What was your favourite activity to do as a child?

[grannyinapram]

Artsy-
My teacher scribbled on a piece of paper for us to colour in. It was so simple but the whole class went mad for it!

physical-
Having a few kids in a circle lifting up a sheet and trying to run to the other side before it falls.

Reading comic books primarily from the golden era in Belgium i.e. Asterix,Spirou, Lucky Luke, Laurentin et Valerie, together with my friends lying on the floor of the living room while eating candy.

Riding my bike for hours. Going to my local library to get books. Playing on the beach near my house.

Taking turns to bump down the stairs in a sleeping bag . Bonus points if you went head first.

@shivermetimbers77 oh we did that- but in a quilt stuffed with all of our teddies. for protection

Reading Famous Five books on the sofa while eating crumpets, sitting against warm piles of clean washing just out of the tumbledrier ahead of it being ironed, while the fire was on.

Playing out with my friends.

Swimming in the sea from April to October. Rock pooling. Jumping of the pier later on.
Walking the five miles home from primary school rather than catching a bus. We could scrump fruit on the way.
Picking winkles with my grandfather when I was tiny.
Cycling out to the local marshes to collect newts.

Playing pretend out the back garden or out the front. I read a lot and had a million ideas for good games, which I used to rope the other kids around into.

A good one was making mud pies in the back garden - we had to slave away to make them because we’d been imprisoned by an evil giant. The key to escape was to hide ‘poison’ (squashed up daisies) in the mud pie, serve it to the (imaginary) giant and then make good our daring escape - first with a lot of sneaking, then a lot of screaming.

Horse riding or pretending to be in the power rangers

Reading anywhere I could get some peace and quiet, like going to bed early to beat my siblings or staying in the car when everyone else in to the shop.

That’s made me feel a little sad.

Playing outside with my friends fromthe street we lived on, there was loads of us!

Horse riding / being around horses , I’m in my 50s and it’s still up there .

Making perfume with flower petals and water and selling it to the neighbours.
Reading.
Imaginary games with my little pony.
Rollar skates.

Depends on my age. But 2 things I loved:

• in winter, digging holes in snowdrifts. I'd spend hours hollowing out fairy cave bedrooms and connecting them all with tunnels under the snow using a ruler or a bit of stick. We often had deep snowdrifts where I lived.

• in summer, making fairy pools in the stream. I'd dam the stream with rocks and then surround the little pools with grass and flowers (and once, lots of straw that I found inside a ripped pouffe thing someone had left in a field) and leave it nice for the fairies to play in at night.

Reading, I've been an avid reader all my life. Other than reading I used to enjoy writing my own stories. My parents once called the police because I had gone missing. Instead of playing outside with my siblings I snuck back into the house to read and was so engrossed, sitting on the stairs behind a door, I hadn't heard them calling me. Policeman found me when he started a search of the house, dp's hadn't looked because " I would never have come back in unnoticed"

Playing with my baby dolls. I always had them with me, even if I was doing another activity I would always be aware I was taking care of them. I also loved reading and playing with playdough and cutters.

Playing with my Speak&Spell and my Sindy house.

I would play football for hours and hours. Loved playing in the woods and stream. Use to try and catch fish with bits of ham..

Used to love reading, Cross stitch pboard games, mega drive

Reading

When I was little making mud pies. When I was a bit older my sister and I evolved this into making a bakery of bread types with sand and water on the beach.

Playing with the bonfire

Making running courses and obstacle courses round my garden

Playing libraries indoors.

Reading. Never grew out of it.

My reception teacher taught us ‘scribble pictures’ too OP although we had to scribble them ourselves! DS likes them now too.

For me:
Jumping down the stairs (4 or 5 steps high with pillows at the bottom)
Dancing on the bed with my sister to old disco CD
Playing with the guinea pigs

God I hope my kids remember more of their childhood than I do mine 😄

Reading, writing, and riding.

I still love to read and write, but I haven’t ridden in years. Lately I’ve been thinking that I should take it up again when circumstances permit. There is a riding stable nearby.

Reading and reading and reading.

Reading, ballet, playing with Sindy and Barbie, putting on concerts with my friends in the back garden. Stopped doing the last two things when I was about 12. I've carried through the reading into adulthood.