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.

Playing out all day with a pack of sandwiches, a bottle of water and a fishing net to catch tiddlers in the local river and woods. We went out about 10 o'clock and came home about 5. We had complete freedom in those days with all of our friends. Boys and girls we all mucked in together making dens and wading in the river, I had a wonderful childhood.

Reading and playing registers which involved making pretend class lists and ticking children in or out of class.
Funnily enough I work in a school now and part of my role is to check registers.
10 year old me would be thrilled.

Also remember making mud pies and pretending an old fallen tree was Enid Blyton faraway tree. Feel quite sad that many kids just play computer games.

I was a big reader, and did a lot of make believe play, either on my own or with my friend Jessica. Favourites were Laura and Mary (Little house) where we turned bunk beds into a covered wagon, Famous Five, Chalet School. I also went through a phase of making a den behind the bookcase and being Anne Frank.

I used to like reading
Playing with dollies
Tracing pictures on tracing paper

Reading anywhere I could find a quiet spot and on good days playing out from morning till evening with all the children from the surrounding streets.
We had a rule that every few hours to come and let mum know where we were and be in before dark so it was endless hours of fun.

Reading
Lego
Playing with my siblings outdoors - just roaming around local woods and fields!
Building dens etc.

Reading. Anything. Books, newspapers, magazines, comics, the back of the cereal packet, whatever I could get my hands on. As a teenager I read the Times & the Guardian every day and was on first-name terms with the librarians in my town.

I wasn’t at all sporty, I thought dolls were completely pointless and I was too squeamish to be interested in anything which might involve getting dirty.

Going crabbing on the harbour in mevagissy whilst on my summer holiday. I would spend hours and hours on end doing it; I did it from a very young age all the way up to a teenager when I usually would have thought such activities were ‘babyish’ but I enjoyed it so much that I did it anyway.

Building a den in the attic and pretending to be cats in said den.

Playing out on the street with the other kids and role play dolls and schools.

Reading...lots and lots of storybooks, comics, novels.

Daydreaming.

Playing with others if I had the energy, time and felt comfortable/very familiar with them.

I read alot. When I didn't have my nose in a book I enjoyed playing with my skipping rope and dollies, marbles/catching tadpoles/other daft things with my brother. I was about 6 when we went abroad and spent almost 18 months in a very rural area for my mother's work. I have some really fond memories of playing with the village kids. We would make pottery, little animals and furniture from the soil/mud. As it was really hot, the mud was quite hard and easy to sculpt with. I also attended the village school (more for the companionship as my mother homeschooled us in the evenings), and I renember using a very traditional slate and chalk as they had no paper and pencils. I'm so grateful to my DM for giving us some amazing experiences.

Training our dogs, I was obsessed from a very young age
Riding and hanging around at the stables, I was very fortunate to have ponies growing up
Reading, pretty much anything but especially animal related books, fiction and non fiction
Watching endless nature documentaries, I had a load of them on VHS which I watched over and over
Playing on the nearby beach and when I was a bit older bodyboarding and surfing with my friends
Birdwatching and making detailed notes and drawings

Reading. I used to sit down in the 12” gap at the side of my bed up against the radiator and read for hours.

I’m still the same now. If I have time alone in the house (DH is one of those people who absolutely must have a radio or TV on at all times) I love to sit in blissful silence with a book!

My little pony

Trampolining, I'd spend hours and hours on it

And colouring books, I'd love to sit quietly and colour

This thread makes it sound like there was no organised team sport at all back in the day! I liked playing netball (my DD does too) as well as reading and roller skating.

Yes, there were organised activities too. I went to swimming club for years, tried Girls Brigade briefly, fenced via school club and played lacrosse for school. Later on did DofE via a youth club and learned to sail via a youth club.

Reading Enid Blyton. Drawing and playing with Lego. Happy days.

Playing on building sites!

Making clothes for paper dolls
Reading comics - Misty, Jinty, Warlord, Tammy, Commando, Beano....loved them all.
Watching TV - didn't care whether it was beigeville Crown Court or Banana Splits.
Sitting in the alley behind our house making 'perfume' out of dandelions and spying on the next door neighbours
Squishing the patch of sticky tarmac on the pavement by our house (It seemed to be there the whole if my childhood)
Packing a suitcase (old briefcase) for an adventure.
Eating banana sandwiches

Climbing trees...in fact climbing anything or if indoors, reading.

Loads of stuff. I liked being outside all the time. Playing football with my friends. Endless hours (several in A&E when we tried to invent the hybrid sport of inline skateboarding) mucking about on inline skates or on our bikes.

Indoors. I hated being cooped up but would be happy with music on and a huge box of Lego.

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Playing on building sites!

Yes, was going to say that, great fun. A new estate was built across the road from my childhood home, my brother and I played in there with loads of kids. Climbing up ladders onto 1st floor beams daring each other to walk them.