From Kick the Can to Cribby: the street games of Belfast childhoods

While kids still play outside, they don’t do so quite as much as previous generations. Between tablets, streaming services, YouTube, video games and all sorts of gadgets and toys, today’s kids have so many ways of keeping themselves entertained.

Stop-start/command games We had a good couple of games that were about bossing each other about... or watching each other like a hawk. Hiding/chasing games Tip the Can/Kick the Can /whatever other name you know it by was Hide and Seek for elites. The sprint from the hiding spot you hadn’t been discovered in towards the ‘can’ was nothing short of exhilarating.

Ball games Ahh, the amount of fun that could be had with a ball. Penalties, Three and In, Headers, Volleys, Red A**e, Piggy in the Middle … the list goes on. British Bulldog and Red Rover are games that technically don’t require violence, but just often wound up that way. Between the charge from the players in both, the tackling from the bulldogs, and the attempts to separate the hand-holding chain in Red Rover, it’s no wonder schools didn’t want them played on their grounds.

There was also a team game in which every member of one team was given a letter to keep to themselves. The other team’s objective was to hunt out each letter and put them together to spell out a word.

Oh yes and many more.💕

You forgot ping the windie

By cribby you of course mean kerby

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