Games we played as youngsters....

[AprilT]

Remember when you walked on a sidewalk and wasn't suspose to step on a crack? " Step on a crack and break your mothers back."

Yep, I remember that one too.

 

[oakapple]

Hop scotch, rounders, hula hoop, skipping rope, whip and tops,marbles, jacks, tig (tag). Hide and seek and a game for girls called two ball.Inside the house,we played tea parties with dolls and teddies, monopoly, all sorts of card games, snap, happy families etc.jigsaws, painting and colouring in, plasticine, those metal puzzles that you always got at Christmas, and games on paper like hangman and naughts and crosses.

 

[JaniceM]

Hop scotch, rounders, hula hoop, skipping rope, whip and tops,marbles, jacks, tig (tag). Hide and seek and a game for girls called two ball.Inside the house,we played tea parties with dolls and teddies, monopoly, all sorts of card games, snap, happy families etc.jigsaws, painting and colouring in, plasticine, those metal puzzles that you always got at Christmas, and games on paper like hangman and naughts and crosses.

Just guessing, but is that what Americans call Tic-tac-toe?

 

[helenbacque]

Very timely. Just today I was explaining to my grandson about Jacks and Hopscotch.

Also, jump rope both single and double dutch

 

[jujube]

Hide and seek, lots of hide and seek. Good way to get rid of a pesky younger sibling.....just don't go looking for them. In fact, I don't think I've seen my youngest sister since 1959 when I told her to "hide really good".

 

[RadishRose]

Hide and seek, lots of hide and seek. Good way to get rid of a pesky younger sibling.....just don't go looking for them. In fact, I don't think I've seen my youngest sister since 1959 when I told her to "hide really good".

:lofl:

 

[Aunt Bea]

I remember that we used to play fox and geese out in the snow.

 

[Falcon]

It's no fun if you have to keep checking the rule book all the time.

 

[JaniceM]

Hide and seek, lots of hide and seek. Good way to get rid of a pesky younger sibling.....just don't go looking for them. In fact, I don't think I've seen my youngest sister since 1959 when I told her to "hide really good".

Reminds me of a game my older brothers occasionally played with this "pesky younger sibling"- it was called Monkey in the Middle.
Actually it was more along the line of they played, I mostly jumped up and down trying to get the ball- unsuccessfully.
In other words, guess who was always 'the monkey.'

 

[CeeCee]

Reminds me of a game my older brothers occasionally played with this "pesky younger sibling"- it was called Monkey in the Middle.
Actually it was more along the line of they played, I mostly jumped up and down trying to get the ball- unsuccessfully.
In other words, guess who was always 'the monkey.'

We played that also, JaniceM...sometimes we called it "keep away".

 

[Pappy]

Remember asking mom or dad for a couple nickels so you could go “digging?”