Administrative manual New Haven-Adams Township Park and Recreation, New Haven, Indiana

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-JU!~~P -THE S-HOT
Equipment: Eight foot rope with a weight on the endo The weight
can be a slipper, bean bag, sand bag~ or a ballo
This game is played in circle formations A player stands in
the center, and swings the rope around so that the weight touches
the floor. The players must jump over it as it passes them. Any
player who fails to jump over the rope and stops the swinging 1s
out of the gameo The last one to remain wins and swings the rope
nexto
CORNER SPRY _1ft
Equipment: Four Bean Bags
Divlde the pupils into four groups, stationed in four
corners or different playing spaceso Each group has a captain
who stands in the center with e. bean bag a.nd fa.ces his group
of players who stand in a row side by side e Each captain throws
his beanbag to the head player in Yis rowe The bag is thrown
back to the captain, who tosses it to the next one, and so on
until all the players have t;ossed o When. the captain tosses it
to the last person, he calls "Corner Sprynand runs to the head
of the row0 The last player then becomes the ce.ptllno That group
wins wmrw which first has had all or its players in the captain's
plseoo Care should be ta}~en to see that the teams are of equal
number and that the throwing dista.nce for each team is the same"
STREETS A1~ ALLEYS =-=-
All the players are lined up in rOWSe The first DOW may
have rour playars~ who with outstretched arms hold hands with
each othero Another or four forms behind them, far enoughg so
that if bot}l rows turned and faced right, again with outstretched
arms they could hold hands with each other" Thus a block for­mation
of rows is made up be£ore the game begins~ The game con=
sists of one player t:~yinB -to catch a second, running down be­tween
the rows of the other players who are touching or holding
hands o \iVhen the cOYilliland nStreets" is given all the players turn
to the right and join ha.ndso Vlhen the command nA.lleyse~ 1s glven~
all turn .forward as S.t f'irst" In the meant1.111e the runner and
the chaser are in action between the lanes taking a different
direction at; each new call o They may not run through or duck
under rulY joined hands~ When the chaser tags the runner, they
may reverse ~ or choose -two new players to take their places ..
-C-R"O'S,,S-IN-G-- -T,H.E. , BROO-K
Equipment: Chalk i:or marking brook or the flooro
Two parallel lines are drawn- .or marked o:t:f to represent
the "brook" 6 Each child in the group runs and tries to jump
across the ftbrookfl. If he can do thls~ he turns around and
makes a standing broad jump back. Any child who rails to make
the jump and gets his teet wet, 1s eliminatedo Arter all have
tried the one width, the brook is widened about six inches and
each child remaining tries to clear the new width jumping as ~
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