Playgroup Activity : Traditional Games and Flag Craft

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 Umm Khadeejah Elly 0 Comments

In conjunction of the Merdeka (Independence) day coming up, Grace and I thought it would be fitting to have our playgroup activity based around classic traditional games. These games were what we grew up with before the digital era began. We wanted our children to be exposed to this as it is also part of our culture and it reminds me of when times were more simple and innocent. Some of these games may look familiar to you, only we have different names for it.

This is the list of activities we did today:-

a) Lat tali tamplon

b) Penutup botol/Ceper (Carrom bottle cap)

c) Baling tin (Tin bowling)

d) Lompat getah (Rope jumping)

e) Ketingting (Hopscotch)

f) Malaysia flag art and craft

The Jalur Gemilang craft and States Matching Game

We started off with our Malaysia Flag aka Jalur Gemilang (directly translated as Glorious Stripes) and kept it to a simple cut and paste activity, though as expected, the moms did most of the legwork 😆.

The kids are still too young to learn the names of the states so instead they matched the flags according to the numbers or colours.

Baling Tin

The first of the games we did was the 'Baling Tin' which is basically bowling but using used tin cans. It created quite a noise and the kids loved it! Though some just settled with kicking the cans over which well, works too! haha.

Lat Tali Lat Tali Tamplom

We also tried doing "Lat Tali Lat Tali Tamplom" which is kinda like Rock Paper Scissors if you will but only with the show of hands - palms up or palms down. It is used to decide a splitting of teams or whoever is the odd one out - starts first.

Penutup Botol/Ceper

Then a game of "Penutup Botol" or "Ceper" which is the glass bottle caps.. how you play it is one has to flick the cap with your fingers to hit another.

Ketingting (Hopscotch)

Here's one we're all familiar with - classic game of hopscotch! Great for gross motor skills.

Lompat Tali Getah (Rubberband Skipping Rope)

Last but not least - another classic game of skipping rope basically, but it is made out of a chain of rubber bands... every other kid used to have one of these cos it's so cheap and easy to make! Khadeejah went to town with this one! 😂

To end our playgroup session, we refreshed ourselves with a glass of soya bean straight from the glass bottles in which we took the bottle caps from. Yums!

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Playgroup Activity : Traditional Games and Flag Craft