Senior Citizens, did you ever play leap frog, hopscotch or other games when young?

The girls played hopscotch, but we didn't have any sidewalks out in the country, so we drew the lines in the dirt. My brother and sister and I played Popeye; my brother was Popeye, my sister was tall and skinny so she played Olive Oyl, and guess who that made me? Bluto, you bet. We had pick-up games of baseball with the neighborhood kids all the time. The boys would let the girls play marbles, especially if the girls had some good marbles and they had lost their good ones. We lived on a lake and were usually at the beach, where we played water games with a ball, but I can't remember their names. They got pretty rowdy. We played tag and hide-and-go-seek, too. We had a lot of fun. Isn't it funny, kids don't really play outside anymore. We were gone from morning til sunset.

Pin-the-tail on the donkey and dropping clothespins into quart milk bottles were reserved for birthday parties. My friends and I played tiddly winks, jacks, and hopscotch - our favorite laggers were 2 bobby pins connected. We rode bikes and roller skated all over town. We had scooters my dad made us out of 2x4's with old skate trucks for wheels and we decorated the front with Nehi bottle caps. We played Uncle Wiggly, Fish, and a host of other games. My favorite game was Monopoly, and it still is.

Summers meant playing at the high school across the street - a program run by Parks & Rec. We played caroms, ping pong, and basketball, and took free swimming lessons at the high school plunge. There were special Play Days when we went to a program at another school and had track & field events as well as bicycle races. We went on field trips to the L.A. Zoo, Knott's Berry Farm, and Disneyland. We went on one camping trip each summer - also through Parks & Rec - it cost $3 and we slept on the ground in sleeping bags near Big Bear.

We too stayed out until the absolute last minute. We didn't have time to watch TV.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Yeah, all of the above, plus Mother, May I? & Simon Sez. Oh, & Tarzan, acting out the parts on the swing set when we got home from the Saturday matinees. And we had homemade wooden stilts, skates, bikes, & a unicycle, made by an uncle in his family's bike shop, though we never really got very good at it from riding it in the yard.

With the clothespins, Mother invented sort of an exercise for us to try, picking up the clothespins with our toes & putting them in the wire & cloth clothespin basket that hung from the line. Hmm...it must have been good for balance & for dexterity of the toes. Ha, ha. We did that out on the screened-in porch, where she had about 3 lines. Guess we were far too young to worry about falling & breaking a hip. That never occurred to any of us, including Mom. Maybe we held onto a chair. She might have seen it suggested in a magazine. (Bet you're dying to try it now, aren't you? Ho, ho!) We always found something new to do to add to the old.

There were anywhere from 7 to 10 kids that played every day in the alley between our row houses in Philadelphia. We played every game known to man. We rode our bikes,roller skated and climbed trees. We swam in a pond in the park that served as a skating rink in the winter. We built Indian teepees and played detective. I cant help but think how much the kids are missing today with their computers. We also never had to worry about childhood obesity.

Yes, I remember those games well.

There was also 4-square....we drew with chalk four boxes on the driveway or pavement and used a volleyball to try and get the opponent out of the square...simple fun!

We played a lot of board games...one of my favorites was "mouse trap" and the tried and true "monopoly"

We played cowboys and indians too, and made our bows and arrows out of tree branches and cord string. lol

We hate scooters, not the motorized ones, but the foot powered ones....hahaha...we thought we were riding too.....big smile

We played "jacks" all day and avoided the wood floors because you could get splinters in your hands and under your nails.

Edit: I forgot to mention that some of the boys would roll old tires with a stick up and down the streets as if they were actually driving a car. lol

Rounders, Kick the can, Statues, Kick doors run fast, Guesses, Truth or dare, Postman's knock, Spin the bottle, Aleavio, Snakes and ladders, Draughts, Conkers, Kiss and tell, Football, Tennis, Cricket and too many card games to mention.

The girls would play at Beds, Ropes, Ball against the wall and Shops.

Doctor's and Nurses could be quite interesting too.

I had two brothers and we played board games. I played house a lot. and doctor. Then came playing jacks and hopscotch, red rover,baseball,

wild horses , the girls were the horses and the boys had to chase us and round us up. Wild horses came about the 5 and 6th grade. We was country kids. Of course we played hide and go seek.

I can remember

getting one of our quilts and a pillow and spreading it on the ground and just watching the clouds. I think if you told a child now days to do that they would think we was crazy. We always caught lighting bugs in the summer. ( do kids do that anymore )? Then put them in a jar and punched holes in the lid of a fruit jar so they would live and take it to our bedroom so we could see them light up in the dark.

Yes all of the above.

One of our specialities as kids was who could make the best and largest mud pies.

Ooh we just loved making those,much to the annoyance of our parents.

The bigger the sloppier the muddier the better, great fun.

It's sad now though that parents and grandparents are nervous of letting their youngsters go out to play and climb trees on their own for fear of abduction,abuse etc.

I know when my little Grandchildren play outside I'm not very far away at all, shame really.

I remember those games as welll. We had kick the can game, it was a great game we played on the dark street. Similar to hide and seek except your run to see who kicks the can 1st or you do the finding next time. Those days all the kids were out at night in the dark.

hopscotch in grade school, tether ball was popular for grade-school kids too, didn't take a lot of equipment and some had the poles at home (I never heard of it until I moved to Oklahoma in 6th grade and don't hear of it now), we played with yo-yos and hula hoops and scooters every spring and summer. Shooting a bulls eye target with a sling shot or BB gun, badminton out in the yard when it wasn't too windy, and tossing a Frisbee around. We made forts out of tree branches behind one of the more rural schools (can you imagine that today? that would be forbidden, someone might get scratched), simple card games, and checkers and dominoes.