Category Archives: Girl games

Go-Go boots – Mary Burns…

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Original author: Debra [e-mail]
 

Go-Go boots – Mary Burns had a pair in the first grade – 1963. She was the only girl in my class with those cool boots and I wanted a pair desperately but never got them. Hers were earlier than the shiny, stretchy white or black versions. They were mid-calf, white leather with a leather stack heel. How is that after almost 40 years, I still remember sitting in the class circle admiring her boots? Now I did get the Red Ball Jets… the white Keds-like shoes with the Red Ball on the back. Yep – had fishnets and windowpane stockings. How’d we keep our toes from going through those?

My husband and I have been…

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Original author: Debra Reyland [e-mail]
 

My husband and I have been discussing how kids don’t play together like we did in the 60’s. In those days without the mobility of two-car families, we played daily in small groups doing jump rope, 4-square, tether ball, Red Rover etc. I remembered a game we girls played with elastic called “Ching Chang”. The spelling might not be correct but it sounds like it was really what others refer to as Chinese Jump Rope with the elastic around two peoples legs and the third doing the jumping. I found this website in search of the words and moves. I remember saying “Ching Chang One… Ching Chang Two…” Does this name ring a bell for anyone? It was fun reminiscing…

Oh, I forgot the skill is…

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Original author: denise
 

Oh, I forgot the skill is not to touch any other jacks but the one’s you’re aiming for (touchies),if you do, you’re out. The first one to finish her numbers (for instance if you have twelve jacks, you’re playing up to your twelve-sies.wins.

You don’t need rules to…

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Original author: denise
 

You don’t need rules to play jacks, it’s a no-brainer. You throw the jacks down, throw the little ball up in the air and catch 1 jack. You do this until you have all the jacks in your hand. you throw the jacks down again and do this for two’s, threes, fours, etc. The skill is in knowing when to throw the jacks out from a wider pile (when you’re picking them up by ones), to an increasingly smaller pile (it’s easier to catch sets of two’s,threes, fours, and etc. when the jacks are closer together. Also you can pick jacks up seperated jacks in two moves as long as the ball only bounces once. Finally, when you”re up to the last number you just put the jacks down, toss the ball up and pick up the hole pile (flatsies). The more skilled of jack players would then proceed to play in revers. leave one down, then two, then three, etc. then pick up the whole pile when finished.

this is a fun site! brings…

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Original author: Anonymous
 

this is a fun site! brings back a lot of memories. a young friend had never played jacks so i got a set and was trying to find rules. who’d have thought they’d have books of rules now. I can still remember when my grandma gave my bag of jacks and balls to younger neighbor. yes, i was too old and didn’t play with them anymore but i still was quite upset. now it’s off to the library to see if i can find the books mentioned. did anyone else peel the cover off of a golf ball and unroll the “miles” of rubber band to get to the ball in the middle? it was a good bouncer.

Thanks for all the info…

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Original author: Anonymous
 

Thanks for all the info on rope jumping. I remember as a child of late 40’s St. Louis, Missouri, jumping rope for hours on the school playground. My families move to Los Angeles in 1951 ended my jumproping days. The kids in LA were too sophisticated, I guess. It was great seeing the rhymes again. I know there were many more and so much fun! There has been a book printed about the subject. Guess I’ll have to look for it now, for my 1/2 Chinese grandaughter. She’ll love learning the rhymes as I did.

Terri (from 8/17/00) Here…

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Original author: Ann
 

Terri (from 8/17/00) Here are all the verses I have for the song “I Wish I Were…”. Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap, Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap, For I’d slippy and I’d slidy Over everybody’s hidey Oh I wish I were a little bar of soap. Oh I wish I were a little mosquito, Oh I wish I were a little mosquito, For I’d nippy and I bity Under everybody’s nightie Oh I wish I were a little mosquito. Oh I wish I were a little bottle of coke, Oh I wish I were a little bottle of coke, For I’d go down with a slurp And I’d come up with a burp Oh I wish I were a little bottle of coke. Oh I wish I were a little English sparrow, Oh I wish I were a little English sparrow, For I’d sitty on the steeple And I’d spitty on the people Oh I wish I were a little English sparrow. Oh, I wish I were a little hunk of mud. Oh, I wish I were a little hunk of mud. I would ooey and I

the one we used to sing…

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Original author: Elaine Burton
 

the one we used to sing went like this: I had a little teddy bear. His name was Tiny Tim. I put him in the bathtub to teach him how to swim. First he ate the washcloth, then he ate the soap, so I called the doctor, the doctor said no hope; so, last night he died with a bubble in his throat! (love your page – thank you)

When I was in the fifth grade…

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When I was in the fifth grade me and all my friends used to play a game called “up jenksons.” It is a game where you had two teams of two or more, and the item that you need is a dime. So one team will get the dime first (flip to see who gets it first) will put all their hands behind their backs and past the dime around and who ever has the dime when the other team says stop keeps it. Then every member of that team puts their hands in front of them and the other team will call slammies, wall, creepies or baskets. if the team calls slammies the team with the dime all have to slam their hands on the ground (game works best on cement) and the team listens to see if they can guess who has the dime but if they guess wrong the team gets the dime agin .the others are: wall, you have to lift their hands straight up; creepies, you have to make fist and put them on the ground and slowly open your hands trying not to make an noise; baskets, you have to hold the dimes in the mmiddle of your palms and put all five of your finger tips on the ground as you hold the dime in your palm. If you try this game you will have hours of fun…