Childhood Story

An outdoor play is in danger of eroding with children spending less time than ever playing on the street
in favour of sitting in front of computers and the TV. Here we felt a pang of sadness. After all, who didn't love running at breakneck speed to escape the one on it or scrambling up the nearest tree for that perfect hiding spot? We decided to list our favourite childhood games - many of which we wish we could still indulge in...

CANKERS

The beauty of this is in simplicity . Choose your conker, thread it, then go forth and conquer (excuse the pum) in the playground.

What could be more satisfying? And its organic too.

 

CHAIN TAG
Like solo tag, but without the isolation anxiety.
Once you get tagged by someone who's "it" you're part of the chain and get to chase everyone else around until there's one left in the corner. Genius, if admittedly a formula for scrapped knees.

  

HIDE AND SEEK

"Ready or not, here I come..."

How is it that those words still leave us with an almost atavistic tendency to dive underneath the nearest desk in paroxysms of fear and delight? A king among childhood games.

CAT'S CRADLE

This tricky game of looping string together in a prescribed way requires precision and lots of patience. Repetitive but somehow addictive, it finds its charm in getting the sequence right - then doing it again and again. We lost hours to this game back when we were young.

RING A' RING O' ROSES

Folklore finds the origins of this rhyme from disease and need to ward it off. Nowadays, it only keeps very small children entertained and the crux of it is the falling down bit, which you do as loudly and boisterously as possible.

PIGGYBACK RACES

No matter how unlikely (given the existence of gravity, and all), we always convinced ourselves that we could easily carry our older brother to the lamppost down the street. And, somehow, we always just about managed it.

by, Aimi