A10- Interview with grandparents on Traditional Games"Good old days"

1. October 2016
Latvia,
presented in Italy
Project Nr. 2015-1-TR01-KA219-
021800_8

2.  The objectives of our meeting were
 1)to find out about professions of our grandparents
because it was the week of career;
 2) to learn playing habits of the grandparents.
 Procedure:
 Every pupil (41 in total) made an invitation for
grandparents to come to this event.
 Just 5 grandparents came to interview on 14th of October.
 First pupils told where they have been during career week:
the shop, the doctor office, tourism complex and post
office.
 We asked each grandparent to tell about their career and
then children asked questions about games.
 Grandparents were willing to tell about themselves and
answer to questions.

3.  They have spent all their life working
physically (labour work).

4.  Their life was hard (no time for games) – it
was time after II WW, everybody worked in
their farmsteads (in field, in yard, in cattle-
shed), look after siblings.
 Once a week it was allowed to visit neighbour
and just for 1-2 hours.

5.  Mostly they played alone or with siblings
because the closest neighbour was 3 km far
away.

6.  Most of their free time they spent outside:
hopscotch, “catch me”, hide and seek, richu
rachu (ludo) , skiing.
 They played with animals (dogs, horses):
training them to obey, to bring smth.

7.  They imagine that things can be anything:
cones could be animals, sprigs could be
fence.
 They played role-games: schools, libraries,
shops, sometimes they played many roles
even alone.

8.  There were not any toys in their childhood.
 They made toys themselves or together with
parents or relatives, they made even bicycles
and skiis; dresses for dolls.
 Toys were given as presents for birthdays.
There were no nice toys in the shops.