Remember When...

[missmolly]

String could be used for many games so if we ever got anything tied up with string it was always saved
Cats Cradle - long piece of string tied in a circle, using both hands and all your fingers to make patterns
Same string could be used for conkers or as it was mainly boys that lived near tying me up when they were playing cowboys and indians 

Mo

[Maggie.]

I loved to play Cats Cradle, Mo.  I taught my granddaughter how to play when she was 7 and she now loves it too.

[missmolly]

Some years ago we were on a coach holiday and our seats were at the back of the coach. The other people around us were of a certain age and we passed many a mile playing cats cradle. Everything went well until someone found some conkers, played that until we got banned

Mo

[mosiefish]

Oh! I remember most of these things    - Roller skating, Hopscotch, Jacks, French Skipping, Cats Cradle, Butterfly cakes, my suede effect cowgirl outfit and guns with caps ( I can still smell them).  When walking the dog recently I spotted a group of children climbing a tree to shake out the conkers and I fleeting thought how unusual this was in todays modern age, but so nice to see that they were still doing the same things we did. 

[AngelaR]

I remember quite a few of the things you've mentioned. I also remember two of my favourite games were KAN-U-GO (card game like Scrabble without a board) and a precursor (I think) to Lego, where you built houses by putting thin metal roads into holes on a green board and slid bricks, doors, windows between them. Blowed if I can remember the name though....

[Wiggy]

Great thread full of good memories Carol!

[gazania]

Here in Oz we called cup cakes patty cakes.

My best memory is my Dad telling us that his father grew up in Clifton near the Clifton Suspension Bridge and Papa and  the local kids used to slide down the banks near the Bridge. Papa and his brothers used to then get into trouble from their older sister for having torn and dirty clothes.  Their mother had died and the older sister was doing her best to bring up the kids.

In 1994, I made a visit to Clifton and the banks near the Bridge and there was a large group of kids sliding down the banks!

[candleflame]

I remember quite a few of the things you've mentioned. I also remember two of my favourite games were KAN-U-GO (card game like Scrabble without a board) and a precursor (I think) to Lego, where you built houses by putting thin metal roads into holes on a green board and slid bricks, doors, windows between them. Blowed if I can remember the name though....

Bayko  we have a set of that at my parents house. Apparently it sells at toy fairs these days if its in good condition. No idea what state ours is in as it was well played with by my elder brother before me.

[Wiggy]

I used to love dressing cardboard flat dolls with paper dresses etc pushed out of a book of clothes from a book - do you remember those??   I loved dressing those dolls, male and female with all sorts of outfits.

KHP    -   We played jacks with lamb knuckle bones too - and they hurt I remember - I was never very good at it I have to say.

Also loved playing in the sandpit with our matchbox toys and my favourite a cattle truck with the proper sides for cattle.   We made the sale yards in the sand and room for lots of backing and filling of vehicles!