These games have been played for centuries and they can help teach some living skills for kids.VietNamNet Bridge – While urban children have access to all kinds of modern toys and they are fed up with these toys very quickly, kids in the rural and mountainous regions are playing traditional and simple games.

 

Only with a cloth cord, H’mong kids in Moc Chau town in Son La province in

northern Vietnam can have fun together for hours, with swinging game,

which allows them to discover new feeling in moving.

 


With pieces of limestone, the imagination of children in Quan Ba district in Ha

Giang province can go freely through paintings on the roads and pavements.

 


It is interesting for a H’mong boy in Yen Minh district, Ha Giang, to sit in a grass handcast.

 


A Thai boy in Quynh Nhai district of the Son La province; with a

new sight while hanging himself upside down on the beam.

 


H’mong boys in Van Chan district, Yen Bai province are never fed up

with “danh cu”, a traditional game of H’mong people.

 


After class, H’mong little girls in Sapa town, Lao Cai play traditional games.

 


They can play with this cloth ball the whole day.





 

Tay and Nung boys play football on a newly-harvested field.

 


Skipping – the game that is as old as hills (photo taken in Mu Cang Chai, Yen Bai province).

 


Primary students of Long Luong School in Moc Chau district, Son La province.





 

Nung boys in Huu Lung, Lang Son province swim in a lake.

 


Billiard, a modern game at Pho Cao market in Ha Giang province.

 


Boys in Muong Khuong district, Lao Cai province kick a shuttle cock in the early morning.





 

Thai kids in Van Chan district, Yen Bai province play with used tires.

 


In the rural and mountainous areas, kids often play in front of their homes, on village roads or on hills.

 


 

A running race on the field.


A traditional game called “u a u ap”.

 


Kids in a coastal village play with sand and waves.

 

A 4-year-old boy in Moc Chau, Son La province climbs on a tree.


Flying kites on a dike.

 


Some kids go fishing to earn their living.

 


Two kids help their mum.

 

Anh Le