Instead we did two easy to reenact games, especially if you’re a former teacher who did the old “marble in the jar trick” for every time you caught someone being good. Seriously I have a big huge box of marbles……..
We discovered that it was super easy on our paved concrete driveway with a slight tilt downhill to get marbles out of the circle. Not so easy on the not completely level and bumpy mud that the colonists probably played on. The kids all agreed they did not like playing it like this.
They all enjoyed playing hopscotch, which we couldn’t agree on what the rules are, which led to a discussion on variations on rules in different areas.
Then I challenged them to come up with a game of their own involving chalk and marbles.
The first group with a lot of eye rolling and “Do we have to’s” came up with a sort of pictionary with marbles.
The second group came up with a combination of hopscotch and marbles. You rolled the marble and got that many points for the number your marble stopped in.
