Do kids still play games like "What's the time Mr Wolf?"

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I was reminiscing over our playground games (because if Squid Game)

This used to be one of my favourite ones
I used to pace the little bit of playground trying to work out the maximum and minimum amount if steps, and then keeping count in my head to make sure it was dinner time juuuust before they got to the wall 🤣

My son aged 9 loves to play this with his friends - but it’s a special school for children with complex needs and there’s only 8 of them in their class so when they have lunch they tend to all play together, helped by the teachers. They also play a lot of tag / “it”! I think it’s lovely.

Mine both definitely do/did.

… not after squid games

My 2 and 4 year old love what time is it mr wolf!

Mr Wolf and Granny’s footsteps are played by my 6 and 3 year old, and it doesn’t take much persuasion to get the 10 year old to join in too…

Yes, we play it at preschool, also 'the farmer's in his dell'. I think they still play bulldog at primary and various versions of 'it'.

My daughter is 6 and they play a lot of rhyme with clapping/actions type games at her school. My favourite being one called “tic tac toe” where Britney Spears is mentioned. When I asked my daughter if she knew who that was she said it was a lady from the olden days.

Mine play it at the end of their swimming lessons, but that is instigated by the teachers. Not sure if they play it or similar spontaneously at school.

one called “tic tac toe” where Britney Spears is mentioned. When I asked my daughter if she knew who that was she said it was a lady from the olden days.

Britney Spears is mentioned. When I asked my daughter if she knew who that was she said it was a lady from the olden days.

That has made my night. I'll think of that any time I see the Hit me baby video.

Yes! I think they do need to have an adult or very bossy older child though.

Olly Olly Octopus a big favourite here too.

I introduced my eldest and middles dcs (6 & 4) to What’s The Time Mr Wolf, Duck Duck Goose and Bulldog over lockdown and they still love to play those kinds of games all the time!
They also “invented” their own game called “crack the egg” where one lays in the foetal position on the trampoline while the other bounces like a lunatic until the “egg” can no longer sustain the position

Yep my DC year 4 and 6 both play all these at school too. Classics !

My 11 and 8 year old boys play similar games like these in the playground at school in large groups often encompassing more than one class. They have different names but when the describe the games they are familiar.

We definitely had our own version of bulldog... it definitely used to be just bulldog, bit the rules got changed gradually... It was definitely just a version of tag, not tackling etc. In the end it was the middle Person used to shout out traits like "brown hair" / "black shoes" / "lives in x village"

The other kids in the middle couldn't shout out. Anyway, only those people ran to the other side. But the middle player could call "round the world" which meant everyone had to run to the other side and back again.

This meant the kids were split most of the time, and meant it was a bit more wild, with kids running towards each other

We had name for it and everything...can't for thenlfie.if me remember what it was though!

I work with kids and we play these games all the time - duck duck goose and stuck in the mud are particular favourites.
However, red light/green light and what’s the time mr wolf have now been ruined for me by squid game - although it’s become a good way to tell which kids are watching inappropriate stuff 👀

Yes but it's called red light, green light now

@MerryMarigold

Yes, we play it at preschool, also 'the farmer's in his dell'. I think they still play bulldog at primary and various versions of 'it'.

Remind me how you play this (farmers on his den)??

@MintyGreenDream

Yes but it's called red light, green light now

That's not the same game though... similar,but not the same.

My DD mostly played murder mystery and DS can't remember what he plays...

DD thinks she might have played Granny's footsteps.

Red light, green light is the same as granny's footsteps.

The Farmer in his Dell - you hold hands around a farmer and sing a song in which he picks a wife, who picks a child, who picks a nurse, who (I think) picks a dog, then you all pat the dog!

Yes Peggy but for some reason the dog picks a bone and you pat the bone!! But we do 'clap the bone' so poor 3 year old is not smothered in children whacking them!

The kids round here seem to just play at "who can scream the loudest", "run across that woman's driveway as she is reversing into it and see if she stops in time" and "let's do some more screaming".

We played what’s the time mr wolf at all the nurseries I worked at. It’s fantastic for encouraging kids to count things/objects (their steps) and start to understand that numbers and counting correspond to a quantity of things.

My daughter and her friend played kerby the other day which I haven’t seen kids play forever.

Not an outdoor game but recently taught mine how to play stop the bus which passed a bit of time on a rainy day.

Agree that you really need an adult or a ‘bossy child’ though - these games tend to descend into chaos without being a bit supervised!