Button, button, who's got the button?

Taler, Taler, you need to walk (also known as the little ring, little ring, you need to migrate or as stones - Find) is a traditional children's game, which is primarily aimed at children in kindergarten and in the first years of primary school. As the material only a coin or a flat little piece of wood is needed. During the game of all a children's song is sung.

Preparation and implementation

An arbitrarily large number of children sitting (from about six participants up to fifteen or more) or stand in a circle. A child holds between his two palms a dollar or - alternatively - hiding a ring. Another child stands outside the circle and have to be careful: it should be able to guess later, who has received the Taler or ring.

The children in the circle also fold their hands in front of the abdomen, where they hold slightly open palms. While the common Absingens the song, the owner of the thaler is now in turn from child to child and keeps his closed palms in the open of the participants. Sometime in the course of Absingens it can go unnoticed fall into the hands of a child in the circle Taler. Is the song ended, now must say the rate of child who received the thaler. Will advise it correctly, it may now be even hike the valleys. Has it got wrong is the baby with the thaler in hand turn.

Variants

• In some circles may be advised game three times.
• Are not yet known, the name, may also be easily beaten on the hands of the putative owner.
• There is a variant in which to pass the children seated in a circle the valleys behind his back. No child needed to hide the Taler - For this is in addition to the rate of child - in the middle.
• The ring is attached to a long cord tied together and is pushed behind the backs of the children in a circle. In this case, the direction may change.

For an exciting game play, it is necessary that the hiding child does not stop with the illusory movements when it has dropped, otherwise the new owner is easy to guess the dollars in a hand. It is moved further until the song is sung.

Song

The lyrics of the song varies from game to game group group. As a basic text but can apply (in brackets number of alternatives ):

Taler, Taler, you need to wander, ( one place ) to another (for ) of one hand. That's nice (which is gorgeous ), which is nice ( Oh, how wonderful, how nice ) Credits will not let you yes seh'n ( no one is allowed the little ring seh'n )

Others

• A short film by Julius Pinschewer made ​​in 1933 with these words advertising for the savings bank.

• A short story by Werner E. Hintz depicts heading under which this wandering life of a scratched two-mark piece.