How Boys Play - Rock Throwing

While we were milling around after lunch, I started throwing rocks with some small boys (age 5-7). We drop kicked rocks and skipped rocks on top of other rocks. Then I put my nalgene water bottle on a small rock peak similar to the one in the photo for target practice. Five minutes later, 25 village children are throwing rocks at the bottle, continuing for 30 mins until Melanie, the volunteer living their began to get worried that they might hit one another.

From my experience so far, Moroccan children, specifically Berbers, are tough and agile. With many villages having only a few soccer balls and lots of rocks, throwing rocks at one another is common. Most of them can throw as far as someone twice their age too. There are only boys in this photo because after they were asked to stop throwing rocks by a local man, the girls were the only ones to really listen.