[Vella Gonzaga]

Do you remember the games you used to play growing up?​

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Do you remember the games you used to play growing up? We didn’t have the luxuries of today’s children, but we made do with what we had and had so much fun. From using tin cans as telephones and stilts to playing hopscotch and knucklebones, it’s clear that kids back then knew how to have fun without the need for expensive toys. Hours and hours were outside playing games with friends and neighbours. Ah, how times seemed much simpler and carefree. What were your favourite childhood games?

 

[Noelahanrahan]

Do you remember the games you used to play growing up?

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Do you remember the games you used to play growing up? We didn’t have the luxuries of today’s children, but we made do with what we had and had so much fun. From using tin cans as telephones and stilts to playing hopscotch and knucklebones, it’s clear that kids back then knew how to have fun without the need for expensive toys. Hours and hours were outside playing games with friends and neighbours. Ah, how times seemed much simpler and carefree. What were your favourite childhood games?

Yes played on the road because I lived in the country

 

[Luckysue]

Do you remember the games you used to play growing up?

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Do you remember the games you used to play growing up? We didn’t have the luxuries of today’s children, but we made do with what we had and had so much fun. From using tin cans as telephones and stilts to playing hopscotch and knucklebones, it’s clear that kids back then knew how to have fun without the need for expensive toys. Hours and hours were outside playing games with friends and neighbours. Ah, how times seemed much simpler and carefree. What were your favourite childhood games?

Hop Scotch, Knuckle Bones, Pick up sticks.

 

[AllenP]

We used to play Cowboys and Indians, it was great fun as a kid. We also played cricket in the street with all the kids

 

[leostar]

We were so blessed to live in those days, playing on the roads was normal, only one person in our street had a car.

 

[Milica]

Exactly in the photo that you have put up today - it was simple, innocent & Fun! we where happy - we did not have wealth - but we had clothing, food, shelter & Love from being in a Family:_) My mother made everything we ate - we where healthy, sometimes we would get takeaway chips - 1 big packet for my mum and us kids, after swimming lessons in the river! & sometimes, a pie at school for lunch or a donut with cream after school from the corner shop - they where all made different back then!

 

[Macarj]

Played combat for hours on end and hide and seek

 

[justindickens]

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[featherfour]

The schoolground was full of great games. I loved being invited to a game of skippy, even though I wasn't very good at it. The rhythms and chants were always fun, sometimes we would do a version that involved two ropes, with kids jumping in and out.

 

[featherfour]

One of my favourite games at school was swap cards. I had inherited a bunch of swappies from my mum, and would spend many lunchtimes and playtimes flicking through them with other kids as we traded with each other for these beautiful little artworks. I was always impressed with the older girls who could flick their cards as fast as any closeup magician. The really serious card-owners kept their treasures in albums. One thing we loved was finding a card that was a "pair" with one that we already had and loved. It might have a different coloured background, or the featured person or animal was facing in a different direction. Going back through my swappies and seeing some truly kitsch and awful artwork from the 60s brings back happy memories, though I do regret the loss of one scruffy card with a little black cat reading a comic.

 

[featherfour]

I admit to mostly being a fan of those school games that involved a lot of sitting around. I was never the athletic type. One craze that went through my school was Knucklebones. Everyone had a set of plastic bones and we would gather in a circle tossing them into the air and catching them on the backs of our hands, then scooping them up, in ever more complex ways. And the thing is, I was good at this, I mean REALLY got at it. The little plastic bones were just not enough of a challenge for me, so every week, I would wait for our lamb roast, and get Mum to save the knucklebone for me. I cleaned them all up until I had a perfect set of real bones, larger and heavier than the plastic ones. I still won all the games.

 

[featherfour]

There were a couple of fun crazes we had at school. Of course there was the time that everyone just had to have a Hula Hoop, and those athletic girls could keep multiple hoops spinning at the same time (I was happy if I could keep one going for more than about ten seconds). But the craze I was good at was a spinning plate toy. I was one of the few who could get the plastic plate to spin properly on top of the stick, I could even do one in each hand. Alas, this is not as impressive as getting five hula hoops going around your middle, so the spinning plate game didn't last as long.

 

[Suzanne rose]

Oh gosh I had so many ...who played 'What's the time Mr Wolf ...I loved Elastics...knuckles or Jax ...skipping ..hopscotch . I also remember we took a tennis ball in a stocking and hit it against the wall. I'm also remembering Ireland England Scotland Wales.

Those were the days !

 

[MJPB on Magnetic]

Do you remember the games you used to play growing up?

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Do you remember the games you used to play growing up? We didn’t have the luxuries of today’s children, but we made do with what we had and had so much fun. From using tin cans as telephones and stilts to playing hopscotch and knucklebones, it’s clear that kids back then knew how to have fun without the need for expensive toys. Hours and hours were outside playing games with friends and neighbours. Ah, how times seemed much simpler and carefree. What were your favourite childhood games?

* French cricket. * Making boats out of paper and racing them in the gutters when it rained. * Cowboys and indians- cap pistols and bows and arrows. *Slepping out in the back yard in an indian teepee. * Playing marbles. * Playing old school handball. Back then, the court looked much like a squash court, only bigger. * As already suggested tin-can telephones. *Pogo sticks. * Twister. And numerous indoor board games and activities for rainy days.