GYERMEKJÁTÉKOK ZENTAGUNARASON
CHILDREN’S GAMES IN NOVO ORAHOVO

Summary/Abstract: This study examines children’s games and the characteristics of childhood in Novo Orahovo during the 1950s and 1960s. The research seeks to explore the role that children’s games played in everyday life within a traditional rural environment and how they were connected to work, community life, and processes of socialization. The analysis is based on interviews in which elderly informants recalled their childhood experiences and play practices. The recollections reveal that play and work were not sharply separated: children developed their world of play alongside and in connection with family and economic activities. The study presents the main types of local children’s games and examines the role of verbal folklore associated with them. The findings indicate that these games were closely linked to local culture, community norms, and the specific features of a multiethnic environment, while also functioning as important instruments of social and linguistic socialization. The research contributes to a deeper historical and ethnographic understanding of Hungarian folk children’s games and childhood in Vojvodina.

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