Share your stories of youthful springtime games to win Peter Rabbit goodies

I used to love Forty Forty, Stuck In The Mud, and Three White Horses.

We loved to play rounders, cricket and swing ball. Great fun!

playing hide and seek with my friends

I enjoyed picnics in fields with my family, making daisy chains, riding my bike and running through meadows exploring nature.

I could spend a whole summer playing Hopscotch. I also played a game where you each sit either side of a manhole and use a marble to get through from one side to the other.

The game we always played in spring but at no other time was whip and top, which was played around Easter. Some kids had string whips with knots tied in, others had leather. There were wide, squat tops or taller, narrow ones, and we chalked patterns on them. The school playground used to be full of children whipping away at their tops for all they were worth - certainly wouldn't be allowed now!

We also played lots of hopscotch, skipping games, French skipping, cat's cradle, Simon says..., Jacob's ladder

The girls always had a variety of singing/clapping/dancing games like "I'm Shirley Temple, the girl with curly hair" and a few others that I've forgotten, but I remember that we performed them with great gusto!

Bull dog, hopscotch, skipping games and ehat is the time mr wolf. Lots of mini bike adventures on a raleigh bianca. Happy days!

Me and my brother used to make rope swings in the woods and tie a jump rope to a tree and swing it round for each each other to jump over. We also used to have great fun (and accidents!) charging around with each other in the wheel barrow! We ALWAYS used to be outside doing something . . . collecting empty bird eggs shells, making a den, climbing trees!

I loved roller skating and going out on my bike. We also loved playing imaginary games under big trees.

I loved going everywhere on my bike :)

Pom.
Although I haven't come accross many other people who actually called it that.

So, it's hide and seek: the person who is 'it' counts (to 100) at the lamp-post. Then sets off to look for the hiders.
When you find one you race them to the pomming post and you have to touch the post to shout "pom 1 2 3 Helen" (or whoever you found). Or they might pom themselves in first.
You can also come out of hiding any time and try and sneak up to the post to shout "pom 1 2 3 myself".
So while your searching you've got to keep an eye on the pomming post and the area around it.

We were never in the house as kids - if we weren't building dens or treehouses we were off playing hopscotch or rounders. Plus there were many scrapes on roller boots

we used to pretend we were riding horses - everywhere

My absolute favourite was always climbing trees. Trees could be anything spaceships, houses and they all had to be climbed differently depending on the difficulty level and the abilities of fellow climbers. I even used to climb them by myself at the end of a day. Very therapeutic.

I loved any sport - football, athletics, swimming, cycling, cricket, you name it I played it!

My favourites were trying to turn the garden and local area into makeshift Olympics setups - so we'd use the square back garden patio to count the distance of our jumps, hurdle the fences between our garden and next doors, and use the big path on our cul-de-sac as our 100m sprint track, even though it was really closer to 20m!! We'd even use tennis balls for shot put and frisbees for discus, and my mum's garden sticks for supporting her plants got repurposed for our javelin efforts!

A perfect blend of outdoor activity and imagination for us. Just a shame we outgrew our "stadium" in the end ;)

When I was a girl we used to play 'elastics', where a girl stood either end of a loop of elastic and others jumped over and from side to side to rhymes.

We used to play manhunt with all the kids on the block

this takes me back! we used to play What's the time Mr Wolf? Marbles was a fav and it was very exciting when you won a very colourful one, not so good when you dropped your tin of marbles and the other kids would shout out "scramble!" and kids would appear from nowhere and grab them all!

We loved 40:40 out! Kind of like hide and seek but the hiders had to try and run back to a base whilst the seeker wasn't watching! Good times.

Playing rounders :)

Ah-happy memories. We played cricket, skipping, roller booting, going for walks, sliding down the hill on flattened cardboard boxes, made daisy chains, looked for 4 leafed clovers, (also mud pie making was popular when we were very young!) We were lucky to live quite near the country side, we spent a lot of time outdoors and left to our own devices..

This thread is bringing back some great memories tag, oranges and lemons, duck, duck goose and ladders!!
But spring time picnics with my nan where we were sent of to explore were my favourite. She used to take me and my cousins upto some waste land near to where she lived and let us roam. We'd build dens and play hide and seek until she summoned us to go home!

We used to play games like Scram, Sticky Toffee & What's the Time, Mr Wolf? All of these were variations on a theme, iirc, with one child catching the other children, who could then free each other. I was thrilled to see DS1 (6) playing the last one in the playground after school the other day, it really has stood the test of time.

Other favourites were 45-home (like hide-and-seek, but you had to run away from the seeker & there was a place that was 'home'), hopscotch, group skipping. We also loved British Bulldog 123, but that was banned at school. And then, of course, there was Kiss Chase & Knicker Chase

My neighbour & I used to play badminton over the garden fence all afternoon until the sun set - then we would watch for bats! We also used to pick gooseberries & dare each other to eat them raw.. argh! I remember many self-assembled assault courses involving climbing across the water tank, behind sheds, up trees & other dangerous tasks which I now wince about my son ever trying!