The games little girls play.....

When I was little the TV was black and white so we played outside all the time. We played croquett, badmitten (sp), baseball, at the park on the monkey bars, swings and huge slide and the merry go round. I'd go for rides with my Dad and we would go watch the boats on the bay, and get a grilled hot dog at a little hole in the wall by the water. We would ride our bikes to the library, the movies, and just down to Main Street and walk around, go to the bakery and get a Black and White cookie. We went camping at Smith's Point on LI. Oh my! why can't we ever go home again. I played with my dolls in a closet and on the front porch with a quilt and make little beds out of wash cloths. I still have my Tammy doll, my Patty Playpal, my Tiny Tears. I'm getting sad, I had a great childhood. I was so lucky. Thanks for starting this thread. [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img]

I was lucky because my grandma lived next door (my Dad's mom). She had lots of property which I loved to explore. I was big on buried treasure. I would bury treasure in the woods and make a map of where I buried it.

She also had a chicken coop but no chickens. It was so much fun to play in. It had four separate but large rooms. When it would get dark, I would dare myself to run through. It was kind of creepy.

I was big on clubs (even if it was just me and one friend who were members).

I loved catching crickets and grasshoppers. Crickets were the prize.

In the fourth grade we studied American Indians and I made an Indian drum out of a Quaker Oatmeal box, and I dressed up my Barbie doll as an Indian in an outfit I hand made.

I loved Viewmaster. I used to make my own movie projectors with the little magnifying lenses I would get from Cracker Jack boxes.

I loved playing detective. My friend and I would pretend a murder happened in the woods and we had to figure out who did it.

I loved to whittle wood and carve with my official Girl Scout pocketknife (even though I was an official Girl Scout for only fifth grade).

I loved brand-new boxes of crayons, particularly when I was lucky enough to get the "big box" with the crayon sharpener in the back. I was thrilled whenever I got a new coloring book. My all-time favorite was from the Jungle Book and Balloo on the cover was fuzzy.

I loved little stuffed animals. I loved Little Kiddles, and cherished the "one" I had. Everyone at school had three or more.

I loved picking out a new lunch pail every summer before the new school year (the tin kind, and I always broke my thermos during the first two weeks of school).

I absolutely adored whenever Rankin-Bass productions had a holiday show on TV, Brady Bunch and Partridge Family on Friday nights, Wonderful World of Disney and Mom trimming nails and cleaning ears on Sunday nights.

Snow!! It was infrequent but when we got it, it lasted for days and school was canceled. I would play in the snow till dark in my Grandma's field.

I could go on and on ... dinner calls!

I had a horse attached to my swing set when I was little. We had a bunch of trees in our yard that I would pretend were "woods" and I'd pretend I lived in the time of the settlers and indians. I was always racing on my horse to save someone in the woods. I was obsessed with history when I was little.

I used to dig up the back yard, pretending to be an archeologist.

We (friends, or my brother and I) had one of those above ground round pools and we'd make "rapids" by dragging rafts round and round and round until we had a good current going. Then we'd pretend we were going down the river. We'd get caught in a water fall and our "boat" (raft) would over turn.

We (this was something just my brother and I did) also had a sliding glass door in the living room, and we'd drape the curtain over the couch and pretend we were on the orphan train going out west to be adopted, or stowaways.

I was pretty girly when I was little, I had a whole play house set up, lots of dolls. My brother was such a good sport when we were young. He was always playing house with me. I guess he had no choice, though, being six years younger. But he still says now that he loved it [img]smile.gif[/img] I think he liked being babied.

I made mud muffins - LOL. We had these little muffins tins in the sand box. I loved to ride my bike especially down by the creek and thru the trails (where I wasn't supposed to go!)

I loved my Barbies and played with the boy across the street and his G.I. Joes. It was during the Viet Nam war so when I played with dolls my husband was away at war. His name was Lt. Col. Sandy Sanderson. I had his P.O.W. bracelet. I've always wanted to go to DC to look for his name on the wall.

I also loved to climb the tree in our back yard. DD climbs one at my sister's. I love watching her.

You asked for it. I was a weird kid, with weird friends. Actually my two friends have a near genius IQ, which may explain some of the things we played.

We had an imaginary friend named Ebenizer. He lived in the dungeon (i.e. basement) of my friend Jonathan's house. We were only allowed to play with him if all three of us were there. (Scott, Jonathan and I)

We also had a gamed called Jagulars and Tiggers. (Think Winnie the Pooh names). Anyway, they were aliens from far off planets coming to invade Earth. We were FBI Agents sent to destroy the aliens. (Yes, we were five when we were playing this game-it was our favorite)The adults had the problem of mutating though. So we had to kill them a different way each time. (witches stew, setting up traps, poisioned food, etc.) We also had to save the babies and kids because they were trainable and our friends. We used to pretend that we got messages from the FBI via his old Commoder Computer.

We played that game until we were about 8 or so.

-Jordyn

I didn't play much as a kid. (which is why I do it ALOT now [img]biggrin.gif[/img] ) When I did, it was Sara the time traveling super detective. I'd travel throught time and save the world from evil supervillians.

I spent a whole year (ages 6-7) as "Singing Bird". I lived in a teepee that my wonderful baby-sitter had made me for Christmas, and would only refer to my parents as "Chief Big Howling Wind" and "Croaking Woman". [img]tongue.gif[/img] I spent much of the next year (ages 7-8) in the "bomb shelter" that I had constructed out of a card table and blanket. It was set up smack in the middle of our kitchen, which my mom LOVED when she was trying to get dinner ready. Any guesses where I got THOSE ideas? [img]wink.gif[/img]

Acting out the stories I read (or had read to me) in books was one of my favorite things to do. I had a prairie bonnet that I loved to wear around the house a la Little House on the Prairie, wanted my hair to stick straight out like Pippi Longstocking's and scared my parents to death by heading out the back door and setting off our burglar alarm early one morning. Why? Well, because I was Henry Huggins, and I had a paper route to start! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Other than that, I spent a lot of time with my best friend Lisa, who lived across the street from me. We could convince each other to do just about anything...our parents are STILL talking about the time they found us crawling across my garage roof. We were in kindergarten at the time. The whole reason we were up there was that I was SURE I had seen a bird drop an egg on the roof. Looking back, I'm pretty sure it wasn't an egg I saw drop. [img]rolleyes.gif[/img] But the thing we REALLY liked to do was climb in her sled and ride it down the stairs to her deck. It's amazing we made it past childhood without any broken bones, stitches, or concussions.

Great thread topic, American Mommy. It brought back lots of memories. [img]smile.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/rainbow.gif[/img]

We did not have a TV until I was almost 7. Our neighbor had one when I was 5 and I would watch TV with him. I would make doll food from clay, design doll clothes for my paper dolls and play with dolls. I do almost the same thing now as a Grandma!

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Originally posted by mandasmom:
I was sort of morbid as a child, and went through a phase where we would look for dead animals (baby birds that fell out of nests, frogs smashed in the road, ect) and have funerals for them. We would bury them in my back yard, "borrow" flowers from our old neighbor lady and then gave a service and say prayers over the deceased. [img]eek.gif[/img] Sounds weird now but we really enjoyed it.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I used to do the same thing with my best friend's brother. Once we tried to bury a skunk. It didn't smell until we picked it up! You know, a tomato juice bath really does work!

I will never forget, one time I came in and asked my mom for a spatula (like one you use to flip pancakes); she gave it to me. Then we were off to get a very dead, very squished bird off the street to bury. After the service, I brought the spatula back to mom. She looked at it and said, "what's on this?" I said, "I don't know." She pressed on, "Well, what did you do with it?" "Used it to get a dead bird off the street." Immediately it went into the trash can. She always asked what I was planning on doing with something before she gave it to me, after that.

Jo

I played alot with my western Barbies and the horses that went with her. I always wanted to be a race horse jockey cause I thought I was small enough.

The other thing I acted out was Star Wars. I was Princess Leia and my brother was Luke of course!