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Jugar al Panuelo (Tissue game)
What you need:
Two tissues.

How to play:
With two lines, two equally sized pitches are marked out and then divided with a line through the middle.
Two equally sized teams are selected. The members of both teams are numbered from 1, and upwards… until each child has a number.
The children from each team stand on the boundary line in their part of the pitch. A games master stands on the centre line and calls out a number. He or she holds out a tissue in each hand.
The children from both teams with that particular number start running towards the middle, then grab the tissue that is to the right of them, and continue to the other team's line.
On the line, a child holds out his/her arm. The running child loosely ties the tissue to their arm and runs back to his or her own team. There, they untie the other team's tissue, run back to the games master in the middle, and tie it to his/her arm again. After that, they run back to their own team.
The child who gets back to their own team first is the winner of this round.

Variation:
The child who loses the round is out. Another child from the team takes over their number, in addition to their own. The game continues until all children from one team are out.