Childhood games of the past

[Old Salt]

In the forties we liked to play Cowboys and Indians! In Germany the Indians were the heroes, and still are, thanks to an author called Karl May, who made us sad that we couldn't be Apaches, his favourite tribe!

 

[PeppermintPatty]

I liked hop scotch too!

Hopscotch was fun. I was very lucky to have girlfriends in my neighbourhood who would always draw them out on the road and we’d play for hours. Sometimes the guys would complain that we took their road space for them to play hockey.

We had a great neighbourhood when I was young. We usually always got along. In the wintertime we’d build snow forts in our backyards and they’d sometimes last for months.

 

[Gary O']

Childhood games of the past​

When you've got nuthin'
your world is wiiiiide open


Rag Ball

Before baseball, there was rag ball

Just take a rag
Tie it in knots
You've got a 'ball'

Grab a stick....a broom stick is best
You've got a 'bat'

Put most anything flat out for 'bases'
You've got a 'ball diamond'

Most any back yard will do (rag balls don't go all that far)

Grab some neighborhood kids, you've got teams

Not enough kids?
The game of 'workup' comes into play
To first and back

No kids?
Got a dog?
Hit the rag ball, yer dog will bring it back
......or run off with it

Then the game of chase comes into play

Yeah, back in the day
before plastic balls and bats

There was rag ball

Let a kid use his mind, he'll come up with his own toys

Boredom never existed.....ever

'Play' was something you got to do

...after chores

 

[spectratg]

Kick the Can! The other kids in the neighborhood and I played this constantly in the cool (and not so cool) summer evenings.