They also played a game of skipping without a rope. Girls played a variety of games with a short skipping rope. Then two girls both holding the ends of the rope took turns in skipping inside the rope and then attempted to skip together after running in separately.
They then showed me how they skip with 2 groups of 3. The girls were skipping with their ropes linked in a row of 6 girls. To bring it to another level, the players instead of standing in one position, moved around in a circle in the opposite direction to the person with the rope.Īnother group of girls played the following game: If the rope hit the legs of a player, that player then takes the place of the person in the centre. The rest of the players jumped over the rope. On reciting 'Bang, Bang' one end of the rope is let go, with the holder (helicopter) bending down and spinning on the spot holding the rope out. She spun the rope around her head, with everyone reciting rhyme. This involved one girl standing, holding a rope, doubled in her hand above her head. The girls were skipping with 2 girls turning the rope and one skipping to the rhyme 'Teddy Bear' as in the traditional rhyme. Group skipping using pole as 2nd person turning the rope.
Skipping was one of the games children play while waiting for the bell. Other children skipped with shorter ropes. One end of the rope was tied around a verandah pole while the other one was turned by the adult, the grandmother of the girl skipping. When the skipper was out, another took his/her place.Ī group of boys were quite competitive in their skipping activities, in trying to outdo each other with a variety of movements eg peppers, crossovers etc.Ĭhildren also played a game called rotating rope, which was deemed by the teachers to be too dangerous. Then as the child skipped in the middle the alphabet was chanted. Rhyme: Ready, Spaghetti, Bolognaise Go was chanted before the actual skipping started. Children were using a long rope for skipping.
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