Children's Games Preserved Ninety Pastimes

Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder filled his 1560 painting Children's Games with more than 90 games played by children of his time. Toddlers and adolescents crowd the scene while rolling hoops, walking on stilts, playing leapfrog, blowing bubbles, wrestling, shooting water guns, and playing hide-and-seek. Many of these activities remain familiar sights during children's recess more than 460 years later. The oil-on-panel painting now hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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