Children used to spend much more of their free time outside, hanging out and playing various games. Many of them have been forgotten, because children are increasingly burdened with extracurricular obligations, and what little time they have left is most often spent in front of screens. With the extinction of games, an entire rich part of our cultural heritage is dying out. Not wanting to leave things to chance, and at the same time trying to tear them from oblivion the old game that we all once played, a team of enthusiasts launched the idea of ​​Zagrarije - games for children and youth. The desire is to attract and educate the younger generations to get acquainted with the Promina tradition, but also to attract the older ones to get involved and play the games they loved as children and show all this to tourists as a valuable intangible heritage.

Every summer on the occasion of the Day of the Municipality of Promina, children and parents have the opportunity to enjoy three days of old games that were once played in Promina, but also some more modern. With an evening screening of a cartoon in the open air and an overnight stay in tents, the highlight of Žagrarije is the mass shooting of water balloons.

1. TUG OF WAR (pulling rope)

Tug of war is a game that children certainly enjoy the most. It is a traditional sport of measuring strength and team coordination in which two opposing teams compete with the aim of pulling an opponent for a certain distance. The teams are deployed along the ropes and then start pulling at the referee's signal.

2. SACK RACE

Each toddler enters a jute or cloth bag, and the winner is the one who, holding the bag and jumping with it, is the first to reach the finish line, without falling.

3. FREEZE TAG

One player plays "freeze tag person" and he hunts down other players. The one he touches must "freeze" in the position in which he was caught. Other players can "defrost" it with their touch. The game ends when "person who freeze" turns all the players into "frozen sculptures", and the one who was "frozen" three times becomes the new "person who freeze others".

4. BLACK QUEEN 1, 2, 3 ...

The children stand in a row, next to each other, behind the player leading the game, who has his back to them and says: "Black Queen 1, 2, 3!", Changes the rhythm of the sentence and after each one turns abruptly towards the others. While he is saying that sentence, the others try to get as close to him as possible, but so that when he turns around, he does not find them moving. In case he sees them, they have to go back to the beginning. The first player to touch the Black Queen is the winner.

5. MARBLES

A pit is a hole in the ground, into which a marbles should be inserted and then the opponents should be shot at. There are several variations of the game, once every place, even the street, had its own rules, tournaments and grandmasters.

6. HOPSCOTCH

Perhaps the most famous children's game known since ancient Rome. Houses and numbers are drawn on the ground, and all you need from the props is a pebble that the player throws on the first field and jumps into the field on one leg, picks up the pebble and jumps on. And so all the way to the last field.

7. SLINGSHOT

On a wooden pole, children place a target (a pot or some fruit) and shoot stones at them with a slingshot.

8. ELASTIC (Chinese Jump Rope or French Skipping)

Elastic is the most popular female game from childhood. It takes a big elastic to put two girls around the legs in the lowest position (all the way down to the ankles) and then the third girl has to play a whole series of complicated movements, mostly doing numbers 1 to 10 in a pre-arranged style: "German", "Split", “Lotus flower”, “Rococo ballerina”, “Fingers”, ...

9. TAG

Tag is a simple game. One person hunt and the others flee. Those who flee shout; "Catch me, catch me, I'll buy you a newspaper!" When the hunter arrives and touches someone, he says "You're hunting!" and then the one who is caught becomes a hunter, and the hunter becomes the prey. And so on indefinitely ...

10. BACK BACK (Johnny-on-a-Pony)

One team jumps on another team whose members are connected in a "chain", heads stuck in the other back or between the thighs. Members of one team jump on another team, which must not "kneel". The judge is ahead of the first in line who bends and assesses any misunderstandings.

11. SKIPPING

The children sit next to each other evenly distributed in a circle. They put a few stones (molika) in the middle. One child takes a pebble and throws it in the air, and the first one next to him on the left should catch it with one hand. And so on. A child who fails to catch a pebble falls out of the game.

12. KEVANJA (Croatian traditional name)

The boys make a "ball" out of wood and dig a hole in the ground. He moves 5 meters away from her, and tries to throw the ball into the dug hole with his hand.

13. KLIČAK (Croatian traditional name)

The two boys sit down and grab a thicker branch with their hands and try to pull each other to their side.

14. CIGARELA (Croatian traditional name)

Fields are drawn on the meadow. A boy or girl jumps on one leg and pushes a round tile from field to field. The winner is the one who manages to push the tile from each field to the next field without standing on the line.

15. ZUK (Croatian traditional name)

Boys are playing. They choose by counting or by arrangement, an individual who puts his hand under his armpit and puts his back against the back of his shoulder. One of the children standing behind him slaps him with the palm of his hand on the open palm, and he guesses who did it. If he hits, he swaps places with him.

16. JUMPING

The boys stand in a column and jump over the back of the first in the column. He who fails to skip it changes places with him.

17. ABREREČKE (chain of punches) - (Croatian traditional name)

The children are divided into two groups. One group stands in line, holding hands. The first group shouts: (hoops), The second group: abartudo. First group: when will you? Second group: when you are glad! The boy from the first group runs into the opposite row (chain) where he thinks it will be easiest to break through. If he succeeds, he returns to his group, if he fails, he stays in the group of children in the "chain". And so the game continues.

18. KARBULANJE (Croatian traditional name)

The boys place a 10x10x10 square stone on the ground and place coins on it. Then he takes a stone slab each and from about 20 meters they shoot at the carbul. The one who hits the carbul and "takes the coins off the ground" takes all the coins that are closer to his stone plate in relation to the carbul.