What did you do for fun outside when you were a child?

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I know, it was ridiculous the pain inflicted for a game haha

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Liked skipping a lot, throwing a ball at a wall and catching it. Follow my elder brothers and go to the park and roll down the hill. Making mud pats and put them on the top of a low wall to dry out. Wasnā€™t aloud a bike mom thought that they were dangerous. crocheting, drawing.

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Iā€™ve just remembered this more modern version of a skipping song :point_down:

Anybody try team skipping?

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I always wanted a pogo stick :frowning_face:

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Something like the team skipping but with only 2 people in at a time with 2 skipping ropes.

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Out to the local parks.
Playing out on the green with the other kids. We lived in a row of 6 houses opposite 6 houses with a green in between, away from the main road. So quite safe.
Hopscotch.
Playing ball up against our alley wall.
Playing on a jigger.
Reading. Drawing. Writing.
Spending time with our first dog.
That elastic skipping.
Sneaking off to prohibited areas.
Playing on the old prefab site, when they were empty and abandoned.

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talking about balls reminded me of when I used to nick one of my mummys stockings and put a tennis ball inside and I used tstand with my back against a wall and bounce the ball over my shoulder and in between my legs while singing this:

PK PENNY PACKET FIRST YA CHEW IT THEN YA CRACK IT
THEN YA STICK IT UP YA JACKET
PK PENNY PACKET

hahaha, remembered it all

anyone else for stocking tennis? hehe

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A creative thinker!

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Just given me an idea for a great dog toy LQ :slight_smile:

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I was always terrified in group skipping games at school that I would be the one to mess it up. There was so much pressure because there would be about ten or more of you playing with a massive rope. Plus if there were two or three of you skipping together, well ā€¦ :crazy_face:

Have I mentioned the boys used to sometimes steal our skipping rope for high jinks?

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Ooh yes, I remember them too, Mort. Not nice was it.

Does anyone remember a game called ā€˜Cats Cradleā€™?
Canā€™t remember if it was string, or elastic pulled in patterns over your fingers?
And who else had a Yo-Yo? :grinning:

And as someone else has said, we used to play with those little metal ā€˜Jacksā€™ as well.
I used to quite like that. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I remember all of those but what about those two balls on a string you would bang together?

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The girls were always were more inventive than us boys.Give us a ball and weā€™d just kick it.

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Made folks lives miserable, probably, that is why I tend not to complain too much.

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Brilliant - I won a Mud Pie competition. Someone had thrown out a whole pack of soap flakes and I used them to ā€œiceā€ my cake!

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I had a yo-yo AND we often used to play Jacks. My sister was (sadly) great at Chinese Burns - a real bully.

Cats cradle was played with string.

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Aah, thanks, I couldnā€™t quite remember.

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I remember them ā€¦ I was pretty good at it too but they were eventually banned.

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They were likely a pretty good weapon.

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True ā€¦ and had a tendency to break and leave nasty chunks flying off in all directions.

I was hopeless with a yo yo though.