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Hopscotch, Hide & Seek, Stuck in the Mud.. anything and everything!
Kirby if we had a ball!

My Mum would take me to the local park, which is a mix of good and bad memories. Good - the swings, feeding the ducks, having icecream (the ones where they would put a block of wrapped icecream in the cone and then you'd have to unwrap it yourself and put it back in the cone, a bit messy.) Bad - falling out of a tree and breaking my arm, and getting chased by angry geese. I'm still nervous of them to this day!

I grew up on a farm - some of my best memories are in the meadow when the hay was being cut - I loved to hide in the bales of hay and/or climb them. I loved the sun shinning - no worries and huge fields to run about in.

We always played Kubb. Every family would be out on the green playing it.

I didn't realise that nobody knew what Kubb was until recently!

So yes- go google it. It's better than rounders!

On our 70's leafy estate our close had a large circular grassed green with a tall pine tree at the centre and there were many children living in the area so the green and the street was always full of children playing.

We used to all play 99 in; where one person was a 'catcher' who would guard the tree and would close their eyes and count to twenty while the rest of the children would run and hide. The aim of the game was to creep up to the tree without being caught by the catcher and tag the tree yelling "99 in". If you were caught and tagged by the catcher you would join the catcher's team.

We used to play "what's the time Mr Wolf?" and then my sister and I used to have fairly involved games of tennis or swingball in the garden. Another favourite was spinning around until you got extremely dizzy and then stopping. My mum put a stop to that when I fell into one of the lilies planted in the garden...!

H yes, my absolute favourite was a tennis ball in a cut off leg of nylon tights. This would be bounced against the wall, between legs, over shoulder, all the while singing rhymes. I loved that!

Off Ground Touch was a favourite. also Leapfrog, American Skipping, den building down the alleyways.

Block 1 2 3 which I think is now called 40 40. We'd play in the back lane. The lamp post was always 'Home' and you had to get back to it from hiding places. We were like monkeys. We used to hide in old air raid shelters and run along the top of the neighbour's back walls (quite high). No one ever told us off for it. We'd play for hours.

At Easter we used to put wax on eggs and then boil them in coloured water to make marbled eggs, then roll them down the hill until they broke. (Why?)

-Gran showed us how to hard boil eggs wrapped in onion skins, old rags and leaves which made pretty patterns on the shells, then on Easter Sunday we'd have a race, rolling them down a nearby hill. Then we ate them.
-tyre swing- a few of us played together, everyone wanted to be on the tyre swing, tied to a tree on a steep bank, covered in long grass. A game developed where those waiting for a turn threw big black slugs from the grass at the person on the swing until they got off! (We were only young and didn't think of the poor slugs)
-dens in the hayshed (when dad was busy elsewhere). A wall of bales was built in each side of the shed, then we'd stake turns storming the other's fort, knocking the bales down.

I used to love playing two balls against a wall . Under arm,up in the air, under your leg whilst singing a song then your friend would come in and take over whilst you were still throwing balls . That's if you were good .

We loved playing elastics, what's the time mr wolf, skipping, rin-tin-tin and stuck in the mud.

Our favourite outdoor games were building various camps (in the garden, up the alley or in the woods) and tree climbing (great to sit up the trees 'people watching') At school it was chase, stilt-walking, football and British Bulldog.

Hide and seek in the woods behind the football pitch.

Wish I could remember what was involved with those elastic games. You sort of did something with your ankles and someone hopped between the elastics Great fun!

We played sardines , Tag/It, Some great card games like Spit (me and one friend got really quick at playing spit, it was hilarious)

The fave that we used to play in my street was 44 Save All. You nominate a base, and someone who is "It" to guard the base. They turn their back to count to 44, everyone else runs and hides, The idea is to run to the base to touch it and shout "44 Save All!" without getting caught by the person who is "It".
Their task is to find where people are hiding to catch them, when u r caught you stay at base. They win if they catch everyone (by touching them once) and you win if you touch the base and save everyone.
It were great!
We normally used a garage door for base and the front street for hiding.

I can also remember going out on my bike with a handlebar basket with a bottle of Tizer!! Which would explode when it was opened after the bumpy ride over a meadow to a stream where we fished for minnows and sticklebacks. Are they still in brooks? We were out all day and only went back for meals. Felt quite safe!!

hutchy27 Obviously, I hadn't read your post!!!

At school, we used to play elastics, which was a bizarre game that involved skipping over elastic that was crossed in different ways. I have never met anyone, other than people who went to my primary school, that knew what I was talking about!

At home, I used to swing for hours on the swing in the garden and imagine I was making different journeys.
My siblings and I used to set up different obstacle courses using swings, slides etc and have to cross the garden without touching the ground. Looking back now, it was dangerous but so much fun. Maybe that's why I am a lot more relaxed about letting the DC try things out than DH who vetoes things I am happy with!

whats the time mr wolf , tig and kiss chase of course. Also spent hours playing elastics where 2 people had elastic round their ankles and you had to complete a number of jumps and moves - would probably be banned these days due to health and safety !

We loved In and Out the Dusty Bluebells, What's theTime Mr Wolf, skipping, Pooh Sticks, and Bulldog (which I think is banned now).

We used to build dens in the tall, vaste acres of bracken up on the common by our house. We would build a maze path to it by flattening the bracken, then laugh our heads off as our parents got lost repeatedly trying to reach us to tell us it was tea time!!

Buy box of giant coloured chalks, go outside, DRAW!!!

What's the time mr wolf was a firm favourite, always ended up with lots of giggling and it was a game that could be played by 2-102 players so everyone was included

I loved my skip it and roller skates