The game is a space and a time of freedom, where "everything can be", so learning opportunities are endless, is one of the first languages of children as one of its first activities, through which know the world around you including people, objects, the operation thereof, establishing new relationships, and discover the limits and possibilities of each.
Traditional games are the ones that have lasted a long time ago, from generation to generation, handed down from grandparents to parents and parents to children, obviously because of the changing times can acquire changes but retain its essence. They are games that are not written in any particular book or can be purchased at any toy store.
Between a traditional game find "THE STRIP" or also known as "THE OLD INES" in this we can remember:
- Knock, knock,
- Who is it?
-The old Agnes,
- What did?
-A bar;
- What color?.
And when the child (a) said he guessed the color and appointed another, the child came running to avoid being caught, if he would have to be reached the following "OLD INES."
In the book Flower of old games, Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo (1904-1980) former governor of Jalisco state governor (1953 to 1959), and Secretary of Public Education (1964 to 1970), we lay together a collection of traditional games children between Guadalajara and Yahualica, where we can get three types of games' For Christmas "," From the dog days "and" Water. "
All games, like everything in life has been changed according to the region, period or situations that pass a given group, in the book mentioned above, you can get a piece of good night's games, which leads closest to the game of our choice "Old Agnes".
- Cacauuuu ... cacauuuu
- What is it, coyotito?
- A lumbrita
- What do you love?.
- To roast a chicken.
- Where do you grab?.
- In his tail.
- A no!
- A so! .
But often this type of game has been replaced by technology that educates children every day.
If the child learns the traditional games may develop in the street, in a park, school, playground etc ... children need to acquire skills that lead to optimal development. Concern is the current situation where children aged 3-6 years developed his childhood in front of a monitor.