Thursday, 13 April 2017

K is for Kids' Kingdom


Knocking Knuckles, Kiss-chase,
Knaves and Kings, Kneeling Kangaroo

Kids’ Kingdom on the tarmac playground 


I thought this might be one of my trickier letters in the A-Z but it turned out fine and brought back a whole load of memories of playtimes both of myself as a young child and for my times surveying the school yard as a teacher.  It's not so much an asphalt jungle as a Kids' Kingdom in my mind. What are the playground games you recall?  Any serious mishaps occur on that hard tarmac?
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10 comments:

  1. Click13 April 2017 at 11:30

    I can clearly remember when they painted new designs on our playground at junior school. One of them was a maze design which quickly got co-opted by a gaggle of girls as a house. Different bits of the maze were different rooms.

    I love how imaginative we were to be able to transform these painted lines into something the designers probably never imagined. :-)

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  2. Patricia13 April 2017 at 20:03

    All those K's are games? They sound like fun but not the games we played.

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  3. Ipsita Banerjee13 April 2017 at 23:45

    So many amazing kiddie games come to mind! My favourite was hopscotch, marking the area with chalk was half the fun and we would fight over it!!! :)

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  4. bookworm14 April 2017 at 06:06

    I remember, growing up on the streets of the Bronx - potsy (our name for hopscotch), handball, curbball, stickball, Double Dutch (jumprope with two ropes). The Unknown Journey Ahead agingonthespectrum.blogspot.com

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  5. TheCyborgMom14 April 2017 at 12:17

    We had handball courts at my elementary school...I loved playing handball with those super bouncy blue rubber balls!
    ~Katie
    TheCyborgMom

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  6. Joanne14 April 2017 at 12:39

    Oh yeah. We had a merry go round. Tumble off it and many a skinned knee.

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  7. Sharon Himsl14 April 2017 at 23:55

    Inside on rainy days it was four-square. Outside it was jump rope and the monkey bars.

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  8. Hilary Melton-Butcher15 April 2017 at 01:35

    Hi SENCO - I had mishaps at home - learning to ride a bicycle on the gravel ... but at school lots of grass - I was lucky ... but great remembrances you've given us ... cheers Hilary

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  9. Tonja Drecker17 April 2017 at 07:06

    Kids Kingdom is a new one to me, but we had tons of games too. Great memories!

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  10. Sara C. Snider17 April 2017 at 22:52

    I'm not familiar with any of those games. Tether ball was popular at my school, at least among the girls. And jump rope, and tag. As for mishaps, seems like someone fell off the bars on a regular basis. ;)

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