Lauren, an intern at La Aldea Infantil, tells us about teaching the kids to play "Capture the Flag:"
The week has been full of outdoor games. We have tried to come up with fun games to teach the kids that are also good exercise. So, we ended up teaching them all how to play "Capture the Flag." We taught them the rules and then split up into teams. It was kind of difficult to come up with somewhere to put the flag that wouldn't be to easy for the other team to get. So, one of the kids ended up climbing up one of the many trees here and sticking it there. How he was able to climb this tree, I do not know because there were not branches, so he ended up sort of shimmying his way up the trees. When the game started it was fun to watch the kids run around and argue about whether they were actually tagged by the other team or not. We interns did play, but we left the flag stealing part to the kids since they can climb the trees better than us.
The first day we taught them, we ended up playing two games because after the first one, they all but begged us to play again. This continued on for the next 4 days because every afternoon they would always want to play and we would usually end up playing two, maybe three games each day. On Friday however, the kids ended up setting it all up by themselves and playing without the help of us interns. It was fun to watch them get their teams together and run around without us having to help out. I think that this new game will be a favorite of their's in the future.
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