Re-Inventing Classic Playground Games

By Brian Ellison

Published March 30, 2016 at 5:16 PM CDT

First-grade students at Academie Lafayette in Kansas City, Missouri, experiment with 'freestyle hopscotch.'

Do you remember playing hopscotch, red rover and four square at recess? On this edition of Up to Date, we discuss classic games with a twist for today's players.

Guests:

Ben Applebaum and Dan DiSorbo are co-authors of Recess: From Dodgeball to Double Dutch: Classic Games for Players of Today.

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