« Reply #9 on: Friday 07 December 07 22:49 GMT (UK) »
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?
Yeeeeees! Oh, and I'm back in the playground....!
We had another one:
"Cowboy Joe from Mexico,
Hands up! (
Hands in the air)
Stick 'em up! (
Point fingers like guns)
Drop your guns and pick 'em up! (
touch the ground and jump back up)
Cowboy Joe from Mexico!" (
Exit the rope ready for the next person to enter and begin the rhyme again....)
And boy, were you the bee's knees if you had the longest skipping rope!
Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England