Hopscotch

Duck duck goose

Kick the can or pick up the can

Red light Green light 1 2 3

Tag-I luv this game because i was fast and they couldnt catch me or get i get them

Suicide- My favorite

Off the wall

Dodgeball and kickball

Blindsman bluff

Jumprope-chinese jumprope

Jacks

Hide n Seek

Paper football

Hide the bone at the funeral

My favorite was Suicide.

You throw a ball off the wall and if you made 3 mistakes.You have to lined up on the wall and get booties shots.All the kids will throw the ball from a distance as hard as they can and strike you.I got knocked in the head few times.Getting an ear shot was the worst.

imago said:

Hide the bone at the funeral

My cuz is such a atttention whore.

As kids, we played Marco Polo 'til our lips turned blue.

Also in the pool: Dolphin Tag, Radar and Nerf keep-away.

Yard games: Statue, Freeze Tag and Kick the Can.

At diving meets, we played jacks and Bloody Knuckles (a card game) under the bleachers, while eating Jell-O powder straight out of the box.

When we got a little older, we all played golf on Fridays.

Looking back, I had a pretty idyllic childhood.

Jacks

hopscotch

Wiffle ball

Freeze

Musical Chairs

Dodge Ball

Hide and Seek

Pick Up Sticks

Spinning Tops

Fish

Tag

String Fingers

Cricket - I'm certain if some one from Great Britain saw our version of Cricket they'd consider it blasphemy.

Kiss chasey

two square/4 square

elastics

yoyo

knuckle jacks

marbles

building cubbies in the bush

tadpole fights

handstand competitions both on the grass and in the pool

riding bikes

scrabble

connect four

trouble

uno

snap

mastermind

monopoly

Atari Tennis.......................bing............................bing...................................bing.........bong bing..................bing......bing..................

Space Invaders..................

prank phonecalls.............

I loved jacks

Hopscotch

Jumping rope, but couln't doubledutch for shit

Hula Hoop

What was the thing where you would fold up a piece of paper with fortunes and then put it on your hand and chant something and then open it up and fold out the fortune?

I didn't have a name for it, but I could just throw a rubber ball up against a brick wall and do all kinds of moves before the ball bounced back.

Pickup sticks

Old Maid

Park & Shop (a board game from the 50's)

Puzzles, the kind with 500 pieces

Paint-by-numbers (another biggie from the 50's/60's)

Hide & Seek

Mother, May I?

I-D-Clare-War

I forgot one: Chinese Checkers! I loved that game.

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Monopoly

Clue!
Connect Four

Ouija Board

Super Mario World

Red light, green light 123

Spin the bottle

Skelly

Hot peas and butter

Truth or Dare

Jump rope/Double Dutch

Dodgeball

Volleyball (as I got older)

outdoors

hide n seak - I was the best at hiding

seven Minutes in Heaven- we had a lot of really cute boys were I grew up

hopscotch

detective

spraying graffitti

block parties-the real ones when you took dumpsters to block off two ends of a block, dj with turntables, and slabs of linoleum or cardbord laid out in the street

double dutch

3-legged races

"hanging out" and doing dumb stuff like climbing high up in trees and staying there all day

building jacked up go-carts and screaming down a hill-bloody knees and such were common

and getting wet in the fire-hydrant and using a tin can to wet people or spray the water... getting tossed in a full spraying hydrant was crazy fun too.

toys/games

I loved my Barbies

Tribulation

Monopoly

Boggle

Operaton

Spades

Centipede

Atari's Vanguard

Asteroids

The older black girls used to love to corn-row my hair also... they would spend DAYS doing it

my hair would look soooooo good!! Got it done weekly in the summer and they always just wanted to braid my hair, no money given and they would rack my head up with tons of beads... 15-20 beads minimum per braid. I loved it!!

In return I always gave them some of my mom's arros con gandules (rice with peas) they would never get enough of that stuff.

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In return I always gave them some of my mom's arros con gandules (rice with peas) they would never get enough of that stuff.

Do you have a recipe you want to share? Sounds yum

40-40

we used to do a lot of french skipping & cat's cradle

I spent a few summers in Honduras when I was really little, and I remember some cool games we played but I don't remember the names or anything.

One of them involved a "wolf" and "sheep"...whoever was "it" was the wolf and he'd stand aside as the rest of us formed a ring and spun as we chanted this rhyme about "let's play, let's play while the wolf is away" then we'd stop and yell; "Hey wolf! What are you doing?"

So the person who was the wolf would say; "I'm just waking up." and next time; "I'm brushing my teeth" and then; "I'm reading the newspaper." and we'd keep circling and stuff - not knowing when he'd say; "I'm ready to eat!"

At that point he'd come after us, and whoever was "caught" would be the wolf the next time around.

When my kids were little I tried to teach them the game, but they didn't find it as interesting as I seem to remember it having been.

MaxiMPact said:

In return I always gave them some of my mom's arros con gandules (rice with peas) they would never get enough of that stuff.

Do you have a recipe you want to share? Sounds yum

I measure "by eye" ...

in a wide rice pot (caldero)

on low heat drop about 2tbsp of olive oil, mix in a huge serving spoon of sofrito, and a teaspoon of tomato paste or ketchup ... add two packets of sazon* , seasalt and stir.

Blend ingredients well then add about 2 cups white rice, stir until rice is coated evenly. Once rice is coated add 1 can or gandules/pigeon peas (rinse them in a colander first with cold water) and spanish pitted olives (15 or so depending on taste) on top of the rice and then add enough water to cover the dry ingredients no more than a 1/2 inch. Stir carefully not to break apart gandules.

Cover tightly then simmer until all water is evaporated (25 minutes or so) and rice looks plump.

I make my own sofrito, but you can but it in the stores..

my sofrito recipe

in a blender blend

about 1 cup olive oil

2 large vidalia oinion

2 sweet bell peppers (I like to use yellow and orange)

1 bunch of fresh cilantro

1 head of garlic peeled

pinch or two of seasalt

sometimes I add green oinion, (10-15 leaves) fresh sweet basil, (1 long branch of leaves) rosemary to the mix... if you want to its not needed

but you do not have to... it is a base for most dishes and I keep it in a glass mason jar (you could recycle old pickle jars) refrigerated... it keeps and keeps.

*if you can not find Sazon in your grocery store... then you can heat the olive oil and add achiote (annato)seed and heat up the oil until the oil turns and orange color, remove seeds

then add sweet paprika, crushed garlic and some cayenne or black pepper with other ingredients in the rice mixture.

but the packs are MUCH easier.

and that is your basic recipe for arros con gandules (rice with peas)

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We had a game of tag called, "Go to Court." Someone's porch or deck was "court." The person who was "it" would count to 50 or whatever while everyone hid. Once a person was found, they were told to go to court. They would stay there till someone else could sneak away without getting caught and tag them back out.

Also, us girls had a ton of jump rope competitions. When I was in 4th grade it was all about marbles and who could do the most outrageous flips off the monkey bars.

Such innocent fun. I rarely see kids playing outside anymore. When I was a kid we walked or rode our bikes everywhere. In the summer, we were outside playing or at the community pool as soon as our chores were done, then wouldn't come back in till the street lights came on.

Kickball

Dodge ball

Blind man's bluff

7-Up

Tackle the guy with the ball

Hot box

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I played a game "Return the can"

The can is placed in the middle of the floor.The teacher blows the whistle.You have to race towards the can and pick it up and race it back to your homebase.If you get tagged by your opponent,you're OUT!

The problem was me and a girl slid simultaneously on the floor towards the can and we bumped our heads.

Jump Rope

Hide n Seek

Four Squares

Hopscotch

Chinese Jump Rope

Kick Ball

Mother May I

Mr. Fox

Rock Teacher

Dodge Ball

Board/Card

Life

Sorry

Spades(We were masters at this game in elementary school )

Speed

Bat n Ball

Jacks

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Rococo said:

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That game scared me when I was a kid.

iaminparties said:

Rococo said:

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That game scared me when I was a kid.

i was a baby satanist.