Kid Games ~ Remember When

Last week I wrote about playing Jacks as a kid, and that led me to thinking about other kid games I played, and wondering if y'all would remember them too. (You can read about Jacks here)

How about Pick-Up Sticks? This is one that I played with my father -- the floor was carpeted in the living room but it was a very short, dense pile so it was great for playing Pick-Up Sticks. He wouldn't let me get by with anything though -- if a stick moved, that was it! We stuck by the rules!

Noli, however, is a different situation entirely. She plays by her own set of rules which, by the way, changes from moment to moment depending on how the sticks fell, or what color they are .... you just never know!
I found these in a garage sale -- I like them because they are made of wood, and they are a bit oversized for little hands. But she still cheats!

Marbles was another game we played -- well, my older brother played it and I watched ...  But, (probably after much begging on my part), he let me play with his marbles!  I for sure remember his admonition not to lose any -- it wouldn't have been a pretty day if I had!! I was never any good at it though, just barely could shoot, much less knock them out of the ring!

I eventually got my own marbles -- cat's eyes. And I've kept them all these years (and my brother's marbles too, he he). I remember my mother and I cooking those cat's eyes to see them crackle!

These are some of them, his and mine. I think the variations of color and the swirls are so pretty. 

I ended up with a nice collection of shooters too -- the green one in the front was actually my mother's when she was a kid! That makes it about 90 years old!

Hopscotch was another one. My friends and I played hopscotch for hours on end! Like Jacks, there were a million different ways of playing. We'd make up all kinds of ways of carrying our marker (the best was a bobby pin since it didn't fall off as easily as a pebble) -- backs of our hands, top of our head (no fair sticking the bobby pin IN your hair!), on our feet, on our shoulders!

This sweet print is from an Etsy shop appropriately named
Hopscotch Art!

Check it out, there are lots of cute cards and paintings in this lovely shop! 

There were a bunch more that we played a lot -- skating, jump rope, walking on stilts, Hula Hoop -- but I'll save those for another day!

What kid games do you remember?

♥♥♥  I'm linking up my kid games to Alphabe-Thursday over at Miss Jenny's where we are studying the letter "K."

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