Childhood Games

Description: What did you and your friends play when you were a child?

Newest Review: ... by "it". Each time you were touched and had to stand with your arms spread out, you lost one of your three lives - if you used them all up, you became "it" and the previous "it" joined the others. That's just a very small selection of the organised games we played at my junior school. Each of these games (and others) usually had one child that played a ... more

... different part, albeit temporarily, to the others. The way this child would be chosen was by "dipping". We had various "dip" rhymes, and our favourite was a bit rude.....it went like this...... "Ip Dip Dog Sh*t, You Are Not It". ...more

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Childhood Games: GentleGenius turns the clock way back....to when kids had re ... (3348 words)
by - written on 27/05/09 (Very useful, 104 readings)
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About 4 years ago, I did a little work with the local primary school in the area where I then lived. Part of my task was to help a teacher supervise the children at play, during their break times. For a couple of months I did something very similar at the primary school local to where I now live, and my observations were exactly the same from studying the children's break time activity at both schools. I was a little sad to see that all these kids seemed to do, was race around the playground, shrieking at one another, yet not actually playing any particular games. The whole scenario at these two schools appeared to lack imagination and structure, both on the part of ... Read the complete review

Making fun out of next to nothing (325 words)
by - written on 22/05/09 (Very useful, 25 readings)
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Ah childhood games of my youth, of course we were allowed more freedom to play outside when i was growing up and you wern't outnumbered by cars in the street wher we lived , there was only one . We use to play kick the can very similar to hide and seek only the seeker set up a can at the "home" point and the winer was the one who managed to escape from their hiding place and dodge the seeker and yes you've guessed it kick the can to win the game. we also spent hours throwing two tennis balls up against our house wall whilst singing a rymm which got ever more complicated requiring you to turn around use one hand etc etcwhilst throwing the ... Read the complete review

Childhood Games: Crackerjack Anyone? (1015 words)
by - written on 21/05/09 (Very useful, 79 readings)
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As soon as I saw the heading under new things to review I just knew I wanted to share some of the games of my childhood with you. When I was at primary school and life was magical we often used to pick up a piece of stone and `chalk` out a Hopscotch, the number graph was naively scripted to say the least but I can clearly remember giggling a lot as we threw the stone and hopped our way up to number ten. By the time we had reached number ten we were usually overcome with laughter, our white cotton socks were around our ankles having left our ragged elastic garters way behind. Then there was an extra special day, a delivery van arrived at the school gates ... Read the complete review

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