Hi again, Paulette has reminded me of the games we played with a YO-YO. And, if children were lucky enough to go spend a week or 2 at a summer-camp, they would have learned more games. There would have been the "clapping games," but there were also games they played using "sticks" and either clapping them together or jumping over them. I can't remember the name of them, but I think there were songs which went along with them. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) (Would there have been much game playing for children in the Maritime Provinces in the late 1700's and into early 1800's? For example, would J. Calvin KIDDER, b1799 N.B., and his younger BATES half-siblings have played many games?)

Chatham, Ont. in the 1940's. Manufacturers reps visited our school every summer and organized Yo-Yo contests and Bolo Bat contests. They supplied the prizes. A couple of the popular Yo-Yo tricks were 'Around the World' and 'Rock the Baby'. Yo-Yo's sure didn't 'Sleep' those days like they do now. My house is stocked with hi-end Yo-Yo's for my grandchildren (and myself). >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Bolo bat was a child's toy popular in the 1930s through the 1960s. It consisted of a round wooden paddle-like bat with a handle, not unlike a ping-pong paddle, attached to the center of which was a piece of elastic band about three feet long. Attached to end of the elastic band was a rubber ball about an inch in diameter. The child would bat the ball as far as the elastic would allow it to travel. When it reached the furthest distance from the bat that the elastic would allow, it sprang back at the bat where it was hit again and again. The object of the game was to see how many times the child could hit the ball and have it return and be hit again. Children competed against themselves and others for the greatest number of successful hits. Les ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 7:24 AM Subject: [NS-L] Childhood Games (cont'd.) > Hi again, > > Paulette has reminded me of the games we played with a YO-YO. And, if > children were lucky enough to go spend a week or 2 at a summer-camp, they > would have learned more games. There would have been the "clapping > games," but there were also games they played using "sticks" and either > clapping them together or jumping over them. I can't remember the name > of > them, but I think there were songs which went along with them. > > Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) > > > > (Would there have been much game playing for children in the Maritime > Provinces in the late 1700's and into early 1800's? For example, would > J. > Calvin KIDDER, b1799 N.B., and his younger BATES half-siblings have played > many games?) > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > Basic List Commands: > > 1. To post to the list > Send a message to: > [email protected] > > 2. How to unsubscribe > a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- > [email protected] that contains only the word > unsubscribe > > b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- > [email protected] that contains only the word > unsubscribe > > 3. How to subscribe > Send an email containing only the word > subscribe > to [email protected] > > 4. How to change to Digest mode > a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) > b. Subscribe to Digest mode > Send an email containing only the word > subscribe > to [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >