How to play hopscotch!

Hopscotch is a fun game nearly everyone has played as a kid. Feel as though you've outgrown your childhood and can't recall or never played before? Start practicing jumping on one leg and read on!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Chalk
• Small token to throw
• Energy!!!

1. 
   Chalk

   To begin, you will need chalk to draw out your game board. You should choose an area that's wide enough with space for you to jump on.

2. 
   Different design ideas

   The more challenging you want the board to be, the more challenging boxes you create! Be sure to label each box numbers from 1 to how ever many box's there are on your game board.

3. 
   Bean bags

   Next, you will need a small token that is yours to throw and use during the game. A necklace, wood chip, or a bean bag.

4. 
   Hopscotch!

   You start with leaving your token on the space marked 1. You hop all the way down the drawn boxes, then you hop all the way back to where your token is at. Stop and swoop down (still on one leg) and pick up the token and jump off the board at the starting point. Next, you toss your token to the box numbered 2. You go all the way back down and back, and before getting off of box 3, be sure to pick up your token before leaping over boxes 1 and 2. Next, you toss your token to box 3. Keep repeating those steps until you toss your token out of the box it's supposed to be at or if you step on a line or fall. Then, it's the next person's turn.

5. To win hopscotch, you have to be the first person who tossed their token all the way down the board game and back to number 1. If there are other tokens in a box, remember, you cannot step in that box. Even if it means you have to leap like you've never leaped before- you have to or you will lose your turn.

Tips & Warnings

• Practice jumping on one foot for better stamina!
• Practice tossing your token to a desired range for longer game play.
• Hopscotch is fun and great childhood game. However, be careful and mindful of your body while playing and don't get too seriously injured.

[Fuller1972]

on 7/26/2008 Thanks for the reminder, what fun and good exercise.

[anderson1980]

on 6/22/2008 I loved hopscotch as a kid. I tried to play again recently, but found it too hard on my older knees. 8( Thanks for the memories, though!