Things you loved most as a kid

[Democracy White]

I liked snow sledding. That was fun. Also going to carnivals and riding on all those dizzying rides.
I also liked watching Saturday morning cartoons and recieving prizes in my cereal box.

What about you? What things did you love as a kid?

Dee

[StaggerLee]

1. Riding bikes

I've never felt so free in all my life.

[tk2kewl]

2. Playing football in the Police Boys Club league

:D

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Swimming in the municipal pool

(and it hasn't changed in 35 years!), skating at the roller rink to great '60s tunes, and bike riding

[Wickerman]

4. biking, sledding, playing in the barn and apple trees at my cousins

I liked to build model cars, too, and not just for the paint and glue... :smoke:

[achtung_circus]

5. A few things.

Fireworks at the fairgrounds on the Victoria Day weekend (May24).
Cicadas.
Swimming at the town pool.
Tobogganing at the golf course, getting cold feet and going to my grandmother's to sit with my feet in the oven of her cook stove, drinking hot chocolate.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. I loved pretty much the exact same things as you

:thumbsup:

[Go Eagles]

7. just a handful

Playing baseball and going to major league games, camping, playing football, swimming, going to the beach, riding my bike around town, fishing, and playing pinball.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

8. What a wonderful, nostalgia-inducing thread!

Chasing lightning bugs in the back yard.

Harvesting four o'clock seeds and pretending they were little hand grenades.

Picking Rose of Sharon flowers and pretending they were dolls (look at one; they look like they belonged in "Gone With The Wind!")

Playing "Red Rover" and making up other games.

Playing kickball in the street, as well as basketball, softball and tackle football with the boys.

Our annual Memorial Day trips to graves, when we'd stop at the Derby Star and Lo-Mar in Eureka, Kansas for pop and ice cream, respectively.

Sitting on the porch with my parents listening to the cicadas and collecting their shells on our screen door.

[MsAnthropy]

9. Playing records, reading, popcorn on Sunday afternoons

[livetohike]

10. Camping in the back yard and watching meteor showers

Swinging on vines

Hanging out at the pool with my friends

Watching baseball games with my Dad

Riding horses at my girl friend's farm

Staying at my Grandparents for a "vacation"

Girl Scout camp in the summers

Roller skating

Picking wild berries on an early summer morning and eating half of them before getting home!

Building snow forts, sledding, having snowball fights

Playing hide and go seek at dark

Jumping rope

Yearly family reunion picnic at my Aunt and Uncle's place

[zbdent]

11. "Lady Fingers" from the local bakery

or, as some call them, "Cream Horns".

We used to call them Lady Fingers - they were huge, too.