How to Choose a Hopscotch Playing Surface

Series Summary

Hopscotch has been popular schoolyard game for, like, ever. Even the Romans played this great game, designed as a way to increase the agility of their soldiers, who played wearing all of their protective armor and traveling gear. The kids watching the soldiers practice borrowed the course and added a scoring system of their own. The rest is, as they say, history. In this series of playground game videos, our young expert tells you everything you need to know about this fun kids activity. Jamie show you how to draw the hopscotch boxes as well as the resting place. She talks about basic hopscotch strategy and rules, then demonstrates them like the total expert she is. Learn how to improve at hopscotch and compete against your friends. Impress all your classmates at recess with your awesome hopscotch skills learned at Expert Village.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Jamie Peterson and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. I'm here to teach you how to play hop scotch it is a really fun and easy game and you can play it pretty much anywhere. Today we are playing it in a driveway. But you can also play it inside your house if it is raining out. You can just ask your parents for permission and take masking tape and build yourself your own court. But make sure the masking tape comes right of the carpet before you start to build your whole court. Or another option is you can go down to the park with your parents and you can well sometimes there is courts laid out right there or you can take chalk and build your own court. But today we are playing in the driveway and it is a pretty flat surface no bumps or cracks which is a good place and it is out of the road. Make sure you do not play in the road cause it is a really bad place to play. There is always cars going by and you never want to get yourself hurt. So are you ready cause I'm ready let's play. "