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Ferryhill Summer Club 2002
"The Year of the Child"

5th-12th August 2002 
9.15-12.15 pm 
in the Church Halls

Here is a game from China for you to play:

The Eagle 
and the Chicks

There is an old Chinese game called 'The Eagle and the Chicks', which is a fun, easy to play. 

You need at least five people to start, and the more who play, the more fun it would be.

 Choose one person as the eagle and someone else as the mother hen. The rest will be the chicks. 

In the game, the eagle tries to catch one of the chicks so he will be no longer the eagle, and the mother hen tries to protect the chicks from the eagle.

The chicks line behind the mother hen, one by one. The first chick behind the mother hen holds on to her waist or clothes, the one behind the first chick will hold on the first, and so on. 

The eagle can catch the chick by tagging the chick, and the mother hen can protect the chicks by spreading her arms shoulder high. When the chasing begins, the eagle is free to run anywhere to catch the chick. The mother hen will try to be in front of the eagle to protect the chicks.

The eagle has to go around the mother hen to catch the chick and he will try to avoid any contact with the mother hen. To help the mother hen, the chicks will try to run out of the way of the eagle. The chicks don't have to be in the line all the time. They may run out of the line and play tag with the eagle.

If the eagle catches a chick, this game will be over and that chick will be the eagle in the next game. 

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