martes, 4 de mayo de 2010

Easter Games



By Ana Feijoo, Celso Ons Castro, Cesar Muñiz, Lorena Domingos,
Luis Pérez , Maeloc, Sergio Gavilanes, Victor Pulido.

EGG HUNTING
Parents usually hide the eggs for children to find them on Easter morning. Children believe that the Easter Bunny brings them the Easter eggs.


EGG AND SPOON RACE
You will need two spoons, hard-boiled eggs, length of grass for the race and flags for the finish line. After dividing the players into two teams and establishing the start and finish line, the front runner in each team puts the egg on the spoon, runs the length of the course, goes back and then passes the egg to the next runner. If the egg is dropped, the runner must start again. The winning team is the one whose members first complete the course.

EGG SHACKLING
You will need a hard-boiled egg for each player. Each player meets their opponent, grasping their egg firmily and hitting his opponent's, trying to crack it while keeping their own intact. The winner of each round will keep the broken egg for himself, so the overall winner will win all the eggs.

BOTTLE KICKING MATCH
You will need two barrels which will be filled with sweets. Each team will try to move the barrels over different obstacles towards the finish line. The team which first gets the line will win the barrels with sweets.

This game was born in 1770, when the Rector of Hallaton (UK) was given a piece of land after providing the locals with two hare pies, some loves of bread and some ale, which had to be scrambled for in public. This scramble became a tradition and years later, during one of these scrambles, the nearby town of Medbourne came to steal the food and drink, emerging a fight between the people of the two towns. Since then both towns have remembered this fight playing a 'bottle kicking match' on every Easter Monday. It is a game in which no eye-gouging, no weapons and no strangling are the only rules. Locals carry a big hare pie and three barrels, two of them filled with beer and one painted red and white. Then they are decked in ribbons. They are released in turns and the two teams, Hallaton and Medbourne, try to roll them to their village boundary, but they must dodge all kind of obstacles!

The Easter Bunny and The Easter eggs



By Ana Feijoo, Celso Ons Castro, Lorena Domingos, Luís Pérez Alvarez, Maeloc, Paula Sastre.




The Easter Bunny was the earthly symbol of the goddess Eastre, worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons. In Christian tradition, a rabbit witnesses the miracle of the resurrection of Christ in his tomb, so the rabbit became the messenger to communicate and remember the new goods.
The Easter Egg. For ancient Anglo-Saxons exchanging eggs in spring was a symbol of rebirth, fertility and new live. Now people give chocolate eggs or hard-boiled eggs painted with different colours as a present at Easter. Sometimes eggs are boiled with petals of flowers, leaves or any kind of vegetables to make them colourful.

EASTER TRADITIONS