Tell Unicef UK the playground games you loved as a child - £300 voucher to be won!

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Unicef UK are launching this years Soccer Aid Playground Challenge and would love to hear about the playground games you used to play at school and what games your children play now. The playground is the highlight of the school day where children can burn off all their energy and play with their friends; share below what you loved to play when you were at school and if any of the games have passed down generations.

Here’s what Unicef has to say: “This year, we’re asking all schools across the UK to join us for the Soccer Aid Playground Challenge to help raise money to help give more children around the world a childhood full of play. The idea is simple – teachers team up with their pupils, design an obstacle course that they will take on together, and fundraise to help children in danger in June 2019. Ask your school to sign up here and we’ll send everything you need for kick off - including fundraising and teaching resources to bring Soccer Aid to life for the whole school.”

Alex, Head of Sports for St Dunstan’s RC Primary School, Manchester says: “The Playground Challenge was the perfect way to get the whole school together for a great cause. Everyone (including staff!) had the best time raising money to help children all over the world.”

So what playground games did you love as a child? Were you Queen of hopscotch? Or perhaps you practised your circus skills with stilts? Maybe you created your own playground football league or were seriously skilled at skipping? Do you know if your children still play the same games now at school?

Everyone who posts below will be entered into a prize draw where one Mumsnetter will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list)

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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I loved Netball, Rounders, tennis, cricket using a dustbin lid, marbles, & in Autumn the Conkers such good memories and to watch my grandchildren doing similar things xx

Hopscotch was a favourite as there was a painted board on the playground. I loved jacks and cats cradle, oh, and making those paper 'fortune teller' things.

Nothing involving much in the way of exercise - I was a lazy child!

I am so glad I was born before technology took over.
I used to love playing
Aggy 123- get to lamppost before getting tagged out
Kirby
Hopscotch
What's the time mr wolf
And of course the old classic of hide and seek

Four square! We LOVED playing four square during break and lunch time. Best game ever.

used to spend time doing hop scotch or skipping

Does anybody be from the 80's remember Skip It's (I think that's what they were called!)? It had a ring you put on your ankle and you kicked it round and jumped over the ball bit on the end? They were great, but plastic so they broke every couple of weeks!

I loved playing with 2 balls against the wall and dutch skipping with elastic bands

I used to love playing a game called 'Mother May I ' in the playground and it could have 3 players or 300 players, there used to be a Mother or father who faced away from the rest of the players who formed a long equal line and you'd ask to take various different type of steps of varying numbers and the mother of father would say Yes or no, if the answer was no then they suggested a different step which the players would then take, the first of the children to reach the location of the mother/father wins the game. That child then becomes the mother/father himself, the original mother/father becomes a child, and a new round begins.

I Love that game!! :

Stuck in the mud!
Bulldog!
40-40-in (mix between tag and hide-n-seek)!

ring a ring a roses

i think we played the standard hopscotch, and tag etc, but my most abiding memory is the summer term of Elastics.. the girls would play it endlessly!

I played a lot of make believe games with my equally precocious friends. We would renact tv shows, films and books. My favourite as a 10 year old was being Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind although the adult me has deep reservations about the portrayal of black African Americans. It went over my head then but I still think it's important for imaginative games without props or equipment.

Oh I forgot about stuck in the mud! We used to play that at swimming too.

Loved British Bulldog until I fell over and got concussions . After that I stuck to the gentle art of hand clapping games

loved playing hopscotch, leapfrog, tag, being a tomboy, kicking anysize ball around, skipping, all great fun

hopscotch, skipping games and cats cradle

We used to chalk hopscoth grids on the playground floor and use stones to throw onto the numbers... Dutch skipping was huge too. We once played cricket but I got banned as I put the ball through the classroom window...oops!

What time is it Mr Wolf ? was a
great favourite

I loved playing hop scotch and catch. I know my children have played catch or 'tig' as they call it but they haven't played hop scotch.

Cat and mouse, where loads of kids would make lines linked by hands, one 'cat' would chase one 'mouse' through this maze and every once in a while the mouse could shout 'change!' and the kids making up the lines would do a quarter turn switch and re link that way. Also a game that I can't remember the name of where one caller would give each person playing instructions in turn to tell them how to move forward (objective is to get across a space and back 'home' first) so it might be "6 baby steps and 1 lamppost (1 full body length)" or "3 toilets (flush sound while squatting then a big 360o spin around forward) and 5 giant steps". Stuck in the mud, tag, bulldog and 'werewolf' which was very much like bulldog.

rounders and run one end to the other end without being tagged

Hop-scotch and skipping were my two favourites

British bulldog, cats cradle, What time is it? Skipping, tig, hopscotch

I used to love playing "King of the Hill". Our playground at school had a slightly raised mound the shape of a whale out of concrete that we used to use as the hill, and that was always incredibly popular to stand on to see views of the rest of the playground and to sit on as well.

We just played football in the playground, but at one end the goals were the poles supporting the bicycle shed so were about 10 feet high and 10 feet wide, but at the other end it was the poles supporting the upper floor of the school so it was about 20 feet high and 15 feet wide and there was a hill slopping down towards that end, so a bit unfair. My sister played chinese skipping with ropes made out of elastic bands. One person at each end with the "rope" round them in a long thin oval shape between them and I think the height got raised as you played.