Ludo, tiddley winks ... remember the old games ?

[Lydart]

There was a suggestion on the 'The past is a different country' board that we had a thread about the old games we used to play. 

I suggest old playground games as well as the ones that came out of one of those old coarse yellow cardboard boxes that we played on the red fringed table cloth after tea on Sunday ! 



Who remembers some of the skipping games ... and the rhymes that went with them ?

[Little Nell]

Who remembers some of the skipping games ... and the rhymes that went with them ?

We had one while I was at primary school:

High, low, dolly, pepper!

Nell

[01debbie]

I still play all the old games & some new ones, with the children I work with.  On occasion I have to teach playground games & usually get swamped by hoards of children all eager to learn something 'new'.

On one such occasion, I had to teach a  child with an amputated leg, games she could easily access in the playground.  So I decided on some good old fashioned clapping games.  It wasn't until I started reciting 'did you ever did you ever in your long legged life...' that it occured to me that this would be slightly inappropriate  

Good old fashioned board games rarely get played with young children nowadays...shame...so many friendship & social skills lost.

Debbie

[Lincsbabe]

I remember a skipping rhyme that went something like this:
Lady, lady turn around, lady, lady touch the ground. But sadly it is all I can remember apart from all us girls lined up ready to jump in and take our turn as the previous girl jumped out at the other side.

Lincsbabe

[Lincsbabe]

Another 2 favourites were marbles and Jacks.  Lincsbabe

[aghadowey]

My mother and the neighbourhood children used to play a game where the rhyme went 'Jake, Jake bake a cake' and her youngest sister liked it so much her nickname became Jake- and the family still call her that.

We had Scrabble, Monopoly, Parchessi (a bit like Ludo), Snakes and Ladders, Candyland... all of which my children still play.

[Trees]

One skipping game went
All in together girls
this fine weather girls
When we call your birthday
Please jump out   January February March...
Trees

[indiapaleale]

The skipping game that I remember.....and I hope that this doesn't offend please!

Nebuchadrezzar, the King of the Jews
Bought his wife a pair of shoes
When the shoes began to wear
Nebuchadrezzar bought a chair

When the chair began to sag
Nebuchadrezzar........bought a


And so on.

As each skipper answered the rhyme she could jump out of the rope.

Does anyone remember?

[Trees]

Yes When the chair began to sag
Nebuchadrezzar bought a nag
when the nag began to bray
Nebuchadrezzar bought some hay
when the hay began to smell
Nebuchadrezzar bought a bell
when the bell began to ring
Nebuchadrezzar began to sing
Doh Ray me Fer so.

How about
Teddy bear Teddy bear come through the door
Teddy bear Teddy bear touch the floor
Teddy bear Teddy bear climb the stairs
Teddy bear Teddy bear say your prayers
Teddy bear Teddy bear switgh off the light
Teddy bear Teddy bear say good night

and I'm a little Girl Guide all dressed in blue
These are the things that I must do
Stand to attention
Salute the King... I just can't remember the rest anyone able to carry on?

Trees