Toys and Games Articles
posted on 27 December 2010
Growing up in Hawaii has some tremendous advantageous that other children who live in colder climates don’t get to experience. While kids in Europe were stuck indoors playing with their wooden toys and whatnot, we got to play outdoors, year around, in only shorts and (sometimes) T-shirts. As with most locales, we played the traditional sports during the traditional times of year. Football was emphasized from September through January, basketball’s time was from February through May, and baseball was the sport played during the summer months between June through August. Where it got fun was when the football games moved either to the beach or the pool. At the beach or pool, football, typically played 2-hand touch, became all out tackle football. And, sometimes at the beach, we’d switch it from football to beach volleyball, depending on the amount of people we had to play with. However, out of all the sports we played throughout the year, by far and away the most fun I had growing up was playing a game we called “kick the can”. It was our version of tag, chase master, and hide and go seek rolled in to one. We’d play it at night in our townhouse complex. And basically, the person who was out, had to go and find everybody who was hiding. But, instead of tagging them out, if they saw where they were hiding, they had to call the person’s name out, where they were hiding, and run back to base before the other person and kick the can. If they did that, then that person would be out starting the next game. Then, both of those guys would have to find the players, until everyone was caught. |
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