A Little Girl Playing
Peever
Mary is 53 years old and tells
us about a game played when aged 10. My school break times: I used to play
skipping ropes or peever in the school playground. My favourite school
playground game: My favourite playground game was Peever.
How to play: The first thing
you have to do is draw squares on the ground using chalk. This makes what
we call a bed. The squares have numbers on them. The Peever (an old tin
or a flat stone) is pushed around the bed with your foot. You push the
peever into square number one, then two and so on. You have to hop around
the bed without touching a line and always avoiding the square with the
peever. The winner of the game is the person who reaches the highest numbered
square without touching a line. To play peever you need chalk to draw the
beds and an old flat tin filled with dirt for the peever.
Special game location, surface
or design: A good surface to play on is a flat pavement. There is no special
language or rhymes involved in peever. (William Crainey)
Holy Cross
Primary School, Croy, Glasgow, Scotland
Teacher: Mrs. Fitzgerald
By way of Marie Leucci
<[email protected]>
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