Street goose game

Children are “serial players,” able to organize themselves in spaces and places not designed specifically for them. They’re adept at taking over places to organize familiar games or to invent new ones with new rules.

But can the goose game go from a table to a sidewalk?

For the children, it seems so.

We can make a goose game, but it’s not with geese but with children, because if we use real geese they’ll go where they want... Giona, 5 years old

Children give the city a street goose game, where the squares tell about them, the neighborhood where they live, the places they know and spend time.
A game to recreate by redrawing it on the ground, or to invent with your own favorite places.


DOWNLOAD THE PDF OF THE GOOSE GAME

(Print the pdf double-sided and fold following the dotted lines)

DISCOVER THE LOCATIONS IN THE GAME

The street goose game to discover (or re-discover) some places in the Santa Croce neighborhood drawn in the game squares.
The giant bench (8) where the children imagined who would sit there (dinosaurs?!) or the Santa Croce station (4) with its murals, the skate park (19) where you can see kids doing bike stunts, or the Merman statue (15) that may have once been a mermaid’s father...but a fairy did magic on him and turned him into a human. Davide P., 5 years old