Here are some games played in Montreal in the 60s: -Dodgeball -Double-Dutch jump rope -Cat's cradle (string game) -"Skip it" toy - A ring with a plastic bell attached - Slip your ankle in the ring and swing the bell around and jump to avoid it slamming into your ankles -Clackers - two balls attached to a rope; swing it to create a butterfly with the balls "clacking". -Mother-Mother-May I take a Step? -Simon Says -British Bulldog -Tag-You're it! -Hide 'n Seek -Soccer baseball (like baseball except you kick a big ball instead of small ball with a bat) -Hop scotch -King of the castle -Stand-all -4-corners -Elastics - Ball in nylon sock (don't know the name) - girls would play this. Each girl takes a turn. You put a tennis ball in a nylon stocking, then stand with your back against a wall and bounce the ball over your shoulder onto the wall then between your legs onto the wall, all the while singing a rhyme. >Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:33:12 EDT >From: [email protected] >Subject: [NS-L] Early School yard games >To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > >Another topic I am working on for my book is on the old Early School yard >games .... which kids of today don't play and may never have heard. Even >though I am not that old yet I still remember playing some old school yard >games and I'd like to include a chapter about these old school games to help >them stay alive and show the children of this generation what we did for fun >before everyone started get these new electronics such as cell phones, >computers, video game consoles. > >I am interesting in any and all school games you can remember... > >Early School yard games - what do you remember these games being and how >did you play them as I may not be familiar with these games? > >Here is some I have found out about so far: > >Halley-over >baseball > >Fort-building >Tug-of-war >Red rover >Leopold >Scrub >I declare war >clap in clap out >This list is just to get you started on thinking of old games --- Some I >have found info on but not on the list so far. > > > >Beverly H >"You can have everything. You just can?t have everything right now!" >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >_www.atlanticcanadahistory.com_ (http://www.atlanticcanadahistory.com/)