Favorite activities as a child

[tweetykiss]

What were your favorite activities as a child?

Mine was mostly playing baseball (yes I stole bases like Jermaine Dye does) and playing Marco Polo but funny I am no longer athletic

I also loved camping, taking nature photos (still do that) and journaling (I now have blogs but haven't updated in a while).  Then off course TV was also a big thing for me and I still do that.

[tamara]

I had a cubby house, with a kids oven, fridge, a phone that went from my cubby to mum in the kitchen. Loved that cubby. When my Dad was building it for me for Christmas, he told me it was for our dog. Now our dog was little, and the cubby even had windows on it and curtains but I still had no idea. I loved going to ballet with all my friends, loved riding my trike.

[kitkatz]

My sister and I read every book on horses there was as well as adventure stories. We would take ourselves outside and recreate our own horse ranches and horses and pretend to ride for hours. We would make up our own adventures and act them out with pretend horse and dogs and whatever we thought we needed. We lived outside of Escondido two miles back on a dirt road so we had lots of room to roam.  It was a blast.

[del]

I always loved to read and play with my friends.  I had a cubby house too but not as elaborate.  Always liked playing with cars and trucks more than dolls!!

[Ken Shelmerdine]

Playing football (soccer) I was always to be found kicking a ball around either in my local park or playing for my school team. This eventually got in the way of my piano tuition because as I was practising for grade 5, I needed to do about 2 hours practice per day. There developed endless rows with my mum and Dad for paying too much attention to football and not making time to practise. In the end football won! At about age 14 all this became irrelevent as I'd suddenly discovered that girls wern't really the pain in the arse that I once thought they were! That and also the fact that I got my first guitar.

[Chicken Little]

I am part fish, as is my family and hubby.  We swam and dove competitively.  We learned scuba, snorkeling & surfing before most kids can ride a bike.  We also did white water rafting & water skiing.  If there was water, we were in it.

[okarol]

Summers were spent outside - my mom's mantra "GO OUTSIDE!!" is fresh in my mind. We rode bikes and skateboards everywhere. The park pool was the only place to stay cool in those HOT summer days in the San Fernando Valley. I also have great memories of rolling down grassy hills or sliding down on cardboard. Boysenberry bushes filled a whole wall on the back of our yard and I would go each morning to pick some for my corn flakes.

[kitkatz]

As a teenager I spent hours on my ten speed riding around Missionary Ridge in Tennessee and down into Georgia. I must have ridden miles and miles all over the ridge area.

[tubes]

playing kickball was my favorite in summer.  did alot of rollerblading, raced alot to see who was the fastest kid in the neighborhood.  went swimming alot, we played "shark" at the pool.  it was some game we made.  winter we went sledding and snowball fights and built forts.  i also played barbies with my sisters. well heck, i was the only boy with 2 younger sisters.  we would take my rc car and hook the camper to it and i would drive them around.  sometimes i would take a male barbie and be "Jason" and kill the other barbies when they went camping.  Oh the memories.......   we also went down in the creek by the golf course and collected all the golf balls that were hit down there.  i had a huge collection of golf balls. 

[okarol]

Ohh I just remembered the comic books!! My mom worked for a couple of families that had boys. She would bring home their old comic books and I would read them all. My favorites were Spiderman and Superman.

LOL Tubes, made me laff with Jason killing the Barbies hehehehe! 

[Bette]

I loved my Barbie's.  My best friend and I would have dramas with our Barbie's that lasted weeks.  My parents would never buy me a ken doll so I would steal my brothers GI Joe so that Barbie would have some romance .   I also read a lot of little house on the prairie books.  I was a little kid in the city that wanted to be on a wagon train.  I still watch the TV show!

[keefer51]

When i was a kid i lived in Philadelphia. I loved playing stick ball and hand ball. I was in the boys club so i would go and play basketball. We would all go campiing in the summer and i got a archer award and best camper award. I think i got the best camper because i built the fires. When we moved to the suburbs There weren't as many things. I started working at twelve on a paper route. By the time i was fourteen i was working at a fruit stand. At this point i started to have a interest in girls. Maybe that is when my problems started!

[jbeany]

Our house was kid central for the whole neighborhood.  My mom was the only one who didn't care if we were loud or messy, so the family room was constantly filled with all the kids who lived nearby, and the board games were always out.  I loved to bake, so we were frequently in the kitchen mixing up another batch of something - cookies, fudge, homemade pizza. . .   Our house was on the top of the ridge that ran along the lakeshore.  Any noise at our house tended to echo down the ridge line, so anytime I wanted company, all I had to do was go outside and start bouncing the basketball on the drive.  Someone almost always showed up to play.  We played basketball, "freeze frame" frizbee tag, and spent too many dizzying hours on the saucer swing that my dad built for us at the edge of the ridge - swing out and you were hovering over a 3 story drop to the road below.  All the other kids my age in the neighborhood were boys, so if I wanted to play with my dollhouse or do anything "girly" (besides bake, that is!) I had to play by myself.

When I was by myself, I read a lot, and did a lot of sewing and crafts.  That hasn't changed much as I got older!  My mom didn't let us watch tv except for a couple of hours on Saturday morning, so we had to find other things to do.

[skyedogrocks]

My Mom also made us go outside when it was nice, we hardly ever watched tv.  I guess that is why so many of us kids were skinny!!!  All the kids in my neighborhood and my brothers & sisters used to play Hide and Seek a lot in the summer, it was the thing to do.  I also rode my bike, roller skated and played Up Against (any east coasters remember this?).  I have tons of scars to go along with those days 

I also used to love Little House on the Prarie!  My favorite toys were my Holly Hobby and Strawberry Shortcake dolls.  I shared a room with my sister who is 8 years older, so half of it was decorated with Holly Hobby and the other was covered in Disco stuff .

As I got older my parents put an above ground pool in, so our house was where all the kids started hanging out in.  However, the pool was covered by a few trees, so it was always cold in there!

[LightLizard]

i'm a frisbiterian. we believe that when you die, your soul goes up on the garage roof and you can't get it down. life is a series of parabolic arcs and circles, really, so the frisbee reminds us of that as we throw and catch it, again and again. we used to go out at night, onto the street, under the streetlights, and throw the frisbee from light-patch to light-patch.
sometimes, we would play a game. we would close our eyes as our partner threw the frisbee from a fair distance away, aiming for our head. then, the thrower would shout 'now'! and we would open our eyes to try to catch the frisbee before it smacked us in the face.

hmmm. maybe that's what happened to me....

[MyssAnne]

Man. That brings back fond memories. I had two younger sisters and two older brothers and one older sister. We three youngest hung out together, caused a lot of ruckus in our neighborhood! We had a lot of fun, riding our bikes, playing in the field across the street, playing in our front yard, playing in the alleys, that was a lot of fun, there were TREASURES to be found!!!!