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1 |
Playing with dolls |
Some Beautiful, most quite ugly. |
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2 |
Playing 'Holy Mass' |
Small liturgical objects used at Mass and Liturgies |
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3 |
Water gun and owl on support |
Shooting water at a bird |
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4 |
Wearing masks |
Wearing disguises for fun |
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5 |
Swing |
The classic hanging seat |
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6 |
Climbing a fence |
A popular pastime with neighbour's fences |
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7 |
Handstand |
There are many variations of handstands, but all that matters is balance |
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8 |
Play the "knot" |
Bending the body to contorted positions |
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9 |
Somersault |
Flipping and rolling forwards, backwards, or sideways |
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10 |
Fence riding |
Again, a fence game |
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11 |
Mock wedding |
It is exactly at the diagonal centre of the panel. Perhaps an irony of the holy sacrament, or a reference to the main event that allows conception of children. Mock child weddings have been common folk tradition many places in Europe, and were often celebrated at Midsummer. |
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12 |
Passing through kicking legs - running the gauntlet |
Painful but dynamic |
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13 |
Blind Man's Bluff |
Blind fortune |
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14 |
Playing with birds |
Ever popular |
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15 |
Making hats with twigs |
Basket weaving |
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16 |
Soap bubbles |
Still a popular pastime, Bruegel shows children blowing bubbles with clay pipes and verifies soap bubbles being used as entertainment for at least 400 years |
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17 |
Shell bobbin |
A flying spinneret made of nut shells |
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18 |
The "Toton" |
Forerunner of the roulette and dice games |
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19 |
Toy animal with leash |
A stone dog of sorts |
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20 |
Knucklebones |
Game of very ancient origin, played with five small objects, originally the "knucklebones" (actually the astragalus: a bone in the ankle, or hock) of a sheep, which are thrown up and caught in various ways |
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21 |
Mock baptismal |
Re-enacting the procession of adults carrying home a baby just baptized. The blue hood symbolises deception ("hooding the husband" meant to cuckold him, as shown in Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs). |
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22 |
Morra |
A hand game - similar to rock, paper, scissors - that dates back thousands of years to ancient Roman and Greek times |
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23 |
Piñata |
A papier-mâché or other type of container that is decorated, filled with toys and or candy and then broken, usually as part of a ceremony or celebration |
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24 |
Walk on stilts |
Walking poles equipped with steps for the feet to stand on, they can be short (like here) or long (see number 62) |
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25 |
Play leapfrog |
Vaulting over each other's stooped backs |
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26 |
Mock tournaments |
Competitions of various kind |
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27 |
The "Pope's seat" |
Holding the child by gripping hands |
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28 |
Hobby-horse |
Riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head |
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29 |
Stirring excrements with a stick |
The best game for children to play. |
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30 |
Playing the flute and the drum |
Playing simple music with basic instruments, always popular with kids |
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31 |
The simple roll hoop |
Children and adults around the world have played with hoops, twirling, rolling and throwing them throughout history |
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32 |
Shouting into a barrel from a hole |
The many uses of a barrel |
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33 |
The hoop with bells |
A variation of rolling the hoop |
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34 |
Riding the barrel |
With barrel vaulting, another popular play |
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35 |
Hat throwing |
Throw them through a child's open legs, or see who throws farthest |
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36 |
Raisinbread man |
A man-shaped loaf of bread, most likely some sort of Dutch duivekater, offered during wakes or at Christmas |
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37 |
The penalty of "bumbouncing" |
Bouncing someone's buttocks on planks |
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38 |
Ball made with an inflated pig's bladder |
Inflating a pig's bladder to create a balloon |
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39 |
Buck buck[4] |
A group of children had to create a "pony" and another had to leap on their backs until the weight made it crumble |
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40 |
To play shop |
On the wooden plank below the funnel Bruegel inscribed "BRUEGEL 1560" Red pigment was made from scraping bricks and was most famous from Antwerp. |
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41 |
Playing Tiddlywinks |
Played with small discs called "winks", a pot, and a collection of squidgers. The children use a "squidger" (a disk) to propel a wink into flight by pressing down on a wink, thereby flicking it into the air: the objective of the game is to score points by sending one's own winks into the pot |
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42 |
Playing Mumblety-peg |
An old outdoor game played by children using pocketknives |
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43 |
Building (a well) |
Like sandcastles on a beach, building is ever popular |
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44 |
Pulling hair |
A game or a fight? |
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45 |
Catching insects with a net |
Not only butterflies |
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46 |
Playing the scourge |
Not a safe game |
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47 |
Playing marbles |
Ancient and still going strong nowadays |
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48 |
Pitch and toss |
The players each take a coin and take turns tossing them towards the wall: the coin the closest to the wall wins |
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49 |
Twirling a hat on a stick |
Clowns do it regularly |
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50 |
Making a procession |
Popular among children and adults, in diverse applications |
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51 |
Playing the porter |
or goalkeeper? |
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52 |
Who's got the ball? |
Hiding the ball and guessing who has it |
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53 |
Riding piggyback |
Still going strong, riding on someone's shoulders |
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54 |
Singing door-to-door |
Especially now at Christmas, with carols |
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55 |
Bonfire |
Lighting a fire, a dangerous but ever-practiced activity |
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56 |
Riding a broom |
A variation of hobby-horse, but with many players |
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57 |
Pushing a wall |
good for exercising muscles |
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58 |
Hide-and-seek |
Or "hide and go seek", a game in which a number of players conceal themselves in the environment, to be found by one or more seekers |
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59 |
The "devil's tail" or the "snake" |
Role play as a street game |
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60 |
Grappling |
A basic form of wrestling |
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61 |
The "devil chained" |
Role play as a street game |
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62 |
Run, jump on a cellar's door |
Noisy and unsafe |
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63 |
Bowling |
Players attempt to score points by rolling a ball along a flat surface, either into pins or to get close to a target ball |
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64 |
The token |
Running and handing off the baton to the next runner |
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65 |
Throwing walnuts |
Perhaps a variation of bowling or bocce, hitting an assembled cluster of nuts |
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66 |
High stilts |
Walking on long poles |
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67 |
Pole vaulting |
Exercising on a horizontally fixed bar |
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68 |
Balancing a stick on a finger |
A clownish game of balance |
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69 |
Put up a show |
Enacting a play |
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70 |
Spinning tops |
Using toys that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point |
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71 |
The trolleys |
Baskets moving on a line |
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72 |
Flying a ribbon on a stick |
Letting a piece of cloth fly in the wind from a stick |
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73 |
Whom shall I choose? |
A girl selects her "baby" from a group of friends under a blanket |
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74 |
Urinating |
Technically, not quite a game but practiced often |
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75 |
Bocce |
In teams, throwing the bocce balls closest to the jack ball |
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76 |
Pirouetting skirts |
Swirling the girls' skirts round and round |
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77 |
Climbing a tree |
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78 |
Swimming |
A healthy recreational exercise, enjoying a full-body workout |
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79 |
Diving |
Jumping or falling into water is always fun for children |
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80 |
Floating with an inflated pig's bladder |
A sheep's bladder was also used, to float on top of it or to play water games |
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81 |
Dethroning the King |
Role play |
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82 |
Playing with sand |
Building castles and digging holes |
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83 |
Coil tournament |
A fight of knights |
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84 |
Rattles |
Noisy musical game |