru xito izan

• Bi xinaurri

• Txantxulario kamino

• Kontxo, kontxo

• Goienkaleko Tomasa

• Tolana-polana

• Kilibi-kalaba

Mimic songs to have fun

• Los pollitos

• Pimpón es un muñeco

• Era un gato grande

• A,a,a, mi gatito malo está

• Los animales que van por el agua

• A aquel marinero cojo

• Todos mis patitos

• A mi burro, a mi burro

 

II. NATURE AS A PLAYGROUND

Relationship with animals

Ladybird

• Catching crickets

• Other insects

• • Tábanos, abejorros, ciervos volantes, etc
  • Cachorros
  • Jorge
  • Moscas
  • Hormigas
  • Abejas
  • Mantis religiosa
  • Saltamontes
  • Escarabajo. Kakalardoa
  • Luciérnagas. Ipurtargiak
  • Mariposas y gusanos de seda

• Spiders

• Slugs and snails

• Fishing

• Frogs, toads and tadpoles

• Lizards, slowworms and snakes

• Looking for nests

Songs for some birds

• • La cigüeña
  • El gavilán
  • El azor
  • El cuervo
  • La marica
  • La grulla
  • El gallo

• Bats

• Pets

• • Perros y gatos
  • Ordeñar cabras

Plant-related activities

Gathering activity

• Making decorations

• Toys using plants

Plants used for play fighting

• Fortune telling using flowers and fruits

Other activities

• Knowledge about forbidden plants

 

 

IV. SELECTION PROCEDURES PRIOR TO PLAYING

Procedures requiring an object

• Heads or tails

• Guessing in which hand an object is hidden

• Drawing the shortest straw

• Other selection methods

Procedures that do not use an object

• A pares or nones (Odds and Evens)

• A hacer pies [walking and distance way of selecting]

Drawing lots chants in Basque

• Txirristi, mirristi

• Aitxa, motxa

• Don, don, beledon

• Arriola mariola

• Dona, dona, katona

• Don, don, kikilimon

• Baga, biga, higa

• Other chants in Basque

Drawing lots chants in Spanish

• En un rosal / había una rosa

• Una, dole, / tele, catole

• Una mosca puñetera

• Cucu, vico, ñaña, vico

• Pito, pito, gorgorito

• Dona, dona, la coqueta

• Manzana asada / una, dos, tres y pasada

• Quien se ha chufau

• Plin plon / vacas vienen de Aragón

• Un don din palillo va

• Al esconderite berite ton

• Entre dos matas / había dos conejos

• Carlos V fue a la guerra

• Un gato se cayó a un pozo

• En un plato de lentejas / comen todos a la vez

• Una mona era tonta / ¿verdad que sí?

Chants to play <<Cops and Robbers>>

• Chants where the chosen children actively take part

• Short chants

• Chants that are also used in other games

 

V. RACES

Games that includes races

• Al soliveo

• Al tiente o Al diente

• Atzenka

• Bale-baleka

• A pedo. A temas. Kuriketan

• Harrapaketak. La tusa

• A guardias y ladrones. A lapur y mikelete

• A la cadeneta. Katean

• Al marro. Marroka

• A las estatuas. A stop

• A ailove. A Cuba libre

• A alturitas. Kitoka

• A las cuatro esquinitas. Kantoi-kantoika. Txokoketan

• A cortar el hilo. Korta banaka

• Al toro del auxilio

• A cruzar la frontera. A la pasa

• Goitik ala behetik?

• A la galleta

• Al gato y al ratón. Sagua ta katua

• A la araña

• A tapar las calles

• A lobos

• Al pañuelo. Pañolitotan

• Al pañuelito por detrás. Zapi zuria atzetik

• A correr a cenar

• Molinillo. Txokolate bolinero

• A declaro la guerra

• A color color

• A la quiquiricaina

• A buenos días señor rey

• A los pañuelitos coloráus

• A torito sí

• Al poco churro. Al azote y la correa

• A las vacas

 

VI. HIDING GAMES

Games where only one child finds the others

• Gordeketan. Al escondite o Al esconderite

• Kiriketan

• Gazteluka

• A pi

• Kluketan

• Pico pico

• Alalubí

• Gaztaina

• Kui-kuika

• Buleketan

• Un, dos, tres, carabí carabá. Bat, bi, hiru, eguzki

• Al bote, bote. Pote-poteko

• A la liebre. Ahuntz-ahuntzaka

Games where there are more than one seekers

• Tres navíos en el mar

• Escondite alrededor de la casa

• Harrapaketan

• Txilintxarro

• La maya

• Altos-altoska

Games where one child hides their head between the knees of someone

• A San Juan de Matuté

• A escondites a esconder

• A la aceitera

• Kalabuxin-kalabuxin

 

VII. JUMPING GAMES

Games with individual frogs

• A la una salta la mula. Astoka

• Jumping on the frog from a line

• Al dólar con rayo

• Other games with a single frog

• Over a series of frogs

Team leapfrog games

A chorro-morro

• • Names for the game
  • When played and distribution of the team
  • First stage of the game: The leap
  • Second stage of the game: Asking the question

• • • Pointing fingers
    • Making shapes with fingers
    • Using hands
    • Pointing to part of the arm

• • Games is where only one child is the frog
  • Versions of the A chorro-morro game

• Games similar to the A chorro-morro

Group skipping games

• A lo alto. Para arriba (Up the Valley. Jumping Up)

• • A pares. A lo fuerte. A lo fuerte con estirón (Fast skipping game like Jenny Jenny, I like Coffee....)
  • A un. A dos
  • Al motrollón
  • Dialogues and performances
  • Skipping until you stop
  • Other songs to play A lo alto

A lo bajo. Para abajo (Down the Valley. Jumping Down)

• • Slow skipping (walking)
  • A olas
  • A la culebrita
  • Biraka

Games where the stone is not tossed

• Courts in cross shape with double arms

• Rectangular courts

Games where the stone is moved

• Courts in cross shape with double arms

DIFFERENT JUMPING GAMES

• Long jump

• High jump

 

 

IX. THROWING GAMES

Stone throwing

• Distance stone is thrown

• Height stone is thrown

Throwing stones into water

• Marksmanship

• Stone throwing battles

• Other stone throwing games

Pole throwing

• Zeanuri version

• Carranza, Bernedo, Laguardia, Pipaón, Salvatierra, Pamplona and Abadiano versions

• Apodaca, Elosua and Amézaga de Zuya versions

• Gamboa, Galdames and Muskiz versions

• Aoiz and San Martín de Unx versions

San Martín de Améscoa, Ondarroa, Obanos, Bernedo, Lanestosa, Durango, Apellániz and Quintana versions

• Narvaja and Mendiola versions

• Beasain, Zerain, Elgoibar, Allo, Garde, Bilbao and Portugalete versions

• Versi Sangüesa, Apellániz, Ezkio and Tafalla versions

Mendibe version

• Ribera Alta versions

Games with oak galls, seeds and marbles

• Oak galls

• Seeds

• Marbles

• • Games of throwing marbles into a hole
  • Into a triangle
  • Hitting game. A taco y palmo (Ringer)
  • Marble races

Coin throwing

• Throwing coins into the air

• Throwing coins into a hole

• Throwing coins into a geometric shape

• Throwing coins against a wall

• Throwing coins to a line

• Knocking coins from a perch

• Flipping coins on the floor games

Games with bottle tops

• Bottle top races

• Other games with tops

Ball throwing

• A Cato ball game

A Campo Quemao (dodge ball)

• Games similar to baseball

• Churra tag ball

• Individual ball games

 

X. GAMES OF SKILL

Knucklebones

• The aspects of the game

Names of the jacks and the knucklebone game

• The sides of the jacks

Other versions of the game

• The tabasen Arizkun game

• Games with large jacks

Games with stones

• Bostarrika

• La pitamora

Games with stickers

• Aspects of the game

• Different games with stickers

• • Flipping them
  • Against the wall
  • Cardboard and txapalankas
  • Pouches
  • Throwing them
  • A die
  • Matching
  • Other versions of the games

Games with pins and toothpicks

• A montar alfileres. Orrazka

• Al polvete

• Agujas al montón

• A esconder alfileres

• Al monto

• A los palillos

Spinning top. Trompaka

• Versions

• • Spinning the top in a circle
  • Hurling the top on coins or tops

The hinque stick

• Standing hinque stick game

• Hinque stick game in a circle

• Playing hinque stick game with a penknife

Games of skills with different joys

Juggling diabolo

• Yo-yo

Roller-skating

• Back and forth ball game

• Bowls

Hula-hoop

• Balancing stick

 

XI. HAND AND FINGER GAMES

Cat's cradle Kumak

• Cradle

• Mesh

• Candles

• Cradle

• Envelope

• Mesh

• Cobweb or frog

Newts

• Candles

• Up the mountain. Cross

• Star or mirror

• Chinese puzzle

• Glossary of figures

Hand games

• Game of the Goose board game

• Santa Teresita

Clapping games

• Hand warming

• Txan txibirin

• Telegram

• Wall shadows

• Hacer la campana

Clapping games. Txaloka

• En la calle 24 clapping song

• Mimicking

Joking

• Other clapping songs

 

XII. RHYTHMIC GAMES

Singing games

• Al corro de las patatas

• Tengo una muñeca

• Arroz con leche, me quiero casar

• Al corro chirimbolo

• Que llueva, que llueva

• Dónde vas Alfonso XII

• El patio de mi casa

• Viva la media naranja

• Hacer corro caballeros

• Doña Concha. Uh, uh, uh. La mariposa

• Que vivan las señoritas

• La pastora

• Jardinera

• Tiene la tarara

• A esa niña que está en medio

• Qué hermoso pelo tienes

• Don Melitón

• San Serenín del monte

• Cu-cú, cantaba la rana

• Una valencianita. Una mariposita

• Miruflita. Dónde va la mi cojita

• Juana Josepa tronpeta. Txilin-txilinka. Urruru

• A las campanas de San Miguel. A las tinajicas de miel

• La hornera

• Milano milano

• Otsotan

• Mariquita barre, barre

• Que te pi, que te pa. A pisar

• Al pavo, pavito, pavo. Nor da dantzari?

• Eran tres alpinos

• Bat, bide, hiru, lau

• A la ronde du muguet

• A la tresse jolie tresse

• Zin zin la soupe à l’oseille

• El anillo

• En Tolosa hay un convento

• En Cádiz hay una niña

Face-off games in rows

• Ambo-ato, matarile-rile-rile

• ¿Dónde estan las llaves? matarile-rile-rile

• Pase misí, pase misá. Zubiri, zubiri. A la víbora

• Al alimón, al alimón

• Zurixe gorrixe kikirriki

• Teresa la marquesa

• Soy capitán de un barco inglés

Singing in the round games

• Mambrú se fue a la guerra

• El Conde Laurel.Yo soy la viudita

• La cantinerita

• Estaba la pájara pinta

• La señora Juana. A la Marisola

• Quisiera ser tan alta como la luna

• Estaba el señor don gato

• ¿Qué haces ahí mozo viejo?

• Mi abuela tiene un peral

• A la hoja, hoja

• A cerner

 

XIII. MIMICKING, ROLE-PLAY AND IMITATION GAMES

Imitation games

• Mummies and Daddies

• Shopping

• Tea parties

• Farm work

• Doctors and nurses

• Transport

• Cowboys

• Shepherdess

• Copy me

• Television presenter

Mimicking and staging games

• Antón Pirulero

• Colours. Heaven or hell.

• Slowly Slowly

Statues

• Teachers

• Religious ceremonies

• Warfare

Guessing something from gestures

• Skits

• Acting romances

 

XIV. LANGUAGE GAMES

Group verbal skills games

• Miscreants

• Word chains

• Names

• Tall tales

Dialogues, recitals and banter

• Linked dialogues in Basque: Kukurruku

• • Northern Basque Country (lying within France) versions
  • Navarra versions
  • Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia versions

• Rhymed dialogues in Spanish: Quiquiriqui

• Other linked dialogues in Basque

Other linked dialogues in Spanish

• Totorika

• Number songs

• Humorous accounts

• Never-ending stories

• Jokes and banter

 

XV. GUESSING GAMES. RIDDLES

I spy

• Ikusi-makusi. Veo-veo

• Bizi dira, bizi dira.

• Batun, batun. Etxeketan

Portraits

• Characters

• Quién te ha picado

• Garments

• Milano, milano

• Aceitero-vinagrero

• De codín, de codán

Names. Hangman

• Dead and injured

• Hidden number

Games with pins and other objects

• Ixkilimak edo punttakoak

• A punta o cape. A punta o clavo. A punta cazo

• A los cabezotes

• Al pun y al dos

• Izkilin-jokua harripean

• Sorgin-marra

• Al almendruño. Al endruño

• Zonbat ukabilian?

• Xandelak artian, pipitek artian

• Zaldunka

• Al florón. Al polvorón

• A la llave

• Kanika txiki

• Aizekunde

• Sorgin-jokoa

• Harri-gordetzea

• Alpargataka. A la alpargata

• A frío-caliente. Hotz-beroka

• Al cintazo

• Palomita blanca. Huts ala beteka

• A cara y cruz

• A la porra. A los chinos

• A los caparrones. Al par o no

Blindfold games

• Blind man's buff

• Itsu-kapeluka

• Itsu-mandoka. Itsu-astoka

• Ordutan

• Piel de conejo

Riddles

• Riddles in Basque

• Riddles in Spanish

 

XVI. DIFFERENT GAMES. CHILDREN'S COLLECTIBLE ITEMS

Table games

• The lottery

• Card games

• • Games to form pairs
  • Discarding games according to the suit or numbering. Old Maid
  • El burro
  • War
  • Broom
  • Wind murder card games
  • Other card games
  • Games to form families

Different games

• • A la cerillita
  • A vamos
  • A pedos calientes
  • A no pisar la raya
  • Al padrejón
  • Al palo

Different games

• Rise in collecting

• Stickers

• Other collections

 

XVII. TOYS. CHILDREN'S CRAFTS

Toys preferred by girls

• Dolls

• Tea parties. Shopping

Instruments to make music and noise

• Whistles

• Other wind instruments

• Percussion instruments

Weapons

• Toys used to throw objects

• • Catapults
  • Bows and arrows
  • Peg gun
  • Blowpipes and paper thrower
  • Slings

• Imitation adult weapons

• Explosives

• Bladders

Imitation vehicles as toys

Miniatures

• Goitiberak

• Skates and sledges

Other toys

• • Cameras
  • Making skulls
  • Building dens
  • Origami
  • Tanks
  • Telephone
  • Puppets
  • Kites
  • Kaleidoscope
  • Intxaur-metroa
  • Pinball
  • Pinwheels
  • Birdcages

 

XVIII. ORGANISED GAMES AT POPULAR FESTIVITIES

Most common games

• Musical chairs

Sack races

• Pot breaking

Games where the mouth is used instead of hands

• Using your mouth to pick up coins from a container filled with water

• Using your mouth to pick up coins from a container filled with flour

• Using your mouth to pick up coins from the back of a frying pan

Eating hanging apples

• Dunking for apples in a bucket of water

• Picking up biscuits

• Filling bottles with water

• Egg and spoon races

Games in pairs

• Egg and spoon races in pairs

• Dancing with an egg on your forehead

• Potato dance

• Broom dance

• Wheelbarrow racing

• Sopa Boba

• Races in pairs

Races

• Bicycle races

Horse and donkey races

• Balancing races

• Balloon races

Collecting corn husks

• Traditional races