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My favourite activity was playing with my paper dolls. My Mam gave me a special pair of small scissors and woe betide anyone who borrowed them...and didn't return them! I kept my paper dolls in a small padded sewing box and my special place to play was on the closed piano lid. Happy days, simple pleasures.

Definitely 'elastics' - we used to play for hours! If there weren't three of us, then we'd use a chimney plantpot as the other person. We had so many rhymes, & I can still remember some of them.

My favourite game was stuck in the mud

Oh it has to be a good old game of marbles in the schoolyard!!
I remember collecting and swapping clay marbles and old china marbles fondly and still have in my loft.

I used to make theatres out of cardboard boxes.All wallpapered and fitted out with a little light, and I would put on puppet shows with my puppets.

Hopscotch! A few coloured sticks of chalk and a strip of pavement gave hours of fun

Loved my Spirograph!

The childhood game I miss the most is skipping, I lived in a cul-de-sac as a child and we had a long rope that went from one side of the road to the other.
We used to take turns at turning and skipping, with all different skipping rhymes.

picking bluebells in woods then making perfume from it and trying to sell it. My first venture into retail at 8 years old.

Going on to the beach with my friends at Barassie (Scotland) in front of our house during or just after an Atlantic storm to see what “treasures” have been washed up then collecting cork and making a mini-bonfire among the sand dunes. Drinking copious quantities of Turners or Curries American Cream Soda (or Orangeaid if Mrs McDonald’s wee shop had run out of the ACS) while eating chocolate caramel wafers (Tunnocks or Gray-Dunn’s). All the while killing ourselves laughing at how our respective mums and dads had cleaned the windows of their houses just the day before ?

I enjoyed ludo or jacks

I loved my spirograph and jacks

Playground activities - skipping, french skipping, handstands, hula hooping, tag - most of which are banned in schools today. What a shame.

Playing hopscotch in the street, chalking out the squares and numbering them. It's a wonderful childhood memory to have.

Making houses in the long grass before houses were built on the land.

Sledging down the fields near our home with my cousins, then going home wet through with my feet freezing in my wellies. Sitting as near to the open fire as I could, making toast and warming my toes. Very happy memories.

When growing up in Albert Square, this was time when Eastenders was showing on TV. We used to direct people to the Queen Vic, top of our road, and tell them they were filming in there. Great fun. Of course we felt like filmstars! great memories.

My sister and our friends used to put on plays in the back garden. We would drape old blankets over the swings as our curtain and dress up and put out all the chairs and send out invitations to siblings and parents to come to our play. It was always either being princesses being recued or being swashbuckling pirates.

I loved to play Marbles with my big brother!! We would spend hours on our back street either playing freehand or with a piece of string fashioned into a circle. Oh the joy when you knocked a marble out of that circle as it was yours to keep!!
My mother even made us marble bags, out of our Granda's old striped pyjamas lol. Such happy memories.

Collecting wild flowers and making perfume which did not smell nice! But i would make everyone wear it anyway!

british bulldog. we lived in a area with big grassed sections, all the local kids would get together on one of the areas and play together for hours as there was so many of us. i'd broken my leg a few years earlier and have pins in it. the others wouldn't go after me so it was always my siblings tagging me, other than that i just ran up and down the field til one of them was caught

Playing in the field behind our house

Hi Everyone, I was a child of the fifties and one of my favourite activities was going to my best friends house to play mud pies in her fathers greenhouse.
We spent many happy hours creating all sorts of ' pies ' and getting absolutely filthy dirty.
Happy times, and our parents didn't mind the clearing up, of us and the greenhouse !!!

It's got to be the annual unearthing of the lorry cart out of the back of the garage and all the kids on the street fixing them up and adding modifications for a summer of racing down the hill at the back of our hkuses

Making perfume from crushed rose petals in the late Summer sunshine. My Grandma was ill and took lots of tablets so she would give me her old pill bottles (an unflattering brown!). Loved this pastime, in fact I may have to do it again. Also used the rose petals to put in books too.