What games did you play when you were a kid?

Question

Red Rover? Dodge ball? Stick ball? Kick the can? Hide and go seek, cowboys and indians? Hop Scotch? (games)

Did you own a pogo stick? A hula hoop? Metal roller blades? A home made wooden downhill racer?

Answer 1

I played all the games you have mentioned.

So much fun playing with all the kids in the neighborhood.

We also had wooden guns, with a cloths pin attached and shot each other with the strip of rubber cut from old rubber intertubes.

The hula hoop came to late for me but my kids always had one.

Cowboys and Indians were fun. We made stick horses out of a tree branch and tied a string on for a bridle and left a few leaves for the tail.

My cousin and I had fun, until one day we got into a fight because, I wanted to be Tex Ritter and I wanted her to Chief Joseph.

Well that didn't do cause she wanted to be Tex Ritter.

We really were having a knock down drag out, when my uncle dicided he would teach a lesson.

He put my cousin tom's boxing gloves on us and made us fight it out.

After that we swore to him that I would always be Tom Mix and she would be Gene Autry or The Lone Ranger.

Times will never be the same.

Technology has taken over the lives of all children these days.

They can't go back have the joy in simple fun that we had as kids.

We have our memories of a wonderful world.

I'm so thankful that I conducted my life in a manner that I can live on those memories.

My favorite song to listen to is, "What a Wondderful World" by Louis Armstrong.

Good Memories.

Thanks for the nice question and for taking me back in memorable time in my life.

Answer 2

We played tag, Red Rover, hide and seek. We pretended we were all kinds of things. We rode our bikes all the time. I learned how to roller skate on a pair of skates that had metal wheels, adjustable to fit your shoes. My dad made me a pair of wooden stilts and I learned how to walk on them (and I still can to this day). We played house in old cardboard boxes, and when we got tired of that, we flattened them and used them to slide down grassy hills. I was a tomboy, I didn't care for dolls, but I loved my stuffed animals. I loved everything about nature, and I used to catch bugs and turtles and frogs and garter snakes. In the summer I played outside from sun up to sun down. Any kid that stayed indoors all day back then must have been ill, because no healthy kid in there right mind would voluntarily stay in the house in good weather. I also remember decorating my bike on the Forth of July with crepe paper streamers that were red, white and blue. And I remember clipping playing cards to the wheel forks so they flapped against the spokes and sounded like a motor. When we had sleep-overs, we'd tell scary stories and scare each other silly! I had the time of my life (And yes, I did have a hula hoop!) =)

Answer 3

We played all of those and I had a hula hoop, my brothers always had a down hill racer( home made), we built forts, clubhouses, we made tents out of blankets and chairs, we had snow sleds, we even had a huge embankment that we used for rock climbing. Never a dull moment with 5 kids in the house. We had acres of woods to play hide and seek or cowboys and Indians and the best part was we were always safe in those woods. :-)

Great Question.

Answer 4

Red Rover.
Hide n Seek.
Cowboys and Indians.
Baseball.
Jacks.
Dress-up with mom's clothes.

Yes, I had a hula hoop and I loved it. Also had roller skates and a pogo stick. I bought the pogo stick later in life when my kids were small. I was always getting on it myself.

Answer 5

games played kid

Answer 6

Jacks
Hide n seek
dodgeball
kickball
hopscotch
tic tac toe
marbles
owned a pogo stick,hula hoop,metal roller skates
We also played outside till it got dark!!

Answer 7

We played (the now politically incorrect) Cowboys and Indians, and my brothers would NEVER let me be the Sheriff. I always had to be the Indian.

We didn't have roller blades. We had roller skates that you needed a key to fit them to your shoes, but we could only use them on someone's sidewalk (not our brick walkway) and couldn't use them on the unpaved road.

Another one I enjoyed was "Annie -- Over!" (How it got that name, I don't know.) One kid would be in front of the house and the other would be behind it. The one with the ball would yell "Annie!" and the other would yell "Over!" and the ball would go sailing over the house. A variation on catch.

There was also "Giant Steps." The one in charge would tell each of the others to take a certain number of "baby steps" or a certain number of "giant steps," but before you could proceed, you had to say, "Mother, May I?" If you forgot to say it, you had to take a step back. (A good game for six kids to play.)

And, yes, there was softball and croquet, and we had a basketball standard, but that was for my brothers. I never got the hang of the game. (Still bores me, almost as much as football! But I love hockey and baseball.)

Answer 8

Hide and Seek, Dodge Ball, Hop Scotch, Hula Hoop, sledding in the winter, swimming in the summer

Answer 9

Rook, Old Maid, Mr Potato Head, marbles, conasta, rummy, chess, checkers, chinese checkers, Hide n seek, squirt gun fights, pick up sticks, dominoes, jacks, hop scotch, tag, scrabble, streach, races, roller skating--skinny little kid that kept busy.

Answer 10

Yep, all of them except for the homemade wooden downhill racer. I grew up on flat plains of North Dakota. Nothing up or downhill! lol We did a lot of ice skating and ice fishing too (are those games?) Uff Da!