Child's Game: Elastics

Subject: RE: BS: Elastics
From: Jeanie
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 03:05 PM

Yes ! This is obviously a day for reminiscing (see TV series thread). This game is still being played. The rhyme I remember and also currently chanted in the Essex area is: "England - Ireland - Scotland - Wales; Outside - Inside - ON !" You have to loop the elastic around your ankles and cross right foot over left, then left foot over right, then release the elastic and jump outside the lines, then inside the lines, then on top of them.

A good book with all kinds of playground games, rhymes etc. is by a couple named Opie.

Subject: RE: BS: Elastics
From: Hollowfox
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 02:48 PM

I've seen something similar sold in the USA as a "Chinese Jumprope", where a large cloth covered elastic loop is stretched out by two players for a third to jump over (I think). This may be a distant cousin, more than the same thing. Good luck with your project.

Subject: Elastics
From: selby
Date: 24 Apr 02 - 02:34 PM

I don't know if this was a UK thing or a world thing, can anyone remember playing elastics. Where loads of elastic bands where joined together to make a loop and then 2 people stood with them round their ankles whilst the 3rd jumped in and out. What where the rhymes that went with it? and what where the moves that where done? This is a serious bit of research for a teacher. Keith