i too grew up in brighton beach. am currently living in pa. some years ago i learned to play bocci and enjoyed it so much that i bought a set.now i find that the instructions are missing.it was many years since i even looked at the set. but now i am looking for someone who can send me a copy of the rules and how to keep score
I was just at a playground (PS 35 on Staten Island) today and I saw something I described to my 9 year old daughter as a “skelly court”. I had seen it before today but this time I tried to explain the rules to her, but a couldn’t remember all of them, so I decided to try a search engine and lo and behold I found Streetplay, with a skellsie section, no less. This is fantastic!!!
I have been trying to remember a similiar spaldeen game to Russian 10, however, the rules I remember are a little different: 1 – one (throw ball and clap once) 2 – twos(throw ball and clap twice) 3 – threes (throw ball and clap 3x) 4 – highzies (throw ball up high) 5 – lowzies (throw ball low) 6 – around the world (throw ball and roll arms) 7 – touch my shoulders 8 – touch my toes 9 – under your leg then you do it in combination. Anyone know anymore or how the “song” goes?
Rules For Russian Ten: 1- Throw against the wall and catch 2- bounce on the ground and catch 3- clap and catch 4- roll your hands and catch 5- under your leg and catch 6- clap over and under your leg and catch 7- clap in front and back and catch 8- turn(back towards wall) throw, turn around and catch 9- hit the spot where the wall meets the floor and catch 10- place hand on wall, toss ball under your hand and over the top and catch
How about Steal the Bacon…. To start someone would throw a can as far as they could everyone would run in the opposite direction to hide, except for one person designated to slowly go get the can, bring it back to base and then try to find us and bring us to base/jail. Simply by tapping the can and saying “tap, tap, tap, I see ______ hiding behind the red car” That person would have to return to the base. The other hiders would try to free those found by racing to the can and kicking it, while the finder was searching for the rest of us. It was great fun..especially having the “finder” and “hider” racing towards the can to tap it or kick it.
Oh site is too cool. Here’s one from my elementary days (PS.70 in the Bronx) Ms. Mary Mack, Mack, Mack All dressed in Black, black, black. With silver buttons, buttons, buttons All down her back, back, back. She asked her mother, mother, mother. For 15 cents, cents, cents. To see the elephants, elephants, elephants. Jump over the fence, fence, fence. He jumped so high, high, high. That he reached the sky, sky, sky and he never came back, back, back ‘Til the 4th of July, lie, lie. And also, Grandma, Grandma sick in bed called the doctor and the doctor said Grandma, Grandma you ain’t sick all you need is a hickory stick hands up, shake it, shake it, shakity shake (*hand directions*) hands down, shake it, shake it, shakity shake to the front to the back to the side, side, side (*jumping directions* to the front to the back to the side, side, side I never went to college, I never went to school but I bet you five dollars I could shake it like a fool.
I grew up in the Fredrick Douglas Housing Projects on 104th St. between Columbus and Manhattan Avenues in NYC back in the late 50’s and through the sixties. I must have been really under privledged back then ’cause I’ve never even heard of a pensie pinky or anything thereabouts. Oh yeah I played StickBall, Stoopball, Punchball, hell, even Whiffleball. We even pitched and hit bottlecaps, but the only ball I ever knew was the “Spaulding” better known as the “Spauldeen” and that’s what we used, except for whiffleball of course. Anyway, there was one thing we did to old, beaten-up, dead, on their last leg spauldeen’s just before sending them to that big spauldeen factory in the sky… Does anybody out there remember “Roofin” a spauldeen!!! Oh yeah! If you had an arm and thought you could throw it up onto one of the taller 21 story project buildings you were not to be messed with!!!
What a great discussion ! And what great memories all this brings back ! I especially enjoyed visiting the link to the kids games that someone posted… Red Rover… Ghost In The Graveyard… Mama May I… Red Light Green Light… ahh, man!! I played all that when I was a kid! I loved Chinese jumprope too and like many others here I’d love the rules from someplace if anyone has them, I’d love to teach my young cousins how to do it. Never did the “double dutch” jumping… not adept enough! It was all I could do to keep going if we were doing a game where we had to do fast jumping! Haha!! These rhymes are all so familiar as well ! Thanks for a great little memory jolt and something pleasant to pas a slow and quiet Sunday afternoon ! Take care!