Come out to play

[random]

Brown girl in the ring, them clapping games, the farmer wants a wife, errrr there's more I know...

[MrsH]

I loved two balls! was pretty good at it too, lots of different moves - underarm, overarm, under a leg, round your back. Happy memories. Also Giant's Footsteps, hide and seek (known as "Block" where I grew up) chucks, loads of skipping games in the street using somebody's Mum's washing line.

I also remember Knocky Nine Doors knocking on doors and running away. Trouble was I grew up in a very close-knit coal-mining village where everyone knew everyone else and I well recall the neighbours shouting after me " You're Mrs P's youngest, I know who you are, just you wait till I tell your Mam!"

[dandysmom]

A fun trip down Memory Lane ....things I haven't thought of in ages.

[Kazz]

I loved two ball................like Mrs H I could trow bounce and then spin ...........I loved thinking of new moves....I liked hopscotch, and statues.

How odd Mags, you were doing somethng similar.....storing memories too.

[angieh]

Originally Posted by calismum

oh - I forgot about hide and seek!!! Also 'what's the time Mr Wolf', and tag.

I still say to my OH "What's the time Mr Wolf?"!!!! He never replies "Time to eat you for my supper" - don't think we played the same games in our youth!!!

What a great thread this is Kazz!

I used to like elastic skipping (as we called it) - that was popular in the playground. Jacks or five-stars in the gym if it was too wet to play outside. Blindman's footsteps, Red Rover, Grandma's footsteps, statues, film stars (guessing names from initials - another wet day game).

School games were netball, rounders and tennis in the summer. We only played hockey for one term because a girl was injured and the parents complained it was too dangerous!

[yola]

When we were little it was two-balls against the huge brick wall that was the outside of the hall. I especially like the one where you had to jump over the last ball once it had bounced off the wall.

Other than that;
Chinese Whispers
Concentration (hand-clapping/word play song thing where you sat in a circle and clicked your fingers in time to the rhyme)
British Bulldog
Red Rover
What's the time Mr Wolf
Chinese War (like Bulldog)
Hula Hoops
Skipping (I'm a little bumper car . . . )
The ring that you had around your ankle that had a rope and tennis ball attached and you had to skip over it (can't remember name)

And lots more that escape me at the moment which I'm sure I'll recall soon!

[Mags]

Does anyone remember Cat's Cradle played with string?

[Kazz]

I can do cats cradle................and of course there is a similar one of "heres a church heres a steeple....open the door see all the people......"

Does anyone recall clackers............and or those steeel sort of ball things you had to move with your fingers darned dangerous I think..
I liked the ball on a rope round your ankle....looking at it now it would look like a lonley persons skipping...............but it was great.

I liked conkers too and marbles I suppose that came of my brother and cousins....

[calismum]

Originally Posted by Kazz

I can do cats cradle................and of course there is a similar one of "heres a church heres a steeple....open the door see all the people......"

Does anyone recall clackers............and or those steeel sort of ball things you had to move with your fingers darned dangerous I think..
I liked the ball on a rope round your ankle....looking at it now it would look like a lonley persons skipping...............but it was great.

I liked conkers too and marbles I suppose that came of my brother and cousins....

oh yes, forgot about them (ouch!!)

[Kazz]

Strangely enough I also used to spend ages with a table tennis bat and a ball just turning the bat over and over.....not sure why I think I started when I broke my arm at first year of senior school and was told it was good physio....kept it up for ages..........