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Did you play outside a lot when you were a kid?

What fun things did you do? I loved to catch frogs after a rain even at night, catch fireflies, explore the country roads and creek, play under the yard sprinklers, etc.

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impressionist · 70-79, M

I play outside a lot even now

SW-User

Yes, I used to love playing bare foot in the mud and making mud pies. I used to enjoy stomping in cow pats with my bare feet. I was fascinated how it used to ooze through the toes.

I enjoyed it so much that I still enjoy it today

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SW-User

@cherokeepatti it’s just fun, I just like the squishy feeling on my feet

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@SW-User walk in mud on a creek then

SW-User

@cherokeepatti done that, feels amazing. Would still love to try with cow dung someday, just to have done it

SW-User

Yeah we used to meet up at my then bff’s apartment complex daily, it was huge so playing cops and robbers never got boring; but what I enjoyed the most were the Beyblade battles, Marco Polo, badminton, rollerskating races and ghost hunting till our parents came searching for us 🤣

marsbar · F

@SW-User My 14 yr old son still has his Beyblade collection, & even a few times last year, he’d play with them. Lol

SW-User

@marsbar Haha my brother is 14 too, and same he got bored of it just this year 😂

marsbar · F

Too funny 😁@SW-User

NickiHijab · F

I did. We had a small alleyway where my cousins and I went to play football every weekend. I also used to go to the deserted old factory at the end of the alley and stay there until stupid o’ clock thinking I was some kinda paranormal investigator.

nahright09 · 41-45, M

lots of sports...basketball, football, baseball - biking through the woods and river close to my house. We'd be outside from noon till dinner time, and again after dinner.

SW-User

All the time. We'd play lots of games. Hide and seek and just throw the ball around ... a lot I do not even remember. I just know I was always outdoors as a kid.

marsbar · F

I did. In our old apartment building, my younger brother & would play with the kids in building. We’d play hide & seek in the garages. It was so fun because the garages were so dark. I also rode my first green banana bike a lot.

At our first house, I rollerskated a lot using the metal rollerskates that you needed to attach to your running shoes. Then I learned to skateboard. Some of my classmates lived near me, so I’d hang out with them a lot, sometimes climbing trees.

Dewms

yes lol. we had so many games we played that involved running, jumping, and dancing LMAO

Hdryder555 · 61-69, M

When I was a kid our parents had a hard time keeping us indoors,

Shannon27 · M

Yes. Under a big shade tree in our side yard. In a sandbox with my toys.

ABCDEF7 · M

Yup, lot of football, running, cycling and others

FreeSpirit1 · 51-55, F

Yes, being in the house as a kid was punishment

PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F

Sooo much. One of my favorite things was to find a little dirt patch in the grass and play with my hot wheels. I’d also sit in the grass for what seemed like hours making white clover bracelets.

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alan20 · M

@PerfectionOfTheHeart Daisy chains we called them. If you were skilful enough you could make a long necklace for some girl.

PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F

@Shannon27 Well, that sucks. That’s why I always looked for a patch of dirt that was already there.

PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F

@alan20 That’s an interesting term for it.

HappyBella · 41-45, F

Yes I loved being outside.

Nayla · 51-55, F

I had days lots of fun outdoors growing up - playing Charlies Angels with my friends on our bikes, exploring around the ravine and the woods, skateboarding, swimming. We even dug up a grave in an Indiginous burial ground in the woods once

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Nayla Yeah we’d go into the woods, it’s a miracle we didn’t get bit by a copperhead with all the leaves on the ground they are totally camouflaged.

alan20 · M

Remember crossing and recrossing the nearby river on stepping stones. Looking at it today, I wonder how I survived. When younger had a pedal car I used to show off in.

Shannon27 · M

@alan20 I had a red Fire Chief pedal car. I would ride it everywhere until I graduated to a bike with training wheels

alan20 · M

@Shannon27 Think mine was red and yellow. Remember being responsible for a woman missing her bus when I insisted on her waiting to see me do a circuit of our yard.

eli1601 · 70-79, M

In the summer my friends and I were gone from 10 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon, riding bikes, playing ball, swimming, etc. What a life.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@eli1601 yeah we had days like that. I wish I knew how many miles we walked some days, we’d go down country roads and all around the farm or village.

Shannon27 · M

@cherokeepatti Those were the best days of our lives but we didn't know it

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@Shannon27 I agree

DuchessOfMapleSyrup · M

yes caught bugs, built forts, when bike riding, explored,lotsa stuff

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@DuchessOfMapleSyrup yeah we made forts out of fallen branches...

DuchessOfMapleSyrup · M

@cherokeepatti did that sometime we dug trench forts or built tree forts

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@DuchessOfMapleSyrup I went to a school in a small town in Missouri and we did it at school at recess one time. Took a few days before they hauled the branches off so we played with them for as long as we could, and no teacher stopped us.