Did you ever have a homemade...?

Question

Toy or play equipment your parents or someone made for you, when you were young, instead of the now a days electronic toys? My dad built us a maze of balancing beams...a homemade trampoline...too funny...tether ball poll...the usual basket ball goal...but man did we have fun...I was a tomboy...all brothers...all boy cousins...climbed trees...etc...
Thanks to all that answer...=)
~PEACE~

homemade swingset...or swing that hung on a tree...

Answer 1

my dad made a twister game out of a blanket.. lots a fun.
he also made a go cart without an engine ofcourse, we would push each other around the yard.. fun aswell
my mom painted snakes & ladders & other similar boardgames onto cardboards & we would play as a family.

boy do i miss those days!

Answer 2

Yeah my dad made us a big sandbox, with pealercores sides, and three on the end to climb up on. Also he built us a few tree houses. The best of which was three stories high and was super cool, until the neighbor lady called the city and said that my dad was using it to spy on her when she was sunbathing. She was about 250# and 5 feet tall. So we had to take it down. :(

Answer 3

My grandpa was an old Indian from Indiana, and he use to carve us kids lots of wooden toys. The one I loved the most was a wooden man whose arm and leg joints were held together by strings and he was standing on a long board. When you tapped the board real fast to music, the man danced like crazy, arms and legs going in all kinds of directions! It was so cool! Last year at a craft show, there was an old man selling them and I just had to have one. Now every time I play with it, I think of the days of long ago when my grandpa and I would dance our men together!

Answer 4

My Dad built these amazing forts for my brother and me. They were simple - cardboard boxes, most intricately cut - like he was used to in combat. We had missions to find various items - a toothbrush, an old sock, our favorite toy - and the treat was the game, not the reward. It was just time with Dad, and that was far more rewarding than any computer game these days!

Answer 5

My dad was a carpenter and made me quite a lot of toys but the one I remember most was the doll's house that had stairs and little lights that turned on and off.
My mum made me a loopy loo doll that I loved, and lots of fancy dress costumes. I won a competition when I was about 3. The whole costume was made out of pink crepe paper.

Answer 6

Ya, my dad made each of us kids the toy we called "clackers". It was two hard plastic balls about the size of golf balls each one at the end of a thin rope about 10 inches long and connected at the top. You'd swing the ropes together to have the balls connect, thus the clacking sound. The faster you went the balls would hit from top to bottom. Thanks for question and bringing back that memory!!

Answer 7

ooooh yeah. I had swingsets, sand boxes, doll chests, basket ball stuff, it was awesome. The coolest one in our neighborhood was a castle made out of a sucession of refridgerator card board boxes. it was so awesome. I actually kinda miss it. weird.

Answer 8

yea me and my dad put his 1970 fast back mustang together and we enjoyed taking on the back roads and flooring it. Yea we put the almighty 351 CLEVELAND in that sucker. So it was both of our toys in a way

Answer 9

i don't think of it fairly is a stable thought. you could be very careful with what you positioned around your eyes. you do not prefer to get a watch an infection or worse, do you? it may purchase you a visit to the ophthalmologist.

Answer 10

tire swing, tied to a tree branch