We made or own fun.

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I certainly made my own fun as a kid, it is a wonder I survived it, as it was often very dangerous indeed.

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As a child growing up post war and in poverty, I did not have toys as such. Most of my days were spent playing outdoors, roaming the countryside for the entire day, exploring and climbing trees. When obliged to be indoors, then play consisted of homemade entertainment, reading, playing cards and board games.

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I was surprised to see the Forestry Commission advertising a course for kids on how to build a camp, something as a kid we did without help.

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Having 5 brothers and a sister we always made up our own games , I was actually given a doll for Christmas I can still see her now , she was my only toy . We played skipping , hopscotch , dens , cowboys and Indians and all kinds of fun and mischief. We climbed trees too .

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I liked sitting on someone’s shoulders, l would put a long coat on and we’d knock on doors for a laugh.

I also, liked memory games with a tray of items, someone took one item/items away and you had to remember what it was.

Or, you would look in the window of a Haberdashery shop. Then go away and write everything down that you could remember.

Kids today would probably say, ‘That’s boring, give me my Xbox’!

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I remember having such fun playing hopscotch, tying a rope to lampist and playing skipping games, playing in the Tarzan swing in the woods with a big group of friends, making a den with coats thrown over mums winter edge, hide and seek, playing elastics, leap frog, doing cartwheels and handstands, fishing for newts and tadpoles, playing rounders, putting a tennis ball in one of mums nylon stockings and standing against a wall throwing over my shoulders and in middle of legs, oh the list is endless but I have such fond memories of childhood games. I.m so glad I was a child in the 60s and not a child if today.

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Remember these simple playthings we made from scraps.

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What did they call them origami things we would put numbers and messages on?

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I used to love those!

Just trying to remember how you make one, to show my grandson next week!

You begin with a square, fold the corners into the middle...off to find a piece of paper