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Elveszetten zsebkendömet szidott anyám."
("I've lost my little handkerchief.")
What you need:
A handkerchief and the phrase: "Elvesztetten
zsebkendömet szidott anýam érte".
- ("I've lost my little handkerchief.")
"Annak, aki megtalálja csókot
adok érte." - ("Whoever finds
it, can have a kiss.")
How to play:
The children form a circle. One child then takes
the handkerchief and walks around the outside
of the circle. Meanwhile, everyone else keeps
repeating the first part of the phrase about the
lost handkerchief.
At some point, the child drops the handkerchief
behind one of the children standing in the circle.
This child picks it up, carries it to the other
one, and gives him/her a kiss. They then hold
the handkerchief together and start running around
the circle once again. The others clap their hands
and repeat the second part of the phrase over
and over again.
The first child then steps back into the circle,
whilst the second child keeps the handkerchief.
The game then starts again.
Known elsewhere as:
In Germany, children play a similar game called
'Plumpsack goes around'. There are no kisses,
and the children sing: "Don't turn around,
Plumpsack goes around. Don't turn round or laugh
at it, or Plumpsack will have you hit." If
a child doesn't notice that the handkerchief is
behind them, then the others shout: "One,
two, three, rotten egg." The child must then
step into the middle and wait until another child
takes over. As this can take a long time, the
variation with the "rotten egg" is often
left out.
The Italian version is known as 'Il Pungiglione'
('The knifeman'). There is no handkerchief this
time - instead, the child who runs around the
circle taps one of the children in the circle
on the back.
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