What Games Did You Play In the School Playground As A Child?

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I have fond memories of playing Elastics, skipping , granny a game that you played with a tennis ball. Another thing was putting a tennis ball in an old pair of tights and swinging it across your body and over the top of your head and inbetween your legs. I bet half of them would be banned these days by health & safety

British Bulldogs
Kiss Chase
Elastics
May I ? (I think it's also called 'Mother May I' )

British Bulldog
Kick Ball Hide
Japs & Commandos (not very PC )
Elastics
Skipping
Poison
What Time Is It Mr Wolf?

Don't think I played that one NDP. Good website though - lots of memories!

I remember that one with the tennis ball in a tight leg!
The quality of the wall was important though. Clackers, briefly, till they were banned cos people kept breaking their wrists

mother may i! ah good memories

lots of skipping games and we were always role playing peter pan, i was always nana argh

we also went around saying 'who wants to play..' and people would join on the ends

what about 'all pile on'? now that was fun (not)

British Bulldog was excellent at my school. I was the champ.

Football - if the boys didn't let me join in then I would nick their ball so they couldn't play it.

What's the one with a length of elastic round 2 peoples' feet and a 3rd does a set of jumps over it? Loved that one too.

southeastastra - I remember that!

"All join on if you want to play......."

british bulldog
red rover
football
did the french elastics thing for a bit

Jacks
Skipping- the chant started 'Bumper car bumper number 48' would love to remember the rest!
Beads swapping
Cats cradle

Elastics was my favourite
skipping
Blocky 123

oops should say bumper car twice!!

Bumper car, bumper car
Number 48
Whizzed round the cor.......ner ( you leave the rope, run round one of the turners and return to skip)
Slammed on the brakes
Policeman caught me
Sent me to jail
How many bottles of ginger ale
1,2, 3... ...

I remember that too (got the above from a website!)

The lunchtime supervisors have taught dd and her friends "Bumper Car" and she loves singing it at home, skipping rope in hand or not!!

One potato, two potato, three potato, four.....

Skipping games - High low Dolly Rocky, the Wind the Wind the Wind blows high etc etc.

Clapping games - Under the bramble bush (I thought at the time it was the BAmbush - didn't know what one was....Enlightened by a previous Mn thread! Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree.

Playing tig we said 'Keyis' with our thumbs up if we didn't want to be caught.....

Played British Bulldog, french skipping, rounders etc. However the wierdest thing we did in the play ground was collect rubber shavings.

may i
whats time mr wolf
red rover[banned when i broke my arm]
house [ would spend hrs making houses out ofd freshly cut grass]
hopscotch
skipping
kiss n tell

I loved What time is it Mr Wolf? I taught it to DDs and some friends last year

what did we DO with the elastics round the feet?

baked potatoe
british bulldog
whats the time mr wolf
over the moon and under the stars(with a skipping rope)
block 1,2,3.
that other game where you chucked a tennis ball against the wall, 1st time, you clapped your hand then caught it, second time, you threw it twice and did something diff, and so on

What's the time MrWolf
British Bulldog (wasn't that just a load of kids running at each other?)
that clapping thing, my mamma said to me blah blah
cats cradle (how fking pointless was that?)
skipping
hopscotch
it

elastics, hopscotch, skipping with a person on each end of the rope (you know what I mean)

elastics was starting with your feet either side of the 'lastic then jump in then out, then cross then on then .....I loved it, just can't quite remeber, it used to get higher though

we used to do the clapping game that went..a sailor went to sea, sea, sea....