Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Ohh the silly things kid's sometimes do. Thier little mind's work in wonderfull and sometimes not so wonderful ways. Always creative though none the less. My friends and I used to put paper clips on our fingertips and pretend we had long nails. There are many more things we did as well, but tt would be fun to hear from other's. Please share with the us.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin We used to throw blanket and bedspreads over the clothesline and the picnic table and benches underneath and pretend it was a conestoga wagon and we were crossing the great planes to discover gold in CA. Of course we in reality already lived in CA, but no matter!
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight but did you tie the ends in a knot and say you had pig tails???? <-- speaks form experience
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight ST, are you telling me that you really WEREN'T on them wagon trains?
Originally Posted By Labuda I used to use quilts my Grandma Labuda made to make a fort out of the couch.
Originally Posted By csgoofygirl I used to make little cities with roads, houses, churches, stores, etc. in the dirt. Loved to play in the dirt!
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Black olives were ONLY eaten from the tips of our fingers, never just popped in our mouths.
Originally Posted By csgoofygirl That's how we ate our black olives too! Imagine my disappointment when my own son wouldn't eat olives!
Originally Posted By LadyKluck We used to step on pop cans so they'd stick to our feet & play horses. Bed sheet fashion show was another one. My cousins & I used to see who could make the best dress out of a bed sheet & then my mom and aunt would be the judges! We actually did this as the theme for my bridal shower it was a blast!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Well, you said and sometimes still do, so for that: Color - I still sit down and spend an evening coloring. Or do mandalas. Lay on my back in a good patch of grass and daydream or nap. Dance my butt off by myself. Sing at the top of my lungs - mainly just in the car now. Go to Disneyland. ;> Write in my journal back then, blog now. There's more but I need to get going. Now for the other stuff; We used to use panchos Deb for our long glamour hair. ;> Threw a blanket over the kitchen table and camped out in the house. I cut long strips of newspaper, curled it, taped it to my sister and cousins hair and we'd be the Jackson 5 - an old mattresses was our stage. Clothesline pin playing cards to the spokes of our bike tires for sound effects. Throw a beach towel over our shoulders for a cape, lots of bracelets and we'd be Wonder Women! Oh, we usually were on roller skates for this.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight L22, what a great list. I did some of those too.( full on did the playing card clothes pin thing) These are such fun to read!
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Cut a slit down drinking straws and decorated our spokes with them.
Originally Posted By csgoofygirl All these memories are making me smile. We used to always make clubs. My (now 20-something) kids did the same thing. There was a sign in our backyard: DLAS Club. Yes, that's right, the DOG LOVER AND SPORTS club.
Originally Posted By LadyKluck When I lived in Texas, I used to paint with mud on the side of our house & fence. My dad used to get soooo mad. My mom would just have me hose it all off & I would just do it again the next day.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight In the summertime, my friends and Iwould go into the backyard and strike a pose up agasint the backyard fence, then her mom would hose over us and we'd step back to see whatour image looked like. When the wall dried up some, we'd go and doit again. Or wet ourselves down and made silly body prints on the back fence or on the sidewalk. I've now carried that on down to my kids.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Klucky, We used to do the whole steppin on can's thing too. And, we made beer/soda can, pull tab jewelry too.
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Did anyone make wooden cloppers, with old blocks of wood and string? you stood on the blocks of wood and held on to the string while you walked.
