Backyard games

[Lynnie]

New backyard game: Y'all are all invited to come with your gardening tools and help me get my neighbors' vines invasion under control........I'll provide drinks, of course!

 

[sunspotbaby]

My little sister & I grew up living next door to our cousins (the same age). We loved to play house, pretend we had husbands and babies.
We would go shopping for berries on our motorcycles, bring them back to the playhouse and cook.

Playing tag in the house. The dining room was base.

jumping on the trampoline, riding Ajax the horse, frisbee in the front yard, playing catch, badminton, basketball, etc.

Then we'd rest in the cool shade of the scupernong vine and drink cold water from the hose.

Good times.

I saw a little sketch from SNL last night where someone said Electricity & T.V. destroy the creative mind. So True.

 

[scooterbug44]

We had the neighborhood gang of kids who all played together because there weren't enough kids of any one age. Every game involved everyone and you "progressed" as you got older. For example when we played football the littlest kids were just put at the line of scrimmage and ordered to grab any ankles that went by. You learned quickly to grab BOTH ankles or you just got dragged/kicked.

Football, variations of baseball, tag, ride bikes, rollerskate (this was before blading) play in the sprinkler, snow etc.

Croquet was fun too, but that was a game we played w/ adults (Grandma etc.). Parties meant we set up the volleyball net.

 

[Matt J]

How much stuff can you carry from the construction site to the empty lot.

 

[Cheering472]

We played Red Rover, Simon Says and Frozen Catchers/Frozen Statues. (Like tag, but if you were caught you stayed "frozen" in that position until another runner tagged you to thaw you out.) Good times.

 

[audie]

we always played badminton, and can you believe it - yes mother let us play lawn jarts ! she probably still has the lethal death machine jarts in the basement somewhere

 

[DD]

You all bring back such good memories!! What funn we had in those days!! I'm so glad I lived in a time when we could really be kids and didn't have to worry about swine flu, drive-by shootings, amber alerts, what we were gonna wear the next day, or how much money our friends didn't have.

 

[Matt J]

Anybody remember smear the queer?

 

[Lynnie]

Well, we didn't always play in the back yard. Our house was the meeting/gathering place, though.

The end of our street was dirt so all kinds of things occurred there.......that's where my brother ran over me in his soap box car.

Football, building ramps for the bikes, football, baseball, skate board races, football, the driveway and we'd jump the creek on the other side of the road.....on my bike! Foot ball, building tree forts in the woods, some kinda' line game......simon sez, maybe? Football.

At the farm, we had a totally different set of home made games.

I no crazy about football these days.........I got a little busted up back then.

 

[Mermaid]

How much stuff can you carry from the construction site to the empty lot.

I can't believe you said that!!! When my parents moved us all to New Hampshire the house next door was still being built. We stole so much "leftover" stuff from the construction site that the contractor came over one night to complain to my mother, who promptly made us return every brick and board we pilfered. I was so mad!!! We had the best fort ever and we had to dismantle it.