childhood past times revisited

Bryn and Kyler have discovered the Chinese Jump Rope. They have had so much fun playing with it. Usually they will get two kitchen chairs and put the rope around the legs and play for hours. I looked up the rules on line and there are a few different "games" to play, the one that works best for us is: As you play you chant the positions; "In" means both feet inside the rope. "Out" means both feet outside the rope, one on either side. "Side" means you straddle the rope on either side, usually followed by a jump to the opposite side, straddling the other rope. "On" means one foot on top of each side of the rope, pressing them to the ground. Finally "X" means the child takes the rope, crosses it using their legs, so that their legs are inside of an x. Then the child has to jump out and straddle the rope. The most common order is: IN, OUT, SIDE, SIDE, IN, OUT, ON, all the way out to one side and finish with X. We all have had a lot of fun playing!