Homework (due 6th Nov.)
Research games that used to be played by Indigenous children in the past.Write a paragraph comparing your childhood games to those you researched.
Please remember to edit your work properly as you would in class.
Research games that used to be played by Indigenous children in the past.Write a paragraph comparing your childhood games to those you researched.
Please remember to edit your work properly as you would in class.
October 26th, 2009 at 3:56 am
My childhood games were very different to the Indigenous kids games.The Indigenous
children did not have games like ‘Mums and dads’ or tiggy.They made games up with what they could find(bark,sticks,etc).The games we have usually have a ball or nothing
(tiggy).Some of the Indigenous games are used to learn how to remember the area around them while all of our games are just played for fun. My favourite game played with my friends is called three word tiggy.
It is exactly like bob down tiggy but instead of bobbing you say three words then you need to wait for a person that is not it to tag you.An Indigenous kids game would have been very different to mine.
L.T
October 27th, 2009 at 1:58 am
The Differences Between Indigenous Children’s Games and The Games That I Play Are:
- In Ball Games They Would Use Animal Skin For A Ball. The Balls That Are Used In Activites These Days Are Synthetic.
- The Discuses Used Were Made Out Of A Piece Of Bark The Ones Used Today Are Either Made Out Of Rubber Or Synthetic Material
- Not Many Of The Games Involved Running But, Lots Of The Games Now Involve More Running
- Many Of Those Games Go On For Hours But The Games We Play At Recess And Lunchtime Usually Go For 30-50 Minutes
October 28th, 2009 at 1:10 am
The comparison between my toys and aboriginal childrens’ toys are:
Aboriginal children play with very basic hand made toys; spinning tops, propelers, balls, hoops and dolls, which are all made of natural materials such as wood.
I play with more advanced toys which are made from electricity, technology and a huge variety of different materials. Some of these toys are; Playstation, computers, Nintendo DS and TV’s.
Therefore, the sorts of toys I play with compared to what aboriginal kids play with, are vastly different.
October 28th, 2009 at 5:56 am
The difference between my childhood games and Indigenous children’s games are :
Indigenous children play with things you could find on the ground that can be made in to all sorts of toys .Because aboriginals are very good at making things like wooden dolls.
But with my toys they are usually made out of plastic or metal or they are just electronic technology such as computers and other consoles like that.
So overall I think the toys i have are very different to the toys Indigenous kids would have.
October 28th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
D.S for Homework due 6th Nov.
The difference between 21st century toys and Indigenous Australian childrens toys is that kids these days have toys that are made from more modern materials and Indigenous Australian childrens toys would be made from more natural materials.
Kids these days play with technology more than getting outside and playing a game
These days kids play with things such as the Nintendo Wii,the PS3,the PSP,the PS2,the PLAYSTATION,the DS,the xbox,the xbox 360,the computer,the T.V and much more .
Indigenous children though would play games that they just thought up.They would use materials such as sticks,bark,wood,animal skin,paint and heaps more natural materials.The games they made up were alot different to games I play at school like footy,gaelic,NRL,basketball,ball tigy,tigy and heaps more games.
I think that my toys compared to indigenous Australian childrens toys have a massive difference.
D.S
October 29th, 2009 at 4:11 am
I chose 2 Indigenous Australians games. Ones called bubberah which is a game where you throw a boomerang and the person whos boomerang returned the closest wins.
A game I play which relates to it is frisbee. It’s kind of similer because you throw a disc but you don’t have to get to return to you.
The next Indigenous game is a game called boogalah which is like basketball but is used with a ball from kangaroo skin.
The game that relates to that is obvisouly basketball.
Nowadays we play games like A.F.L, soccer, cricket, gaelic, bat tennis, tiggy and ball tiggy. In the Indigenous peoples days they played all these games that we haven’t even heard of and no one plays any more because all the Indigenous Australians have adapted to the modern games.
J.L
October 31st, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Some of the games that are played by the Indigenous children are Battendi which was invented to improve spear-throwing, Goomboobooddoo which is a traditional wrestling game and Kokan which is a game similar to hockey.
Some of my childhood games include cycling, ball games, board games and going on the computer.
My childhood games and the Indigenous children’s are very different. I didn’t used to throw spears or wrestle when I was small!
November 1st, 2009 at 4:34 pm
My childhood games were very different . As I didn’t play lots of ball games I prefered to play dolls or mums and dads. Indigenous Australians used lots of different fruits to use as ballsto play their games with. Indigenous Australians had to play those games as part of their language group they might need to play thoose games to be able hear the dreamtime stories but I think they play for fun.When I used to play dolls I used to have a doll and her clothes,a bed etc. Where Indigenous Australians didn’t have any of that in thoose days.
By CP
November 2nd, 2009 at 1:25 am
My childhood games are very different to the indigenous children’s games.
My childhood games included mums and dads, tiggy and Hide and Seek. Indigenous children played games with anything they could find while we usually buy the products that we play with e.g:Kolap is a game that indigenous children played, you will have to use beans from the Kolap tree to play this game.
In the past, one of my favourite childhood activity was just to play with a gameboard.
So I think the indigenous children’s games are very different to mine.
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 am
My childhood games were very different to their childhood games! One of their childhood games was Battendi where they would throw spears at a target but instead of doing that nowdays we play darts and we throw darts at a board. Although some of our games are like Brambahl it is just like jumping skipping with a longer rope!
from AW
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:37 am
Indigenous Australian children did different things to what i did when i was young:
Like they caught frogs, learned how to throw a spear, explored into the forest, help gather firewood, they swam in creeks, rivers and oceans, they also learned how to do their community’s rock drawings, learned there community language they also invented games and they climbed trees which we wouldn’t do at that age
But when i was young i: PlayStation, hide and seek, cricket, soccer. footy, riding my bike, playing on the computer my scooter and all ball games
so i think my childhood games were different to theirs
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:08 am
Some of the Indigenous games are Brambahl. Brambahl is a traditional Indigenous game when two men hold a long rope at each end to swing it. When it is in full swing in goes the skipper and performs some different activities while skipping.
Brambahl is similar to the game I sometimes used to play, regular skipping. But two men didn’t have to hold the ends of the rope, it could have been girls and when you play skipping the skipper don’t really perform tricks.
Indigenous kids don’t have / know the games like ‘Mums and Dads’ and ‘Ball Tiggy’
November 4th, 2009 at 1:25 am
My childhood games are very different to there childhood games because i play PS2 DS computer and realy fun games unlike the indigenous games like play tiggy, hide and seek boomerang , dust, jumping and more of that. So comparing my games to theres its a big differets in fun to board.
so thats what the games they played were like back then i pefer my games then theres its a big differes.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Games that the indigenous australians played are much diferent to the ones I play.
They used to play games that they didn’t need much like tiggy, you don’t need anything. I plaly games like cricket and football and soccer. Those games also have much more rules than indigenous australian games. Other things they did was use the land like a big playground. They had a good imagination.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:31 am
The games that indigenous played are different games to ours. they had to use stuff like animal skin and bark to play with for games. The toys that they had were often made of materials such as wood, animals fur/skin and leaves. We have things such as television P.S.2, P.S.3, P.S.P, xbox, xbox360,D.S gameboy ect.
There games were easy to make because they just had to move to play games,we on the other hand have to make them and then pay for them, plus if they get broken then you have to pay for that to!
November 4th, 2009 at 2:43 am
Some of the Indigenous games that were played were: Spin Ball and The Bullroarer and more.
Most of the games that were played by Indigenous Australians were made by hand or hand made tools. Were as nowdays, games are mostly made by machinery.
Nearlly all Indigenous games were interactive but most of our games (white settlement games) were not. Such includes: Computer, Playstations 1,2 and 3 and more.
So you can see that there is a big difference in Indigenous games and White Settlenment games.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:03 am
aboriginal lives were very different to ours.
they didnt have any electricity to run a t.v,Xbox or a Wii.
they were all very fit because they were always running around outside.
they were always catching animals such as lizards,frogs and insects.
when i get up in the morning i play Wii, playstation or watch t.v.
they would probibly get up and start playing tiggy or climb trees.
they dont have the stuff we do now.
at night they would probibly tell stories and dreamtime stories to make up the rules around the language group (tribe).
J.E
November 4th, 2009 at 6:04 am
My childhood games are very different to their games, because they usually played games that doesn’t require many complicated tools like ‘hunt the treasure’. These days, many of us play computer, Nintendo Wii, and Playstation 1,2and 3 which are very complicated machinary. Anther difference is, that they used different materials
such as animal skin, but these days people use electricity and other stuff to make games.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:33 am
Homework – due on the 6th Nov:
Some of the childhood games that Indigenous Australians played :
1.Brambahl- Very simmilar to skipping. They did it with a long rope.
2.Bubberah- Boomerang throwing.
3.Buroinjin- Like basketball but with a Kangaroo skin ball.
4.Goombooboodoo- Wrestling with greasy bodies.
5.Taktyerrain- Like ‘Poison ball’ or ‘Brandy’ with toy spears made out of grasses,reeds or rushes.
6.Whagoo- Hide and seek.
7.Wana- A game for girls only. They used a short stick which was the ‘baby’. Each girl must try to protect her ‘baby’ with her stick. The other girls are throwing their sticks at the baby, who is in the middle of the circle, trying to kill it!.
8.Swimming!!!- Either in a billabong, creek,lake,stream,waterhole,pond,river or in the ocean they just loved to do this in the summer when it is really hot!
OUR CHILDHOOD GAMES…
If you were like me and many other girls you would have played with ‘Barbies’ or dolls when you were little. When you get a little bit older you then start playing with things like Nintendo DS’s, Nintendo Wii’s, Playstation 1, 2 and 3’s computers or watching T.V.. Now that we’ve dicovered electricity and have started using technology, we use these alot for our games and activities.
Although their childhood games looked like lots of fun some of them are extremely different to ours- like trying to kill ‘babies’, playing with sticks, spears and boomerangs. The games that are similar are hide-and-seek, wrestling, skipping, swimming and ball games.
November 5th, 2009 at 5:28 am
some games played:
- Swimming – in a billabong, creek,lake,stream,water hole,pond,river or in the ocean when it is hot they do this
- Brambahl – a traditional indigenous game where two men hold a long rope at each end and swing it.When it is in full swing in goes the skipper and performs several activities while skipping
- Goomboobooddoo – A traditional wrestling game bodies are greased to make them slippery then family clans complete against each other the side that family that throws the most men wins
- Kolap – An object throwing game using deans of the Kalap tree common on Mer island in the Torres strait late last century
- Whagoo – The popular hide and seek game was also known to the indigenous people
- Parndo – This traditional ball game was played in south Australia the Parndp ball was made with a piece of opossum skin for kicking and passing
from sc
November 5th, 2009 at 8:13 am
The childhood games the Indigenous children played may include things such as balls.
These balls weren’t made out of plastic like ours are. The balls they played with was made out of grass, animal skin or whatever they could find to make it out of. They made things out of nature. They had less games than we do. Indigenous people play the games as a group. I don’t think they play 2 square or down ball. And I’m pretty sure that we don’t play the games they Indigenous people play.
Some of the Indigenous childhood games:
Buroinjin: This is a ball game played by the Kabi Kabi people of southern Queensland. The game was played with a ball made of kangaroo skin which was called a buroinjin. Spectators used to mark their applause by calling out ‘Ei, ei’.
Weme: The Walbiri people of Central Australia played a stone bowling game. One player threw a stone which was the used as a target by the second player. Players alternated turns with each aiming at the other’s stone.
So, I think our lifestyle and childhood games are VERY, different to the Indigenous Australians! Even if our lifestyle and our childhood games a very different, I know that we are all Australians!
November 5th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
They used to use animal skin for a ball and we use plastic.
Battendi this Aboriginal game was set up to enhance both a spear-thrower’s accuracy and distance and it’s played in south of australia and we play it with a ball insted of a separ and it;’s called balltiggy.
Brambahl is a game where two men holding a long rope and they try to spin it and we don’t have game like it.so indigenous games are more complicated like with spears ropes and all those things.