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when you touched someone they had to go with you and so on - you ended up with many of you who were "on it"

Hi AnnCardiff,
I havent heard of Sticky touch what was that?

Julie

Correct AnninGlos, no one usually knows what I mean. Yes Ann a few years ago I managed to find a company that sold all those old fashioned games. I ordered them to sell in the gift shop I managed, they went down a treat.

Carol

what a giggle - I just tried googling for a whip and top and ended up on a bondage site!!! do hope my computer doesn't get siezed by the PC brigade :-D :-D :-D :-D

is it possible to buy a whip and top these days?

oops - forgot knocking four nails in the top of a wooden cotton reel and then using wool to make a long long snake!!! and using the dolly style pegs, draw a face on it and then dress it up with any old bits of material we could find

and plastecine - spend hours playing with that making all manner of things

I went to some anniversary of my infant/junior school some years back - first time I had ever been back in the school - I went in the baby's class and burst into teras - the smells and the total nostalgia totally overwhelmed me - surprised myself!!!

whip and top - loved that - used to take it to school and in the lunch hour pop back in the classroom to use the coloured chalks from the blackboard to make lovely patterns on the top when it spun across the playground

Sticky touch, What's the time Mr Wolf", skipping games with rhymes - "in and out the dusty bluebells", Teddy bear teddy bear climb the stairs"

Ball games against a wall

leap frog, hide and seek - making dens down the woods - playing shop - loved a kaleidoscope for Christmas, had a gyroscope - great fun

we lived on a country road and if we could find nothing else to do we would make up little parcels with a note inside which said "ever been caught" - we'd make it look very interesting and put it in the middle of the road - then rush upstairs and watch through the window as a car would stop, pick it up surreptitiously and drive off at speed - what a giggfe!!

Yes, clackers!

French skipping in the playground with a large circle of knicker elastic. My Mum wouldn't have paid the pennies for any but somebody always had a length.

Making woollen pom-poms from wool and cardboard cut-out circles.

Spirograph on my twelfth birthday

A miniature wooden cookery set with board, rolling pin and shapes for cutting scones

A large sponge football that was so heavy when full of water that I was winded when my brother kicked me in the stomach!

Carol somersaults using the bars? We used to swing out round the platform holding the pole when the school but was waiting in the bus station. (Got detention for that one!)

cats cradle, yes thatw as very popular, so many different twists to it and even better if you did it with a partner to 'lift' it off your fingers.

My brothers and I also had the bats with the rubber balls Rita and the wooden cup on a stick with the ball they were great fun though we used them in the 60s and 70s. I am still goin a fair way back,

Can anyone remember 'Cats craddle' etc played with string on your hands?

Cats cradle, blowing bubbles using neat washing up liquid and a skewer.

Knitting clothes for our dolls. Making furniture out of cardboard for said dolls. Playing knock down ginger. Tying cotton across from lamp post to gate so people walked into it. Lived near bus terminal drivers went to cafe, we used to get on bus and do turnovers (bet that one stumps you) Jacks, marbles, collecting stamps and beads. And last of all just going to the park and playing without fear of muggings and dogs biting you.

Carol

What time is it Mr Wolf, collecting caterpillars and tadpoles and seeing them change. The tin cans we used as stilts, conkers, `tiggy it`. elastics, those were the days. I remember sitting for ages tying elastic bands together, dobbers and marbles.

Climbing lamp posts, playing Jokari (red box with elastic, ball on end and a couple of bats) Mushrooming in season, camps in the wood and playing in the haystacks on farm at the end of road. Scrumping cooking apples Ugh
Loads more, hardly ever indoors.


Phyll

Or climbing trees, I only had one friend my age in the village, a boy and we used to climb the trees down the side of the church. After we moved away I heard later he had fallen out of one and died, didn't realize how dangerous it was then, but children don't see the danger.

Caz

Bob!! hooligan!

Sharron or eeni meenie minie. Or perhaps not these days!!

you lott aint careful, I'll take my ball and go in!!

Bob

just after the war I remember getting "carbide" from the bike shoppe,

little bit in the bottom of a syrup tin, a small hole in the bottom, spit on it put the lid on, hold the tin sideways down with a foot and apply a match to the hole......wowee a tin lid in orbit.......LOL

Never mind the games. How about choosing who was going to be "it".

Spuds out now. One potato,two potato,three potato,four......................

Oh yes now you remind me I remember the scraps, they were great really bright and various themes to collect Chris :-)

I recall stilts made from empty syrup tins and cord - made the same for children! 3d bought half a page of scraps - 6d. a full page.