Category Archives: Girl games
Another ball game. …
Original author: suzy
Another ball game. We took a pensy pinkie or a spaldeen and put it into a knee-high sock. Then we stood with our back against the wall, and arms and legs spread, grabbing the open end of the sock with the right hand if you were right handed, and reach over and bounce the ball between the left arm and leg and back across to the right side off the wall. You could bounce it between your legs too going up and down between the wall there and back up to the right of you. I think we did this to some kind of rhyme, but I really can’t recall. Perhaps we just counted.
Duchossois, here are the…
Original author: Nancy
Duchossois, here are the words to the rhyme you were looking for: I’m a little Dutch girl Dressed in blue. Here are the things I like to do. Salute to the captain, Bow to the queen, Turn my back on the submarine. I can do the tap dance, I can to the split, I can do the holka polka Just like this.
Eirene, you might want to…
Original author: Nancy
Eirene, you might want to check out a book called “Anna Banana: 101 Jump-Rope Rhymes” compiled by Joanna Cole. It doesn’t seem to have the rhyme you’re looking for, but it has a list of further sources at the back. Chinese jump rope — I too am racking my brains trying to remember how we played. When I saw one in a toy store it brought back great memories and I bought one for my daughter… unfortunately those memories are very fuzzy. I think I remember playing a game where you stood on one foot and twisted the two sides of the elastic around your other ankle in various configurations (Cat’s Cradle for the feet?) and said a rhyme at the same time. I think one of the rhymes was M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. By the last “I” in the rhyme you had to have your foot extricated from the elastics. Can anyone else add to this?
How about Red Rover? You…
Original author: Ann-Marie
How about Red Rover? You form two lines opposite each other and everyone holds hands on one line. Someone from the line holding hands says, “Red Rover Red Rover send (Ann-Marie) over!” I as the chosen one had to charge to the other side and attempt to break through the hands of two of the opponents. If I didn’t break through, I would have to join their line. If I did, I could rejoin my side and wait for them to call the next person over. The game was played until the last player joins the line holding hands. Or until enough people got hurt to quit the game, lol!
When I was growing up in…
Original author: Eirene
When I was growing up in Australia we used to draw the hopscotch in the dirt at a particular time of the year, which was the season. It was used by us so often that the squares became dented and the outline didnt go away for a long time. We used stones or bits of broken smoothed glass found lying around the school yard probably. I dont remember having a circle at the end of the game to turn around in, we just used to jump around in the 7/8 squares.
I am in Australia and am…
Original author: Eirene
I am in Australia and am trying to kindle an interest in jumping rope with the grade 2 – 5s at my local school. I would like a few songs to get the children going. All I can remember is part of a song which had ‘high low jolly pepper’ in it. Does anybody have any universal songs for me please? Also, we used to play ‘elastics’ which was with a long piece of sewing elastic made in a loop; one person at each end and the player started off with the elastic at the ankles and had a series of jumping activities to perform including tucking one side of the elastic over the feet and jumping over the other side of the elastic and somehow jumping out of the tucked in piece.They then moved up to the knees, hips, neck etc. This sounds really complicated, but when you visualise doing it, its not!! I hope someone else from Australia finds this site who knows what I’m talking about. Anyway, thanks for an interesting site, don’t forget about those skipping rope songs please.
I am 71 years old and lived…
Does anyone remember: Kumalada,…
Original author: cherie [e-mail]
Does anyone remember: Kumalada, Kumalada, Kumalada ,Vista.(Repeat) No,No,No,No not the vista.(Repeat) Enie Menie, Desamenie, (something else I can’t remember I just recently heard this in a Meijer commercial.) I would love to know the words. This is a wonder site!!!