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We did skipping, rounders, and elastics (where you have a long piece of elastic and do weird and wonderful jumps whilst it is around your ankles - hours of fun!)

Pooh sticks and red rover always meant spring to me. I don't think the kids are allowed to play red rover anymore in the school yards!

We lived opposite some fields as children and in the summer the council would come every week to cut the grass. After they had finished myself and my 2 brothers (and all the other neighbourhood children) would scramble to collect the grass and build 'grass dens'. We would build walls from the cuttings and then run home to steal a sheet from mums airing cupboard to make the roof. We would spend hours out there, and even have our lunch in the den if we were lucky.
There was a brook/stream at the bottom of the fields and we would try to build bridges across it using sticks and whatever else we could find, one day we had a new fridge delivered and we used the polystyrene packaging to make a boat and sail down the stream all the way to the railway bridge (which we were NOT allowed past under any circumstance!)

We played kerby, two people on opposite pavements and you throw a football at the edge of the kerb so that it bounces back at you (or the other person catches/retrieves it). This was on our very quiet residential village road.

My mum used to take us on picnics and we would play 'who can find'
My mum would name an item and me and my sister would try and be the first one to find it.

Duck duck goose

I loved elastics such a good group game and great for jumping in and out of too

At Easter our favourite was 'egg jarping'. Everyone had a hard boiled egg and you took it in turns to tap your eggs together, round end to round end then pointy end to pointy end. The winner was the one whose egg was either uncracked or had only one end cracked!
At the end we all rolled our eggs down the bank and then peeled and ate them. This was always on Easter Monday and a large group of us, usually with some Mums went for a picnic to Doggy Wood which had a suitable hill leading down to the woods.
Did the sun really shine every Easter in the 50s? That's how I remember it.

I used to play out with children from our street and we were all fans of the Faraway Tree stories so we'd act out stories from there! Everyone always wanted to be Silky the fairy so we had to take turns! We did lots of tree climbing and pretending we were in the magical lands.

Kerbie, throwing the ball width ways across the road and if you hit the edge, you get to stand in the middle of the road and have another shot! My parents still live in the same house but 20 years on and you could not play this game with the amount of traffic! Standing in the middle of the road would not be the privilege of getting a shot on target anymore!!!

Our games were mostly unstructured- tree climbing, den building, just 'playing' really.

I do remember whole street games of mob though, but am struggling to recall the rules. Someone please remind me. I remember shouting 123 Mob then a name.

Wet weather games were Sardines, Murder in the Dark, den building (again) and hours of putting on shows.

Rope skipping, hopscotch, bike riding, lots of different school yard games involving a tennis ball!

At school we also used to play with marbles outside and at home we used to play boule in the garden with our dad. :)

Lots of fun!

We used to play rounders in a side street using 4 lamp posts as the bases, and we also played paper trail using bits of paper to tell the others where to go for the next clue, also we used chalk to write messages on the pavement - we were out for hours and roamed for miles - not really allowed nowadays.

We juggled two balls up against a wall. There was "overs" when you threw the ball over and "unders" and using one hand with the other behind your back.
Also jinks with metal crosses and jacks with wooden blocks. Marbles - knocking little marbles in to a dug out hole with a larger marble.
How about skipping using a long rope across the road. Before traffic stopped this fun!!!

Oh, and we spent a lot of time playing in a drainage channel, full of rats, and god knows what else. We were strictly forbidden to cross over the railway line, so used the drainage channel to go under the line.

I lived on a leafy 1970s housing estate which had a very large 'island' with a ciderpress feature in the middle. All the neighbourhood children congregated there to play 'kick the can'. One person stood on the cider press, whilst everyone else had to creep up to the ciderpress without being spotted (there were plenty of trees for cover), and unsurprisingly, given the name of the game, kick the can.

The can would then be stored under the ciderpress, and would get progressively more bent and rusty. Whenever someone had a can to drink (actually, a fairly rare occurrence back in the day) we'd replace the dangerously rusty can with the new one.

We had a wood behind our garden and we each "adopted" a tree to use as a look out point, we'd climb as high as we could (my poor mum's nerves were shot as she looked out of the kitchen window to spot her precious twins 15 feet up a tree!). We would communicate by giving our tree a rustle and making owl noises. I felt sorry for the poor dog walkers who got a fright when they spotted a bunch of 9 year olds hanging from the tree tops! We made a (painful) den in the middle of a bramble bush too! British Bulldogs was a favourite at school playtime too, as was hopscotch and skipping.

Hide and seek, also discovering the nature and writing things in our "secret diaries"

As a child I spent so much time outside, playing traditional games. I feel a bit sad that today's generation miss out on it, actually.

Games I played:
Bulldog
Allsorts/Different Kinds of
Obstacle courses/assault courses
Drawing courses for boils on the pavement using chalk

Hopscotch was a favourite, skipping too but the ultimate was 'French Skipping'. We used to spend hours making a 'rope' with elastic bands and then have weeks of fun with it. I remember playing a lot of 'Jacks' too, in the garden. Oh, now I come to think of it, I can remember hours on my pogo stick in the kitchen, driving my mum mad, until it was warm enough to go outside and do it.

I used to go out early in the morning and play all day, going home at 5pm for tea. We used to run around the nearby fields and there was a hill and we had an old tin bath, three of us used to sit in the bath and go down the hill, especially in the snow. When I think now, it makes me cringe, but we knew no danger. Happy days!

We used to put a tennis ball inside an old pair of mum's tights, stand with our backs against a wall and, holding onto the gusset of the tights, aim the ball (in the toes) to various parts of the wall while trying to avoid hitting ourselves! There were rhymes to sing and the ball had to hit the wall in certain places in the right order or you were "out" and someone else got the tights and ball.
We also did loads of clapping rhymes where you had to clap your friends' hands as well as your own. I taught this to some of my pupils a couple years ago, thought it was great fun (even if I taught them slightly altered versions of the rhymes we used!)
Elastic were big up here too, but we didn't sing about bluebells (dusty, fairy or otherwise), usually it was "Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, inside, outside, inside, on!" And you had to jump on top of the elastics on the last word or forever be scorned in the playground.

I remember What's the Time, Mr Wolf?, hopscotch and hide and seek.

Once I was forgotten in a game of hide and seek. It was such a good hiding place that I didn't want to move. I realised, after some time, that everyone else had gone home for their tea

Played hopscotch and also two balls against a wall
Also loved skipping
Played Farmer Farmer may we cross your golden fields of corn

Nice to see other people on here remember the same games I do

I remember playing with the elastic.. Two at either end one jumping in the middle till U kind of tripped on the elastic! "Inkey pinky ponky, father had a donkey. Donkey died, father cried Inkey pinky ponky" and there was another rhyme "England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Indoors, Outdoors, Indoors, trails" endless hours of fun this was!