Category Archives: Girl games

My daughter and I were discussing…

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Original author: Lynn
 

My daughter and I were discussing how to play “school” jumping rope. I can’t remember exactly what you have to do for each grade, just that 3rd grade was hot peppers,6th grade was 3 slow and 3 hot, and 9th grade was 3 slow, 3 medium, 3 hot. Other than that, for Kindergarten you just run through and if you get spanked (the rope hits you on the way out) you have to repeat Kindergarten — I think if you get spanked in any grade you have to repeat that grade; first grade is one plain jump; the rest are the following or combinations of the following done while jumping: –close your eyes, high waters(the rope doesn’t touch the ground); turn around; touch the ground with your hand; medium hot peppers; red hot peppers; jump with just one leg; jump with both feet; jump on one leg and then the other. That’s nine different styles. Then we used to go from 12th back down to Kindergarten but go in the back door and leave by the front (enter the rope from the opposite side and run out the other way.

Re: the Chinese jumprope…

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Original author: MicheMcDowell
 

Re: the Chinese jumprope In Trinidad we called this ‘elastic’. You would start with it around 2 people’s ankles and there were different routines you had to follow, involving jumping in, out, over the two elastics, “mashing” or stepping on then, before you could move up to knee length and then finally the hardest one was jumping in and out when it was on your friends’ hips or waists. One of the routines was “BINGO”.

Ooh Aah The post…

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Original author: Miche McDowell
 

Ooh Aah The post by Azizi is very similar to what we sang playing skipping (jump rope) in Trinidad in the early 80s. Except it was prefaced by “oona dosi . . . s . . .r . . .a mama potosi, sitting on a road went to a ? and this is what she saw ooh ahh i wanna piece of pie the pie too sweet i wanna piece of meat the meat too tough i wanna ride the bus the bus too full i want my money back my money turn green say A! B! C!” etc. and you would turn the rope faster to try to “out” the person. We also had one where the rope would turn very slowly as we sang “bluebells, cockle shells” with a rhyme that I don’t remember and then increase the speed with “salt, vinegar, mustard, pepper!”

I can wash the dishes I…

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Original author: miranda
 

I can wash the dishes I can sweep the floor I can kiss the nicest boy Behind the parlor door First he gave me peaches Then he gave me pears Then he gave me fifty cents Kissed me on the stairs Gave him back his peaches Gave him back his pears Gave him back his fifty cents and kicked him down the stairs

Hi, I remember the game…

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Original author: Chriss Schram
 

Hi, I remember the game also…..I was just telling my kids about it….i think the only thing you forgot about the rules is ground, ankles and knees, you couldn’t touch the elastic bands, and you couldn’t go under the elastic bands either.

This is a song that we sing…

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Original author: SmilingChantal [e-mail]
 

This is a song that we sing at our preschool but I believe it was sung by the children’s musician: Tim Cain. We have all children in a large circle holding hands up high as the open windows and it starts with one child being the bird going in and out of the open windows, while the rest of the children sing: “Bluebird, bluebird, through my window, Bluebird, bluebird, through my window, Bluebird, bluebird, through my window, Oh…you make me so ha-appy…it’s hugging time” And the one bluebird picks a child (who hasn’t had a turn yet), hugs him or her, then the song is repeated until all children have been hugged (or gently tapped) and have gotten a chance to be bluebirds going in and out of the open windows. Works well with several adults (depending on the size of the group), to remind which kids haven’t been chosen yet, (otherwise they pick only their best friends over and over).

Here’s the rhyme I remember,…

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Original author: Anonymous
 

Here’s the rhyme I remember, playing with two rubber balls against the garage door in Dublin, Ireland in the 70s Plainy, a packet of rinso Over, a packet of rinso Uppy, a packet of rinso Downy, a packet of rinso Dashy, a packet of rinso Right Leg, a packet of rinso Left Leg, a packet of rinso Archy, a packet or rinso Plainy, plainy, a packet or rinso, etc. etc. until you were out! We got so good at this we could then do with one hand.