Category Archives: Girl games
wow, am I glad I found this…
Original author: quelinda
wow, am I glad I found this discussion. I was trying to teach my niece Concentration, and didn’t remember some crucial parts. Now here is how I played it as a kid: Concentration/are you ready/if so/let’s go/starting/with names/of boys/one apiece/no repeats… then the first girl shouts out a name beginning with the letter A, the next girl shouts out a name beginning with B…
has any one ever heard of…
Original author: Ashley,NJ [e-mail]
has any one ever heard of this BOOM SNAP CLAP BABOOM SNAP CLAP SNAP BOOM SNAP CLAP BABOOM SNAP SHH while saying boom hit your chest while saying snap snap and while saying clap clap
Does anyone know the origins…
I use to sing “Down by the…
Original author: Holly [e-mail]
I use to sing “Down by the river” that went. Down by the river with a hanky panky Saw a bull frog jump from bank to bank he said, “E-I-O-U Your momma stinks and so do you” King Kong, donky kong went to school with nothing on asked the teacher what to wear poka dotted underwear not to big not to small just the size of the broward mall You sat in a circle and everyone had their hand on the persons next to them. I just know that there was one that went something like My name is L-I-L-I jiggle I jiggle I bomb bomb booty chinese checkers ani-ani freeze. Anyone remember that one?
Jackie and Annette: We sang:…
Original author: Miriam Erez [e-mail]
Jackie and Annette: We sang: In Spain it’s tulips / two lips together, twilight forever, bring back my love to me What is the mea-ea-ea-ning of all these fla-a-owers? They tell the sto-o-o-ry, the story of lo-ve from me to you My heart goes thumpity-thump-thump, thumpity-thump-thump over the side of you (?) I love you one and only, I love you personally This is the sto-o-o-ry, the story of lo-ve from me to you And when we’re ma-a-a-ried, where shall we li-i-i-ive? In sunny Spa-ai-ai-ain, or gay Par-ee-ee-ee oui oui! And we’ll have children of course, and then we’ll get a divorce And then we’ll marry again, so sorry this is the end (Oui oui, cha-cha-cha, cross-cross-cross, applesauce, match in the gas tank — boom boom!
Today I tought some of the…
Original author: Naz [e-mail]
Today I tought some of the niegborhood kids how to play skelzee (that was what we called it where i grew up in the early `80s downtown Brooklyn) anyway i was amazed that they never heard of the game before and not suprised at how much thet enjoyed playing it. 3 hours later thier still out there
Skully is known by many…
Original author: Hugh M. McNally (hmcnally) [e-mail]
Skully is known by many names–the similar sounding variations generally vary by neighborhood, though I certainly heard “skelly” as well as “skully” in the Bronx. I think that the sing-song quality of “skelzee/skelzies” is extended from the original “skully/skelly” in much the same way as people shooting for the the 2-box would proclaim they were “going for twosies.” As Snoop Dogg would say, “by any name, skelzizzle is off the hizzle for shizzle, dizzle.”
When I was a kid growing…
Original author: NYSal [e-mail]
When I was a kid growing up on the lower east side in the early sixties we pronounced the game as Skellzee.When and if did the name change,or was the same game known by differnt name variations in different neighborhoods.
Oh my gosh! I just found…
Original author: JA
Oh my gosh! I just found this website and I was looking for this particular game. We used to play it sitting crossed legged in a circle as well clapping and snapping but we would say “Concentration concentration navigation, keeping rythym keeping rythym to the beat, ok, lets play and we would choose a topic….