Create your own home entertainment
The holidays most likely made a huge dent on your entertainment budget, and now you have started to tighten your belt
IT’S January and your bank balance might not be looking as great as it was in December.
The holidays most likely made a huge dent on your entertainment budget, and now you have started to tighten your belt.
But don’t let the strict budget take the pleasure away from you and your family’s fun at home.
Remember how indigenous games used to create magical moments and strong bonds among family members?
Perhaps it’s time you go back to your roots and remember the good old days with these games which won’t put a hole on your wallet.
Skipping rope
This is an old traditional game or an exercise for children and adults, in which a rope is swung over and under the standing jumper. The jumper must leap over it each time it reaches the feet and also bend when it reaches over their heads.
Morabaraba (Umlabalaba)
This is a traditional two-player strategy board game played in South Africa.
The game is accessible and easy to learn, and can be played quickly, but the strategic and tactical aspects of the game run deep.
It is simple enough that a board can easily be scratched on a stone or into sand, with coins or pebbles (or whatever comes to hand) used as the pieces.
Dots and boxes
A pencil and paper game for two players, Dots and Boxes begins with an empty grid of dots.
Players take turns adding a single horizontal or vertical line between two unjoined adjacent dots.
The player who completes the fourth side of a 1×1 box earns one point and gets another turn.
They write their initials in the boxes to indicate who completed each. The drawn ‘board’ can be of any size.
The game ends when there are no more lines that can be placed, and the winner is the player with the most boxes completed.
Hot potato
An old favorite, play begins with everyone sitting in a circle on the floor.
Turn on music while players pass the ‘hot potato’ – a bean bag or small soft ball – around the circle as quickly as they can.
When the music stops, the player holding the hot potato is out. When only one player is left, you have the winner of the game.
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