Games we played when we were small

Hopscoth, 2 balls up the wall, hide and seek, marbles, black jacks, snap, skipping on my own or with 2 friends turning the rope.
Favourite skipping song:
On the mountain stands a lady who she is I do not know,
all she wants is gold and silver all she wants is a nice young man, so come in (friends would pick a name).
Then when will they marry
What will she wear How many children Will they be happy
something like that anyway...

I remember my friend (who was a bit older than me) used to sing a song that
was popular then Running Bear Loves Little White Dove and she used to do all the actions I thought it was wonderful.

Happy Days it only you could go back and know what you know now!

How the memories come flooding back.Yes I played most of those games mostly on the street - hopscotch on the pavement slabs,marbles in the gutter.
There was a claypit in a nearby field.My sister and I scooped a bucketful of clay -made clay cakes decorated with beads,broken crockery etc.and then set up shop to sell them. Such fun!!

I remember deep thick fluffy snow and making large snowmen, one of which looked like queen Victoria. We put old woollen socks over our shoes to stop us from slipping. We had rosy cheeks and cold hands.
We would then come in to the open fire and roast chestnuts on a shovel
Toast crumpets and bread in front of the flames.
Finally go to bed, tired but happy and would sleep until morning.

Oh, doesn't it make you wish you could go back.

I loved frogspawning too.

It was always sunny, wasn't it?

we played skipping games in the middle of the road, which at the time led to nowhere. Mum still lives there and it's now a rat run.

Most of the time we would climb the back fence into the fields beyond and make dens in the long grass, either playing detectives or taking our dolls and playing "house" in the spring we would go fog spawning in the canal........

ah happy days

Playing shops on bombed building site in East End London -playing up and down the City Road In and Out Of The Eagle (as lived only few hundred yards from pub & parents drank there)
Up the wall where we did handstands and skipping:-
Vote Vote vote for dear old Churchill
Patsy my doll who had a hole bored through her mouth on Christmas Day by my dad as I wanted to put a dummy in her mouth!!
Ball games and when ball went down someones area (basement garden) us kids would call One Two Three A Lary My balls down the airy and then with a bit of luck it would be thrown back up to us.

petallus! Don't go there!!!

Doctors and Nurses!

Collecting 'treasure' in a small box or tin. Pieces of coloured glass, old jewellery, a pretty stone, a bit of silver chain etc. Used to get together and do swaps.

Sook We used to call it French skipping !

My favourite plaything was a Kaleidoscope which my father made from pieces of glass and electricians' tape. It was the most magical thing and had lots of little pieces of cut up roses chocolate wrappers which I had saved from a box given to me by my Aunt Rosa. What a clever man he was.

I was not quite 6 when the King died. Can remember my Dad making me tops on his lathe, I was useless at it as I couldn't keep it spinning.

bikergran I remember that as American skipping.

Most of the above, but my stilts were made from Tate and Lyle golden syrup tins. Our hopscotch pitch was chalked up using pieces of shale thrown out when shovelling up the coal dropped by the lorry at the front gate. Stepfather was a miner, and we got our coal deliveries on demand, at a good discount, but we had to shovel it up ourselves.

Elastic twist...length of elastic round 2 sets of legs or an appropiate object only 2 playing....

I was 7or8 I think

"The big ship sails through the alley alley ooh,
On the first day of September"

I was 11 when the King died.

Remember the alley alley oh.
We were playing it when one of the nuns came into the playground to tell us to stop as king George 6 had died.

This was one of the skipping rhymes we sang at primary school in the 1960s, with actions to match.

Sabrina, Sabrina, you ought to see Sabrina standing there

With her legs all bare

She does the wiggle woggle and the boys all stare

She swings it, she swings it, she turns around and swings it

One, two, three

The same rhymes at Primary School as Carol. Also played "What's the time Mr Wolf", marbles, jacks, played cricket in the school playground against a wicket chalked on the wall.

At home made pretend horse jumps out of boxes etc around the garden; orange boxes stacked on top of each other as dolls houses; made mud pies(!) - lots of imaginative play there!

OMG I have no idea where the balls came from, perhaps it was left from a sentence that I deleted

Harrigran I'm not sure if I should put of

For ball games and skipping:
One potato, two potato, three potato, four
Five potato, six potato, seven potato more........

I think we used to make long chains of children and weave in and out under each other's arms to this:
"The big ship sailed on the alley-alley-oh!
The alley-alley-oh!
The alley-alley-oh!
the big ship sailed on the alley-alley-oh!
On the last day of September!
The Captain said it'd never never do,
Never never do,
Never, never do!
The Captain said It'd never ever do,
On the last day of September"

Harrigran, why is there a random word at the end of your post. Is it subliminal, or have you got your mind on other things?