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Remember the games you played when you were younger? Let’s take a trip back to the playground and out to the backyard, which games did you play?
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There we nine boys and including me six girls in my family, my fondest memories were playing baseball in the front yard and breaking my parents bedroom window window, my Dad would get so mad. We also played alot of tag and hide and go seek, there was alot of good times.
We played: handball, dodgeball, jax, hopscotch,jump-rope, double dutch,kickball,softball,basketball,hide and seek,tag,redrover,simon says,wiffleball,plus what was that ball on a rope? It is so scary for kids these days to even be outside; even if they are in groups or pairs! I feel so sorry for my grandkids. I loved my life when i was a kid....we only had 7 tv channels; if that, and only watched at night. Everything was so simple. Even watching tv with the family was better because there was only one tv. Not like now; if you dont like what the family is watching you go into the other room because there is a TV in every bedroom.... or stare at the computer (like I am lololol)!
Tag, Hide n' Seek, Hop Scotch, Jumprope, and Stoop Ball. Wow talk about memories.
I remember playing jumprope and kick ball it was always the popular game in neighborhood down in monticello mississippi all the ladies today are thin and trimm because of our child hood activites.jeannette from ohio
I was in the middle of four brothers, so I played SWAT and basketball. We would play I SPY and a lot of board games. We played kickball too.
I played all of the above mentioned too. What about hide and seek? We would hide all over the neighborhood. To have that freedom and safety again would be great. Also what about chinese jumprope. I spent hour playing with that piece of elastic.by Sandy on 9 /22/ 09
I used to spend countless hours playing Barbie dolls! We also had a 2-story play house in our back yard, where we played "house" and doctor. My best neighborhood friend lived in the next block and we would roller skate to each other's houses and play board games, like Bargain Hunter. It was a shopping game. I loved it! We always had all the boys over on the block to play flag football to. Sometimes we went to the local public swimming pool and played tennis or swam. We also played Hopscotch by drawing a board on the sidewalk with chalk. We drew shrinky-drinks, which I loved! Of course, we baked in the easy bake oven. My pets were miniature brine shrimp called sea-monkeys. I had a fulfilling and unique childhoold and I am trying to provide the same opportunity for my 11-year old son now. After all, we only live once!
I loved Hopscotch!! When I was in 3rd grade, I was playing Hopscotch and slid in my new shoes and broke my ankle! It happened on April Fool's Day , so no one would believe me! I had to BEG my friend's father to drive me home. Since I was the youngest of seven kids, my dad didn't believe me until i crawled up the stairs and took off my shoe and sock!! Never played hopscotch again!!
WOW! IT'S SEEMS LIKE AN ETERNITY SINCE I PLAYED ANY OF THESE GAMES. SINCE I WAS MORE OF A TOMBOY, THE FIRST TWO DIDN'T INTEREST ME. IT REALLY BRINGS BACK GREAT MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD. WE ALSO PLAYED ALOT OF BADMITTON, VOLLEYBALL AND STICKBALL ! THANKS FOR BRINGING THESE BACK TO MIND!
HELLO, WHEN I WAS A CHILD THINGS WERE VERY HARD BUT WE HAVE MANY,MANY FOND MEMORIES OF TWO GAMES MOTHER MAY I AND GREEN LITE RED LITE. TODAYS CHILDREN WOULD NEVER THINK OF PLAYIN THIS GAMES.
Does anyone remember the marble game called Jack in the Bush? Most all children had sacks of marbles and besides the marble game played in a circle on the ground: we played Jack in the Bush...It was fun to play on the way home on the bus. You would discretely put marbles in your hands and the oponent would have to guess. If he gussed the correct number of marbles they were his...If he over guessed he had to pay you the difference and under guessing he had to pay the difference up to the number you held in your hand. The game was addictive and the teachers were always having to take marbles away when you were caught playing the game in class...I still have my old Chase and Sanborne coffee can full of marbles...and memories...
I remember playing Hopscotch at school and also tag during recess. We jumped rope as well as played Red Rover. After school, even in the dark, we would play hide-N-seek for hours on end. Times were so different 50 years ago. As a Mother, I would tell my 2 girls some of those things that we played and they never really took an interest. Thank goodness they at least took an interest in girls basketball and played tirelessly rather than sitting in front of the TV.
how about teather ball?
We played all of those games and some we made up. We played cowboys and Indina,House with our friends. We would watch the bates come out at night and caught the light bugs and use them for our lights. As if we could really have alot of light. We also got out some cars and made highways to a town that we made up.We would dress up in some old clothes and act like we was going to town. My sisters and I would wait for the paper boy to come because we all had a thing for him. Remember how the mailman would bring the mail to the house and talk to all the kids or the ice cream man would come around and we would ask for and dime to get some kind of ice cream. I also remember the cook outs and the homemade ice cream with the hand turn. Man that was good ie cream and the hamburger was out of this world. There was not TV back then and not to much radio for us. But when there was it was okay but being outside in the good sunshine until dark was something else. The nights was not to bad either. We would just sit in the swing on the front and Grandmother and mother would talk about time gone by and what they use to do and what things my mother and her sisters and brother use to do. The night air and the night sound was all together different then what it is today. I guess nothing stay the same.Virgina 9/2/2009 1:30 P.M
Do you remember going to your friend's house and calling their name in stead of knocking on the door? Karen? Karen? Not only did we play all of the mentioned games we also would put on shows in our garage. Sometimes we had a spook house where we would guide our blind folded friends through a maze and have them experience different features. We used various household and food items and had the kids handle; a human brain (wet sponge), eyeballs (grapes), walk barefoot through blood (sticky popcicle wrappers), run their fingers through the guts of a dead animal (spaghetti), etc.. We also would put on shows with our Kenner's Give A Show Projecter or our View Master Projection viewer. Sleeping out in the backyard in a tent meant bike riding or walking up to the drug store or 7-11 for snacks to have for our midnight adventures. During the winter (we seemed to get more snow back then too) we would build snow forts and tunnels to our neighbors fort. Kids these days just don't have a clue what real fun is !!
Those were the fun days. We were so lucky to have lived in that era. Ora
I remember all of the games that are mentioned, and I feel sad that children of today don't know what to do with time available. they sit in front of t.v.'s, computers, and little machines in their hands. what they are missing in life is life itself. those days of playing and meeting your friends and the good ole sunshine in the summer and spring and fall. no wonder we have a bunch of robots and no personality children. Don't forget to put a smile on your face and a hop in your step when your feet hit the floor in the morning and you'll be loving life more than you can think. have a good day barb
Whatever happened to kids playing outside??!! We used to hit the door as soon as it got light on Saturday morning, and grumble when we had to come in for lunch, or dinner, and to go to bed!! What a good time we had. Tag, hide and seek, hopscotch, dodge ball, swinging on our swingset, or just sitting in the grass under the tree............miss those things.
Some of the fun times I had as a child was sledding in the wintertime, we would stay outside until our feet were so cold you could barely feel them. In the summer there was a vast amount of things to play. Red Rover, was one, It was another, I think most called it Tag. There was homemade wagons, carts, go cars, stilts, cans on the shoes( we destroyed many a pair of shoes this way). roller skates, they were the kind that attached to the shoes. Most of the homemade things were made by my brothers and I. We had our chores to do, but there was always time for fun things too.ByMarilyn on 8/21/2009
I remember riding my bike, roler skating, ice skating, dodge ball,hop-scotch, red light - green light, jump rope, but most of all I remember getting those old roller skates and a 2 by 4, along with a wodden box. We then got our hammers and nails and preceeded to make our own skooters. You placed the skates on either end of the 2 by 4. Then on the top hammered the wooden box to the 2 by 4. If we had paint around we painted it or just chalked it all over. We were the coolest kis on the block. And remember skully. My kids play thia to this day along with their kids.
i remember making mudd pies and having my brothers taste it ,we also played red light green light ,we made a go car out of wood we used old bicycle tires for wheels the inner tube was the steering wheel and the seat was a old car seat out of a car we wired it down real tight it was 7 of us /we took turns pushing each other down the road,we had plenty of things to do that cost no money just got plenty of exercise and we were never in trouble . i never dreamed the things children get into now adays that will get them in trouble oh how times have changed!!!!!!!!!!!1
sorry, forgot red light, green light, and mother may i ?
wow! was it cool to be young or what? our games were (too) dodge ball, hop scotch (drawn with stone on sidewalk) double dutch jump rope, monkey in the middle, and "soccer" which was baseball played with one ball that was kicked, and we threw it at the person to get them "out"! then there was the fun of getting the "lightening bugs" at night right before we had to go in. yes, i agree, that was real fun. hardly ever watched tv unless it was real bad weather.
I was born in 1959. I remember playing, freeze tag, reg tag, red light green light. flying kites until they were so high in the sky you could barely see them. A group of us would always anxiously wait spring to fly our kites. We built forts, made tents out of old bed covers, climbed tree's, swung in tire swings. Broke a couple of our upstair bedroom window's playing baseball in our back yards. lay on the ground and make shapes out of the clouds. Pick ripe tomatoes from the gardens to snack on. HORROR of all HORROR"s, we actually drang from the water hose! It was a great way to s pend the summer
I think I lived with all the people that have comments posted! We had an "empty lot" next to us and the entire block of kids used the lot as their playground. No equipment of course just our imaginations to create any game we could come up with. Do you remember making the big circle in the snow with your boots and a plus sign from one end to the other and then chasing each other around the circle until you were sweating in your snowpants and it was 0 degrees??? I would love to do it again.
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