Crowds of children take over a town square and its large civic building, rolling hoops, walking on stilts, riding hobby horses and staging mock tournaments. Scholars have identified some eighty to ninety different games. Bruegel treats their play with the same absorbed seriousness as adult business, perhaps a reminder that grown-up affairs look just as childish in the eyes of God.
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Look for children inflating a pig's bladder as a balloon, and others swimming in the river at the upper left, where the town opens onto a landscape.
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