do primary school kids still play games like red rover, british bulldog, stuck in the mud etc?

[misdee]

or have they all been banned as well?

i am an 80's child.

somehting to do with french skipping 'inside outside monkeys tails' i think? jump inside, just out and then try and land with both feet on the elestics.

They always periodically used to ban a) British Bulldog and b) conkers at my primary school in the 70s.

Skipping (with ropes) v popular - our head is keen on it for both boys and girls. Ball games banned on playground - only allowed on the field. Yes, I realise we are lucky to have a field...

OO the French Elastic rhyme I remember is
England, Ireland, Scotland ,Wales, inside, outside, inside, tails. Tails being jumping on both elastics. The elastics went up from ankles, calves, knees then thighs.

there was a tea rhyme as well? about soemone coming for tea?)

Mommas in the kitchen, doing a bit of stitching, in comes the bogey man and out goes she!

We play football, skipping, french skipping, it, chase, stuck in the mud and lots of other things. We have a trim trail. We have "huff and puff" equipment were the classes take it in turns and have different items to play with (lolo balls, nets, jacks, bats, catching mits, hoops, space hoppers)

We aren't allowed to play rugby or bundle on top of each other
I am pretty sure we wouldn't be allowed to play kiss chase but then again I'm pretty sure that our 7-10 years old would go Yuck at the thought of it

Also - the big ship sails on the alleyalleyoh!

Where on child would put their hand on the wall and everyone else would go under it.

As i recall the last verse was 'we all show our knickers to the sailors on the ship'

Ooooh did any one else do "In and out the dusty bluebells?"

I couldn't do the complicated pat-a-cake hand-clapping game, which was often done in pairs to the tune of "A Sailor went to sea, sea, sea..."

They still play Dusty Bluebells at the DDs' school.
Does anyone remember Jenny is aweeping?
I'd forgotten Red Rover, I always loved that. There were quite a few other round games like Dusty Bluebells that I can't remember anymore though.

Remember the clapping game to "When Suzy was a schoolgirl..." involving her leaving her knickers in her boyfriend's car.

Does anyone remember the clapping game:

Coca cola
Came to town
High Seas
Knocked him down

And so on and so on.............

Oh give me some more of the elastic rhymes, I'm a CM with 2, 5 years old, a 6 year old and 9 year old girls, who are always looking for a new game to play, elastic would be perfect.

Went to the Chinese laundry
To buy a loaf of bread...

Margo:

We used to say 'Har Har i've lost my bra and left my knickers in my boyfriends car'

Rosa - keep going......

I went to a Chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread-bread-bread.
He wrapped it up in a 5-pound note and this is what he said-said said.
My name is Elvis Presley, girls are sexy, sittin? in the back seat, drinkin? Pepsi, had a baby, called her Daisy, do me a favour; drop dead!

or there is another version that goes hilo chickalo something, something, that DD2 and her friends do.

At my kids school they play a game outside, after dark, involving one person with a torch and everyone else having to run to a "home" base without getting caught in the beam of the torch.... yes, my friends, it is called "German Spotlight"

60 years on, but still not forgotten, eh

I have to ask - how do you play bulldog. I have vague memories of it as a child but cannot think up a set of rules?

This looks like a good website

"England, Ireland, Scotland ,Wales, inside, outside, inside, tails...."

We called them Chinese ropes not French skipping/elastics/ropes. But our rhyme was the proper version:

SCOTLAND, England, Ireland, Wales, inside, outside, inside, tails......

I wonder what they sang in Wales ???

Do they let them play chain he now. When you got caught you joined hands with whoever was 'it'. Eventually you had a massive chain of kids charging round the play ground after the last few. When you were at the end of this chain you got sent flying as it flung you round. I've still got a scar on my leg from landing on a rusty bit of metal during one such game. Oh happy days.

By the way is british bulldog and red rover the same game?

we had a marble season too - how did we all know when it was?!

goosey loosey - iirc bulldog involved having to run from one sideof the playground/hall to the other without being caught. if you were caught you became a catcher - standing in the middle and trying to catch people (can;t remember how you decided on the first catcher - probably the last person to be out last time). apart from that there weren;t really any rules - rugby tackles, clothes pulling, mass-piley-ons all permitted. we used to play it at Brownies. I think the difference with Red Rover is that in BB the catchers don;t join up.

Skipping rhymes:
"England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales...Russia, Pussiah (Presumably 'Prussia!') Ger-man-Y!"

And: A group skipping game where you had a long rope and 2 'turners'. It went "All in together girls, see the sunny weather girls, when you hear your birthday, please jump IN, January, February.." etc. I never got in, being December!

We did In and Out the Dusty Bluebells complete with the head chopping motion at the end.

And I also remember the male teacher getting the older boys to build a skid pan on the playground asphalt when there was ice then they'd take turns seeing who could slide furthest after a long run up.... and organised snow ball fights with 2 rules: No compacted snowballs, no hidden stones!