Several children hold their hands together forming a line and one of them representing a hare comes running from a distance and tries to break through without being caught; or one of them becomes a cheetah and the rest form a line of goats holding on to each other's back. The cheetah addresses the foremost goat saying "eluvan kannayi man âvê." (I have come to eat the goats) and tries to snatch away one of the players at the back; who avoids his clutches singing "elubeti kapiya sundire" (go and eat the tasty goat dung); if one is caught he has to hold on to the back of the cheetah and the game continues till all are snatched away.
When the children are indoors they amuse themselves in various ways.
They hold the backs of each other's hands with their thumb and fore-finger, move them up and down singing "kaputu kâk kâk kâk, goraka dên dên dên, amutu vâv vâv vâv, dorakada gahê puvak puvak, batapandurê bulat bulat, usi kaputâ, usî," and let go each other's hold at the end of the jingle, which means that "crows swinging on a gamboge-tree (goraka) take to their wings when chased away (usi, usi), and there are nuts in the areca-tree by the house and betel-creepers in the bamboo-grove." They also close their fists and keep them one over the other, pretending to form a cocoanut-tree; the eldest takes hold of each hand in turn, asks its owner, "achchiyé achchiyé honda pol gediyak tiyanavâ kadannada?" (grandmother, grandmother, there is a good cocoanut, shall I pluck it); and, when answered, "Oh, certainly" (bohoma hondayi), brings it down. A mimetic performance of husking the nuts, breaking them, throwing out the water, scraping the pulp and cooking some eatable follows this.
They twist the fingers of the left hand, clasp them with the right, leaving only the finger-tips visible and get each other to pick out the middle finger.
They take stones or seeds into their hands and try to guess the number, or they take them in one hand, throw them up, catch them on the back of the hand, and try to take them back to the palm.
They keep several seeds or stones in front of them, throw one up and try to catch it after picking up as many seeds or stones as possible from the ground.
They hold the fingers of their baby brothers saying "this says he is hungry, this says what is to be done, this says let us eat, this says who will pay, this says though I am the smallest I will pay" and then tickle them saying "han kutu."