the power of imagination - who needs toys anyway?

It was another typical Thursday late afternoon at the Eco-farm. I had to buy food at our store to later bring it to the school that Licht für Vergessene Kinder supports. As I was waiting at the store for the farmers to bring their food I watched a girl play “Leli” (as she later told me), a game that I knew from my childhood. The game’s name might be Hopscotch in English or Himmel und Hölle in German if I recall correctly.

I was pretty amazed as she neither drew the required fields on the ground as we used to do nor used a stone to throw in one of the fields. She threw a virtual stone into a field that only existed in her imagination instead. She literally grabbed that virtual stone and swung her arm forward aiming precisely at the desired field and – as that virtual stone landed – jumped to exactly that field.

I enjoyed very much watching her do this and finding other kids being attracted and thus gazing at her.

Isn’t it amazing, human imagination?

 

kid playing "Leli", hopping on a virtual field after throwing a virtual stone

for whom who may have forgotten about that game; but actually there’s plenty of ways to play this game