Freewrite: Children’s Game

Today’s prompt is RED LIGHT

When I saw the prompt I immediately thought of the game I played as a youngster called Red Light- Green Light.

The Gallagher family had a lot of children and when they came to visit my parents, we always played outside and this was one of the games. Our mothers would be inside enjoying a cuppa tea and talking about the latest happenings around the area.

Playing Green Light- Red Light was a nice change from the Cowboys and Indians game we usually played while running wildly around the large yard, hiding behind the big trees on the property and hollering and whooping.

We always played games that didn’t need any equipment. In reality we didn’t have anything aside from a baseball and bat but with this game we just needed ourselves.

A player would stand at a imaginary finish line and the rest of us would stand back at the starting line. When the Player at the finish line hollered green light we would all move forward. Then at some point he would holler Red Light and turn around and catch anyone still moving. If you were caught still moving, the penalty was to go back to the starting line. Eventually someone would reach the finish line and they would be the next one to start the game.

Thinking back this was a good exercise, not only in agility but in improving listening skills in children.

My 5 minute freewrite on Red Light.

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