A fast-moving, cooperative line game.
A fast-moving, cooperative line game. Children form a long chain by holding hands. The first two players raise their arms to form an arch ("the eye of the needle"). The rest of the line, led by the player at the opposite end, must run through the arch in a continuous, winding thread without breaking their grip.
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