What were your favourite games in the schoolyard playground as a child?
Mine was probably skipping.
I also loved when we had marching events. It must have been for Fete Days or something, I can't remember, but I can remember doing these intricate marches around the parade ground.
vk6tnc said
05:41 AM Apr 10, 2013
There was something that involved a large loop of elastic, held taut between two people. The girls would invite us to play to prove how UNCO we boys were !!!!
Tunnel ball comes to mind too...Not an olympic sport !!!
mongrel said
06:58 AM Apr 10, 2013
Remember bottle tops..We used to throw at the wall and the one closest without hitting the wall would collect the top from the other guys...Early 50s .
More of a game for the boys.
-- Edited by mongrel on Wednesday 10th of April 2013 06:59:54 AM
bill12 said
11:50 AM Apr 10, 2013
I f I was from North Korea, it would be nuclear war........I remember hide and seek was a popular game. Bill
GaryKelly said
01:51 PM Apr 10, 2013
Marbles.
GaryKelly said
02:09 PM Apr 10, 2013
Yep, bottle tops. Tops from beer bottles were the most interesting and colorful. And cigarette cards... the old fashioned packs folded flat and used to slide along the ground towards a wall (same principle as bottle tops). But with bottle tops, the winner would have to collect all the competing tops, stack them on his raised elbow, and then catch them with one hand before they hit the ground.
_wombat_ said
03:05 PM Apr 10, 2013
My fav game was behind the shelter shed and you could also sneek a smoke around there until a teacher found out about our hiding place, bugga teacher's, why did we used to have them? they spoilt a lot of fun behind that shelter shed.
Beth54 said
04:29 PM Apr 10, 2013
I don't think I ever played the elastics game. Maybe we were too poor to waste that much elastic.
Red rover was another popular one. It was probably the only game I recall both boys and girls playing together...other than the obvious ones we played together later.
I played marbles and cars with my younger brother at home, but never at school. Girls didn't do that.
pauline said
04:44 PM Apr 10, 2013
I played the elastic one, can't think what it was called...........also hopscotch, now I just drink scotch LOL...........
Beth54 said
04:46 PM Apr 10, 2013
pauline wrote:
I played the elastic one, can't think what it was called...........also hopscotch, now I just drink scotch LOL...........
Oh yes, I forgot about hopscotch. Yeh, no hopping here either.
pauline said
04:51 PM Apr 10, 2013
ahhhhhhh the good old days, everything seemed pretty simple then or maybe it was just the advantages of being young, we really didn't have the burdens on us that the grown ups did, now we do and sometimes it just ain't a lot of fun...........wouldn't be dead for quids though.
Gerty Dancer said
06:13 PM Apr 10, 2013
I spent an hour on the bus morning and afternoon, and to pass the journey we played games like "cats cradle" with string. We did all sorts of games involving drawing eg Hangman's noose... some kids read, or knitted, we also had a "back seat choir" whose favourite tunes included the Pub with No Beer. Cant remember anybody doing homework!
Any other school-bus kids here?
barina said
06:45 PM Apr 10, 2013
I can JUST remember in primary school having a tennis ball in a stocking (not panty hose) and standing back to a brick wall and flinging the ball from one side to the other and under legs and above head in some sort of sequence........how funny to try and write this.....
Rip and Rosie said
06:58 PM Apr 10, 2013
We didn't have the money to "waste" on elastic either, but as some others did, so I was fickle in my friendships...lol. I remember marbles cause I was good at it, and bottle tops to a lesser extent. Hoppy was easy, as we had a dirt playground, and after that a new bitumen one that we could mark out with chalk (stolen from the nuns of course). The tennis ball against a brick wall thing was without the stocking at our school. I hated skippy, because I was too unco-ordinated, so I just watched.
As we got older, our favourite was gossiping!
Beth54 said
07:10 PM Apr 10, 2013
Yes GD, I was a bus person too. I don't remember what we did on the primary school bus, but I remember the high school one. Next to the driver was a seat that faced the driver instead of forward. There was room for 3 on this seat. When my sister and her two mates were still at school, they used to sit there, and when they left after Grade 10, I grabbed it. Most kids wanted to sit towards the back, but for this motion sickness kid, the front was better for me. My two mates and I were like the three stooges. Kept the driver entertained.
I remember the tennis in the stocking too. And hopscotch was definitely in the dirt. We didn't have much bitumen around our school.
I also remember doing handstands against the brick wall at the end of the school.
pauline said
07:24 PM Apr 10, 2013
see what I mean about burdens on grown ups............I had no idea elastic would have been such a major waste of household expenses, poor Mum and Dad, LOL
BohemianGypsy said
10:05 PM Apr 10, 2013
Gosh we played "What's the time Mr Wolf" lol, and Elastics (that is what it was called), skipping, Statues, Handball and a few others that for the life of me I cannot bring to mind at the moment lol. In primary school we lived close enough to walk to school as we lived in an Army village.
Michelle
DandS said
10:31 PM Apr 10, 2013
"King Pin". A hand ball game. 4 marked squares 1,2,3 & 4. minimum of 4 players and a ball. The King pin was number one and always served to either of the other players. If the King pin was defeated everyone would move to the next square. If for example number 3 was defeated, they would go back to squre one, and the others would move a square. How times change.
Daryl
Dougwe said
12:06 AM Apr 11, 2013
Yep, marbles for me until footy took over for a couple years.
Sheba said
01:06 AM Apr 11, 2013
Gymnastics, which included Monkey bars, Rings, Cartwheels etc.
Softball, Tennis, Basketball, and Tunnel Ball.
That's all I can remember at the moment. Much preferred all that to sitting in the classroom.
Cheers,
Sheba.
_wombat_ said
01:41 AM Apr 11, 2013
Sheba wrote:
Gymnastics, which included Monkey bars, Rings, Cartwheels etc.
Softball, Tennis, Basketball, and Tunnel Ball.
That's all I can remember at the moment. Much preferred all that to sitting in the classroom.
Cheers,
Sheba.
the game I liked best was watching the girls do cartwheels
pauline said
02:12 AM Apr 11, 2013
As you would Womby.............why does that not surprise me. LOL
GaryKelly said
02:24 AM Apr 11, 2013
Whoever said "out of sight, out of mind" certainly wasn't Wombat.
vk6tnc said
02:26 AM Apr 11, 2013
Wombats first rejection from the opposite sex was probably, "Go dig a hole and bury yourself"
And he did !!!!
_wombat_ said
02:36 AM Apr 11, 2013
As I said in my first post here, I liked going behind the shelter shed, we used to play Dr's and Nurses, after the third time we got caught the headmaster called my mum to a meeting and I was transferred to a boys school, wasn't that bad there was a girls school next door (I was about 9 at this time)
Happy Daze said
03:08 AM Apr 11, 2013
I remember a game called Jacks, I believe it was sometimes called knucklebones. The jacks we used were the small bone from the ankle of a sheep, and we'd collect them from the Sunday roast, clean them up and you could colour them if you wished. Later on it was possible to buy plastic Jacks and the object of the game was to be able to throw them in the air, catch as many as you could on the back of your hand, at the same time picking up extra Jacks from the ground. Can't remember all the rules but it was quite a popular game way back then. Annie
ibbo said
03:20 AM Apr 11, 2013
Beth54 wrote:
Yes GD, I was a bus person too. I don't remember what we did on the primary school bus, but I remember the high school one. Next to the driver was a seat that faced the driver instead of forward. There was room for 3 on this seat. When my sister and her two mates were still at school, they used to sit there, and when they left after Grade 10, I grabbed it. Most kids wanted to sit towards the back, but for this motion sickness kid, the front was better for me. My two mates and I were like the three stooges. Kept the driver entertained.
I remember the tennis in the stocking too. And hopscotch was definitely in the dirt. We didn't have much bitumen around our school.
I also remember doing handstands against the brick wall at the end of the school.
Beth what fantastic memories you recall.my worst memory was School milk.
BohemianGypsy said
04:25 AM Apr 11, 2013
Oh you reminded me of my love for jacks Annie lol. I always had my set of jacks in my pocket and loved to play all the time. I got really good at it too lol
Michelle
Beth54 said
04:43 AM Apr 11, 2013
I actually don't have a very good memory at all ibbo. I often have to ask my sister about stuff from our childhood.
Anyone else play spin the bottle? There was a lot of long grass in our school grounds, so that's where a few of us went to play spin the bottle. How daring we were! I don't recall us ever being caught either!
No, not the playground we're in now.
What were your favourite games in the schoolyard playground as a child?
Mine was probably skipping.
I also loved when we had marching events. It must have been for Fete Days or something, I can't remember, but I can remember doing these intricate marches around the parade ground.
Tunnel ball comes to mind too...Not an olympic sport !!!
Remember bottle tops..We used to throw at the wall and the one closest without hitting the wall would collect the top from the other guys...Early 50s .
More of a game for the boys.
-- Edited by mongrel on Wednesday 10th of April 2013 06:59:54 AM
My fav game was behind the shelter shed and you could also sneek a smoke around there until a teacher found out about our hiding place, bugga teacher's, why did we used to have them? they spoilt a lot of fun behind that shelter shed.
I don't think I ever played the elastics game. Maybe we were too poor to waste that much elastic.
Red rover was another popular one. It was probably the only game I recall both boys and girls playing together...other than the obvious ones we played together later.
I played marbles and cars with my younger brother at home, but never at school. Girls didn't do that.
Oh yes, I forgot about hopscotch. Yeh, no hopping here either.
Any other school-bus kids here?
I can JUST remember in primary school having a tennis ball in a stocking (not panty hose) and standing back to a brick wall and flinging the ball from one side to the other and under legs and above head in some sort of sequence........how funny to try and write this.....
I remember marbles cause I was good at it, and bottle tops to a lesser extent.
Hoppy was easy, as we had a dirt playground, and after that a new bitumen one that we could mark out with chalk (stolen from the nuns of course).
The tennis ball against a brick wall thing was without the stocking at our school.
I hated skippy, because I was too unco-ordinated, so I just watched.
As we got older, our favourite was gossiping!
Yes GD, I was a bus person too. I don't remember what we did on the primary school bus, but I remember the high school one. Next to the driver was a seat that faced the driver instead of forward. There was room for 3 on this seat. When my sister and her two mates were still at school, they used to sit there, and when they left after Grade 10, I grabbed it. Most kids wanted to sit towards the back, but for this motion sickness kid, the front was better for me. My two mates and I were like the three stooges. Kept the driver entertained.
I remember the tennis in the stocking too. And hopscotch was definitely in the dirt. We didn't have much bitumen around our school.
I also remember doing handstands against the brick wall at the end of the school.
Gosh we played "What's the time Mr Wolf" lol, and Elastics (that is what it was called), skipping, Statues, Handball and a few others that for the life of me I cannot bring to mind at the moment lol. In primary school we lived close enough to walk to school as we lived in an Army village.
Michelle
If the King pin was defeated everyone would move to the next square. If for example number 3 was defeated, they would go back to squre one, and the others would move a square.
How times change.
Daryl
Gymnastics, which included Monkey bars, Rings, Cartwheels etc.
Softball, Tennis, Basketball, and Tunnel Ball.
That's all I can remember at the moment. Much preferred all that to sitting in the classroom.
Cheers,
Sheba.
the game I liked best was watching the girls do cartwheels
And he did !!!!
As I said in my first post here, I liked going behind the shelter shed, we used to play Dr's and Nurses, after the third time we got caught the headmaster called my mum to a meeting and I was transferred to a boys school, wasn't that bad there was a girls school next door
(I was about 9 at this time)
I remember a game called Jacks, I believe it was sometimes called knucklebones. The jacks we used were the small bone from the ankle of a sheep, and we'd collect them from the Sunday roast, clean them up and you could colour them if you wished. Later on it was possible to buy plastic Jacks and the object of the game was to be able to throw them in the air, catch as many as you could on the back of your hand, at the same time picking up extra Jacks from the ground. Can't remember all the rules but it was quite a popular game way back then. Annie
Beth what fantastic memories you recall.my worst memory was School milk.
Oh you reminded me of my love for jacks Annie lol. I always had my set of jacks in my pocket and loved to play all the time. I got really good at it too lol
Michelle
I actually don't have a very good memory at all ibbo. I often have to ask my sister about stuff from our childhood.
Anyone else play spin the bottle?
There was a lot of long grass in our school grounds, so that's where a few of us went to play spin the bottle. How daring we were! I don't recall us ever being caught either!