What were your typical elementary school recess activities?
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Football (not american type) , tig, bulldog, sometimes hopscotch with the girls although not often THEIR THE ENEMY! lol looking back that sort of thinking was hilarious.
Getting punched in the face, getting laughed at, and sitting on the outskirts of the playground to avoid the kids who hated me. It helped shape me into the loner I am today. Also, I'm learning not to punch people reflexively for going for a fist bump, but THE MEMORIES!!!
Playing on structures made of steel rods, concrete, and splintered wood. Injuries were had and no one's parents freaked out about it.
We don't call it Recess in england, we just call it break, because we like to be boring, and all that.
So anyway, my favourite break time activity when i was at school was...
British Bulldog
For anyone who doesn't know, the aim of the game was to get to the other side of the playground without being touched, and the last one left standing is the winner.
At the start their would be one chaser, which would then touch someone who then would become a chaser in the next round when everyone left has gone over to the other side.
Every time a new round starts, someone shouts British bulldog 1, 2, 3, and all the chasers start in the middle (or the other end) of the playground.
It was amazing, especially when most of the playground was in on the game. Sadly i only played it when i was in juniors.
Seriously, you've never lived until you have played British bulldog.
EDIT: holy crap, they banned it in some schools nowadays, health and safety is going out of control!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_bulldogs_(game)
So anyway, my favourite break time activity when i was at school was...
British Bulldog
For anyone who doesn't know, the aim of the game was to get to the other side of the playground without being touched, and the last one left standing is the winner.
At the start their would be one chaser, which would then touch someone who then would become a chaser in the next round when everyone left has gone over to the other side.
Every time a new round starts, someone shouts British bulldog 1, 2, 3, and all the chasers start in the middle (or the other end) of the playground.
It was amazing, especially when most of the playground was in on the game. Sadly i only played it when i was in juniors.
Seriously, you've never lived until you have played British bulldog.
EDIT: holy crap, they banned it in some schools nowadays, health and safety is going out of control!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_bulldogs_(game)
We played Shark, where a group of us would sit at the top of the ginormous slide and one of us - the shark - would climb up from the bottom and pull the victims down. I loved that game...
Also various ball games, occasional sing-a-longs, snowball fights during the winter, etc etc. I loved 4-6 grade (in Sweden that's when you're ages 10-12).
Also various ball games, occasional sing-a-longs, snowball fights during the winter, etc etc. I loved 4-6 grade (in Sweden that's when you're ages 10-12).
Just playing on the playground equipment, Wall Ball, Jump Rope, Skip it, 4 Square, Kick Ball, Tag, Red Rover, Soccer, Midnight, Playing Power Rangers....lol etc...
Hmm on the younger side of elementary swings, see-saw, discuss cartoons and for some ungodly reason basic politics in the giant tires. On the older side of the playground grass sledding, baseball, football, soccer, and rugby, also discussing cartoons, politics, and what have you on a thing made out of tires.
I miss those tire things.
I miss those tire things.
I was home-schooled as a kid, so my breaks were spent reading through whatever ungodly amount of books I'd checked out from the library the previous week.
Well, since me and friends were small we've pretty much done exactly the same things at break/lunchtime. Charades, "The Thiiing!", card games, or just hanging around. Occasionally playing lazy tig or Duck Duck Goose.
The Thiiing! is a game where one person is a judge, and they say to act out something. Everybody takes turns acting it out, and whoever was funniest won. Whenever we had nothing to do and passed a corner...
"What shall we play..."
...
"The Thiiing!"
And we try to get other people involved in playing tig. But they never do anything and we can't play anymore becuase nobody's it. :/
The Thiiing! is a game where one person is a judge, and they say to act out something. Everybody takes turns acting it out, and whoever was funniest won. Whenever we had nothing to do and passed a corner...
"What shall we play..."
...
"The Thiiing!"
And we try to get other people involved in playing tig. But they never do anything and we can't play anymore becuase nobody's it. :/
Handball! Completely forgot about that.Jark212 said:
Well in kindergarten we'd play tag, and just scream and run around. 1-3 grade, our school never had a "playground" instead it was a parking lot that was fenced in. And every grade was out at once so it was cramped, tag=falling on ground but it was worth it. Baseball= ball leaving fence and having to get it. So me and about 10 people would use our imagination instead, and pretend we fought dragons and such, so much fun. Then 4-6 grade, we had a real place to play. Baseball field, and a place to play football(american by the way). I would play until 6th grade, which is when I would then go and talk to the girls. hang out with them, impress them and such. Now in 10 grade, 16 years old. Not much has changed other then, we don't have recess we have gym, which no one enjoys. WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO MA PING PONG FROM LAST YEAR!!11!!!!!!!11!!!! Also I do less trying to imress girls, since I can do that with out trying, I just gotta turn my swag on.
Kickball
Dodgeball
Wallball (which we called handball)
Four Square
Playing on the Jungle Gym
Tag, Freeze Tag, Melting Freeze Tag
Red Rover
Jump Rope
Chinese Jump Rope (which was a rope made out of rubber bands that involved increasingly complex feats with the rope at ankle, knee, straight arm, waist, underarm and top of head heights)
Jacks
Chinese Jacks (which were these cool bunches of plastic rings)
Clapping Games
Trading Stickers
Flipping/Tossing Baseball cards...and a couple of other baseball card games
Dodgeball
Wallball (which we called handball)
Four Square
Playing on the Jungle Gym
Tag, Freeze Tag, Melting Freeze Tag
Red Rover
Jump Rope
Chinese Jump Rope (which was a rope made out of rubber bands that involved increasingly complex feats with the rope at ankle, knee, straight arm, waist, underarm and top of head heights)
Jacks
Chinese Jacks (which were these cool bunches of plastic rings)
Clapping Games
Trading Stickers
Flipping/Tossing Baseball cards...and a couple of other baseball card games