hobbies as a child?

I don't remember reading about it but there was a program on the travel channel about those men the noodle those huge catfish, and I mean huge. I love to skin and deep fry catfish in beer batter but not one big enough to turn around and bite my butt first. These things were humongous....

This post is like a walk down memory lane.

summer, I remember the gum wrappers chains. My aunt taught me to crochet. She also taught us how to make paper flowers out of tissue paper. I loved those things!

Meredit, there wasnoting like a fresh box of colored pencils or crayons with fresh points! Your post about diorama brought back bad memories of school projects. I wasn't the creative type so I couldn't stand doing those things!

JJ, I played around tree trunks too. There always seemed to be bridges from town to town. I put little sticks from root to root and voila...all the little towns were connected.

We also did shows in the driveway. My older sister was the one in charge. She ran the shows. I believe one time we even charged a fee. I think I tap danced in that one.

JJ, I was also a Barbie head switcher. I didn't play with dolls too much, but when I did I goofed off. I was too busy running the neighborhood.

Smile, I also played in the stream. My favorite game ws trying to walk the stream without getting wet.

Thanks for all the great memories!

Hi,
I remember the gum chans and making necklaces for whoever wanted them.
I drew a lot and was encouraged at school never at home.
Mom did a lot of crafts I watched a lot and that's where I think the beginning of mine was.
Collected stamps still have them and add every once in a while.
Maggie

I did the pot holder and don't have any now around. I read and read a lot of books also. I started on day at our library and keep going around the room to read all kinds of books .. Love to draw, but pictures got thrown out for some reason when I put them out for Dad and Mom to look at. Paint buy numbers love that and still do... Not, what else did I do??? I will think about this later, This is fun!

My brother and I used to build the little towns, but we were a little more dangerous. When my parents would leave on Fri nights we would take shoe boxes and build little towns in the fireplace. After drawing little windows and doors on them we would take little plastic army men and place them all around. Then we would light the town on fire!! How we never burned down the house I'll never know. We watched the boxes burn, and the army men melt, and sometimes would take squirt bottles and play firemen.

Now being an adult and knowing that those things don't just disappear, I wonder why we didn't get in trouble for doing that, or maybe I forgot that part. But I know if I went to clean out the ashes and found melted plastic and half burnt army men, there were be an interrogation!!

My next question to myself is, how old were we when they would leave us alone in the house??

I love catfish, had some for lunch today, as a matter of fact!

As for hobbies as a kid, I did the potholder thing because I couldn't knit or crochet. I'm lefthanded and no one could teach me without me turning it upside down. Didn't work for me.

I also read.. still do... a ton. I particularly liked the Boxcar Children, Chronicles of Narnia, Toby joins the Circus, and of course all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries. I liked the Laura Ingalls books too.

I had a coin collection started by a family friend that joined the Army and had to go to Vietnam. I still have it. Every month he'd send me money he got from the different countries he was in.

He was my only penpal in Vietnam. I also had a penpal in New Mexico. I guess that was a hobby too.

Reading all these posts sure brought back memories of things I had forgotten. Yep, did the potholders, the embroidery, sewed all my clothes...still have the entire set of Nancy Drew books! My siblings and I used to play "fort" in the small space between the houses - lugging back boxes from the appliance store on the corner to make the buildings. I also played "teacher" in the back patio. Had a big chalkboard and I'd arrange the patio furniture into a school room and "teach" my imaginary students. My mother still kids me about that to this day!

And I wonder how much my old stamp and coin collection is worth now???

Pen Pals, that's another thing I forgot about. YOu mentioned Viet NAm. DId any of your wear those POW bracelets? I think mine is still in the attic.

Wow, I did Dotsie, but I have no clue as to whatever became of mine!

I spent most of my childhood with my nose in a book. I can rememeber being quite young (around 3 or so) and I would read to my Granny. She used to tell everyone, "isn't that sweet? she memorized that book." Dang it, I was reading and no one believed it apparently. When I was in first grade our teacher took us to the library and showed us the "picture books" and "easy readers." I got the impression from that visit that those were the ONLY books that a first grader was "allowed" to read...I always checked out the limit (we could take 7 at a time) and I always tried to make them last. I would resist reading them as long as possible, because I knew that once I began they would too soon be over. I never lasted more than a day or two and it was a whole week until the next library day! Imagine my delight when one day on a whim I picked up a "chapter book" and the librarian assured me that I could check out ANY book in the school library! Woo hoo, I was on my way and I took pains to try and check out one really long book each time so that my classmates would be jealous (LOL) Somehow now that I look back, they probably cared less. My favorite books were the Box Car Children series, The OZ series, Little Women and any kind of mystery. For my 45th birthday, my Aunt Sharon searched through all the Half-Price Bookstores in Austin and presented me with a complete set of the Box Car Children. It was one of those perfect gifts ever.