What Was Your Favorite Outdoor Playtime Activity That Involved Something That Was Made By You Are Your Parents?
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November 24th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
We had three swings hung from tree limbs, one had a used tire which was the favorite for going around in circles. Dad also made us a teeter totter but after my bro pulled a few tricks and i got hurt a couple of times dad took it a part. We also had a tree house. There was also a weeping willow tree where the branches a leaves were on the ground we had a fort inside of there we would just swat the bugs out of our hair in there lol.
November 24th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
My Dad made a baseball field out of plywood. The “pitch” was delivered f/ outside the center field wall by rolling a marble down a piece of curved woodwork. The swing was done by a rubber band loaded bat.
I have 2 other ideas (stemming f/ my childhood imagination and activity) that I think are too good to risk losing them to a public forum.
November 24th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Actually mine was indoor/outdoor.
Mom had these slabs of 1/8″ thick cardboard, maybe 2 ft x 3 ft, that she would lay flat and, using old newspapers and “paper mache” flour & water mix, pile up to create a terrain filled with mountains. After it dried, it would be the perfect place to deploy little plastic army men or little cowboys and indians.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:39 am
I built this really neat tree fort in the back yard………..and some days I wish that fort was here again, .its really neat to go back and be a kid again, life was so simple, and easy. and so laid back,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and that I so desperately want……..to roll back the clock to 60 Years ago!
November 25th, 2009 at 7:32 am
I loved to play with cars in the dirt. We built whole towns in the dirt. I really believe that that is where I developed my imagination. Later on, when I got a few years older Dad retired a private airplane and pulled it up on the land back of our house and I flew many a mission out there on the back lot.
November 25th, 2009 at 10:55 am
The backyard bonfire in the evenings in summer. Also, the tents that Mom built on the clothes lines with blankets, sheets and her clothes pins. My Dad also built me a one runner with a seat type ski thing I would sit on and go down the snowy hill. I think he called it a ski devil.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
In those days before plastic “swimming pools”, Mom found a galvanized wash tub. Set that in the yard, filled it with water from the hose.
And somebody, maybe my big brother or a cousin, made a swing with rope and a board with notches on the ends for a seat.
November 25th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
We raised pigeons and pheasants that we were involved with, along with chickens and ducks, we were kept pretty busy. Other then this it was baseball among the neighbors in the “sandlot” in the evening, before T.V.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:05 am
My absolute favorite were the shows my brother and I put on in our Backyard. Puppet shows, and circuses using our pets, and our own Vaudeville shows with singing and dancing. . . all the kids joined in and we had so much fun !
November 26th, 2009 at 4:19 am
When my parents were building their home there was a huge pile of dirt in the backyard from digging the basement. I had a blast sledding down that hill that summer. It was warmer than snow sledding and kept me entertained.
November 26th, 2009 at 5:24 am
Dad built a swing for me.
Not like the ones today.
He made it from steel pipes
rope and a wooden seat
My son is going to build another
one for me when spring comes.
I have the perfect tree.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:40 am
In the winter Jackie, My father would hook up the Garden hose and Repeatedly, cover the driveway with water, until it was a Skating Rink! be it a Bit bumpy we kids had a blast!! he really had a heart of a Kid!!!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
muilt level tree house hours were spend there dreaming also old cars stored in the feild close to home the places they would take me.
November 26th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
a tree house by my dad. I made one for my kids later in life. And just recently made on for my grandson were we live to today.
November 26th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
My father gave us some old wood and a hammer and nails. We made some terrible dog houses! It kept us busy for hours. These days they wouldn’t dream of giving a kid a hammer and nails.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
my tire swing was a tractor tire..three or four of us would swing around it..leap through the hole and land in leaves or swing it into the sprinkler..good times!
November 27th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Our swing set was built by my dad, of wood. It was my favorite toy.
November 27th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Our swing set. Daddy made it, he could make anything.
November 27th, 2009 at 7:15 am
horseshoes
November 27th, 2009 at 10:23 am
When I was in the second grade, my parents bought a brand new upright freezer. It was delivered in a big crate & my father put the empty crate outside under the apple tree in our backyard, lengthwise. He covered the top of it with plastic, so it wouldn’t leak inside when it rained. That was “my” new playhouse & my playmate from next door, & I spent hours in it playing with our dolls, paper dolls, & eating lunch in it, that my mom prepared & served to us. When it was stormy outside, my parents didn’t let me/us play in it, for fear of the tree coming down on top of it. I still have such great memories of that special playhouse.
November 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
I don’t remember that my parents made outdoor stuff for us but I had four older brothers and sisters with vivid imaginations and they were good at building forts and making little towns in the yard. My brothers once took an old 55 gallon barrel and strung a rope through it. They tied the ropes to two adjacent trees and made us our very own bucking bronco. We took turns getting thrown off of that thing. We had to improvise a lot back then and it’s a shame that kids don’t work at doing that now. Ever notice that kids don’t play anymore?
November 27th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
My mom helped us put up rope and sheets in the garage to make a “Stage”. We would rehearse songs and dances all week then we would have shows on the weekends. We bought penny candy at old Aikens store, and sold them at our shows. Mom would make big pitchers of cool-aid or tang for refreshments. We made guitars out of pieces of 2 x 4′s that we would put nails in the ends and put rubber bands around the nails, and miracas out of cans with beans in them. We had so much fun. Once a ham, always a ham lol
November 27th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
We had many trees in our back yard and my sister and I would play there every day. One day our aunt came by, took a ball of twine and went from tree to tree making ‘rooms’ for our ‘house’. She tied twine around a tree and moved on to the next tree to make a wall and then fix it so we would have ‘doors’ to the rooms. We loved it. Poppy
November 27th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
My dad actually built us a go-kart with a lawn mower engine when we were only about ten years old. We lived in the country on a dirt road and spent hours speeding up and down the road in this thing until the day the steering wheel came off in my cousin’s hands and he landed in the ditch. He was lucky that he he didn’t impale himself on the shaft where the steering wheel had been. Our mothers made sure that go-kart disappeared that very day.
November 28th, 2009 at 6:45 am
Every summer we would play down by a large river. We would usually get inner tubes or other items to float down the river with. One time we went to the a nearby junkyard, I am sorry to admit, stole a metal pontoon, from old metal aircraft hull parts. My brother and I hack-sawed the extra metal parts off and plugged any holes. We dragged it down to the river (about half a mile away) and tossed it into the river to go floating down the river like we were in Mark Twain’s Huck Finn story or something. We went for miles.We went so far that we didn’t get home until late that night. The rest of the story I will keep to myself and my sore butt.
November 28th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Flying the kites my grandmother used to help me make, she would get some extra paper from the butcher, she would outline where it was to be cut then I could draw anything I wanted on it and she would make a tail out of old clothes and rags and we’d head to the park right down the street. The other thing was the town she and I had made of milk cartons and other food boxes. She’d help me make them into all kinds of businesses and houses and I could play with the town for hours. We would paint them and cover them with paper or cloth and they had doors and windows.The apartment houses were three story ones. I had my own cars and trucks, fire engine, ambulance, police cars, and even big rigs.What fun I had.