Kinderspiele - Bruegel

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The games

Starting from bottom left, the games may be identified as follows:

Number	Image	Game	Notes
01	Datei:BRU - CHD 01.jpg	Playing with dolls
02	Datei:BRU - CHD 02.00.jpg	Playing 'Holy Mass'	Small liturgical objects used at Mass and Liturgies
03	Datei:BRU - CHD 02.jpg	Water gun and owl on support	Shooting water at a bird
04	Datei:BRU - CHD 03.jpg	Wearing masks	Wearing disguises for fun
05	Datei:BRU - CHD 04.jpg	Swing	The classic hanging seat
06	Datei:BRU - CHD 05.jpg	Climbing a fence	A popular pastime with neighbour's fences
07	Datei:BRU - CHD 06.jpg	Handstand	There are many variations of handstands, but all that matters is balance
08	Datei:BRU - CHD 07.jpg	Play the "knot"	Bending the body to contorted positions
09	Datei:BRU - CHD 08.jpg	Somersault	Flipping and rolling forwards, backwards, or sideways
10	Datei:BRU - CHD 09.jpg	Fence riding	Again, a fence game
11	Datei:BRU - CHD 10.jpg	Mock wedding	It is exactly at the diagonal centre of the panel. Perhaps an irony of the holy sacrament, or a reference to the main event that allows conception of children. Mock child weddings have been common folk tradition many places in Europe, and were often celebrated at Midsummer.
12	Datei:BRU - CHD 11.jpg	Passing through kicking legs - running the gauntlet	Painful but dynamic
13	Datei:BRU - CHD 13.jpg	Blind Man's Bluff	Blind fortune
14	Datei:BRU - CHD 14.jpg	Playing with birds	Ever popular
14b	Datei:BRU - CHD 14b.jpg	Making hats with twigs	Basket weaving
15	Datei:BRU - CHD 15.jpg	Soap bubbles	Still a popular pastime, Bruegel shows children blowing bubbles with clay pipes and verifies soap bubbles being used as entertainment for at least 400 years
16	Datei:BRU - CHD 16.jpg	Shell bobbin	A flying spinneret made of nut shells
17	Datei:Teetotum Bruegel.gif	The "Toton"	Forerunner of the roulette and dice games
17b	Datei:BRU - CHD 17b.jpg	Toy animal with leash	A stone dog of sorts
18	Datei:BRU - CHD 18.jpg	Knucklebones	Game of very ancient origin, played with five small objects, originally the "knucklebones" (actually the astragalus: a bone in the ankle, or hock) of a sheep, which are thrown up and caught in various ways
19	Datei:BRU - CHD 19.jpg	Mock baptismal	Re-enacting the procession of adults carrying home a baby just baptized. The blue hood symbolises deception ("hooding the husband" meant to cuckold him, as shown in Bruegel's Netherlandish Proverbs).
20	Datei:BRU - CHD 20.jpg	Morra	A hand game - similar to rock, paper, scissors - that dates back thousands of years to ancient Roman and Greek times
21	Datei:BRU - CHD 21.jpg	Piñata	A papier-mâché or other type of container that is decorated, filled with toys and or candy and then broken, usually as part of a ceremony or celebration
22	Datei:BRU - CHD 22.jpg	Walk on stilts	Walking poles equipped with steps for the feet to stand on, they can be short (like here) or long (see number 62)
23	Datei:BRU - CHD 23.jpg	Play leapfrog	Vaulting over each other's stooped backs
24	Datei:BRU - CHD 24.jpg	Mock tournaments	Competitions of various kind
25	Datei:BRU - CHD 25.jpg	The "Pope's seat"	Holding the child by gripping hands
26	Datei:BRU - CHD 26.jpg	Hobby-horse	Riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head
27	Datei:BRU - CHD 27.jpg	Stirring excrements with a stick	Not a healthy game
28	Datei:BRU - CHD 28.jpg	Playing the flute and the drum	Playing simple music with basic instruments, always popular with kids
29	Datei:BRU - CHD 29.jpg	The simple roll hoop	Children and adults around the world have played with hoops, twirling, rolling and throwing them throughout history
30	Datei:BRU - CHD 30.jpg	Shouting into a barrel from a hole	The many uses of a barrel
31	Datei:BRU - CHD 31.jpg	The hoop with bells	A variation of rolling the hoop
32	Datei:BRU - CHD 32.jpg	Riding the barrel	With barrel vaulting, another popular play
33	Datei:BRU - CHD 33.jpg	Hat throwing	Throw them through a child's open legs, or see who throws farthest
34	Datei:BRU - CHD 34.jpg	Raisinbread man	A man-shaped loaf of bread, most likely some sort of Dutch duivekater, offered during wakes or at Christmas
35	Datei:BRU - CHD 35.jpg	The penalty of "bumbouncing"	Bouncing someone's buttocks on planks

Number	Image	Game	Notes
36	Datei:BRU - CHD 36.jpg	Ball made with an inflated pig's bladder	Inflating a pig's bladder to create a balloon
37	Datei:BRU - CHD 37.jpg	Buck buck^[1]	A group of children had to create a "pony" and another had to leap on their backs until the weight made it crumble
38	Datei:Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. 056.jpg	To play shop	On the wooden plank below the funnel Bruegel inscribed "BRUEGEL 1560" Red pigment was made from scraping bricks and was most famous from Antwerp.
39	Datei:BRU - CHD 39.jpg	Playing Tiddlywinks	Played with small discs called "winks", a pot, and a collection of squidgers. The children use a "squidger" (a disk) to propel a wink into flight by pressing down on a wink, thereby flicking it into the air: the objective of the game is to score points by sending one's own winks into the pot
39b	Datei:BRU - CHD 39.jpg	Playing Mumblety-peg	An old outdoor game played by children using pocketknives
40	Datei:BRU - CHD 40.jpg	Building (a well)	Like sandcastles on a beach, building is ever popular
41	Datei:BRU - CHD 41.jpg	Pulling hair	A game or a fight?
42	Datei:BRU - CHD 42.jpg	Catching insects with a net	Not only butterflies
43	Datei:BRU - CHD 43.jpg	Playing the scourge	Not a safe game
44	Datei:BRU - CHD 44.jpg	Playing marbles	Ancient and still going strong nowadays
45	Datei:BRU - CHD 45.jpg	Pitch and toss	The players each take a coin and take turns tossing them towards the wall: the coin the closest to the wall wins
45b	Datei:BRU - CHD 45b.jpg	Twirling a hat on a stick	Clowns do it regularly
46	Datei:BRU - CHD 46.jpg	Making a procession	Popular among children and adults, in diverse applications
47	Datei:BRU - CHD 47.jpg	Playing the porter	or goalkeeper?
48	Datei:BRU - CHD 48.jpg	Who's got the ball?	Hiding the ball and guessing who has it
49	Datei:BRU - CHD 49.jpg	Riding piggyback	Still going strong, riding on someone's shoulders
50	Datei:BRU - CHD 50.jpg	Singing door-to-door	Especially now at Christmas, with carols
51	Datei:BRU - CHD 51.jpg	Bonfire	Lighting a fire, a dangerous but ever-practiced activity
52	Datei:BRU - CHD 52.jpg	Riding a broom	A variation of hobby-horse, but with many players
53	Datei:BRU - CHD 53.jpg	Pushing a wall	good for exercising muscles
54	Datei:BRU - CHD 54.jpg	Hide-and-seek	Or "hide and go seek", a game in which a number of players conceal themselves in the environment, to be found by one or more seekers
55	Datei:BRU - CHD 55.jpg	The "devil's tail" or the "snake"	Role play as a street game
56	Datei:BRU - CHD 56.jpg	Grappling	A basic form of wrestling
57	Datei:BRU - CHD 57.jpg	The "devil chained"	Role play as a street game
58	Datei:BRU - CHD 58.jpg	Run, jump on a cellar's door	Noisy and unsafe
59	Datei:BRU - CHD 59.jpg	Bowling	Players attempt to score points by rolling a ball along a flat surface, either into pins or to get close to a target ball
60	Datei:BRU - CHD 60.jpg	The token	Running and handing off the baton to the next runner
61	Datei:BRU - CHD 61.jpg	Throwing walnuts	Perhaps a variation of bowling or bocce, hitting an assembled cluster of nuts
62	Datei:BRU - CHD 62.jpg	High stilts	Walking on long poles
63	Datei:BRU - CHD 63.jpg	Pole vaulting	Exercising on a horizontally fixed bar
64	Datei:BRU - CHD 64.jpg	Balancing a stick on a finger	A clownish game of balance
65	Datei:BRU - CHD 65.jpg	Put up a show	Enacting a play
66	Datei:BRU - CHD 66.jpg	Spinning tops	Using toys that can be spun on an axis, balancing on a point
67	Datei:BRU - CHD 67.jpg	The trolleys	Baskets moving on a line
68	Datei:BRU - CHD 68.jpg	Flying a ribbon on a stick	Letting a piece of cloth fly in the wind from a stick
69	Datei:BRU - CHD 69.jpg	Whom shall I choose?	A girl selects her "baby" from a group of friends under a blanket
70	Datei:BRU - CHD 70.jpg	Urinating	Technically, not quite a game but practiced often
71	Datei:BRU - CHD 71.jpg	Bocce	In teams, throwing the bocce balls closest to the jack ball
72	Datei:BRU - CHD 72.jpg	Pirouetting skirts	Swirling the girls' skirts round and round
73	Datei:BRU - CHD 73.jpg	Climbing a tree
74	Datei:BRU - CHD 74.jpg	Swimming	A healthy recreational exercise, enjoying a full-body workout
75	Datei:BRU - CHD 75.jpg	Diving	Jumping or falling into water is always lots of fun for children
76	Datei:BRU - CHD 76.jpg	Floating with an inflated pig's bladder	A sheep's bladder was also used, to float on top of it or to play water games
77	Datei:BRU - CHD 77.jpg	"Dethroning the King"	Role play
78	Datei:BRU - CHD 78.jpg	Playing with sand	Building castles and digging holes
79	Datei:BRU - CHD 79.jpg	Coil tournament	A fight of knights
80	Datei:BRU - CHD 60.jpg	Rattles	Noisy musical game

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