The games little girls play.....

I want to talk about something fun. Some of the posts for more mature audiences have made me sad. Let's talk about fun stuff, shall we?

When I was little, like 4 or 5 years old, I LOVED to play in the mud, lol. I cringe to think about it now,lol.Mud pie was my specialty.

I also loved to run into the wind.I would pretend I was flying.My Grandparents had this big field, I would run until my legs were weak.The harder the wind blew, the more I liked it.

I had an old brides maid dress I picked up at a yard sale.I loved to wear that dress with my Granny's tallest high heeled shoes! I felt so important,lol.

I always liked to hang upside down from the monkey bars.I wished my hair was longer so it would dangle down. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

What did you do when you were a little girl? If you are still a little girl, what do you do for fun now, or what did you do when you were younger? (If you are unded 18 years old, please do not mention your age)

I loved to make mud pies! My friend and I would also play witches and hex people. Or sometimes we'd be acrobats and cross my swingset without touching the ground.

I also loved to swing. I felt like I was flying. But usually my friend and I would play astronauts when we were swinging.

I loved to bring my dolls outside to play. Sometimes I'd bring Molly and Kit out, but mostly it was my Barbies. They'd load up their jeep and horse trailer and go camping in the front yard! Or go swimming in my Barbie pool in the back yard!

Sometimes I'd play house outside or play indians. Sometimes I liked to play all by myself and lock myself away in my own little world....

Ah, the days of childhood....though I'm not quite grown up, I can't do these things anymore!

I used to turn my dad's garage into my house. I would put old quilts on the floor, and set up makeshift tables and chairs. I would haul all of my babies outside with their cradles and what not. I would use old buckets and ladels and pretend to make soup. Of course, we all dressed up in my mother's old dresses.

I used to love to pretend that I was poor. I would go out "into the woods" and find roots and berries and makes soups for my children to eat. It was also very cold, and I had to keep a fire in my "stove" so the babies wouldn't get cold. Usually...one of my babies got sick, and we had to call the doctor.

When I got a little bit older, I would sit for hours upon hours with s****s of material and sew doll clothing. I had three or four self made patterns that I followed. I would sew everything by hand. My mom still has some of the things I made.

I also spent lots and lots of time with my pony. We boarded her on the outside of town. I would ride her from the farm to my house in town. I would just ride through the streets of town! My mom would drive her Lime green Galaxy 500 behind me. I would tie Daisy to the clothesline, and she would graze for several days in my yard. All the neighbor kids would come over, and I would give pony rides. Then, I would ride her back to the farm, with mom driving behind me.

Ahh, I am still young so I can do these things still, but I will tell you wisely of things I do when younger. [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I play indians. We make fine soups we pretend are edible made up of: water, leaves, roots, berries, etc. Sometimes I make stews, which are thicker soups. Then there are salads of leaves and berries. We use two sticks for chopsticks. And we also pretend that one person (most of the time it's me) is an english girl who has run away as a stowaway and come to american but the indians do not trust her and her ways.

Also, we play orphans. We start in the house. One person is miss haneggin. And the oprhans end up scrubbing the floor with toothbrushes! Then the orphans decide to run away. They take their items (ragged blankets, cracked cups etc) and run away to our outdoor plahouse and pretend to live out there, until mrs. hannegan finds them. Then the game is over!

Good times, good times. By the way, american_mommy great topic.

Our neighbor had a small hill in her back yard and we used to love to lay down with our arms over our heads and roll down the hill over and over until we were so dizzy we couldn't stand up. Actually, it still sounds fun.

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.

The world was a much different place when I was a child. My neighborhood had lots of senior citizens, and we used to go visiting them, raiding their cookie jars and listening to their stories. In the world we now live in, I would never feel comfortable having my kids go alone into someone's house that I didn't know well, and hadn't thoroughly checked out. Maybe it wasn't that the world was safer so much as that we were less informed.

And of course, we would spend hours playing with our Barbies. [img]smile.gif[/img]

This isn't a game but I used to love to play on the monkey bars at school. Me and my friends would always play relay type games on the jungle gym at school. I would go on the moneky bars everyday until my hands got blisters. I loved the moneky bars, they were my favorite thing at my elementary school playground.

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ October 14, 2005 09:17 PM: Message edited by: AGfanatic ]</font>

I had an apple tree in my front yard, and two little boys next door. We used to climb the tree all the time. And, my mom never really knew, but we ate those gross wormy apples all the time. We used to get snow in the winter, feet and feet, and we'd build not just forts, but mansions, with furniture and everything. Then when we moved to florida, I learned how to rollerblade. I was better at skating than I was at walking, lol. Awwww, now I'm all nostalgic.

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Also, we play orphans. We start in the house. One person is miss haneggin. And the oprhans end up scrubbing the floor with toothbrushes! Then the orphans decide to run away. They take their items (ragged blankets, cracked cups etc) and run away to our outdoor plahouse and pretend to live out there, until mrs. hannegan finds them. Then the game is over!

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Oh my goodness, this was my FAVORITE game as a kid! The original "Annie" movie with Carol Burnett as Miss Hannigan came out, I believe, the same year I was born or shortly thereafter, and I grew up with that movie. Some of my earliest memories are of playing "Annie" with my older sister and her friends. I always wanted to be Miss Hannigan, because I loved playing the evil role in any game. [img]cool.gif[/img]

I LOVED to climb trees. We had a whole line of big trees across our back yard. My best friend and I would climb up one tree and then try to go from tree to tree without touching the ground. Sometimes we were on some really skinny branches and my poor mom probably would have freaked out if she saw us swingin on a 1 inch branch 20 feet above the groud, but we LOVED it!

We also loved to go to the appliance store about 2 blocks away and get their old boxes. We'd drag them home and make them into houses or forts or anything. We'd sit in them for hours, decorating them with crayons. It was great fun!

We (I always say we, because it was always my best friend who was also my next door neighbor, who was also my maid of honor and I was her matron, who I just saw 2 weeks ago at my old neighborhood- our folks still live next door to eachother) also loved to take a smaller box, like maybe for a 24 in t.v.- and set in on a skateboard. Then we'd go to the top of the hill (in the middle of the street) and sit in the box (not being able to see hardly anything) which as you may remember was on the skateboard- then ZOOOOOOM down the hill. The other person's job was to stand at the bottom of the hill and look for cars (the hill was a block long). Not the smartest thing I've ever done, but it sure was fun. I let my girls do it last summer down our driveway into the cul-de-sac and they had a blast, too!

Oh thank you, to the starter of this post, for taking me back to care free, mother-in-law-less days!

edited to correct at least one glaring grammar error so my high school english teacher doesn't come smack me upside the head.

<font color="#051E50" size="1">[ October 14, 2005 08:30 PM: Message edited by: mykidsloveAG ]</font>

We used to play mermaids in the pool. We would take the dive rings and put them around our ankles so we could kick seperately (omg, would have a heart attack if I saw kids doing this now) and we would pretend to swing on seaweed vines across the ocean to go to fabulous parties.

We also had a lifelong (heh) goal to catch a buzzard. The youngest person to show up would have to lay in the yard as bait, while everyone else went to the fort to figure out what to do when the buzzard (called bird-brain) went to eat him because they thought he was dead. It never worked. We never fooled the buzzard.