Popular games are those that are passed from parents to children and that are part of the culture of the peoples, where the needs and experiences are usually reflected and even help to educate the new generations. They are usually spontaneous, creative and motivating games.
They generally do not have many rules when it comes to playing and the way to execute them may vary depending on the region where it is played. Popular games are characterized by the low use of materials for their implementation. In addition, they function on many occasions as a way of contact between children from different social strata. All kinds of materials are used in them, without having to be specific to each game. Everyone has their goals and a specific way of executing them; for example some consist of chasing, others in throwing an object to a specific place, keeping or winning an object, etc.
Over time, these games became a very important support in physical education classes, in order to develop the different physical and motor skills of the students, as well as serve as the basis for other games and sports.
Popular games are used as an educational instrument in classrooms since in their songs or lyrics, characteristics of each of the times can be observed, this particularity being a fun strategy, where the people who play them learn and at the same time time have fun.
These games are characterized by: facilitating learning belonging to a region; favors the release of energies and tensions; they favor the acceptance and observance of norms; improve the achievement of linguistic competence for both the listener and the speaker.
Some of these games are: hide and seek, blind man, tug of war, policemen and robbers, the airplane, the game of chairs, sack races, etc.
