How Were You At Building Things When You Were A Child?

When I was a kid, I didn't like playing with lego or anything that needs to be put together. I had toys, a lot of them, but never really find enjoyment with it. I was more into reading and writing. My dad would always bring home children's books and I was always eager to read them all the time. My grandma would send me boxes of books as well. Weird, right?

I wasn't really good at anything until i was taught the right way. I terms of building things i really got started with my grandpa, an engineer, we would build massive tinker toy sets together. Eventually i got my very own Lincoln logs and would massive towns and battle scenes with my friends or on the carpet in my room by myself. I loved to mix Lincoln logs with the plastic army men to make my very own epics. The next step i took was legos which i couldnt have for awhile because the pieces were to small. I started out with a bunch of the standard blocks from my brother and sister, but then i got into getting the actual sets like indiana jones or the cowboy themes. I would mix and match all my lego pieces. Lincoln logs were still more fun to do with friends though, and i could never get into erector sets because of the time it took to connect the pieces. I did make one pretty cool erector set car though. Well thats all i got, its my first My Lot post ty everybody (:

I loved lego, because I was an only child I had to entertain myself most of the time, and I used to spend hours and hours playing with my lego, I never ran out of things to do and build, I was given a meccano set, and I hated it, I think I had that many tantrums with it, most of the pieces ended up bent awry or lost or hoovered up. Do you remember stickle bricks? Not sure if they still have those, they didn't at the nurseries I worked at, but they were construction bricks a bit like velcro. Fond memories, I gave my lego away, and my train set!

I guess I just wasn't really interested. I didn't have dolls and stuff like that either, just books!

I was never good with my hands. All I have learned to do with them has been done through teaching them painfully. Even typing now is a difficult thing. We did not have legos then, but other wooden blocks. They did not stay in place.

I wasnt bad. I cant say I was a genuis. But I was good enough and I enjoyed building with blocks, then the lego and finally with the pneumatic. Those are my fond memories when my brother and I would look into the booklet that came with the pneumatic kit and finally actually build a working model of certain machines. It used to be fun.

I wasn't too bad. Didn't really like models with lots of little parts. Did like to build with blocks. I think I played with my sister's blocks more than she did. My folks didn't buy us toys with lots of little parts like Legos, or Lincoln Logs or Erector sets...

I was very good at building things when I was a child, a teen, a young adult, into my middle age... Physical limitations have slowed me down now, though.

I loved building things as a kid. We had the common building toys like blocks and lincoln logs etc but I really loved building real things. I had several tree forts and I built a couple of underground forts that were very cool. I also built snow houses complete with a roof which my mother hated as she was always afraid that they would collapse on me. They never did.

hi Janey I had an erector set with steel pieces and I was great at making the most grotesque buildings that made everyone laugh but I would get upset when they teased too much and throw things at them.My son had leggos and made all sorts of fantastic things with them. The only problem with them are all the nasty sharp little pieces that the kids will forget to pick up then mom walks into the dark living room and ouch I stepped on one with bare feet. I never had anything hurt so badly . I yelled like a banshee and My husband came running and looked at my foot."Honey we need to get you to the ER.": We dropped off the kids at my moms and got to the ER. It was late so hardly anybody was there. the E R doctor stitched my cut foot up and gave me some pain pills to take when the numbing injection wore off.

Dunno about when I was a child. We had legos or lincoln logs or something. But when Dearra was a baby, it was my job to build a castle, and her job to knock it down.

..so he stuck the pilot on TOP of the cockpit. This made me laugh! It reminded me of the times when I was a kid and I would mis-match toys and have big action figures sitting on top of a plane or a car or a tank and pretend they were driving/piloting them. I think I was good at Lego though. The problem I had when I was young was that I didn't have enough of it.

Everybody has their strong points.For example,you are a good hand at cooking.

I was not good or interested in making models but I do remember with great affection a building set which comprised bricks,roofs,windows,etc and one could build up little houses with them in all manner of designs. I even remember the feel of these bricks, they were silky smooth and probably made of some kind of plaster. I have a feeling that the building set was a present from the States as we had a family friend living there who sent things to us when we were children in England. I spent many hours building and rebuilding these attractive little houses, I am surprised that it did not inspire me to become an architect!

I never did anything like building. My brother did, I remember he built me a tree house. Was like a bedroom here. But I could never do anything like him.