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

to see what he could see, see, see
and all that he could see ee ee

When I was five at primary school I developed a new game one playtime called "Spoil everyone else's game" and managed to rope a couple of other little toerags into "playing" it with me. It entailed rampaging around the playground wrecking all the other kids' games. We stole the boys' football and threw it over the wall. We ran into where the Asian girls were playing their game with little stones and buggered that up for them. We tied big knots in all the skipping ropes.

Oh god, it sounds awful no wonder I was thrown out of the Brownies

some people never really develop past age 5, do they?

Meanie

British Bulldogs which was amazing until half the school was playing and the dinner ladies banned it!
Elastics.

there were always accidents with british bulldog, but it was fun!

Fimbo, I remember that ball in the sock one! I half thought I'd imagined it the other day. Did it have a name?

British Bulldog was banned at my school when someone broke their arm .

Elastics was a fave, and the "clapsie" one with the tennis ball against the wall.

You started with one clap and went up to ten.

The accidents were part of the fun Seem to remember getting the right grip was always very important too - monkey grip being a favourite.

Broken arm ouch!

Blimey, no-one ever got injured in British Bulldog at my school - were we doing something wrong?

Mention of May I? has made me go all nostaglic. Also played hopscotch, of course, and Grandmother's footsteps. I invented an extra middle name for Grandmother's footsteps just to help me win...

and dyslexic, apparently, should be nostalgic, of course.

We always ended the session with a game of British Bulldog at my judo club, and I bloody loved it

Anyone know the words for the skipping rhyme "Teddy on the telephone?" - it was big skips not solo and involved a bit of running out and in...?

My kids had a skipping workshop day at school recently but alas, when I asked them if they'd done Teddy on the Telephone, they looked blanker than a playground in the rain.

Also played British Bulldog with half the school (juniors) which was fab - even better because of the frissance (sp?) which came with the sense of danger (re: injury potential).

Did anyone else walk round arm in arm, recruiting for a game chanting "All join on for cowboys and indians"?

british bulldog (the dead 'ard northern version!! )
that thing with elastic
alice the camel
kick can
stamps (not postage - foot stamping and dodging!!)
hopscotch
whats the time mr wolf
one where you said letters at random and folks could only go forward one step for each time the letter appeared in their name
similar one with colours where you had to be wearing the colour
kiss chase
stretch
leapfrog
oh gawd, just loads, i'll be remembering them all night!!

M2P, that random letters thing is Grandmother's footsteps.

British Bulldog - til we were banned!
Kiss chase
Whats the time Mr Wolf
Conkers - that was banned too
That one where you throw pennies up the wall - but they also banned that!
Pogs
Hopscotch
Skipping

Sevensies (like spacecadet), first throw a ball against the wall 7 times, then throw and let it bounce 7 times, then throw, let it bounce and clap, on and on and on. every time you made a mistake you went back to the beginning and it all went on for days.
Elastics, but I was rubbish at it.
Making stone gardens.
Litter picking. what a little prig I was.
Forty Forty was what we called Kick the Can at school.
something where one person asked a question and people had to run backwards and forwards before answering it.

oh, what about that one where you used to go round and round thru 2 pairs of linked arms while they sang some rhyme till "to chop off your..." they they'd get you if you were going thru on "head"

Oranges and Lemons?

duh! course it was!! ta!

in my defence, it was such a very long time ago now and the old grey matter isn't what it used to be!

Queenio Queenio who's got the ballio?

My mammy and your mammy were hanging out some clothes
your mummy hit my mummy a punch on the nose
what colour was the blood... and that's all I can remember of that game, didn't you have to say BLUE or something?

Oh, how brutal playground games were (and still are)

British Bulldog was always being banned - rock hard playground + bundle of kids = accidents ny the score!

Anyone used to skip to "On the mountain stands a lady"? Went to the tune of the Liver Birds.

2 would twirl the rope, one in the middle jumping as they sang,
"On the mountain stands a lady, who she is i do not know/All she wants is gold and silver, all she wants is a nice young man"
Then they'd chant,
"OK (name) we'll tell your mother, you were kissing (name) on the corner, is this ture? Yes/no/yes/no"
And if you fluffed it on "yes", obviously lots of giggles - think it could go on for ages cos then you would have "where do you live - flat, house, palace, dustbin" and "how many children" etc

Rhymes are pretty brutal nowadays too - my daughter taught me:

My boyfriend gave me an apple
My boyfriend gave me a pear
My boyfriend gave me a kiss on the lips
And threw me down the stairs

We just went for childish knob gags in my day:

My friend Billy had a ten foot willy
He showed it to the girl next door
She thought it was a snake and hit it with a rake
Now it's only 3 foot four

British Bulldog
Red Rover
Stuck in the Mud