This thread is bringing back memories
When I was little, we played...
Hopscotch
Command games (Simon Says, Mother May I, Red Light Green Light)
Suicide (we were not allowed to play ball games at school, but we did anyway
)
Rattlesnake
Tag and freeze-tag
Follow the Leader (the leader was invariably the head of the big clique in my class
)
Word games like One Potato, Two Potato (sometimes used to figure out who would be "it" for tag, sometimes played for its own sake)
Now I feel old...