Do you remember this ball game?

No, but we did used to play ball games againt the wall with actions..
I now want to find a ball and play your game! What is the actions for 'round the wheel to backsy'?

Chicken, I played similar in Glasgow growing up: Plainy, Clappy, Row the Reel, Backie, Touch your Heel, Touch your Toe, Touch the Ground and Birl Around! Thanks for the reminder, little GD will soon be able to have a go as she is starting school and motor skills are amazing! We'll have fun doing that together.

Not in South Wales, we did play ball against a wall with actions but not those words

We used to play 2 balls juggling them against the wall and sometimes 3 balls throwing the three balls up in front of your face. I got to be very good at it and could do 2 balls with one hand. Certainly couldn’t these days !

I used to play that game throwing and bouncing a tennis ball against a wall. My version was "Round the world" and you had to spin round really quickly to catch the ball as it bounced back from the wall. Backsy, you turned your back and caught the ball behind you.

I also used to play a skipping game with friends; high, low, medium, slow, dolly, pepper, snakes, choice. Does anybody remember that?

I used to play some thing similar not those words though can’t remember the words we used

I played ledgy ball at primary school. There was a stone ledge that ran round the wall and the ball bounced back off it. I can't remember if we had any words to go with it but we did count catches.

We played 'two ball against the wall' reciting this alphabet rhyme - it changed with each player but you continued without hesitation or a dropped ball until you were out. I don't think I ever got all the way to Z.

"My name is Ann
My fathers name is Alan
We live in Australia
and we sell Apples".......etc.

Happy Days!

We played two balls up against the wall.
The song I remember was
Nebuchadnezzar the King of the Jews
Bought his wife a pair of shoes.
When the shoes began to wear
Nebuchadnezzar began to swear
Tarra zee zaa zoo
Tarra zee zaa zoo
Tarra whopper
Tarra whopper
Tarra zee zaa zoo

I was showing my GC how to play ball they were in hysterics watching me. I was twirling around to catch the ball after it bounced off the wall it reminded me of childhood.

I played the ball against the wall game, often, but not with those words. I can't recall what words we used.
'Salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper' figured a lot in skipping rope games, I think.

Two ball was a good game on your own, but don’t remember any words chanted.
We girls did do skipping rhymes tho, Jelly On A Plate.

NoodleNut The action for “Round the wheel to backsy” was to stretch your arm behind your back and throw the ball, so if you were right handed, you would be throwing past the left side of your waist. I wasn’t very supple so it was a real contortion.

Like Magenta8 I used "round the world and backsy" and similar words to nearly all the other songs.
With the two-ball games I seem to recall one throwing the odd ball 'over-arm' but the rhyme that went with it escapes me right now.
(It'll come to me in the middle of the night, just wait and see)
Was it -Eeny money offenpepper
Air aye dominellla
Chicken pepper
Rocking pepper
Air aye OUT - then you ran away and the next person ran in and took over the balls without dropping them.
But you needed at least 2 people for that one.

Girls used to throw balls at walls compulsively until the next craze took over, skipping or jacks or handstands against a wall with their dresses tucked into their knickers.
What do they do in the school playground now, apart from ganging up to bully someone else?

All in together girls
This fine weather girls.
When it comes your birthday please jump in.
January,
February etc.
All the girls in the street skipping with one long rope, and often in the middle of the road….not much traffic then

exdancer, I rememer eeny meeny offenpepper, but can't remember if it was throwing balls or skipping ropes..

All in together girls
Never mind the weather girls
And then the months were called til everyone was skipping on a long rope,

We played it for HOURS at school and at home (thogh I can't remember our chants. There were several, yours doesn't ring a bell). How infuriating the endless bonk bonk bonk noise must have been for my parents inside the house.

The other craze we had at school was a game called Jacks. Did anyone 20 spiky metal things and two bouncy balls. Did any one play that? Training us in highspeed eye-hand co-ordination so one day in the far distant future we could use a mobile phone.

Jacks is still available. Now I'm very annoyed I forgot about Jacks when the grandkids were in primary school. Drat. Half the fun of being a granny is getting to play all those old childhood games again.

Hmm, stocking fillers. Maybe the teenagers aren't too old after all....

I remember a game called kingsball...we all stood in a ring in the middle of the playground legs apart....someone with the ball would throw it on the ground and whoever's legs it went through had to try to hit everyone with the ball

We called it two balls- but I don't remember the songs. One years at the school Christmas party we were all given two balls as a present!

We played that Pably but we called it Hot Rice

Eenie meenie maka reka air I domineka nika popa lollipopa om Pom push. Was an approximation of one chant,I think for skipping. ( Gosh autocorrect did not like that!)

I'm just thinking that I must have been extremely annoying thwacking a tennis ball against the wall for long periods .
No one said anything .