General Chat

Children don't seem to know how to amuse themselves outside now. We were to drag back indoors. We had such fun with games like marbles, two ball and elastics to various songs and rhymes.
Simplicity and imagination.
Anyone remember Clackers---- when they came out lots of swollen wrists lol

Well actually they do know how to amuse themselves outside.

Kicking a football against my and my neighbours wall, gate and house. In and out of the garden to retrieve their ball.

Knock at door and run away. Ride bicycles around the front garden. Snowballs at the windows.

That is the polite version and only some of the minor things the little "darlings" get up to

Yes I remember them I think though because my children had them. Were they in the 60s/70s?

You forgot to mention skipping, not much traffic in our road so a long rope across the road one each end and 'all in together'. And skipping rhymes.

And hopskotch and leap frog.

There were seasons for skipping/balls - 3 and 4 balls not to mention we girls were taught to knit, embroider and darn and the delights of dusting etc!

I had a pair of 'clackers' - I'm certain they would not be allowed now as they were pretty lethal!

what were those things called that were a ring with a ball on a string attached? u put 1 foot through the ring and then flick the ball with that foot and jump over the ball with the other foot. :-)

Julie I know the ball game you mean, but sorry I can't remember what it was called. As well as skipping and three balls we also played hide and seek, there was always plenty of places to hide and of course there wasn't many cars about then, so it was a lot safer to play out on the street then.
All the girls favourite game was skipping, and as Ann has said we had a long rope with a girl each end and played 'all in together', they were very happy times.

Sallie.x

I remember 'chucks' but for the life of me can't remember much else. They were little cubed things of different colours. Also cutting little squares out and making a class of children and of course paper dressing up dolls.

Outside it was hopscotch, rounders, top and whip and swinging on the lamppost. All played in the street as there were no cars and never a complaint from adults. Later on going for bicycle rides for miles. Picking wild flowers for my flower press (which my dad made) then putting them in scrap book for school. Ah happy days.

Vera

Welcome to the boards Julie :-D :-D

Red and Yellow yoyos

Hula hoops (not the edible ones!)

My best favourite - Jacko skates! :-D

Paper dress dollies off the back page of Bunty :-0 :-D

Digging a hole in the garden and sitting in it :-0 :-0

Building a tent with the clothes horse and any old blankets we could find, then sitting in it for the rest of a hot afternoon :-D

Jacks were popular although like many other toys/games they seemed to have 'phases'.
We had stilts and pogo sticks, spacehoppers and tennis rackets.

How many children nowdays have a tennis racket until school decress ''this term we'll be doing tennis''? How many play tennis in the garden?

Jacks, chucks, fivestones, dibs I think are all the same. Onesy, twoesy etc then a few more complicated moves until through one up and sweep the rest of them up in the same hand. I also used to play this on the beach with pebbles and even now if we are on the beach I am tempted by round pebbles to play.

Island, yes, why DID we dig holes in the garden and sit in them? I remember doing that too. And the tent with clothes horse and a pair of steps.

SheilaWestWilts
I had a pair of 'clackers' - I'm certain they would not be allowed now as they were pretty lethal.
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I should that these days a properly played pair of "Clackers" would likely fetch out the Armed Response team..........

sounded too much like a machine gun in full swing!!

Bob

Ann

I've no idea but my poor mother wasn't best pleased as she was tryiing to grow a lawn from seed :-0

I loved playing and swopping scraps and beads.

My biggest love were my dolls, mum was a great
knitter and I had loads of clothes to dress them up in,
all made from left over wool. :-)

Emma x

When my dad was stationed in Germany the snow out there was no good for building with like here in Britain as it wouldn't stick together but oh in the summer us kids looked forward to the grass cutters coming round between the flats and we used it in a similiar way. We used to make little walls etc for houses and have grass fights what fun :-) Happy days

I also remember the paper dolls they were great. :-)

I can remember my dad making us kids wooden stilts as kids when there was a craze for them. Did anybody have them?
Also we had tin cans with string through (though my kids have had the posh ones lol from ELC--plastic with rope nowadays)

Emma, oh yes the beads, crystals were worth a lot. I had several little tins with all the colours sorted. We used to take them to school to swap and never had any stolen.

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.

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

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

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