What was your favorite thing to do when you were 8 years old?

Question

I loved making paper dolls out of the pages of an old Sears catalog, and making up stories of the people and how they interacted. Always chose the men who wore lumberjack shirts and jeans and used power tools, and young women pushing strollers with two or three kids in them. Also had lots of pets in this imaginary world.

Also liked playing different occupations, like secretary or principal or store owner or veterinarian with groups of other kids. When our neighborhood played school, I was always the superintendent or something.

My other favorite things were playing in the woods and fields by the river where I grew up. Picking loads of wildflowers, and singing the lyrics to "The Sound of Music".

Amazingly, I had all the latest toys a kid could have, we were quite well off, but these are the things that I remember most fondly. Stuff that cost nothing, and was more creative, interacting with other kids or just "Imaginationland". HOw about you?

Answer 1

i used to play power rangers when i was little, i was obsessed with it.now things have changed alot.

Answer 2

My favourite occupations were

riding my bike pretending it was a horse

making a 'camp' in the woods

playing on my roller skates

playing my recorder

singing hymns out of my hymn book

paddling and fishing in the local stream

playing my old 78s on my old gramaphone

Answer 3

My favorite thing to do was to play with LEGOs. They were and still are the best toy ever made. I made all sorts of things, and actually starting around 8 or 9 I began this epic story with all my lego characters that spanned years.

As an engineer and aspiring writer, I can look back and see the influence those toys had on me. They fostered by creativity and gave me vital practice in building and assembling things.

Answer 4

being a bad boy