Remember playing he loves me, he loves me not with the flowers. Or making whistles from the blades of grass? What happened to those childhood pastimes? I am trying to bring them back with my kids. So if you have any more that you can think please do share. There was a plant also that was a succulent I think of some kind that you rubbed the underside and could blow on to make a bullfrog throat? Does anyone know the plant of which I speak I have been hunting for it. But of course wouldn't want to put my mouth on the wrong one. :shock: And of course talking snapdragons was another fun one. So feel free to share something light with all of us to bring some childhood pastime back to 2010!
Innocent childhood games...let me see, if you get a big enough group you can play red rover, and seven up. Otherwise I liked mother may I, Simon says, hide and seek, freeze tag, and my friends and I could make ANYTHING out of some old boxes, skeins of yarn and rolls of masking tape. One summer My mother entertained me, my cousins and whatever friends showed up on any given day for the entire summer vacation with boxes from the grocery store, masking tape (thin and thick), and skeins of yarn. We must have used about 10 or 20 skeins of yarn and 50 rolls of tape that summer but oh, the fun we had...maybe I can dig up the pictures of the yard from all our games...
I loved games like that! I used to spend tons of time building forts in the living room out of couch cushions and old sheets. Also laying outside looking up at the clouds seeing what shapes they made. My mom was good at coming up with simple games. For one she got an old glass milk bottle and set it on the ground and we had to hold wooden clothes pins chest high above the bottle and drop them. The person with the most in won.
We played a lot of marbles and jacks and hopscotch and jumprope. Our bicycles were our horses when my friends and I played "knights" or "Indians" or "cowboys" (for some reason, Cowboys AND Indians wasn't real big with us). On a lazy day, we might sit in the yard and make clover-flower chains for head wreaths or necklaces, lie on our backs and watch clouds or birds, or lie on our stomachs and watch ants or other critters. If there were quite a few friends together, we played Mother May I, 1-2-3 Red Light, Simon Says, hide and seek, freeze tag, or made up our own versions of football or baseball. Anybody remember Duck-Duck-Goose or Drop the Handerchief? I wasn't much for playing babydolls. I might add that we didn't get television until I was 5, and for years after that there wasn't much on for kids except a few cartoons or cowboys on Saturday morning which were done by lunchtime. Not much for afterschool viewing, maybe a half-hour cartoon show. I remember mudpies, though!
Another game I used to play alone or with friends. Mom gave me bunches of old kitchen containers (plastic bowls, plastic kitchen utensils, old whisks, etc) and I would go outside and use them for "cooking" I would collect various leaves, flowers, plants, dirt, sand, gravel, whatever I found and create different dishes with it. I was an only child so much of my play was imaginative becuase I was often alone.
Jacks, my mom and I use to play Jacks for hours. Jump the River, Mother May I, Doctor ball, Monkey In the Middle, Red Light/Green Light. And I use to always play "School." LOL
How about Kick the Can....we used to play at dusk. We played War a lot at school (I declare war on....) We would collect Bullrushes for "hot dog on sticks", mud pies, My best friend and I would play for hours with the clothes in the old trunk in our basement...we made many an original play....made tickets and popcorn and everything for the audience. Board games were also a fave way to pass the time.....Clue, Payday, Life, RatRace
Someone else that has played kick the can. I loved this game! I am reading this and smiling. Most of the games we have play at the Summer Program I work for. Some of the names have changed. But in a structure environment these games are still being play. I can say I am proud of the program I work for! There are a few they will also be learning really soon.
no one knows how to play annie annie over pig tales. Well you put up a net or use the roof of your house that is what we always use. Throw balls over and as it was going over you say annie annie over. So, the persons on the other side would be on the look out for it and wouldn't get hit and then when they got it they say pig tales. we spent hours playing that game.
I played this all over the neighborhood with my friends! We probably played up until 6th or 7th grade even My friends and I would play "Truth, Dare, Double-Dare, Promise or Repeat". You had to pick one of them (couldn't pick the same twice in a row) and your friends came up with the question you had to answer, dare you had to do, promise you had to make, or ridiculous thing you had to repeat. Also, we'd play a variation of freeze tag called "Statue" where when you were tagged you had to pose like a famous statue.
ok, so it wasn't very long ago that I was a kid (I'll be 23 the 9th) but...when I was a kid my cousin and I spent HOURS playing cowboys and indians. We would actually tie each other up to trees, lol, and we had toy 6 shooters and then we'd run into the house and watch Gene Autry. lol! (Of course I abruptly found out while working at my local daycare that "Cowboys and Indians" is not an appropriate game for children b/c it promotes racism and violence, however I did ignore this and still consider it a childhood staple and a wonderful memory for me!) We also played Head-up-Seven up, Duck Duck Goose, Red-light green-light, freeze tag, hide and seek. OH, and on dark nights my friends used to play "Ghost Ghost in the Graveyard". BIGFOOOOOOT was the best game EVER! We ALWAYS used to play at night (It's almost essential) and it's the opposite of hide and seek. One person plays "Bigfoot" and hides while the rest of the group goes on an expedition to find him. Big foot jumps out of hiding when someone is near and chases them back to base trying to tag them so they can be bigfoot next! Very fun, especially when you have a big yard to play in!!
My older brother and me would always play Cowboys and Indians, too! He was always the Cowboy (John Wayne) and I was a pack mule. He would load up my back with all his camping stuff, make me haul it to the other side of the house on my hands and knees. When we got to the other side of the house, I was then the Indian that he would tie up and try to scalp. Those were the good ol' days. We talk about it all the time.
We played Crack-the-Whip, Jump Rope, Tether Ball, 4-square. We always waited for the milkman to come and get the ice from him. The ice was long and round with a hole in the middle. It fit right over our finger. We also looked for pop bottles and traded them in for a penny and bought penny candy. We played baseball in the vacant lot, sled rode down the park hill and ice skated on the park pond. We had reunions, with games, watermelon spitting contests, one-legged races. We were never inside to play. When we went to our friends house we would stand at their side door and holler in the door for them, you would never knock. Rode the bus to "town" to shop and get a $.49 sundae. Memories, sorry, got off the subject
Mud pies, all sorts of jump rope rhymes/games (Cinderella, Teddy Bear...), Devil in the Ditch (kids run from one side of the ditch to the other without the "it" person (the devil) tagging them). I dunno... lots of fun times.
