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| City Chick |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 08:36:18 AM
A little 1st grader asked me this yesterday. (I work on the playground at recess at our local school)
She asked me "What kind of games did you play when you were a little girl?"
You should have seen her eyes light up when I told her "I jump roped with friends, roller skated, played tag, hide and seek, had picnics with my friends....."
What games did you play when you were a little girl?
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| Annab |
Posted - Mar 04 2010 : 03:32:26 AM
Hide and seek, freeze tag, kick the can and catching lightning bugs.
Summer growing up in our neighborhood was the best
There were about 5 of us who hung out.
I remember one summer (can';t recall the year exactally, but a niece of a neighbor came to visit from (sp) Peruto Rico and taught us all how to Disco dance. So the rest of that summer was spent listening to records and dancing on top of a picnic table |
| classygram |
Posted - Mar 04 2010 : 03:31:35 AM
Oh CeeJay, I forgot about the Hula Hoop! I could keep that thing going!!!! Remember how you could start at your neck and go clear down and back up again. What fun!!!!
Brenda
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| peafarm |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 8:52:24 PM
One thing I didn't play ... dolls! Fox and Goose in the snow was a favorite. I also remember my dad clearing a section of snow off the slough, placed a few straw bales around the edge so we had a spot to sit down and we had a neighborhood ice skating parties that winter. For some reason we only did it one season, but it was a lot of fun. We spent a ton of time playing in the hayloft especially in the winter - swinging on ropes, shooting hoops, and looking for litters of kittens. We were also big card game players especially Pinochle and I loved Scrabble.
Popular Games when we visited Grandma included Spoons and Old Maid.
Penny
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| farmallgrl |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 6:04:31 PM
I have a vivid memory of playing mother may I in girl scouts:)
Angela
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| mscountrygirl |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 11:47:46 AM
I loved freeze tag! I played badmitten when I was younger with my sister. We use to play Marco Polo in the pool. I also loved the board game Clue!
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| ceejay48 |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 08:31:49 AM
Yup . . . all those games!!!
I was one "mean" jacks playing kid . . . beat 'em all!!
I LOVE hopscotch . . . we had to play in the dirt!
I was one swingin' hula-hooper too!!! I still hula-hoop!!!
Those were the days, huh??
CJ
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| classygram |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 08:21:26 AM
I have played just about all of these games. But do I ever remember double swinging, you just couldn't get high enough could you! I loved playing hop scotch and played it with grand-daughers. I wasn't to fond of dodge ball. the boys would get to rough, I think! Do you remember running around to catch lightening bugs and then put them on as jewerly! Good old times!!! We need to get todays kids away from the computer more. My grandkids are pretty much outdoors kids even the 20 yr old. Macee is just 10 and goes down the street to play basketball. In the summer there is always a game of some sort going on. Hide and seek, now that was good. Thanks for the memories. As for winter playing my brother and I and all the neighborhood kids got together and built snow forts. We had about 6 of them built connected together. With little doors to go from one to the other. I'll be anxious to hear what our grandkids have memories of someday.
Blessings, Brenda
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| Lainey |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 08:00:49 AM
We played freeze tag, hot potato, red rover, red light/green light, kickball, dodge ball, hide and seek, duck,duck,goose, and loads of stuff.
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| Amie C. |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 07:12:25 AM
We played a great game called Pie Man, which nobody ever seems to recognize when I tell them about it. Does anyone remember that one? |
| Fiddlehead Farm |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 06:10:11 AM
Flashlight tag. Sort of a hide and seek at night with a flashlight.
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| aunt boby |
Posted - Mar 03 2010 : 05:49:29 AM
GI Joe!!! I have two older brothers. Not too long ago I got out my jacks. My kids thought it was pretty cool. I could only pick up four, though. Who knew I was so much more coordinated when I was little?
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| Farmtopia |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 10:15:43 PM
Hey Beth, the pole jumping game Tinicula, and we used to play this when we were little, too: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/11611/jump_rope_with_a_twist_the_game_that.html?cat=7
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| Faransgirl |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 6:14:26 PM
Chinese Jump Rope, pick-up-sticks, red-rover, hide and seek, and some game where you use to jump over poles that were tapped on the ground twice then clicked together once and it went faster and faster. My sister and I can not remember what it was called. When I was younger we played with paper dolls alot. I still have some. Sure miss Betsy McCall.
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| graciegreeneyes |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 5:52:40 PM
Red light, Green Light
Kick the Can
Freeze tag
TV tag
Farmgirl #224
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| prariehawk |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 4:43:56 PM
In school we played kickball, four square, marbles, Chinese jumprope, and bombardment. At home we played a game called "light tag" that involved long summer evenings and flashlights. I'm sure we played lots of other games but I can't think of them now.
cindy
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| KayB |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 10:16:00 AM
I have played just about all of these games and then I also played football, baseball and basketball with my 3 brothers and their friends. Not coordinated enough for bowling or tennis.
KayB
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| vintagediva1 |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 09:26:51 AM
I loved jacks and pick up sticks. My Grandma's kitchen floor was great for this. Smooth linoleum.
Also Jump rope and Red Rover, red rover
When we went to my aunt and uncle's farm in the summer we'd play barnball, which was just handball against the barn
Michele
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| nubidane |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 09:22:19 AM
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| 1badmamawolf |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 09:02:48 AM
Hide and seek, baseball/softball,touch football, races, jumping from the hayloft into a HUGE pile of hay, simon says, differant card games, checkers.......
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| Cindy Lou |
Posted - Mar 02 2010 : 08:53:15 AM
"Hopscotch", "Red Rover", "What Time is it, Mr. Fox?","freeze tag", "Duck, Duck, Grey Duck", "Fox and Goose"(in the snow),"Four Square"
(on the playground), Tether Ball, "Work Up"( basically soft ball when we didn't have enough people for teams, we loved "Swinging Double"(one person sat on the seat and another straddled their lap and stood to pump.
"You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.....
But you can be happy if you've a mind to. All you've gotta do in knuckle down, buckle down and do it, do it, do it!" |
