Playground games?

Question

As a child i remember playing games such as red rover,british bulldogs,tunnel tig and rounders etc.What games do u remember playing and do u think it's about time that the kids of today were re-educated on how to play instead of swapping pokemon cards and standing around doing nothing at playtime?

Answer 1

yeah this game were u crouched down behind someone and ur mate pushed them over u hehe. that or throwing coin against the wall. cant remember the name of it though but i was rubbish at it

Answer 2

Kickball, Dodge Ball, Two Square/Four Square, King of the Mountain, Kick the Can, Spuds, Hopscotch . . .

It's definitely time kids relearn to play -- I'm sure the low levels of activity practiced are why there is such a child obesity problem.

Answer 3

I absolutely hated playing Red Rover and having to do summersalts as part of the public schools' curriculum for outdoor activities. I was never the athletic type. I didn't have a father, period. Get it? So, the public school system puts you in a humiliating position and other kids laugh at you for failing a summersalt. No, I didn't like bigger kids running into my arms and hands. Red Rover was a joke! These games never did anything for me in grade school. Do they still do these on playgrounds?? Stupid!

Answer 4

They were the good days ...

I remember playing kiss chase and running really slow I would get caught!!!

Hop scotch, whats the time Mr wolf, making up dances to Greece songs, marbles against the wall, British bull dog, skipping, a tennis ball in a old tight and we would stand against the playground wall swing this tight side to side and under your legs singing some silly songs, hand clapping with your friends singing cc my baby.... the list goes on and on .... I could be here all night.. but enough is enough of boring you!!!

Answer 5

I'm a playworker for those not in the know a playworker provides play opportunities/ for all children we also act as a resource for children to play.childrens play is a very funny thing I could go into the phycology of it but that would just bore you, I think this is all down to a suing culture, many schools have now banned all together all the traditional games, like bull dogs and red rover in fear of children getting hurt and parents suing them for every penny they have...I have read reports not only in newpapers but also in playworker newsletters, that schools have banned sports days,conkers or the children have to wear safety goggles if they do play,climbing trees is a no,no, if snowball fights are to be played then they have to be 65 feet apart, to name but a few. it is important for children to play and take risks,at play centres children can come and play the traditional games as well any other games or activities, but you have to remember children are all indiviuals and if they want to spend their time at play swapping pokemon cards then thats up to them, it's their time and you have to repect that you can't make them play, play has to be feely chosen.


These are the assumptions of play

1.Children's play is freely chosen,personaly directed behaviour,motivated from within;through play the child explores the world and her or hisrelationship with it, elaborating all the whilea flexible range of respononses to the chalenges she or he encounters; by playing, the child learns and develops as an indiviual.

2.Whereas children may play without encouragement or help,adults cna,through the provision of an appropriate human and physical enviroment,significantly enhance oppertunities for the child to play creaitvely and thus develop through play.

so basicly what this is trying to tell you is that a component adult who works with children would aim to provide oppertunities for the individual child to achieve their full potential while being careful not to control the child's direction or choice

Answer 6

Oh wow, I remember the days of red light, green light, red rover, mother may I, hopscotch, jump-roping... Times have changed since I was a kid... All the exercise kids get these days is working out their thumbs playing video games.

Answer 7

I remember that most of our games were based on TV cartoons like Battle of the Planets and Secret Squirrel, so not much different from today unfortunately (we're talking 1980-ish.) We did play some traditional games like hopscotch and skipping.

We also used to play a game called Off Ground Tick, where you were safe from being ticked as long as you were off the ground, eg. standing on the school bench or on the steps. It got taken to ridiculous extremes though, with kids standing on one leg with their foot balancing on an abandoned crisp packet, claiming this qualified as off the ground.

In my Infants' School if we wanted to recruit more people for a game, we'd link arms and go around the playground chanting "Who wants to play! Battle of the Planets! Who wants to play! Battle of the Planets" etc, and anyone who wanted to join the game would link arms on the end of our line and go round chanting with us till we got enough people. Sometimes we'd have a secondary chant going on at the same time in a kind of ostinato - "No Boys!"

Answer 8

yes those were the days,kids ran around playing these games burning up all the fat one game I will never forget is called release but with a differance we altered it when we caught one of the opposite we did not put him in the den we tied him to a tree in the wood to make this short I got caught they tied me to a tree away down by the river never being released not hearing anyone getting dark water rats running about the owls hooting being nine got a bit scared till I heard my father shout on me boy was I glad

Answer 9

I remember all of the above and we used to make our own up, kiss and chase, and dare. When I think of the physical activity and imagination we had, why are we now all apathetic computer addicts? What happened to us? Where did all our promise and aspirations go? AAAAaaaaah youth. Do we ever fullfil our desires, what dreams we had!

Answer 10

Hop Scotch, tiggy, hide and seek and scarpper sorry but I think only the English will understand these. (North East of England)