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Traditional Games – Lost Treasure is a twinning school project between Karlovac Primary School in Croatia and Marjala School in Finland. The aim of this project is to introduce new generations to the joy of playing forgotten games from the past.

In early childhood, play plays a crucial role in shaping attitudes, adapting to the environment, and developing social and communication skills. The main goal of this project is to benefit all students by enhancing their physical, psycho-motor, emotional, social, and mental well-being while spending time outdoors with their peers. Playing games fosters imagination, creativity, and movement coordination. No activity proposal excites children more than an invitation to play.

The rapid development of technology has led to the near disappearance of traditional children’s games. With this project, we aim to revive them, encouraging students to play outdoors with their peers and reduce their screen time. This is also a great opportunity for them to learn and follow rules, norms, and principles of behavior while playing together.

We hope this project will guide students at the earliest school age to appreciate tradition and the richness of returning to natural movement, being in nature, and socializing. Additionally, the project promotes cultural exchange between these two schools and countries while enhancing English language communication skills.

You can follow the project’s progress on this blog.

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PROJECT BLOG

Date: 31 jan 2025

HULA LOOP

One of the traditional games of our region is Hula Hoop. Hula-hoop is a simple plastic hoop that originated in Ancient Greece as a toy for children. The goal of the player is to keep the hoop moving for as long as possible, i.e. by swinging his waist and hips. so that he does not fall to the ground.
At first it was not easy for us to spin the Hula Hoop, but in any case we had a lot of fun and laughed.
-Karlovac primary school, Croatia
Text and photos: Teacher Vladimira Fumic

Date: 14 Feb 2025

RETRO TOYS EXHIBITION
As part of the project, we visited the Retro Toys exhibition. There we looked at many toys that our parents, grandparents used to play with. It was very interesting, because all these toys were new to us. We have never seen most of them. We liked the old board games the most, which some even have at home, because their parents managed to preserve them.

-Karlovac primary school, Croatia
Text and photos: Teacher Vladimira Fumic

Date: 14 Feb 2025

THE BEAR IS SLEEPING

Text & instructions coming up soon!

– Marjala school, Finland

Text & photos: Teacher Pauliina Ryhänen