What were your favorite toys as a ten year old?
Thursday, July 14, 2016
What were your favorite toys in childhood?
What were your favorite toys as a ten year old?
What were your favorite toys as a ten year old?
What were your favorite toys as a ten year old?
Funny you'd include a 'photo of a bike, Patti. I loved mine!
ReplyDeleteSince blue has always been my favorite color, I would have loved 44 blue crayons!
ReplyDeleteFavorite toys at 10? Probably a ball and glove.
Paper dolls! I had a gazillion of them and I'd make up stories for them, put them in family groups, etc. I also loved Spirograph and could go through a ream of paper in no time making all those colorful whirligigs. But my favorite childhood activity, bar none, was reading. I always had my nose in a book.
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Like you and Margot, I was a big bike rider as a kid. Then there was baseball and football played in the street and nearby park. But I had to head for home when the streetlights went on!
ReplyDeleteWe lived on a major street - two lanes of traffic in either direction and the cars went fast. We played punch ball in the alley between our house and the one next door and a frequent activity was chasing the ball when it went in the street and a car hit it and sent it down the way. Or, we could walk a couple of blocks to the elementary school, which had three schoolyards, where we played stickball against the wall.
ReplyDeleteA bike gave me so much freedom. I don't remember my parents even querying where I had been as long as I was home at dusk and dinner.
ReplyDeleteI always thought of a bicycle as a way to get around town not as a toy. When I was a teen I was away from home as often as possible exploring on my bike. I was often late coming home and got in trouble a lot. Problem kid. Didn't like my home life for many, many years. As a child though (up to the age of 14) I was pretty much an indoor kid and I played with anything I could get my hands on. I escaped into my imagination and did a lot of drawing and building things. Toys I remember that kept me occupied: Colorforms, Lego, GI Joes and a variety of board games.
ReplyDeletethe toy I played with most were the local seeds such as acorns, chinaberries, and walnuts. I made armies out of them.
ReplyDeleteNow that is unique!
DeleteAlthough I never thought of a bike and a baseball glove and ball as being toys, they were the first things that came to mind when you said age 10. In the winter time,it would have been skates, a hockey stick and puck. Instead of actual toys, I preferred comic books, big little books, the Hardy Boys, etc. The one toy I do remember was a wooden hockey game where the puck was a ball bearing.
ReplyDeleteWe had a snap-together plastic road set and another snap-together set for trains that my brother and I played with endlessly. The knob hockey game also got a lot of use.
ReplyDeleteColorforms😀
ReplyDeleteMy bike, absolutely. I may have put more miles on that bike than I do now with a car.
ReplyDeleteAlso, a chemistry set and a light-up globe -- turn it on in a dark room and the constellations would be reflected on the ceiling and walls.
We used to make staffs out of wood and have fights a la Robin Hood. It's amazing no one lost an eye.
We had a set of Lionel trains and were always nagging my father to set it up.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a very hilly area, so though I had a bike, most of the time I walked, hiked where I was going, as often into the brushy hills behind our property as anywhere. I loved crayons, and drew often, but what I remember most was just playing with the things at hand, much like Charles: sticks, seed pods, unripe fruit. I mostly climbed trees, built forts under shrubs, stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteThe most time was spent in our swimming pool. By 10 I was swimming competitively, and the pool was both play and workout.
I was ten when the Aurora monster models came out. I spent the summer building and painting Frankenstein, Wolfman and Dracula.
ReplyDeleteI also had a train set, American Flyer, and I would set that up and run it. But it had to be set up and taken down so there was a lot of time spent on that instead of playing with the trains themselves. Thus I often preferred to just go outside and play.
ReplyDeleteJackie wants to know if any non-big city dwellers know what Skelly is.
ReplyDeleteJackie wants to know if any non-big city dwellers know what Skelly is.
ReplyDeleteSkelly, or skully.
ReplyDeleteMarbles, definitely marbles. We played "chase" not the marble ring games...
ReplyDelete(I still have my large candy tin of them.)