What Toys Did You Play With When You Were A Child?

It's nice to see different pieces of clothing on your dolls. I only learned how to ride a bicycle when I got older.

@Beestring My God Father used to spoil me with fancy dolls for my birthday and for Christmas. I had far more then any child needed. I remember he gave me one all dressed up as a bride. My mother used to put a piece of plastic over it so that the sun would not yellow the dress and I never ever played with that one as it was too fancy for my liking. I remember having almost 20 dolls at one time, and that was before I got into the Barbie doll phase. I received a bike after passing out of grade 2, and from then on all of my nice weather days were spent out pedaling on it. I really loved to ride the bike on our little back road where there was no traffic and it was very quiet and peaceful.

@Juliaacv Wow, so many dolls. How did you play with them other than dressing them up?

I played Monopoly and Chinese checkers and cards.

Our family played monopoly a lot too.

@marlina II like playing Chinese checkers too.

Me too. I designed a lot of clothes for my paper dolls.

@Beestring just cardboard hangers lol

@sol_cee That's good enough.

Wow, you made hangers too. That was fun.

I was quite obsessed with paper dolls. Never played with Barbie dolls even when I got older when my family could afford to buy me one.

@sica98 You have a point there. For Barbie, do you design the clothing for the doll?

@Beestring Paper doll and Barbie has similarities with the whole all you can dress up thing.The thing with paper doll is that it always tear after a while with the folding tabs.I had to always use tape to fix it because I overplayed with them.

Oh, that is interesting. What kind of weapons you've made?

@dodostrez I see. What do you use it for?

@Beestring like this

@Beestring I remember imagining and playing with my little kitchen set. I was three, 1965. Those were the simple, happy days of childlike play and life. :-)

Yes, although our family could not afford to buy me expensive toys, I enjoyed the toys I played with. Your kitchen set sounds good.

Yea, I had a fun time playing water pistols with the brothers.

@Beestring Was fun!

oh, I like jump rope too.

@Beestring Yes it is. It's fun to play with

Yes, I enjoyed the toys I played with. Your toy Hit me sounds interesting.

@Beestring I don't read so much nowadays - too busy online!

That should be fun. Do you still like reading now?

@58lordstreet Don't knock it until you've tried it!

@Beestring no i was never into shoes thank goodness, that would have been odd lol

Haha, I've tried wearing my sister's high-heeled shoes too.

@Beestring yes

So basically, your sister made a doll for you.

@Beestring she my auntie always bought something arty for me at christmas- had the plastic that you pour into moulds to make paperweights , probably highly dangerous now lol

@58lordstreet You had been exposed to many artistic things. Are you doing something in the art field now?

Barbie was not that popular in my place at that time. Even if it's available, my family could not afford to buy me a Barbie doll. So I played paper dolls. You've played with many artistic things.

That was creative and fun.

Haven't heard of "Lite Brite". I also liked coloring in coloring books.

It appears that paper dolls were quite popular in those days.

My brothers played with toy cars a lot.

It was fun to play with things you made yourself. You must be a creative person.

Sounds fun.