Originally Posted by butterflywing
did you bounce a ball and turn your leg over it while you recited rhymes, like "a my name is alice and my brother's name is al, i come from arizona and we sell apples". every time you came to an 'a' word you turned your leg over the ball. then you went on to the b's and so on. if you missed, you started all over again. whoever got through the alphabet first, won.
We did this, but a bit differently. We bounced the ball against a wall, and we took turns, so when someone missed either a catch or by tripping up on the words, it became the next person's turn. I don't think anyone ever made it through the alphabet.
In our case, the chant was more apt to be, "A my name is Amy and my husband's name is Andy and we come from Alabama and we are astronauts.""