What games did you play as a child?

Question

I am currently studying a course about childhood and have just finished reading something about the games that children play that brought back some memories. I can remember playing loads of games at school. Jumping rope, elastics (anyone else remember them), Red rovers.

What about you what games did you play when you were younger. Hoping to bring back some good memories!

Answer 1

We used to play Kerbie in the street. Basically you stand either side of the street and try to throw a football at the kerb on the opposite side. If you hit the kerb and it bounces back past the midway part of the road you score a point, if you miss or the ball doesn't make it back past the midway point it is the turn of the kid on the other side of the road. Used to keep us occupied for hours.

Answer 2

British Bulldog - I think that just involved running into people hard and knocking them down! Loads of 'imaginary' games. TV was only on for a few hours so if you wanted adventure/escapism you had to invent it. I was always a kind of assistant to some male hero as was the 'law' then!! Made a lot of stuff too, arts and crafts..

Answer 3

Hop Scotch / skipping / jacks / We used to play with dolls a lot and knitted clothes for them. Cowboys and Indians / The Farmer wants a wife. We used to skip to songs like Sally`s in the Kitchen doing a bit of knitting in jumped a burglar and knocked Sally out.

Answer 4

we used to stick a tennis ball in a pair of tights, tie a knot to keep ball in place,then stand against a wall swinging it under arms,under legs across body etc.
we also used to play elastics. which was elastic bands tied together in a chain. then 2 people stood with them on their ankles while the others jumped in and out of them,lol.
you dont see kids doing anything like that these days.

Answer 5

Duck, duck, goose. Card games (Spit! Hearts. Crazy 8s. War. Gin Rummy 500) Boggle. Scrabble. Trouble. Monopoly. Puzzles. Candyland.Tag, and a version called Freeze tag. Simon says. Hopscotch. Chinese jumprope (made of rubber bands linked together) I forgot the name of this game, where you held your hands out palms upward while someone else put their hands on top. The object was to be fast enough to smack their hands before they pulled away. Thumb wrestling. Musical chairs. Chinese checkers. Wiffle ball. Dodge ball. Waterballoon fights.

Yep, good times!

Answer 6

Cats cradle..passing it round! Elastics...concentrating hard before jumping in! Kiss chase, British bulldog, grandma`s footsteps,leap frog, hop scotch...good grief didn`t think it was that long ago but feel old now! How times have changed.

Answer 7

Candyland,Hungry Hungry Hippo,Connect Four

Answer 8

I mostly played video games. Hehe ^-^ I grew up around guys and so I was surrounded by game stations and I had my own too so...yeah. Mostly I grew up with Super Mario Bros. and Sonic!

Don't worry, I wasn't that much of a fatty! I also played hide and seek...way too much when that Sega broke that unhappy day...*sob*

Answer 9

When I was younger me and my brother would play war in our back yard. We had a huge back yard and an even big grapefruit tree. We played using the fallen graperuit as ammo, and you had to get hit twice in the limbs before you were dead, but you only needed to get hit once in the body or the head before you were dead........... Good times!!

Answer 10

Candy Land was my favorite. I also liked Monopoly, checkers, tag, Twister, Life, Operation and good old-fashioned "Acorn Wars." We lived in an area with allot of acorn trees so we would "tag" each other out with acorns. They hurt but I learned to run faster.