1. METHOD LIBRARY RESEARCH ONLINE READING
Tuttle Japanese for Kids Flash Card, Timothy G. Stout, Tuttle Publishing, 11 Nov 2014
Nihongo Daisuki: Japanese for Children Trogh Games and Songs, Susan H. Hirate & Noriko Kawaura, Bess Press, 1990
An Introductory Handbook to Japan and Its People (改訂版 英語で日本紹介ハンドブック By 松本美江)
ONLINE READING

2. おてだま OTEDAMA

3. History
Originated from China and transmitted to Japan during Nara period. Popular after World War II.
Bean bag (Ojami) contained azuki beans
Parents smuggled extra food inside otedama during wartimes

4. Formation
Nagedama
Yosedama
Otedama

5. How to Play (Nagedama) 2 3 1 4 5 6 Catch the bag with the other hand
Throw bag into the air with one hand
Make things harder by juggling with one hand
Then increase the number of bag to two, three and then four
Repeat until you become good at it
Quickly toss it back to the throwing hand
Catch the bag with the other hand 2 3 1 4 5 6

6. How to Play (Yosedama) 1 2 3 4 5 Followed with three bags
Then pick up two bags at a time before the first hits the ground
Throw one bag in the air and pick up the second bag before the first hits the ground
Followed with three bags
Flip all the bags onto the back of the hand, then flip again back into palm. Number of otedama makes the points
Make four on the ground for last move and then pick up all four at once 1 2 3 4 5

7. Comparison Otedama Batu Seremban Japanese traditional game
Have two different formations
Have special otedama songs when playing
Malay traditional game
Only one formation
Have no special songs

8. かごめ　かごめ KAGOME KAGOME

9. The successful children have a ‘strange behavior’.
HISTORY
During WWII, German scientists conducted experiments on children in Hiroshima Orphanage to make them immortal.
The successful children have a ‘strange behavior’.
They used to play Kagome a lot during that time chanting a word Circle You Circle You.
On the last day before the scientist went back home, the children approached him, smiling, asking him to play one last game of “Kagome Kagome.”

10. RULES As song finishes, oni need to guess who is behind them.
Required at least 6 people.
One is represent as ‘oni’ or devil.
Oni is placed in the middle with their eyes covered.
Singing in circle the Kagome song.
As song finishes, oni need to guess who is behind them.
If it is correct, the oni will be exchanged and the song will play again.

12. COMPARISON - Japanese traditional games.
- The one in the middle is called oni/devil.
- ‘Oni’ did not singing along.
- Guess the one who is standing behind them.
- Malay traditional games.
- The one in the middle is called ‘Nenek Kebayan’.
- ‘Nenek Kebayan’ sings too.
- Guess the one who touched the ‘Nenek Kebayan’.

13. AYATORIあ やとり

14. No one known origin of the game.
History
No one known origin of the game.
Ancient art proves that all primitive societies had a version of string figures.
Began in the Heian period and spread in the Edo period (from 1603 to 1867).

15. DESCRIPTION Popular among girls Either playing alone or in pairs
Using string tied together at both ends.
Create shapes by manipulating string.
Fingers, mouth or wrists.
DESCRIPTION

16. develop cognitive and psychomotor skills
Fancy shapes
foresee the future
develop cognitive and psychomotor skills
illustrate their tales
To kill time!

17. HOW TO PLAY IN PAIRS ?
The players alternately take the loop from each other
Form a new pattern.
Pattern changes from one to other player.
The person who makes a mistake and ruins the intended shape loses.

18. Cat’s Cradle In Different Countries
Southern China
Kang sok (Well rope)
New Zealander
he-whai
huhi
maui
Korea
Ssi-teu-ki (Woof-taking)
France and Algeria
(la scie)
England and US
cat’s cradle
Germany
Abheben (Taking-off)
Faden-abheben (Taking-off strings)
Fadenspiel (String game)
Hexenspiel (Witch's game)
Auf- und Abnehmen (Picking-up and taking-off)

19. AYATORI-HASHI BRIDGE
"S" shape mimics the form of a dragon rising into the sky
80 meters in length
Crosses the Daishoji Rver in Yamanaka Onsen.
Designed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, a Japanese film maker

20. International String Figure Association
Gathering, preserving, and distributing string figure knowledge.
Founded in Japan in 1978 by mathematician Dr Hiroshi Noguchi and Anglican missionary Philip Noble.
Bulletin of the International String Figure Association (ISSN ) annually, ISFA News semi-annually, and String Figure Magazine quarterly (ISSN )

21. Doraemon Movie: Nobita's Space Heroes

22. FUKUWARAI ふくわらい

23. Japanese game
Fukuwarai roughly mean lucky laugh
New Year’s Blindfold Game
It’s usually play on New Year’s Day (Shogatsu)
Traditionally the game was played using a funny-looking woman with a round face, but over the years, many different facial styles have evolved

24. PREPARATION Blindfold Large outline of a face Large cutouts of eyes
Eyebrows
Nose
Mouth

25. How to play? First player putting on the blindfold.
The other players hand him/her the cutout.
First player tries to place that cutout in the correct place on the face.
After finished placing all the cutouts, removes the blindfold to see the results.
Usually very funny!!!

26. comparison FUKUWARAI PIN THE TAIL ON DONKEY Japanese game
American game
Common play on New Year’s Day
Common at birthday parties and other gatherings
No need to spin
Spun around until he or she is disoriented
The player tries to place that cutout by the other’s help of instruction
The player gropes around and tries to pin the tail on the donkey

27. original
after