When I was a girl the neighbor- hood
kids would gather around and play Chinese jump rope
it was a fun game.
another favorite was hopscotch
and it was such a blast to find the
best marker for the game. I had a
favorite old chain that my mom gave me it
was all knotted up but it was an excellent hopscotch marker
Another fun homemade
game we used to play was
the Bamboo dance game.
we lived by a creek and would
get two bamboo's for the game
it was kind of like Chinese jump rope
only it moved fast and you had to get
your feet out of the middle before it got
caught in the bamboo. the other game
we played with bamboo was of course
the LIMBO and to see " how low could we go"!
other favorites were "Red Rover" "Green Light , Red Light"
telephone, Ghost in the grave yard ( especially this time of year!)
scavenger hunt and raking up big piles of leaves and jumping
into them, crack the whip, and charades, I remember one of my nephews was
a very excellent player he once had to act like a piece of bacon in a
frying pan and no one could guess what he was!!! ( that proved his
acting ability and he did do some plays in school where his talents
showed. and there were many other fun games.
I wonder if children now days even know about any of
these old fashioned fun games which made us use our
imagination and be creative. It gave us fun and exercise
and it was kids being kids. not anything in a kids world today
of everything has to be electronic in order to have fun.
