Thanks to all for jogging my fifty-plus year old memory. Does anyone remember a game that was played using a golf ball, bouncing it on the sidewalk, and naming things in specific catagories..like, fruits, states, cars, etc.? I’m trying to find games like these to occupy my 3 young granddaughters.
As a child, whenever we were going on a long journey, in order to keep the kids occupied my Mum would suggest a game of “The Ministers Cat”. The youngest child would be first to start and would say for example “The Ministers Cat is an ANGRY cat”. Each player would take their turn in order of age (and possible degree of difficulty depending on the number of players). We would go through the alphabet until Z. If a player could not come up with a suitable adjective they would be out, although we would usually skip on X! I have played this recently with my niece and grandchildren and whilst it’s good fun, it’s also good for their vocabulary.
Susie, Susie, sitting in a shoe shine shop All day long she sits and shines All day long she shines and sits Sitting in a shoe shine shop. As children, we would usually get caught out on the third line and would fall about laughing like the naughty children we were! We would also try “She sells sea shells on the sea shore”
The joys of a by-gone age! I remember playing “balls” in the 60’s in the East End of Glasgow. Our garage doors acted as the wall – all the children from the neighbourhood would come round and we would each take a turn and would be “out” when a ball was dropped. I remember there were 10 positions. 1st position – bounce the ball on the ground and against the door once. 2nd position – lift your right leg up, bounce the ball under that leg and against the door twice. 3rd position – lift and cross your left leg over your right, bounce the ball under that leg and against the door three times. 4th position – both feet approx 2 feet apart, bounce ball under your legs and against the door four times. 5th position – turn slightly to the right, bounce ball behind your back against the door five times. 6th position – bounce ball on ground and against the door, spin around for six times. Can’t remember the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th positions but each stage became harder. Maybe I don’t remember because I never got that far without dropping a ball but I do remember that when you did get to the 10th position you continued in reverse order back to 1st position. If anyone can remember please put me out of my mysery!
In the late 50’s and early 60’s in Yorkville (Manhattan) we used to line up and jump into and out of the rope one at a time then run around the rope turner and jump back in and out on the other side to this rhyme: “Put the dirty diapers on ____” The name of the person would be the kid who was in the rope at that moment. It was a very fast game and so much fun.
Does anyone remember what this is called? I use to play it in Brooklyn playground but forgot now. In the park, we had moneybars,slides, etc. this was where a person sat on one end each and it went up and down. I forgot what it’s called. Help…