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Making Mud Pies

August 16, 2018September 10, 2019 Appalachia, children, Games

One of my favorite things to play when I was a girl was mud pies. I found mixing dirt and…

August 14, 2018September 12, 2019 Games

johnny walkers noun Makeshift stilts used by children. Same as tommy walkers. 1968 DARE = child’s stilts (Brasstown NC). 1997…

August 10, 2018August 22, 2018 Appalachia, children, Games

Did you ever use the counting potatoes method for picking who was ‘it’ in a game? As kids we used…

August 9, 2018September 16, 2019 Appalachia, children, Games

Today’s guest post was written by Ron Stephens. I remember playing hide-and-go-seek under Grandma’s yard light. The pole was ‘base’…

August 8, 2018November 3, 2019 Games

Today’s guest post was written by Dana Wall. Hide and Seek is an old childhood game, its rules passed down…

August 7, 2018September 16, 2019 Appalachia, children, Games

Hide n seek was a game I greatly enjoyed as a child. I never heard the game called anything other…

August 4, 2018August 20, 2018 Appalachia, Folklore, Games

Chatter and Chitter Summertime always makes me think back to being a kid. I remember summer vacation from school seemed…

April 28, 2018April 27, 2018 Appalachia, Games

“My grandma taught me how to fight roosters with violets when I was just a little girl. I was always…

March 23, 2018April 11, 2019 Appalachia, Games

Totin Over The Mark is one of the oldest games known to mankind. You may wonder how I can make…

September 1, 2017October 3, 2019 Games

I learned to skip rocks at an early age. There was a pond just below Pap and Granny’s house, I…

August 18, 2017August 29, 2019 Games

Did you ever play with a button on a string? My mamaw made one for me when I was just…

February 23, 2017February 26, 2019 Appalachia, Games

According to the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, the game Blind Man’s Bluff is as old as…