Playground games

[Tizzybudd]

can anyone remember old playground games from the late sixties to early seventies - trying to get my d year old daughter interested in clapping and skipping games etc but can't remember all the words etc

Many thanks,

Tizzybudd

[OBonio]

Hop-Scotch
What's the time Mr Wolf
Bundles

[sense4all]

stuck in the mud (the ones where you put your arms out and could be rescued)

[Drusilla]

This is an American site, but may lead you to related sites in the UK

http://www.gameskidsplay.net/jump_rope_ryhmes/index.htm

Best wishes

[cliffsdoll]

a sailor went to sea sea sea

to see what he could see see see

but all that he could see see see

was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea

[Altosruleok]

Please Jackie can we come across your coloured water~?
Only if you're wearing red.
etc

Grandmother's footsteps

Dip dip dip, my little ship
Sails on the water
Like a cup and saucer
OUT spells out

Each peach pear plum
I spy Tom Thumb
Tom Thumb in the wood
I spy Robin Hood.
(This rhyme was chanted while playing "two-ball" up against the wall. There's lots more to it, but you can find it in the Ahlbergs' book "Each peach pear plum")

Salt mustard vinegar pepper
I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw
(This is a skpping rhyme)

[lady_p_gold]

Some here www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question182344.html

[Tizzybudd]

Many thanks to you all - looks like a busy weekend playing for us girls...

[spudqueen]

How about french elastics? We used to play that all the time. If there aren't enough people you can always used chair legs for one 'person'. Also, for when you're back inside how about cats cradle?

[crisgal]

For two-sy ball:

Would you like a cigarette sir? No sir. Why sir? Because i've got a cold sir. How did you catch a cold sir? from the north pole sir. What were you doing there sir? Catching polar bears sir. How many did you catch sir? 1 2 3 4.......

or: Matthew Mark Luke and John, next door neighbour carry on - (next person carries on without stopping)

Or for skipping:

I am a little bubble car me numbers 48, i took me round the coooooooooooooooooooooorner, and pulled on me break! (run out of the ropes and around one end then back in and stop the rope with your feet)

or: Daddy is a butcher, mummy cooks the meat. How many hours does the baby sleep? 1 2 3 etc

or wall games:

Donkey. Throw the ball against the wall and let it bounce whilst jumping over it. each time you do it successfully, you get a letter. First one to spell donkey is the winner

or: The big ship sails through the alley alley oh (going under everyones arms)

Or clapping games:

my momma told me If I was goody that she would buy me a rubber dolly.My aunty told her i kissed a soldier, now she won't buy me a rubber dolly

But you can't beat the old favourite "Queenie -o-coco who's got the ball-o?" "See i haven't got it, see I haven't got it"

Don't forget for any of these games you'll have to call Spuds in! to see who goes first. All together now

1 potato 2 potato 3 potato 4, 5 potato 6 potato 7 potato more!

[goldfish1]

Kiss cuddle kick or torture! We played that nearly every playtime.

German ropes - with the elastic bands. My legs would be too hairy now (ouch).

[Why??]

I've been trying to remember this one, it began:

Not last night but the night before, 24 tom cats came knocking on my door, I went down stairs to let thim in, and this is what the said to me...

and I can't remember the rest, help????

[Why??]

I'm on a roll now!, there all coming back to me...

In and out the Scotish Bluebells.

Egg, Bacon, Cheese or Fat, Ballet Shoes or Wedding Hat,(I never quite understood that one)

When Susie was a baby...

The Farmers in his Den (my favourite)

London Bridge is falling down.

Kiss Chase(yuk!)

[Lonnie]

Hopping Barge,

British Bulldog,

Chinese Handball.

[dancecaller]

Hundreds of them on the folk site Mudcat

[dancecaller]

Goldfish1. Your kiss cuddle kick or torture sounds like a cross between two we played.
�Pinch or punch or join in the ring or tell me your sweetheart�s name�, which started off with a few children and grew.
�Dare, double dare kiss or promise�
Would they be allowed now or would it come under the antibullying policy?

There has been a discussion about what my sister called �American skipping� but you call German ropes on Mudcat. It hadn�t arrived in this country when I was at junior school; my daughter called it Elastics and did it with knicker elastic. The Americans called it �Chinese skipping�

Why?? I remember this as

Not last night but the night before
Three tom cats came knocking at the door
I opened the door to let them in
And they knocked me down with a rolling pin.

How about

Oh dear what can the matter be
Three old ladies got stuck in the lavatory
They were there from Thursday to Saturday
Nobody knew they were there

[maggie01]

Why. You mentioned when Suzie had a baby. I vaguely remember that but now I can't remember it and it's driving me potty trying to think.

[Kay]

Can anyone remember " Pussie In The Corner"? No Im not being rude. It was usually played in a room,the object being every corner had to have somone in it but I just cant remember anymore about it. This would have been in the mid to late 50's. Showing my age now:--)