Childrens colonie games

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Kids in the New England and Middle Colonies especially spent a great deal of time in church or in prayer. Sermons were long. Sometimes kids fell asleep. If they did, in some churches they were poked with a long pole with a brass knob on it, to wake them up. Kids went to school. They often had homework, sometimes lots of it. With their hats, wide collars and stringent way of life, you might think that children today would not recognize the games Pilgrim children played.

However, they are much the same as today's children's games and are easy to recreate for students who are studying the lives of early American settlers and their culture. Pilgrim children had board games, and "draughts" was their name for checkers.

Played much the same as it is today, checkers hasn't changed much except for the materials used to play the game. In Pilgrim times, there weren't as many rules as there are today. Boards were handmade, of course, and draughts were only played after the day's work was done. Pilgrim adults liked their children playing draughts as it exercised their minds.

If you've ever played tic tac toe, then you'd recognize a game of "naughts and crosses.