Thursday, 18 October 2012

What games did Grandma and Grandad play?

Last week we wrote letters to our grandparents and posted them "the old-fashioned way". We asked them some questions to help us with our historical inquiry about how toys and games have changed since the past.
This week we have been very lucky to have received a number of replies already. We have been very excited to receive our letters and have been extremely interested in the answers to our questions.
 
We have discovered that our grandparents spent a lot of time playing outside. Some of them were children at about the time of World War II or just after this time so their families were quite poor and they didn't have many store-bought toys.

A common thing to play with seems to be the billycart. We think that building a billycart and racing it down a hill sound like a lot of fun but just a bit dangerous.

Travel back in time to 1938 and explore Colum's backyard on the My Place website to have a go at building and racing a billycart.

What games did your grandparents play? What toys did they have?
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13 comments:

  1. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 21:40

    My dad had figures of star wars guys. He watched all of the star wars movies that were out.

    By Edward

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    1. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 21:57

      Hay Edward my dad had star wars figures he watched most of the series

      By Kyan

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  2. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 21:59

    My papa played games.like billy carts and cricket
    By Zac

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  3. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 21:59

    My Grandma played schools with her friends and she plays this with me. By Charlotte

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  4. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 21:59

    My grandparents played snakes and ladders and diablo and made a city with boxes.

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  5. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 21:59

    When my dad's dad was my age he played with a kite, marbles, monopoly, clinkers and his favourite - roller skates. By Joshua

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  6. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 22:00

    My dad said they build toy helicopters out of wire and cans and when you press the button it flys.

    by Hannah

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  7. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 22:01

    I think my grandma and grandpa might of played hopscotch, chines checkers and draughts. from Fumi

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  8. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 22:02

    My grandmother liked to play hopscotch and build cubbies and lots of other games and my grandfather liked to play marbles
    by Sophia

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  9. Mrs Batham's Class18 October 2012 at 22:04

    My grandparents would of played outside with their friends they might of played knock on the doors.


    by Angus

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  10. Lorna24 October 2012 at 21:21

    How exciting you have had so many replies already. I was wondering if any of you play with the same kind of toys, or the same games that your grandparents played.

    Bens Mum

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  11. Unknown5 November 2012 at 02:58

    What a fabulous idea! We just had a day where we pretended it was 1902. We played marbles, London Bridges, Jaxs, horseshoes, and Leap Frog. What are billycarts and clinkers?
    Mrs. Dahl, USA

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    1. Jane7 November 2012 at 15:21

      Hi Mrs Dahl and students from Tadlock Elementary
      Billycarts are like go-karts. They are also called downhill racers because they only work when they go downhill. This is because they don't have an engine or pedals to make them go, they need gravity to make them work.
      Clinkers are chocolate lollies with different colours inside. You have to guess the colour that will be inside before you bite into it.
      From Mrs Batham's class

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