We decided to make the game even better by drawing healthy foods, flowers, and other natural things on the grids, instead of numbers. Draw a typical American hopscotch grid shaped like the one Sal Amander and his Foot Patrol friend are playing on. Instead of numbers, use colored chalk to draw the garden friends and foe, below, in the spaces of the grid.

• Garden Friends
• Pumpkin
• Carrot
• Apple
• Strawberry
• Tree
• Rose
• Tulip
• Sunflower
• Ladybug

• Aphid (draw the aphid in the big space)

How to play: This version is played the regular way, but the object is to squash the aphid by jumping on it with BOTH feet! If you forget to use both feet, you lose your turn.

To make the game more challenging, hop through the grid without stepping on the drawings (except the aphid). You don't want to squash the friendly things, after all!

Fast fact: Hopscotch is called marelles in France, templehupfen in Germany, hinkelbann in the Netherlands, ekaria dukaria in India, pico in Vietnam, and rayuela in Argentina