Games: Kakopi Kakopi

Send a Cow shares some fun games played by kids in Uganda! This week I would like to share the Kakopi Kakopi game with you! In English, Kakopi Kakopi means Chicken Legs. Here are the rules so you can play:

"One player is chosen as the cook, who (gently!) uses a long stick as a wooden spoon to ‘stir the food’.

All the other players sit in a row on the floor with their legs straight out in front of them. Their legs are the chicken bones and they are being cooked in a soup for dinner!

The cook taps their legs one by one from one end of the line to the other whilst the children sing the ‘Kakopi’ song. The song is about not overcooking the food, but a bit too difficult to learn. You can make your own version, or sing ‘Food glorious food’.

When the rhyme ends, the leg that the stick lands on is a burnt chicken leg, and so that child must tuck that leg under him/her.

When both chicken legs are burnt, he or she is out.

The winner is the last child to remain in the game, and they are titled the ‘night dancer’!"

The original game instructions and photo can be found here.

About Hannah Hinojosa...Hannah is a long time Compassion sponsor (she was Sherinah's sponsor) and writes about her sponsorship journey at Because of Shamim. In addition to being a wife and mother, she is a part-time math professor and loves to read.