Odd things you liked doing as a kid

[iLoveMeSomeCanoles]

Eating the knuckles off the top of chicken drumsticks

I still do that now tbh...

Just remembered my obsession with "The Girl from Tomorrow": made myself a little wristband out of lined paper and staples lol and would talk to "PJ" through it. I also wore an Alice band on my forehead as a Transducer and went round staring at things intently.

 

[Cammiebrett]

I enjoyed making potions out of wet mud, stones, grass etc in a bucket in the garden, and pretend I was a witch, stirring it with a stick.

My little girl made a potion yesterday with rose petals, water, perfume and....garlic powder

 

[TwooTwooTwitTwitTwoo]

I still do that now tbh...

Just remembered my obsession with "The Girl from Tomorrow": made myself a little wristband out of lined paper and staples lol and would talk to "PJ" through it. I also wore an Alice band on my forehead as a Transducer and went round staring at things intently.

I did the hairband/transducer thing too. It was such a cool programme.

 

[Youre a wizard Harry]

I used to play with Barbies with my sister, but we would play for hours and the characters had very intricate back stories- like we were using the dolls to act out a soap opera. We would say ‘pause the game’ if one of us had to go to the toilet or something, we couldn’t continue on our own
On the topic of Barbies, we would get a bowl filled with water and wash our barbies’ clothes in the garden and hang them out to dry
When we started going on holidays abroad, my dad would buy a guide book every single time and I used to enjoy the section about health risks or diseases in that country.
I was obsessed with Harry Potter (my bedroom was a shrine to the whole series for a few years) and when I was around 10, I decided I was going to audition to play Fleur Delacour in the Goblet of fire. I was dead set on it, started writing an application letter and found an address online in the USA to send it to. My mum found it and was not impressed

 

[HarJR289]

I used to enjoy writing letters to the NSPCC when I used to get told off. Then asking my mum to post them with the address ever so clear

 

[Very traditional]

This is such a lovely wholesome thread!

 

[TapToBoreMeRigid]

I used to put my bike upside-down and generally tinker with it while pretending I was a mechanic. Of course I would put a juice carton in the back wheel too so it sounded like a motorbike as I pedalled. Ha.

 

[Ibrokethegoddamnwheel]

I’d slide down the stairs in a pillowcase (with the pillow in it for extra padding!) or in a sleeping bag. Swore up and down it was amazing fun but my parents never wanted to give it a go. As an adult myself now I can see why, seems like it would be a pretty bumpy and painful ride in an adult body.

A couple of my friends and I had this ‘secret club’ where we would pretend we were super heroes and would sneak out of our houses at night to meet up at the ‘clubhouse’ which had all this fancy tech and even a butler. Sort of like the kids show PJ Masks but about 20 years before that was a thing. We’d regale each other with tales about how one of us went out and saved the world the night before, at sleep overs we would plan to go to the imaginary clubhouse once the parents were asleep. Designed our costumes and all sorts. It was all nonsense! Non of us ever snuck out at night or did anything apart from a few drawings, yet we role played as if it was all real!

 

[HoGi]

I used to enjoy writing letters to the NSPCC when I used to get told off. Then asking my mum to post them with the address ever so clear

This is like having childline on speed dial which was a classic with me and my mates in pur early teens

 

[FenellaTheWitch]

I’d slide down the stairs in a pillowcase (with the pillow in it for extra padding!) or in a sleeping bag. Swore up and down it was amazing fun but my parents never wanted to give it a go. As an adult myself now I can see why, seems like it would be a pretty bumpy and painful ride in an adult body.

I used to come down the stairs head first on my stomach. Bump, bump, bump ... My Mum used to go mad. The stairs were so steep I'm surprised `i didn't hospitalise myself

 

[Magee]

My Dad goes fishing and when I was a kid, I used to love going to the bait shop with him and helping him pick which flavour maggots he would be catapulting in to the water. I remember the different coloured powders “the flavours” sprinkled over them and the shop owner using a big metal scoop to fill up green tubs. I loved having tiny wiggly maggots in my hand too

 

[holliebollie]

This is such a sweet thread Me and my sister would jump from the stairs onto the hallway floor, anyone else?! Just go up higher and higher each time until we were too scared. I would be too scared to do three now

 

[Cactusflower]

I used to take my doll’s heads off and drink out of them.
We went to the Tower of London when I was about 9 & I got a book on torture & punishment from the gift shop. bleeping weirdo

 

[Loveitme]

We used to play “posh ladies” and my character was called “shiela townsend” we used to recreate scenes from the 70s film of Jesus Christ Superstar and I was always Pilate.
we had an old phone and used to play vets receptionists for hours.
we used to sit in a burnt out car in the church car park and look at the porn mags that were ALWAYS in the bushes.
we used to write ancient curses and squash red spider mites on them to look like blood and leave them around to scare people
our mate was called Bernard and we used to play hospitals and he was always called Dr Bernardo
we used to tape record ourselves making adverts for crisps and all sorts of things
i once pulled my dads curtains down new rail and all where I’d wrapped myself in the curtains warbling away pretending to be Demis Roussous
when I was in the top year at primary we used to play Grease really seriously. We all had our characters and would stay in character for what felt like months. I was always Marti

this has made me smile this morning .Someone as weird as I was as a child (well maybe close ) When I was in year 6 I was obsessed with grease and decided me and my class would put on a school performance .I sat through the film rewinding it 284947 times and wrote down EVERY piece of dialogue by hand so I could make a script
Then our teacher said no to the performance but hey I had the grease script word for word

 

[Kaylon8083]

I used to get a tray and stuff from the cupboards and play Harvest Festivals as a child and sing all the hymns too.

I also used to cut house items that I really liked out of the Argos catalogue and store them in an unused toiletry bag.

I also had a big doll so I would dress her up as a bride and pinch my mum’s perfume so she’d smell nice and then make her marry my teddy bear.

 

[Blue Rose]

Whenever I drew pictures of people, usually family members, I’d draw them naked (they all had the physical features of a 4 year old girl). I can distinctly remember drawing my uncle and adding nipples (which I used to call pickles) and my mum suggesting that next time I should try drawing clothes.

I used to wear the puffy skirt that you get with some dresses on my head and pretend it was a veil and have pretend weddings all by myself. This was before my sisters were born so I was quite lonely.

I used be obsessed with worms and insects. I’d spend hours in the garden looking under stones and playing with wood lice. I ate a worm once after reading the book “How to eat fried worms”. It didn’t taste good. I also used to put worms in my pocket, carry them around whilst I was playing in the garden and then put them back when I had to go back inside.

I got my first laptop when I was 8 which had a video camera. I used to film myself doing the weirdest things. I used to pretend I had a side fringe (my best friend was obsessed with them) despite having curly hair and made up a whole song about a girl with one eyes because my ‘fringe’ covered my eye. I’d sing part of it as the girl and then tuck my hair away and pretend to be her boyfriend . One day my laptop crashed and I lost all the stuff on it, a true blessing in disguise.

Whenever I wrote stories in primary school the character’s descriptions sounded like a wattpad story. I had a friend who was obsessed with the idea of having blue eyes and blonde hair and got offended if anyone told her she didn’t (she had beautiful strawberry blonde hair and green eyes) so all she would talk about was how desirable those features are and all her characters would have them so I copied her. I literally wrote in the middle of an action scene when the character finds out he’s the chosen one “but I’m just a 6ft skinny boy, with ocean blue orbs and white blonde hair”. As someone training to become a primary school teacher I’d probably piss myself if I read that. I hope I gave my teacher a good laugh.

 

[Libbylulu]

I used to carry a duster with me and whenever we went visiting people I used to ask if I could clean for them. Embarrassing really as they’d probably specially cleaned before we got there

 

[Motherofpugs]

Me and my cousins used to make houses out of shoe boxes for our aliens (if anyone remembers those in the 90s/early 2000s).

Me and my sister used to make ‘mint soup’ and drink it. It was made from water, talcum powder and toothpaste.

I was also a bit obsessed with making dens as a kid and then there’s the classic circling one item on each page of the Argos catalogue game

 

[TartyMcFarty]

We now call creating your own worksheets metacognition and self regulation

I was obsessed with making paper dolls, even as a teenager, which I would kit out in my fashion designs. Hours of fun!