What Games Did You Play as a Child indoors or Out? ( Archived) (15)

As a lone child l never played many games inside and remember playing in the street, my in house time would be in my Grandmothers dining room listening to the radio run by an accumulator and copying the music name as it was played, someone would draw a hopscotch and we would all use it, summer we played on the local playing fields and normally a Wednesday afternoon we would leave school to play cricket. My football prowess was as a goalkeeper where I saved a penalty.................................and let 10 other goals in, l should have been right back. in the dressing room.

In the street it was hide and seek, tin can tommy knob, stick and fuggle.

So, what did you do.

(This is not another nosey thread question like the others posted here).

When I wasn't helping my mother clean house,shopping for groceries doing laundry I did have time to play hopscotch,jump rope,hide/seek.

Exciting childhood.Yes siree bob.

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I remember at my lower school we had lunchtimes where we jumped rope, it was the only time all kids got together.

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Yes, l had skates for a while and also had a habit of making soap boxes, l used to take the school cricket equipment on one.

Not a game as such. I remember watching my dad shave his whiskers one day and I thought for a brief time after that, having whiskers was wasn't cool. Our cat strongly disagreed.

I was very lucky as a child, growing up in a small neighbourhood surrounded by the forest. Most of my time, I spent outdoors.... building tree forts, playing at the clay banks, catching critters out of the pond, riding my neighbor’s horse and endless hours in the stables brushing and grooming the horses and shovelling straw.
Indoors my time was spent alone in my room, doing arty farty stuff or watching tv.

I had a favourite place to hide in the woods, which required transversing a fallen tree over a ravine. But the prize of a successful crossing made it worth it..... a huge storm drain that hung over the clay cliff and I could sit inside, protected from the rain, and play solitaire for hours without fear of being found.

I am consciously grateful every day for the many blessings I have received this life.

Indoors we played alot of card and board games..
Outside we played Red Rover, racing on the bikes, lacrosse, and made forts in the haylofts