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By metropolitanmama | June 5, 2008
For those of you who don’t know, I grew up in a big family: four sisters, one brother, and me. Six kids in all.
I have many happy memories from my childhood: bunkbeds and jumproping, pizza nights and afternoon movies on Sunday, soccer games and bikerides.
We were an imaginative bunch. Because we didn’t have a TV until I was about 8 and because our income was stretched (six kids, remember…), we were “forced” to be very creative and we “made up” games all of the time. These three were among our favorites…
ORPHANS: Looking back, this game is a bit depressing, but my sisters and I absolutely loved it. Inspired by the Orphan Train Adventures series (one of my favorite book series as a tween), The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (probably one of my all-time favorite books from my childhood- especially the audio version), and Oliver Twist, we had a rather odd fascination with orphans and orphanages. Our game consisted of the same basic plot almost every time: our parents die (morbid, I know, but I assure you that we loved our parents very much and didn’t want them to die in real life), we are left in a frightening orphanage without food and water under the direction of an evil headmistress, we escape by train and then encounter various adventures along the way.
SUPERHEROES: I mostly played this with my brother, but my sisters sometimes joined in too. Essentially, we’d attach towels around our necks using rubber bands, carry Cheerios around as “power food,” and save the world.
CLUBHOUSE/SPIES: We usually created a secret clubhouse (it was always secret - clubhouses can’t be public, you know) either in our closet or out of a huge cardboard box. My brother was never allowed in the club (oh, the trials of having five sisters and being the only boy!) and our activities consisted of spying (usually on my brother), writing and delivering secret messages, and creating various spy devices. Oh, and we solved mysteries…lots of mysteries.
Nestle Crunch is doing a big promotion right now called the “For the Kid In You” that is all about inspiring people to remember and enjoy the wonders and delights of childhood.
Right now, you can play lots of online games inspired by childhood favorites (bowling, puzzles, water balloon fights, etc.) on the Nestle website or you can play the Nestle Crunch “Hit it To Win It” Instant game for your chance to win one of 10,000 Crunch bars or 2,500 small toys. Smash that pinata before July 31. You can only play once.
You can also enter to win something really cool right here at Metropolitan Mama - a Nintendo Wii!!! Here’s how: just list YOUR three favorite games/pasttimes from childhood in the “comments” section. As usual, “unimaginative” entries will be disqualified (”enter me,” “so cool,” “love it,” etc).
P.S. If you prefer to blog about your three favorites, feel free to do so and just leave the URL as your comment. I’d love to read your post!
WIN IT! There will be two winners. The Grand Prize winner will receive a Nintendo Wii. The First Place Winner will receive a pinata full of Nestle Crunch candy bars. To enter, leave a comment on this post prior to Friday, June 13 at midnight (don’t forget to follow the rules). * Winner must provide a U.S. mailing address.
*UPDATE* The winner of the Nintendo Wii is #552 Sharon Jones and the winner of the pinata full of Nestle Crunch candy bars is #748 Amy G. Congratulations!
June 5th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I loved to play the game “Racko”, you had to line your cards up in numerical order. I remember sitting around the table with my older brother and parents playing that one. Then when I was a little older we got “Intellivision”, one of the first home video game systems. I remember the game “Burger Time”, and “Frogger”. Those were my favorites. My favorite pastime was on Saturday evenings during the summer, we would all pile in the car and take a drive. I’d roll down the window and smell the country air. Quite often we’d end up at Jimmy Cone for an icecream cone! So fun! Thanks for making me sit back and reminisce! Also, great offer - we’ve been wanting a Wii, here’s hoping we win! Thanks for offering this!
~Tanya
the4moyers(at)msn(dot)com
June 6th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Let’s see . . . my favorite game to play in school was Heads Up 7-Up, at home it was Red Rover Red Rover, and I loved to read until late at night!
Thank you for this great giveaway!
June 6th, 2008 at 2:52 am
me? I pretended to be harriet the spy a LOT.
can you tell I always had my nose in a book?!
happy weekend!
June 6th, 2008 at 3:12 am
I loved loved loved to play jump rope with my little girl friends during recess…we knew so many jump rope jingles…I’m not sure if I can remember them all now, though.
dbstout[at]juno[dot]com
June 6th, 2008 at 3:38 am
In third game I would rush home every day after school to play Atari Pac-man with my mom. When I was a little older my sister and I ran a jump rope across our porch to make a tennis court. It was a really small but we tried to make do. We played all summer long. And I’ve always loved to play the “dot game.” The one where you have to connect the dots to capture more squares then your opponent. Now my kids love to play. It is a great game to play while waiting for food at a restaurant.
June 6th, 2008 at 3:58 am
I loved playing Freeze Tag, Red Rover, and Manhunt. cdziuba@aol.com
June 6th, 2008 at 4:05 am
I was not allowed to play or have video games growing up, so I pretended I was a zoo keeper in my backyard. I would go outside and pretend to feed the zebras and camels. I also always desperately wanted a different mother (one, who of course, let me have a nintendo, among other things) so I would pretend I was Elizabeth Taylor’s long lost daughter. When all of my imagination games grew tiredsome, I played geosafari (my mothers idea of a good substitution of nintendo-but that didn’t have any of the mario bros. games) So, although I was made fun of for not having video games, I was able to list all of the state flowers and birds….not exactly the best way to make friends in middle school! But, I have a great imagination, so it couldn’t have all been bad!
June 6th, 2008 at 4:29 am
I grew up in a different time when playing who could kick their shoe the furthest. We were easily entertained.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:30 am
I loved to play pick-up sticks when I was very young. I then loved to listen to my plastic 45 records on my little childhood record player. My favorite pastime as a child was reading. I would read a book almost everyday that I got from the library. thank you
June 6th, 2008 at 4:35 am
My childhood favorites were Hi Ho Cherry-o, Sorry and Trouble.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:37 am
We used to play school all the time, also had a clearing in the woods that we would play in and climb trees. I think my favorite pastime of all was reading. I would go to the thrift store and just buy all kinds of books. I liked to lie in bed on summer nights eating frozen blueberries and reading my books until way late.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:41 am
My three favorite games/pasttimes as a child were playing nurse, garbage woman, and judge. Ironically, my “career games” always involved me doind something not so nice to a loved one. Nurse involved me writing all over my grandpa’s arms with a ballpoint pen, garbage woman involved attempting to take the garbage out and spilling it along the way, and judge involved sentencing my older brother to spankings. Lets just say, I’m much nicer now!
June 6th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Duck, duck, goose was a favorite. Hide and seek was always a good one and junping rope was fun. These are not hardly seen today because kids want to be inside. Playing on the swing set was always nice too. That’s why I like the concept of Wii, it gets the kids moving.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:43 am
My favorite childhood games were “Kick the Can”. The best time to play it was when it was getting dark out because it made it more scary. I also remember the shows we used to put on in my garage. We would sing and dance and invite all the neighborhood kids to watch. And who forget the card games like WAR, Fish and Crazy Eights.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:51 am
i loved playing uno,red rover and duck duck goose-wow that feels like ages ago. now my children play those games.
annjsav at gmail dot com
June 6th, 2008 at 4:57 am
Ive never played a Wii, but I’ve heard that it’s a lot of fun and hope to play soon. I heard it’s quite the workout and the whole family can get involved.
June 6th, 2008 at 4:58 am
My 3 favorite board games were Life, Uncle Wiggly and Monopoly. I spent most of my time outside biking and or inside reading.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:03 am
Well, here is the moment of truth. They actually had no computer games when I was a wee lassie. I spent countless hours gazing at the sky, playing board games(I loved and still do love Scrabble), reading everything I could find and smashing (yes, smashing) Barbie dolls.
My son loves all the game consoles and is an elitist in such; word has it that the Wii is simply the cat’s meow. Alas, he does not own but has played at friends homes.
Thanks again for another incredible giveaway and the chance, be it everso small….
June 6th, 2008 at 5:13 am
I loved being outside,riding bikes, playing with the other girls on the street in our “super girls” clubhouse. In my younger years I was a bit of a tom boy and preferred trucks in the mud, I eventually graduated to the Barbie phase. We didn’t have video games and rarely watched t.v. Life was good.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:16 am
I feel sorry for the kids of today. They are missing out on imaginative play and physical activity because of computer games and cable. On Saturdays, my friends and I would spend the entire day outside, weather permitting, riding bikes, roller skating, forming all girl bands (with pink guitars!), making wagons out of wood and bicycle wheels, playing hopscotch, hide and go seek and the list goes on. Oh, Barbies, too! Ahhh, wish I was a kid again!
June 6th, 2008 at 5:22 am
I love playing school with my sister and our dolls. I also used to go hunting for frogs with my brother. My brother and I also pretended we were hunting through the jungle in the long grass in our back yard. When our cat would get outside and walk through the grass we pretended she was a cheetah. I also rode my bike a lot. A lot of my childhood was spent outside. (We already have a Wii, but if I win I am going to surprise my husbands grandparents with it because they enjoyed it last time we visited them and were talking about getting one.
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June 6th, 2008 at 5:22 am
We taught my son Duck Duck Gray Duck the other night and I forgot how much I LOVED that game. We would play it on rainy days for recess or in preschool. It was always a lot of fun!
June 6th, 2008 at 5:23 am
I remember playing connect 4 and operation. We also played outside - a lot. I remember once after a rain, the neighborhood kids tromped through puddles in search of the rainbow’s end.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:25 am
I always had my nose in a book, still do, but I gained ownership to most of the original Nancy Drew books, so I spent a lot of time finding “secret passageways” in and around my grandparent’s house. I also was in love with Mario and Duck hunt.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:27 am
hopscotch, hide and seek, and jump rope.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:29 am
I liked to play freeze tag. Most of the time was spent outdoors. Rare to see kids outdoors these days. I liked to play cards and I like that game Life.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:30 am
I have to say Atari’s Pac-Man was the best.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:31 am
When I was growing up I had A LOT of Fisher Price Little People (the old wooden ones). I had every set they had and I had a TON of Weebles and other wooden toys like a zoo complete with animals. My cousin Cindy and I used to put out all the sets on the playroom floor and set up “Disney Land”. The FP Castle was of course the Disney Castle. The FP circus train acted as a Monorail. I had the Holiday Inn (Not FP… forgot who made it) which was the hotel the “guests” stayed at. The entire playroom was covered in the play sets and my cousin and I would pretend to be families going to Disneyland. As per my mom my cousin and I would play for HOURS and HOURS and HOURS and the playroom would be set up like that for almost the entire summer. To this day I still have almost all my FP sets from my childhood (although most of the Weebles have diappeared).
Another fun thing my cousins and I would love to do is play hide and go seek in the dark. Where I lived my home was next to my uncles home which was next to my grandfather’s home. So we had A LOT of places to hide. Even our neighbors would let us hide at their place. All my cousins would get involved and hide and we would all have flashlights too. We would “tease” the person looking for us by flickering the flash lights to get their attention and then running away and hiding someplace else when they got close. This would go on for hours and we really did “catch” each other. I think it was just more fun running around hiding and seeing who else you would come across. Who needs toys when you have lots of open land and great cousins! LOL!
Of course we liked things like Barbie, GI Joe, bikes, making club houses/forts and things like that. One of my favorite games was “Don’t Spill the Beans”. I don’t know if it was us or the game came that way but we used real dried beans for the game. We played it so much that my mom would have to replace the beans because they would get lost. I remember the one side of it broke and we taped and glued it and it would never stay on the way it was suppose to. We didn’t want to toss it out but we finally had to let go of it. I miss that game!!!!
I know you said just three things but I have so many fond memories. Going to drive in movie theaters was a blast too! We love to set out blankets in the spot next to the car and hang out and enjoy the movie (my cousins and I).
Thanks for this GREAT prize opportunity!!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 5:34 am
My sisters and I had a Chinese play cooking set….that really cooked! We’d sneak food from the kitchen and take it all outside to make our concoctions….mostly burnt, then dare each other to eat it.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:38 am
We lived in the country with no neighbors nearby. My brother and I would play “over Annie”, make mudpies, and swing.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:41 am
OK. . . I grew up on a farm in ND. Not a whole lot of urban entertainment! We spent hours pretending “Little House on the Prairie” using our playhouse and a Coaster wagon retrofitted into a covered wagon. Also loved to use an inflated tractor innertube as our trampoline. Chinese checkers and card games with grandparents kept us entertained when not outside. . .MKW
June 6th, 2008 at 5:42 am
I use to love to ride bikes when I was a kid. All my girlfriends use to come over to my house and we would make believe that we were married to one of the “Monkees” from tv and had our baby dolls as our family. I also had a Flintstone doll set with a cardboard house that I loved.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Ok I LOVED 4 square! Remember that game!?
Loved red rover, freeze tag and marco polo in the condo community swimming pool.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Growing up we loved to play grocery store, SPUD out in the backyard, and have “Treasure Hunt Suppers” as a family….good times. =)
June 6th, 2008 at 5:53 am
We ALWAYS had a fort. Also fun was UNO, Rummikub, and riding bikes.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:58 am
My three favorite childhood games were marbles, hopscotch and kick the can. Notice they were all outside games because there were so many kids my folks were always kicking us outside! We had no shortage of playmates or lack of imagination in making something fun with each other. Summers seemed to last forever and the evenings were our favorite time to play.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:59 am
The Olympics, soap opera scripts (I think coming up with names was my favorite part), and making our own concrete.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:59 am
I loved playing with a toy that you put on your ankle and jumped over- like an ankle hula hoop with a lemon on the end. I enjoyed playing Marco Polo in the lake and swim races. For games, I liked Racko, Life and Which Witch. I also liked paper dolls and barbies.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:06 am
My many cousins and I loved putting on “plays”. We had a few plays we would act out constantly. We also played a lot of kick the can and foursquare. My sister and I were also big fans of the cabbage patch kids and Barbies. We would come up with intricate plots that seemed like mini soap operas and spend hours acting them out with our dolls. It never took much for us together…
June 6th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Wow, you’re taking me back. Let’s see, my top three pastimes growing up were playing “emergency” (does anyone remember that show? I’m probably dating myself), reading (mostly Little House on the Prairie and Nancy Drew), and picking on my brothers. Oh wait. That last one probably doesn’t count. Taking long bike rides. Remember when it was actually safe to ride your bike all over town with no parental supervision? Those were the days!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:08 am
My sisters and I grew up out in the country at least 10 miles from our nearest friends so we had to entertain ourselves a lot (also our mom didn’t allow us to watch television). We played a lot of cards and board games, mostly canasta and parcheesi. Reading was also a big part a huge part of our lives (The Wolves of Willoughby Chase was one of my favorites as well). And of course since we were in the country we played outside in the woods behind our house.
Thanks for the giveaway.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:09 am
I had many cousins living close by and we were always outside playing with dirt and leaves and twigs etc. I still remember making play food with crushed up grass and wild flowers. We used to act like we were mountain climbing to find all these exotic herbs with self healing powers. So much fun!:)
June 6th, 2008 at 6:10 am
First and foremost was always to be reading.
But I also loved to play bumper pool and croquet.
Anyone remember those oh so safe “yard jarts”.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:10 am
I don’t remember playing with that many toys or games as a child. Instead I opted to explore the back yard in excessive detail. I would turn over every rock, inspect every flower and draw every living thing I saw so that I could ID them. I also recall loving to make forts in the garden out of the lilacs and paint in the snow with food coloring in the winter.
(ps: would LOVE to win a wii, but not so much the candy as we don’t eat animal products)
June 6th, 2008 at 6:21 am
We played outside every evening during good weather. we loved to play volleyball, ride our bikes and play with our farm animals. We loved to have our friends over and go fishing in our big pond. We were always very active. So a Wii with the Wii Fit would be perfect to get us back into shape!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:22 am
We had a neighborhood full of kids and so my favorite childhood activities were all games played in someone’s yard or driveway: makeshift baseball, 4-square, and plain and simple Tag.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:26 am
We loved to play 1)_heads up/7up in school where you would put your head down on your desk and thumb up and guess who pressed your thumb down.
2)Kickball with the neighborhood kids and
3)flashlight tag at night with the neighborhood.
So much fun!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:32 am
We were a huge game playing family growing up! My fondest memories of games are:
1-Every christmas my dad would get a family game of some sort, we’d spend most of the day playing it!
2- Playing video games with my brother and dad. Games like Zork, Kings Quest were the best!
3- Working at a board game store and getting to demonstrate games to customers. Ones like Taboo, Set, Quarto were my favorite.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:33 am
My three favorite games as a young child were marbles, hide-and-seek, and jumping rope. Very inexpensive to play, but also very entertaining!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:33 am
We are a card and board game family!! When I was little I remember playing lots of pick up sticks, memory and candy land! I loved four square in school and flashlight tag!! We camped a lot so we had to play games for outdoors too! Great giveaway! I hope I win!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:35 am
Three favorite games I remember loving to play when I was a kid were: kickball (the whole neighborhood would play), hide-and-seek, and tether ball. We had a tether ball pole in our backyard.
Thanks for the chance to win!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:37 am
My sister and I were the only kids around so we played together all the time. Does chasing each other around with knives count as a “fun” activity? Our favorites were playing dress-up, UNO, and hide-and-seek.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:39 am
Growing up we kids spent our summers outside even late at night playing volleball,rollerskating,hide and seek,making dresses for barbies,drawing with chalk(hopscotch was our favorite)
June 6th, 2008 at 6:43 am
What a wonderful giveaway. The whole family would be thrilled if we won. Three games that I enjoyed as a child are playing with sidewalk chalk (I even love playing with it now with my kids), playing dress up and playing with my dolls and dressing them up. I’d spend hours and hours playing with my dolls. Thank you again so much for this very generous giveaway.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:46 am
I spent a whole lot of time reading. Then we often played school (with my 5 younger siblings). And we played a lot of board games and card games. Video games weren’t allowed, which makes the Wii all that more alluring!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:46 am
This brings back so many memories. My brother and I are less than a year apart and we were left alone a lot because both our parents worked. This was in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Our three favorite games were 1) Kick the Can 2) Hide & Seek and 3) Old Maid.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:49 am
My three favorite childhood games were dodgeball, musical chairs and pin the tail on the donkey! I am pretty sure my mom still has the original parts to that donkey game, may have to ask her for it!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Our all time favorite game to play growing up was flashlight tag! We had a huge rec room upstairs with no windows so we just grabbed flashlights and would hide. Hours of enjoyment! The other two favorites was the card game Nerts (like solitaire with tons of people) and the classic Sardines game (where you hide and people hide with you until “it” finds you).
June 6th, 2008 at 7:00 am
We played Hid and Seek, Simon Says and Tag until we were called home for dinner.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:01 am
Of all the games we played as a kid, I loved monopoly, checkers, dodge ball and volley ball. If I won the nintendo wii there are so many games that get you up and moving, I would be thrilled to win one Thanks
June 6th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Reading Nancy Drew Books, playing hide and seek, and the “torture my younger brother” game!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I loved Connect Four (and still remember the commercial vividly… “Here - diagonally!”). I also enjoyed playing with Stomper 4X4s and making obstacle courses for them. But my biggest source of entertaining was reading - is it any wonder I’m a school librarian?
June 6th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Hey, we had a similar game to your “orphanage”, only ours involved a rather sadistic headmistress and a torture closet. Don’t ask. We also played a game where we were parapelegics and had to lie in our tent that we made, and drag ourselves around to do things and sew things to sell for a living. I think we had a flair for the melodramatic, huh? Lest this all sound too depressing
we also had a rather wild game called Jail (ok that sounds bad too but it’s not!) which was a version of tag; we had a “key” hanging on the far wall and if you got tagged and were in “jail” (the alcove under the basement steps), someone had to get the key and get it to you without being tagged to free you. Sounds boring in writing, but it induced a lot of hilarity, especially when “it” cornered someone behind the pool table! Oh, and we used to play house on the beach and actually managed to start a fire with a magnifying glass once! :-/ We also “cooked” beans from beach plants in the sun in a plastic container and offered them to my uncle and he actually ATE one - we were horrified! (As it turns out I learned later in college that the plants were indeed edible. I wonder if he knew that or if he was just being a guy?)
June 6th, 2008 at 7:04 am
My alltime favorite pasttimes included jumping on my older brother at the most unexpected moments, playing jumprope with friends, and watching my cat run around the house like a maniac.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:09 am
Hanging out with my sister’s dog when she had her 12 puppies! Going to the beach with my family and going to the nearby park (Nottingham Park in PA), and taking hikes on those long trails they had there. You could get lost very easily. Sometimes it was scary, but it was still a lot of fun!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:16 am
My three favorite would be hard to pick. I was one of five so our house was the gravity center of the neighborhood and there was always something going on. Hide-n-seek, chase, kickball, jumprope, hopscotch and anything else we could think of or dream up. During the summer we would take all our old broken crayons and try to find ways to melt them in the sun. We even once tried to fry eggs on the sidewalk (some adult said it was hot enough too). lol. There we no video games or computers yet. Daytime tv consisted of soap operas and game shows. We just enjoyed being outside playing with our friends.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Back in the early 70’s, I recall a gallon of gas costing 25 cents a gallon. Sunny Sunday afternoons were our admission to fun. My family would jump in the car and take a drive. A destination was the least of our concern. What did matter, however, were the games we played during our driving adventure.
Windows were rolled down, allowing clear view of road side signs. Round one of our games was about to begin. The first one to spot a vegetable/fruit stand won first prize. Their award was the honor of selecting the eating establishment where we would dine. Round two consisted of finding a certain license plate from a surrounding state. Our third game on our exciting activity road trip topped the charts.
As children, we were taught the value of giving. It was not an option. Generosity flowed from our veins. It was an essential part of our life. With that, we made it part of the game. A freshly prepared meal was stored in our trunk. Our final activity was to find a pay phone. Back then, pay phones usually had a phone book attached to the telephone booth. We would open the phone directory to a random page and select a name and address.
You guessed it; we would deliver the meal to the family we selected from the phone book. Now part of the pastime was to give without being acknowledged. Either my brother or I would have the honor of placing the meal on the front porch, ring the bell, and then run like crazy back to the hidden car. The selected family would find a nice Sunday meal inside the bag with a simple note saying Enjoy and God Loves You.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:24 am
My three favorite pasttimes: playing touch football with the other kids in my old neighborhood, jumping rope with my two best friends and (strange as it may seem) acting out the Phantom of the Opera with my two best friends. I had a music teacher play my class Phantom of the Opera in elementary school and I loved it so much I got the original cast recording. My friends and I would hang out in one of our backyards acting out the different parts.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:26 am
TAG-we used to play all day and only came home when the fireflies came out. Reading and just hanging around with my friends (walking to the beach and slathering ourselves with baby oil-those were the days).
June 6th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Ok so this might cause a ruckus but my most favorite pasttime with my girlfriends was playing the ouija board. It was harmless fun. Secondly my best friend and I would play mad libs non stop. Last but not least was my brother and I gathering every couch cushion, blanket, pillow etc in the house and piling them up to jump on top of from the couch. Crazy but fun on a Saturday morning!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Making mud pies, riding a gocart and sled riding when there was enough snow!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:31 am
I laughed out loud a couple of times reading this post because it reminded me of similar things that my sisters and I did when we were young. An “orphan” themed book (or series of books, rather) that we would often base our play on the plot was “The Boxcar Children”.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:32 am
I loved playing Star Trek in the neighbors horse trailer. We pretended it was our ship and that we had laser guns. And another neighbor had a huge barn and an even bigger garden with trees that made covered paths up and down the rows and we would wander and pretend we were lost in a blizzard. And my favorite free time game was searching for bugs. I love bugs!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:33 am
I’ve been playing Nintendo since I was 7 years old. I still have a SNES and play it regularly. I can’t wait to be able to afford a Wii (or win one)!
My three all time favorite Nintendo Games are:
Super Mario Brothers
Donkey Kong
Mario Kart
Thanks!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:33 am
As a young girl, playing with my Barbie, Ken & Skipper dolls of course was great fun; I enjoyed playing cards games like Canasta (we didn’t have a tv until I was 8 yrs old); and even at a young age I was a huge fan of crossword puzzles and Mad-Libs (albeit solitary games if you will, they were a ‘thinking’ persons endeavor).
June 6th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Both of these prizes are great! My favorite games as
a child was hide- and- seek. I also loved to play Mario Bros on the Nintendo. Thanks for a awesome giveaway…we would love a Wii or some chocolate!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Just realized that I need to list a couple more to qualify for the Wii contest. Growing up, we had a LOT of oak trees in our back yard, so we would gather acorns and pretend we were harvesting them to plant again. And some of my favorite memories are of playing on the trampoline and swingset with my two best friends, who were sisters. We would pretend we were Olympic gymnasts, doing all sorts of amazing moves.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:35 am
This is great. Favorite games were “Red Rover, Red Rover”, Putting on little shows (singing /dancing) for the neighbors and getting a refrigerator box and playing house or making our own fort!! The good ole days - HEHE!! We had a blast!! Thanks so much for this contest!!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Playing jacks and hide and seek with my friends when I was younger. All types of board games with my family thoughout the growing years.
Thanks.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Well, we enjoyed pretending stories based on some of our favorite tv shows. (The game varied, depending on who was playing.) With my brother, I enjoyed basic “spy.” (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was one of our favoite shows.)With my sister and the boy down the road, we played Monkees. (I got to play 2 parts, as there were just 3 of us) and with a good friend, I’d play Star Trek. (She was ALWAYS Spock!)
On my own, I mostly enjoyed climbing trees and tromping through the swamp. (My mom would have fits - not only was it not lady-like, but she had a great fear of snakes.)
June 6th, 2008 at 7:45 am
What a GREAT giveaway! So exciting!
Let’s see. Three favorite childhood games. That’s actually very tricky!
Okay.
#1. Guess Who? I LOVED that board game. Probably a little more than most kids because I adored the “mystery” of it. Once it became too easy, I moved on to playing detective with my friends!
#2. Tag. Simple, but true. I loved to play a good game of tag! Freeze tag, regular tag, water tag, and all sorts of variations that I can no longer remember!
#3. Baking. Does that count? I loved to bake with my friends. We made muffins, cookies, cakes, and, of course, our own concoctions that I’m sure tasted like hell but we LOVED!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:47 am
Three childhood memories?
1. Playing basketball in the driveway with my brother.
2. Playing kick the can at night with the neighbor kids.
3. Having babysitters and staying up late eating a ton of popcorn, in the big green bowl!!!
Thanks!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:47 am
MARIO!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Hide and Go Seek! THE BEST neighborhood game. 2 others? Jump rope. That was a 1st-2nd grade recess and after-school past time for all the cool kids (girls AND boys). OK, and seriously, we had a lip synching version of American Idol when I was in 5th grade…at least once a week. We’d dress up and lip synch to Madonna, Tiffany, Debbie Gibson complete with home-made dramatic lighting. Then, we’d vote on who was the winner with the best performance. Yes, those are my top 3 from childhood.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Jump rope, hopscotch and Mother May I.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:03 am
We had a hot tub and my favorite times were making imaginary games in the hot tub. My sister and I would create entire universes in that little bit of water! It was awesome.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Hmmm…
I loved kickball, Sorry, and I liked the memory game where you turned over different cards and tried to match them up. Later in life I became a fan of cranium, scattegories, and taboo, but those are my adult favs.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:11 am
This is such a fun post! I loved hearing your childhood memories.
My Favorite games were also played with my two younger brothers:
1. “Sharky” - We would strip the couches of their pillows and cushions and lay them all over the living room floor (my mother loved this). The carpet floor was the “ocean”. Sharky was our imaginary enemy and we had to make our way from one end of the room to the other without being attacked by our made up foe. If you touched the “water”, you were shark bait.
2. Mud Play - We spent many an hour in our bathing suits playing in an old garden area, turned mud pit. We made mud pie after mud pie. It was glorious!
3. Sliding (old school style); back in the day before Slip N Slides, we would take the hose to our outside patio. The cement was SUPER slippery when wet. So we would hose it down and slide all over the place.
I just may post about this on my own blog!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Playing in the sand piles next door, hiking in the woods & climbing the trees and going swimming in the river with my older sister.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:13 am
good memories! I remember playing a lot of red rover and tag outdoors. atari with my brother indoors. fun!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:15 am
I remember playing kick the can, redrover, kickball- I even played with a cast on my leg, and red light green light.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:17 am
My three favorite things to do as a kid were to play make believe outside (everywhere was a magic castle, fort, etc), play all kinds of tag at school during recess, and play midnight (a running, hiding game w/ counting involved) at college.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:21 am
1. Shoot the moon. It was a long board with 2 metal rods. You had to put this steel ball between the sticks and open the sticks to get the ball to roll down and try to get it to drop in the last slot.
2. My very first nintendo with duck hunt.
3. Shooting cans with my first BB gun.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:23 am
As an (only) child, I had to be even more imaginative in order to stay busy. My favorite ever pastime was to get all of my moms comforters and blankets out of her linen closet and make our entire living room into a “fort”. There were endless ways to change it up to create different tunnels and different places. I could play for hours in them, and never get bored. Of course, we did have a Nintendo at home and I enjoyed playing Mario Brothers with my mom, as well as Zelda. Otherwise, I liked to play outside on my swingset and swim as much as I could during the summer months!
This is an awesome giveaway, thank you so much for the opportunity to win. Though we don’t have one, I would give it to my grandparents if I won it, because my grandmother has been wanting one to excercise with, as it is too hot for here here in South Louisiana to walk or do things outside in the summer, and gyms are so expensive. This would be an awesome blessing for them!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:25 am
When I was growing up my parents had the Atari 800 system. My dad would bring home new games all the time on floppy drive. I had over 1000 games! As a kid it was fun to play but I loved playing outside more. I would build forts with my friends, ride and dress up my bikes with streamers and balloons pretending to be in a parade around the neighborhood. Then of course playing with Barbie. We would bring all of our Barbie stuff outside and play in the yard. I miss being a kid!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:29 am
I loved reading, climbing trees and playing games - from hi ho cherry-o to monopoly and risk as I got bigger.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:33 am
My favorite childhood pastimes included playing “Jacks”, playing with a “Hula Hoop” and just “roaming around” with my friends, something that children today are not so much able to do.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:36 am
king of the hill, it’s funny it was fun back in the day, Kick The Can another oldie but good, and the all time FAV. HIDE-N-SEEK, spent many many hours playing this…
June 6th, 2008 at 8:40 am
My three favorite childhood games were some variation of doctor, but who’s remembering?
June 6th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I had one brother and a thousand cousins…we played Twister until it ended in a fight…my brother and I used to Play GI Joe’s only my Barbies were the Amazons who kicked butt and always won the war…there are so many buried GI Joe’s and Barbies in my parents backyard down by the creek…and we played Tarzan and Jane with the grapevines that hung over the creek…I was a little older and bigger and he got ‘hurt’ a lot! Dad brought home the first Atari game and we spent hours shooting ducks!
I have 4 boys now and they have nothing on me! But they (and I) would LOVE a WII!!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:44 am
My favorites were swimming, camping and reading.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I remember playing “Pit” every week when we went to Grandma’s house. Her and Grandpa and my uncles would all sit on the floor “Kriss/Kross/ Applesauce” and we would play for hours.
We had a playhouse in the backyard that Grandpa built, he put a chalkboard in it. I would get my little sister and her friends over and we played “School”. I was always the teacher because I could write. We did the alphabet and simple math. It was great fun.
My third fun game was playing “Sorry”. We played in as a family a couple of nights a week. We would pop popcorn and drink homemade grape juice. Here it is 35 years later, and I drink grape juice and am flooded with great memories of fun times as a family.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:47 am
buttons: This is where I got in mom’s sewing stuff and played pretend games with the buttons
Socks: pretend sock puppets
tank: I had a most marvelous battery powered tank that could roll over sock mountains and you could aim and shoot little plastic ammo.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Playing with my best friend, special times with my family like Thanksgiving, and going to the beach.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:48 am
My favorite pastimes were playing with matchbox cars in the dirt. We always made a race track in the dirt using popsicle sticks and then we would race our cars around the track. I also loved to jump rope, and cops and robbers. Too bad kids don’t do that kind of stuff anymore.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Around my house it was Barbies, Star Wars and how can I make my sister cry. Mean, but true.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:50 am
This is gonna get tons of comments hon! *laughs*
My favorite games?
I loved Boggle, Battleship (both), and Candy Land.
Now a days I love Mancala, Boggle (never gets old) and Yahtzee!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:57 am
I liked to play “Little House on the Prairie” which involved aprons and lots of sweeping.
My brother and I would also play with our play kitchen (lots of restaurants were set up, menus made, dishes served, pots washed).
Our favorite game was Uno. We could play that for hours!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:00 am
There are so many things I remember loving from my childhood so I’ll make 2 lists, even though that still only scratches the surface! Favorite pastimes: reading, playing in the pool, and going to the movies. Yes, those are generic, but that’s what I remember doing most. Specific things I loved were those Chinese jump ropes (the circular bungee cord), my big wheel, and my sit ‘n’ spin. Lord did I love getting dizzy! Favorite games: Anything that had to do with trivia, Scrabble, and Boggle.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Gosh we were outside all day long! I loved to sawing and sing. My brothers would tell me to quit singing! Jump rope was great too . The fun chants and rhymes. Just running and playing was fun too.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:02 am
I liked hide-and-seek, dodge ball and hand ball.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Loved my fisher price little people playsets, coloring was huge for me too and any board game i could convince my parents to play made me happy
June 6th, 2008 at 9:03 am
My three favorite things were Ms. Pacman, going to SkateLand with my friend Stacy (grandma always gave us money for a slice of pizza and a treat), and riding my bike around the block over and over and over…with my cabbage patch doll in a sling mom made.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:05 am
I loved hop scotch, candy land and red rover. There are so many other games that I also enjoyed but I wouuld have to say that these are my favorites.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Remember Spirograph, Lite Brite and Ant in the Pants? All my favorites
June 6th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I love monopoly as a child. And my second fav was tetris. I really hope i win this one.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I loved to play paper football with my brothers, and I loved pretending to be a doctor, and I mostly loved riding my bike!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Wow, I loved mario. I would play that game for hours.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:20 am
I grew up LOVING video games, especially Mario! I would play Nintendo for hours. My sister and I also used to play a boardgame called “Masterpiece”, which I don’t think you can get anymore. I still have the game though. Then we also liked to go outside and make “fairy houses” in the backyard. They were little houses we would make with sticks and leaves and they got pretty elaborate. Thanks for a great contest, hope I win!!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:23 am
zelda
my pet monster
smurfs
June 6th, 2008 at 9:26 am
We lived on a dead-end block and played outside a lot. Hide and Go Seek, Peggy on the Bounce skating on the sidewalks. In the house games were usually card games-Go Fish, Old Maid, Crazy Eights
June 6th, 2008 at 9:28 am
I grew up playing games around the family dining room table with my mom and day and brother and sister. We would have pop corn and have coolaid and had a great old time. Familys don’t do that any more and it is really sad.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Three favorite past times: playing ninjas with friends in the cul-de-sac, playing uno (how I learned to really shuffle cards) and I loved my sit’n’spin!! I also made up dances to my favorite disney soundtrack songs with my ribbon dancer!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Favorite games were: Monopoly, Sorry and the
card game “War”. We would play these for hours and even continue the next day.
June 6th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I loved the games we played as a family - High Gear, Go To the Head of the Class, and Monopoly
June 6th, 2008 at 9:42 am
i’ve never owned a gaming system, but my husband did as a kid. we don’t have one now and i’d love to give him one! he was (and probably still is) a huge fan of mario cart and tecmo bowl.
for me, childhood games were about board games and running around outside!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I remember playing hide and seek with many of the neighborhood friends! We would play after it was dark and it seemed more fun. We often played Monopoly too. And I remember jumping rope a lot too. Fun times!
June 6th, 2008 at 9:58 am
I remember playing hide and seek with my cousins and friends. We played checkers and card games when it was raining and when we could get out side there was nothing better than playing with your cars and trucks in the sand pile. We also fish. Thanks for giving me the chance to think about childhood memories.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:02 am
I loved playing with my Playskool house and airport.
Thanks for the giveaway!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am
One of my favorite childhood pasttimes was playing with Barbies. I also loved to play Red Rover and Four Square.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I could so very badly use the Wii…I hope I am still eligible because I dont have any past time games. As a child, I spent most of my time in my room sitting on my bed and I’m not joking. My father was very abusive and my mother was always out with her friends to stay clear of my father. We didn’t have many friends because they were all afraid to come over. My father drank a lot and would invite his biker friends over. My parents never read books to us, played games with us or any other “family activity” you could recall. I spent a lot of time in the hospital also because I was born with bilatteral cleft lip (my upper lip was attached to the right side of my nose preventing me from breathing) I have undergone 23 surgeries in my life and wonder sometimes if I was the reason my father drank and beat up on us and why my mother tried her hardes to never be home.
Does it count that my family now (my husband and three children) make it a weekend thing to always have game night (once a week) and that we are trying to make up for what we were never given as children (meaning time to our kids)? I would love to enter but haven’t any past time stories to share (good ones anyways). Here’s what we do now:
okay, my three favorite games are candyland…love playing this game with my girls; Super mario brothers…the whole family will sit together on the weekends and pass a whole day trying to beat bowser; and our most favorite game is Scrabble since it is a way to spend time together while teaching our six year old how to spell (I really think she will win a spelling bee one day)she actually does exceptionally well every time and is getting better the more we play.
I would love to win the grand prize since there are so many (phisical) plus’s to having one; although I’d be happy to win one of the prizes period. If I qualify for an entry.
Great contest!!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:06 am
My favorites from my childhood are candyland, Chutes and Ladders and Monopoly.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I can’t wait to see how many comments this giveaway gets!!
As for childhood games/memories. The trampoline was one of my faves. My BFF & I came up with all sorts of games to play on it–Mario Brothers, gymnastics, etc. We also LOVED when an older sibling would put together a “fair” for us in the backyard. We would use leaves for tickets. OMG, it was so much fun! Lastly, we loved playing “treasure hunt.” Again, an older sibling would write out clues for us that would lead us all over the house and backyard. We had a blast!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:07 am
We loved to go exploring in the woods near our house, we enjoyed a yearly trip to the lake each summer, and ironically when we were little we played school a lot while on summer break, but only if the weather was bad.
Thanks for the chance to win!!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:08 am
I had a game I made up about being a famous bike rider-with a tv show. I’d ride my bike all around the neighborhood singing a song about my show. I also loved freeze tag and flashlight hide and seek-night time hide and seek. So fun.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I’ve love the chance to be entered. As A child I love to play make believe, play sports, fun hide and seek games. Oh and the worse ha ha, as I child I remember playing Kissing Tag with the boys, that was so much fun HA HA!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I remember growing up in a rather large Irish family where your best friend was usually your cousin, male or female, as long as they were close to your age. We would go to my grandmothers after church and all 30 of my uncles and aunts would bring lunch. We ate outside on saw horses with plywood placed over them for a table. After lunch all the cousins would play games like red rover, hopscotch or marbles. My girl cousins would take clover flowers and link them into a lei and wear to church that night while the boys were usually chasing the pigs or chickens in their best Sunday clothes much to their parents horror.It was a life less complicated and a lot of fun.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:09 am
My sister, brother, neighborhood kids and I would spend a lot of time playing kickball. The most fun was deciding each of the bases…the tree was first, the clothesline pole was second…the game varied depending on where we played. We also played freeze tag and when we got a Texas Instruments computer, I enjoyed the game Hunt the Wumpus!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:15 am
wii wii wii
June 6th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I loved anything that kept me outside until the street lights went on — tag, flag football, hide-n-go-seek
gkstratos @yahoo.com
June 6th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Wow! This would be amazing to win. So.. I grew up in a big family too. Ten children, I’m the oldest! 1. My sisters and I were so into Barbie’s, but the best part was putting everything together. 2. We used to build forts like none other.. out of everything, in the tree’s, barn, pastures, you name it. 3. We loved our pets and doing anything with them. Goats, cows, pony, sheep, dogs, cats.. etc! Loved. Please enter me to win. Crossing my fingers.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:24 am
We would make up obstacle courses a lot because we were obsessed with American Gladiator! Usually when my friends came over with their dolls we would play house and my mom would let us “grocery shop” out of the cupboards. We made a lot of crafts with recycled stuff (ie. garbage back then!) We would also play in the woods pretending we were survivalists. It’s funny how our parents never seemed to know where we were as long as we were home by dark!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:27 am
We lived on a dead end road, and the city would pile up the snow in front of our house. We could make multiple room snow forts in the massive mountain. Kick the can was a neighborhood favorite, and we’d also play “cowboys and indians”.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:29 am
Goodness, this was many moons ago… but my favorites were Hopscotch, Kick the Can & Jacks.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:32 am
I had two brothers, so I never played dolls! We played hide and seek a lot, our family had a greenhouse so we had huge amounts of space to play. I’m sure the customers were quite amused by us! We also used to play “sock wars” where we basically threw our (clean!) socks back and forth as our rooms faced each other across the hall. Whoever had the most socks in their room when we tired of the game lost. (bonus for head shots!
When we got together with my cousins we played “go to court,” a hide and seek game. The it could send you to court just by seeing you and telling you (by name) to go to court. You were stuck in the “jail”–usually whoever’s front porch–until someone that was free waved at you. If you saw the wave, you could run away. Great when we went to my aunt kathy’s house as they always had a huge yard with big spaces between hiding spots. I miss that game!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am
My three favorite games while growing up, hmmm, this was before computers and video games. Ugh, I am old!!!! I liked Monopoly, the Game of Life, and Chess…for indoor games, but much prefered playing outside, exploring the forests and mountains around my small town.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I loved playing jacks and follow the leader.
My sister and I would play this card game spit for hours on end.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:38 am
What a fun discussion!
I used to love making forts out of everything. The best one ever was under our Ping Pong table. I even hooked up a small black and white t.v. under there and attached my Pong game. Yeah, that dates me doesn’t it. (gotta love playing Pong under the Ping Pong table…)
All of us neighbor kids also had marathon games of hide and seek. We’d be out there until the street lights came on and the parents started calling us in.
Finally, there is nothing like a good game of Monopoly on a rainy day. Our games would last for days.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:40 am
My favorite thing to do was fort which consisted of a bunch of trees near my moms house. My siblings and I made mud pies and pretended to live in the tree area. We would take turns playing the roles of kids and parents. Many of times are adventures would cause us to forget books outside in the fort during rain storms.
My other favorite thing to do in car rides was guess the song my older brother would hum. My older brother did this as a way to keep sanity in the car well my mom went in the store. But for me and my siblings it was a blast and kept us busy.
My other thing was dressing up the poor cats in doll clothes. My sister and I constantly harassed the cats making them endure the cabbage patch clothes and the doll crib.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:44 am
We loved board games as a kid. We would always play Life and a car board game. We also had a lot of fun planning a town with Legos.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Three favorites from childhood; well, growing up in WV, I always loved sleigh riding in the winter, and in the summer I loved playing dodge ball and just playing on the playground. The merry-go-round was my favorite there. I remember going round and round until we could hardly walk when we got off!
June 6th, 2008 at 10:59 am
MONOPOLY
TWISTER
MARBLES
June 6th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Exploring (once went w/ a friend into a furniture upholsterer named Guillentine’s - asked to see their guillotines…got a laugh from the secretary and a neat tour from the owner.) Made-up games (’hide-from-the-cars’ - great fun at dusk. Probably scared drivers, though.) Loved Monster Movie week - Godzilla, Rodan, the whole lot of em’. Fun to remember those days!
June 6th, 2008 at 11:06 am
super mario brothers great
zelda i remember when i was younger my dad won that game and it really was the best bonding experience and this was my all time favorite it was on my dads comador 64 computer it was the barbie game you had to get barbie ready in i certain amount of time and meet ken it was great
June 6th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Monopoly, checkers, card games.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:13 am
pixie sticks to last all day jacks and marbles. I was the marble queen and had a whole sack of the big shooter marbles…what fun.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I came over from Summer’s blog. Awesome giveaway!!! I have so many fond memories of childhood. Video games weren’t around when I was a child. I was a teenager when my dad brought home an Atari. We played outside all the time. My favorite thing to do was climb our tree and hide away from everyone and read. I read all the Nancy Drew books, all the Bobbsey Twins, all the Happy Hollisters and everything else I could get my hands on.
We loved to play what we called, “Night Games”. The entire neighborhood kids would get together and play games like “Sardines” which is a reverse hide and seek. The whole street would be the game and we played at night. I could never let my kids do that now.
We loved to play board games and my favorite was a game called “Mastermind”. I still have it. My best friend and I would play it for hours.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Three favorite games were Centipede, galaxy, and tetherball.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:25 am
reading, kickball, and arcade games
June 6th, 2008 at 11:25 am
My favorites were: riding my bike (named Desert Rose), playing Chicken and Fox with my neighborhood friends, and playing all kinds of pool games in the summer — Marco Polo and the like!
June 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am
My 3 faves were:
1. Kickball- My all time favorite game! I still would love to play it today! I was really good at it and I was so very disappointed that when I went to Jr. High no one played it anymore and that it wasn’t an actual team sport, I think I could have gone PRO! lol!
2. Steal the Flag- I come from a huge family and more than 200 first cousins on my moms side. We would play this all the time at family functions and we played it all day long! Another great game!!
3. I loved my trampoline! We were one of the only kids on the street with one so it made our house a popular place to hang out. We made up lots of games that required lots of flips!
June 6th, 2008 at 11:28 am
my faves were Kick the Can, Release, and street hockey lol
June 6th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Okay, so when I was growing video games did not exist…nor did computers. I am the youngest of three girls. My sisters are 11, 10 and 7 years olders than me. So my favorite pastimes??? One was bugging the death out of my sisters to pay attention to me…..I just about lived at the library…I used to play hide and go seek a lot..but nobody seeked me out. But I did find out great secrets that way!! Thanks for the great giveaway!!
June 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am
As a child I had a awesome imagination…I honestly thought I was people other than myself…I went through different fazes:
1. honestly I thought I was rainbow brite…one year for christmas I asked for a rainbow brite necklace (which I received) all my dreams slowly faded as I opened the necklace and a rainbow didn’t shine out…yeah pretty depressing, huh?!
2. When I was 3 I told everyone EVERYWHERE I went that my name was Dorthy Gale and I lived in Kansas. I carried around a stuffed animal dog which of course I named Toto…I also could sing “somewhere over the rainbow” when asked…all the verses!
3. I loved to smear my mothers lipstick all over the toilet seat and believe me people weren’t too happy about it.
June 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am
My sister and I used to love playing our nintendo. When I went to camp one year she beat the Mario game and paused the ending to prove to me when I got back that she had beat it. We both loved playing Mario Brother. We also loved to play with our barbies and used to pretend we were actually her. We also loved playing volleyball in the swimming pool during the summer. We even got our mom and grandmother to play to. It was so much fun. Thanks for the great giveaway!!!
June 6th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Chinese jump rope
sorry
hide and seek
June 6th, 2008 at 11:39 am
We loved to play jacks, hopscotch and of course, Easy Bake Oven!
June 6th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Tinker toys
June 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am
As a kid my brother and I always loved going to the lake to go swimming and fishing, roller skating outside on the street, and we also always liked to play tag and hi