What did you play? OS games.

monnagran

I think that our 'dibs' (your 'five stones) must have had regional variations. Some friends had cousins visiting from London and we were appalled by their cheating ways. Our rules were much more stringent.
As far as I recall the game that we played consisted of........

Onesies, twosies, threesies, foursies, singles, doubles, cracks, softs, finger ends and fly dogs.

Surely there must be someone out there who played this fascinating game.
We used to sit on the kerb and play on the pavement..... with many scraped knuckles.

I loved to play with my father who was brilliant at it. He once promised me a 2/6d book token if I could ever beat him at dibs. I never did.

I'm beginning to wonder if anyone, anywhere knows what I am talking about.

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Si_Clist

monnagran wrote: »

Or what playground games did you play?

Doctors and nurses, behind the bike shed ... :cool:

Hard_Up_Hester

One person stood with one hand on a wall, the others threaded their way between the wall and the person, singing The big ship sailed on the ally ally oh.

Skipping rhyme, Jelly on a plate, jelly on a plate, wibble wobble wibble wobble jelly on a plate.
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn around.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Touch the ground.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Show your shoe.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
That will do.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Go upstairs.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Say your prayers.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Turn out the light.
Teddy bear, teddy bear,
Say good night.

My Mother Said...
My mother said
I never should play
With the gypsies in the woods.
If I did
She would say
"Naughty girl to disobey."

I like coffee, I like tea,
I like (person's name) to jump with me.
(That person joins the first person so that two are now jumping. )
One, two, three, change places, seven, eight, nine, change places, etc.
(until the pair missed. The two change from right to left each time they said "change places" and all would keep track of who got the highest number before missing.)

monnagran

Si_Clist wrote: »

Doctors and nurses, behind the bike shed ... :cool:

Thanks Si Clist. Have you met Hester?

monnagran

Hester: Thanks for that. The old grey matter is stirring.

There was one that started,
"I am a girl guide dressed in blue.
These are the things that I can do.
Bow to the King, (we had one in those days)
Curtsey to the Queen

Which is where I stop. I think there is one 'touch the ground,' and 'turn around'. The rest is lost in the mists of time.

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Hard_Up_Hester

I am a Girl Guide dressed in blue,
These are the actions I must do,
Salute to the Captain,
Bow to the Queen,
And turn my back ,
To the boy in green.

Hard_Up_Hester

I never played with the boys behind the bike sheds, I went to an all girls school.
I made up for lost time later in life!!

monnagran

I went to an all girls school too, and the only thing I did behind the bike sheds was to tip a rice pudding made in Domestic Science down the drain, rather than try to get it home on the bus.

Thanks for that.

Sue14

suki1964 wrote: »

Jacks

Five little metal thingies and a little ball

I used to play that for hours


Nowadays I'm a FarmVille fanatic

I used to love playing jacks, I still have mine somewhere can't bear to part with them.

Sue14

monnagran wrote: »

I recall a clothes line stretching right across the road from pavement to pavement being twirled by two girls, (they were usually girls, boys were rubbish skippers,) and other girls skipping in the middle and running in and out of the twirling rope.

I used to love skipping like that, one of my favourite childhood games.

Tipsntreats wrote: »

I remember as a very young child, using my Mums old stocking with a tennis ball in it. We would stand against a wall and bounce it, each side of arms, then legs or something. No idea what it was called.

I remember me and my older sister playing that game, but we used to put the ball in a long sock, never knew what it was called.

Another of my favourite games was two balls, and one of the rhymes we used to say was

Each peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb, Tom Thumb in the woods, I spy Robin Hood

There was a bit more to it, but I can't remember the rest, except there was something about Betty Grable and it ended with Cliff Richard is a star S T A R, this was in the sixties.