swiging statues

So I just blogged about Swinging Statues and thought about how kids always find or create the best games and wondered if anyone else in America played the same game... and what do you know? Some author B.K. in March 2001 blogged about this exact game! If children can create some kind of game that is pretty much all the same can't we all just get along?! Makes me almost want to break out a guitar and jam out to some kumbaya.

For Natalie's News this has been, Natalie-Corinne.  

By B.K.

Date: 2 March 2001

Swinging Statues

When we were young

we played a game

called ‘Swinging Statue.’

The person that was ‘It,’

had to swing everyone

around three or four times

and then let go. The object

of the game was to freeze,

statue like, the exact way

you landed. Balance, was

the key here, if you moved

laughed, fell, then you were

‘It.’ If everyone froze, the

next step was scare or trick

you into moving without

touching you. Your power of

concentration, determination

kicked in here. It was always

funny to watch who got mad

when they lost control. The

ever powerful urge to win,

competition, even then. You

would try so hard not to

move. But sometimes you

had no choice, some positions

were just hard to hold. No

matter how you tried, you

had to let go, quit being

the statue and be ‘It.’

bk

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Back to the Heart-on-Sleeve Corner