WE USED TO PLAY CROQUET FOR HOURS ON END ON THE BACK LAWN.
We played with magnolia blossoms. pretended they were hand grenades. Then we made sling shots out of forked limbs and used innertubes and a beice of leather.
Jump ropes, roller skates, bikes, stakes to make teepees.
Inner tubes in the creek.
Baseballs and bats!!,and of course KITES!
pat
pogo stick, bikes with baseball card flappers so they would make noise when we rode, cutoff a switch from a tree bend it and tie string to the ends making a home made bow and then sticks for arrows, hopscotch, jacks, marbles, batting green apples over the fence, cane fishing poles and hunting the worms at night for the next day.
Summer in the city.
We played stick ball with pimple balls cut in half, skated on the sidewalk with those metal ball bearing wheels making a most satisfactory click as they rolled over the cracks in the cement, jumped rope, played jacks, and made hopscotch courses in chalk. The latter took on some interesting configurations after being run over repeatedly by the roller skates.
Used to play mumbly peg, catch bees, lightning bugs, grasshoppers, jacks, paper dolls, hopscotch, hide-n-seek, build tents over the clothes line. We would get up early, do our chores, pack a lunch & head out on our bikes until suppertime. We always had to check in around noon with one of the moms & she would spread the word that we were okay. What a great, safe time we had way back then.
posted by pigs
3 months ago
Find or make Some wooden crates,take the wheels from an old wagon or something and make race soap box racers!
Or just an empty jar--to collect fireflies on a summer night.
pat
Hula hoops, jump ropes, jacks, croquet and riding bikes. My favorite was the hula hoop.
heck--just laying in the grass looking up and finding "shapes" in the clouds,was a marvelous way to spend an afternoon!!
pat
