Researchers at the University of Reading have collaborated with the Museum of English Rural Life to form a Pandemic Play Archive, which will be an online collection of memories depicting examples of children’s play.
Covid Tag, a version of It, where the child passes on the virus to another, is just one example of the games that children have made up during the pandemic.
Professor Helen Dodd, who is leading the project, has heard from many parents who have sent in examples of children’s play.
She told Nursery World, ‘I’ve had examples of children socially distancing their Barbie dolls or teddies during their play; one practitioner spoke of a child who set up a small world play tea party but had to turn two "friends" away because only six were allowed to be together.
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