Following on from the thread about childhood songs, I was reminded of games we used to play in the classroom or assembly hall at primary school. Here are some of my memories, which ones do you remember?
I sent a letter to my friend. This was once done with somebody dropping a cloth on somebody's head, who would then chase them round the circle.
Four corners.
Noughts and crosses, but you had to answer a question correctly to place one.
Dictionary bingo. Everyone wrote the alphabet in random order (not x) in a 5 by 5 grid, and the teacher read out a definition from the dictionary. You would circle the first letter of the answer. The winner was the first to get five in a row. (This took so long, that we only played it once.)
Guess who is speaking in a funny voice. To determine who guessed first, our teacher used to tell those who wanted to go first to close their eyes, and to take their glasses off if they wore them. She would then sneak up and blindfold somebody, and then point at somebody to speak.
Statues: sitting still for as long as you could. (That was when they wanted peace and quiet!)
Keeper of the Keys.
O'Grady says (Simon says to you). I found it exhausting, so I always got myself out as soon as I could. The cunning trap was "stand up who's still in the game"; then after a pause, "O'Grady says".