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Old Mar 05, 2014, 08:34 PM
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Does anyone remember hand games you played when you were little? I remember two:

Miss Sue, Miss Sue
Miss Sue from Alabama
Her real name's Suzianna
She's sitting in her rocking chair
eating baby crackers
watching the clock go
tick tock
tick tock banana rock
tick tock
tick tock banana rock
ABCDEFG
Wash the spiders off of me
Mushka Muska
I want my Mommy
Mushka Mushka
I eat Salami
Muska Muska
I know karate
Muska Mushka
Oops! I'm sorry
Mushka Mushka
FREEZE!

And

Miss Suzy had a steamboat
The steam boat had a bell (ding ding)
The steam boat went to heaven
Miss Suzy went to
Hello operator, please give me number 9
And if you disconnect me,
I'll chop off your
Behind the 'frigerator
there laid a piece of glass
Miss Suzy sat upon it
and broke her little
Ask me know more questions
Please tell me no more lies
The boys are in the bathroom
zipping up
The flies are in the meadow,
the bees are in the park
Miss Suzy and her boyfriend
are kissing in the
D-A-R-K
D-A-R-K
Dark! Dark! Dark!
The dark is like the movies
The movie's like a show
The show is like a movie show
And that is all
I know I know my pa
I know I know my ma
I know I know my sister
with the 49er bra

I remembered these by heart!

I also remember playing handball and we only played with bus stops and rainbows, and leprechauns was such a cheap move.

Do you remember hand games or other games you played as a kid?

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Old Mar 05, 2014, 09:51 PM
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Hopscotch

Handball against the steps outside

Chinese jump rope (that's what we called it)
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Old Mar 05, 2014, 10:11 PM
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The second one sounds somewhat familiar. I vaguely remember Miss Mary Mack and Down Down Baby from the school bus. I have a stronger memory of Stella Ella Ola from the summers.
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Old Mar 05, 2014, 10:13 PM
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Down by the bay where the bullfrogs jump from bank to bank, something like that
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Old Mar 05, 2014, 10:15 PM
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Miss Mary Mack Mack Mack
All dressed in Black, Black black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back
I asked her mother, mother mother
For a bag of quarters, quarters, quarters
To see the elephant elephant elephant
Jump over the fence, fence, fence,
He jumped so high, high, high
He didn't come back, back, back
Till the 4th of July, ly, ly!

I may have gotten some of those words wrong
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Old Mar 06, 2014, 03:48 PM
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Cat's Cradle (making shapes with the long piece of yarn)

Criss-Cross Applesauce (across someone's back)

And, similar to the Miss Suzy songs, there was one about a Chinese Bakery ("I went to a Chinese Bakery to buy a loaf of bread...)
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Old Mar 06, 2014, 03:51 PM
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Wedgie Wars!

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Old Mar 07, 2014, 06:36 PM
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I assume "rock, paper, scissors" (or whatever it's called) would be a hand game!
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Old Mar 07, 2014, 07:27 PM
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I was 6? Sister a yr older...No idea where we learned this...will have to ask her...I remember it all or properly...spellings dubious. We played it against our kitchen wall I remember.

A catching game it was with a rubber ball. Each toss had a challenge...some self explanatory...you'll get the picture. One just had to complete the thing...that's about it. Tried it a few yrs ago...best left to the rubbery coordination of youth...that whirlabout and catch thing was the hardest back then...I'm outta practice.*grin*

Eenies the clapsies
Twirl about the bapsies
Highs a-teenie
Lows a- teenie
Left hand
Right hand
Touch your toe
and under she goes.

Beginning and ending is right. Was longer too I think...Sis would know...she's my reference for all stuff kid.

We do childhood nostalgia chats often...I'll have to bring up games. Should be fun.

I'm 52 now...this indeed...is as the expression has it...'old school' I'll bet some-one somewhere has brought it out of the cobwebs...likely in an attempt to rouse bored restless grandchildren. *grin*
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