The Educational Value of Traditional Games

Conducive to the development of children's basic movements.

The basic movements of children's sports activities mainly include walking, running, jumping, balancing, drilling, climbing and throwing. These basic movements are the foundation of children's sports. Cultivating children's basic movements is conducive to training children's sensitivity, coordination of body and movements and correct posture of basic activities. Most traditional sports games, such as "When is the time for the old wolf", "Hopscotch", "Catch the chicken" and "Throw a handkerchief", can promote the development of children's basic movements.

It is helpful to the formation of children's good personality and excellent will quality.

Traditional sports games have established rules and competitiveness, and the smooth progress of traditional sports games lies in children's understanding and observance of these rules and their correct understanding of winning or losing the game. For example, when playing games such as rocks, scissors and pigs, when children win in the game, they feel the joy and satisfaction of success, increase their self-confidence and sense of accomplishment, and when they face failure, they will feel depressed. This cultivates children's ability to distinguish right from wrong, analyze their own shortcomings and overcome their own weaknesses. At the same time, they can correctly evaluate their own and their peers' abilities and accept setbacks. Therefore, in this process, children learn self-control, exercise their ability to resist setbacks, enhance their ability to distinguish right from wrong and correctly evaluate themselves and their peers, and gradually form a good personality and excellent will quality.