Old playgrund games from the 80's/90's..

[spaced]

I remember british bulldog and patball! Anyone else remember any other school games played in the playground??

[Playaxvx]

whats the time mr wolf

sticky glue

skipping

[josaphine32]

50/50

[paddy_36]

Elastics and doublers.

[littlemissx]

red rover..... anyone remember that??

[delboy3]

Ticky-it-off-the-ground

Siss-pa-brick (scissors, paper, stone)

aaah, the early '70s...

[spaced]

bloody hell, aprt from my own and skipping, dont remember anyone elses. Just thought of another "Murder Ball"....oooooh the pain!

[campbellking]

Is sticky glue same as stuck in the mud?

[Lonnie]

We played these games in the 50s & 60s, one you've left out is Hopping Barge.

[derekpara]

Further to delboy3's siss-pa-brick, I knew it as Diff-Daff-Dollar, or Ee-Pa-Voo !

Usually done in pairs with either Two fingers (scissors), open hand (paper) or fist (stone). The hand was waved in time with the three syllables, and on the final one either scissors, paper, or stone was revealed. Paper wrapped a stone, so paper won. Scissors cut paper, so scissors won and stone blunted scissors, so stone won. Clever, eh ?

Usually played to decide, say, who was ' it', remember ? Oh, the fifties !!

And what about Jump diddy knacker. That's another story.

[mimififi]

what about the clapping games that girls did to various bizarre tunes, one I remember was:

Thunder, thunder, thunderation,

We are the girl guide association

when we work with determination

we create a sensation

Repeat and ad lib.

also

C-C my play mate (clap clap clap clap)

come on and play with me, and bring my darling bee

into the apple tree

climb down the rainbow and through the cellar door

and be my best friend for ever more, more shut that door. (what ever that means, but the clapping was quite tricky, it was only me and barbie Bell who could clap it in time.)

[mimififi]

Also, "Pom Pom 123"

and skipping double dutch ( me and Barbie Bell again)

ooh, here is another rhyme I've remembered:

Apples on the tree they make me sick

they make my heart goe 2 4 6

Not because they're dirty, Not because they're clean

Not because I kissed a boy behind a magazine

So c'mon girls lets have some fun, here comes suzi with a mini skirt on

she can do the ra ra she can do the splits, she can do anything just like this

Fire cracker, fire cracker boom boom boom

Fire cracker fire cracker boom boom boom.

and there's the old

"I went to the chinese restaurant to buy a loaf of bread bread," etc etc.

I too remember British Bulldog and Sticky toffee and Oranges and Lemons, but some kids got a bit carried away with the chop off their heads parts.

I was only in Ed in Uk till 19 85 so all these are pre 85.

Interesting thread tho.

[Fish Kid]

Doctors and Nurses.

[littlemissx]

the tune i remember is

"we are the st catherine (or name of school) girls, we wear our hair in curls, we wear our dungarees up to our sexy knees. the boy next door he got me on the floor, he counted up to three and stuck it into me. my mumma was surprised to see my belly rise, my dadda jumped for joy it was a baby boy!!"

worst thing being we were at primary school so under 11!!!

[Bob A Job]

I remember playing 'beat up the skinny kid' quite alot.

But i think thats because i was always the skinny kid
:-(

[gedk]

"Flooretta" - which involved doing handstands

Off-ground tick

May I?

and did anyone else used to put a rubber ball in an old pair of tights and stand with your back against a wall whacking the ball either side of you (or is that just me?!)