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~~brought back memories for me too...~

but how many children of today..do we see..playing these games?.....They were important because they taught you values of winning/losing..joining in..being part of a `team`...imagination...
We live in an `ipod` `mobile phone generation..

I used to do,
french skipping, polo, double ball, skipping with two ropes, jacks, marbles.
Gosh this thread has brought back memories for me.

*n

Obviously I can't show you the claps required for that rhyme.

My daughter's favourite was:
Eeny Meeny
Dessa Meeny
You are the one for me
Education, Iperation (?!)
I like you
Down town baby
Down by the rollercoaster
Sweet sweet cherry
No place to go
Caught you with your boyfriend
Naughty, naughty,
Didn't do the dishes
Lazy, lazy
Stole a box of candy
Greedy, greedy
Jumped out the window
Supersonic crazy
Eeny meeny
Dessameeny
You are the one for me
Education, Iperation,
I like you.

Still got jacks lol
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Sally - clapping games - we used to do "swapsies" I couldn't describe it I'd have to show you. And one that went
"Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac
all dressed in black, black, black
with silver buttons, buttons, buttons
all down her back, back back ... ... (& on & on)

Do you know what, I told my little girl a few weeks ago she could choose a toy from the sale at Sainsburys. What she chose was a little clear plastic backpack containing

a skipping rope
some jacks with a bouncy ball
an elastic (perfect size for cats cradle & french skipping)
and 2 little palm held bats to catch a "ball" with suction bits all over it.

Was very glad she chose it and we've played with it loads.

Maria xx

Anyone remember any clapping games? My daughter used to do one where while clapping another persons hands in different combinations she'd chant a rhyme.

Thanks Miss. We called that French skipping like LWT. Cats cradle with feet really.

Sally F........we joined lots of lacky bands together and two peeps stood with them round their ankles, we would scoop the bands with our feet and cross over the bands then jump and let them go but if the bands got caught you were out. not sure i'v explained that very well. lol

Lwh......did you call it french skips?
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What was that like miss chief?

American skips...loved that.

~~~yeah..lol..we used to use chairs too..!..prob was they kept getting knocked over! ~~

(Ahh the memories..all flooding back~~~)

Lily we used to do that with elastic. And when I wanted to practise at home I used to use chairs to hold it. Not very successfully I must add!

Margaret was it the big ship game that brought back memories?

...*Jacks..with small bouncy ball...

we used to get knicker elastic..one girl each end..do cats cradle..the elastic would get higher..and higher..up legs..had to jump on the elastic..and do lots of little maneovers...

used to play D.O.N.K.E.Y. You had to throw tennis ball against wall and leapfrog over it, if the ball touched you or you missed it that would mean you had to take the letter D , so on and so forth, when you reached the letter Y you were out, it then carried on till there was one player and they would be the winner

We used to play a game where you bounced a ball against a wall in a more and more complicated series of moves, and if you dropped it you were out. I think you threw it once and caught it. Then you let it bounce once and caught it and went on like that. Two hands first then the hand you wrote with and then your other hand. There were seven different bounces in all.

~~I used to play the two tennis balls on walls for AGES!.....again with lots of little rhymes..used to throw balls under legs..turn around..dont see kids doing that sort of thing anymore..

2 balls that you throw at the wall....and the other was like freeze...last one in won..