Some of our favorites that involved all the kids on our block were:
Flashlight Tag -- We'd have up to like 6 yards that would be the territory where you could hide, and have probably 15 kids playing
Tarzan and Jane -- my best friend and I always ended up being the monkey, whose name escapes me...was it Cheetah?
Kickball -- My dad would get in on this and kick the ball not only out of the yard but over the neighbor's house behind us.
Orphanage -- One lucky kid got to be Mr. Meanie, who ran the orphanage.
I had a Skip-It (at least that's what they're called now..not sure what they were called in the '70s). It had a thing that went around your ankle and a lemon on the end of it, you spun it around and jumped over it. Hard to explain, but I loved that thing. I'll still play with my daughter's current version which uses a wheel instead of a lemon.
We also had some kind of ride-on toy that you operated by spinning the big wheels with your hands, and you would go in circles. Again, not a great description....
Carol
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