Don’t Look Back, The Fox walks around
Children in Switzerland like to play games — just like kids everywhere else in the world. One game that is specific to Switzerland is called Don’t Look Back, the Fox Walks Around. This game is similar to the American game Duck, Duck, Goose. All you need is a piece of cloth, a rock or another small object and a few friends.
Here is how you play:
• Choose a person to be the fox.
• Everyone else sits in a circle facing the center of the circle. The fox does not sit in the circle.
• Carrying the piece of fabric, stone or other small object, the fox walks around the outside of the
circle.
• As the fox is walking, he or she quietly drops the item they are carrying behind one of the children sitting in the circle.
• As soon as the person in the circle realizes that the object was dropped behind him or her, they jump up and try to catch the fox.
• The fox tries to get around the circle and sit in the spot that was left empty by the person that was tagged.
• If the fox gets back to the empty spot, the person who was tagged becomes the fox.
• If the fox gets tagged the person sits back down and the fox takes another turn and tags a different person.
• If the person who gets tagged doesn’t realize the fabric, stone or other small item was dropped behind them and the fox makes it around the circle before the person realizes they were tagged, the tagged person becomes the “lazy egg” and has to sit inside the circle until someone else becomes the “lazy egg.”
