Did you make your own toys when you were a kid?

I didn't exactly make physical toys, but I would invent games to play. Sometimes, it's a cooking game with bits of grass and flowers, with paper boats serving as plates, other times I would organize my cousins and neighbours into teams and give them some scenes to act out. We were outdoors a lot and we would just draw ideas from the things available, be it animals, trees, rocks or scraps of paper, there were no end to our imagination. Yup, we also made blowing bubbles from soapy water, using our hands as a medium. That was so much fun now that I thought back.

A few yes. :) I enjoyed it with clay, sea shells from sand, and all that. :) It was fun! I even used old card board covers to make a shady path for ants!!!

YES. we have a festival for a god.. whom WESTERNERS like to call the ELEPHANT GOD. we call him the FIRST GOD to be worshiped. ... every year, around August-SEPTEMBER, it is a nine-day long festival to celebrate the BIRTHDAY of this GOD.. GANESHA .. AND, for celebrating that, ------------- all the kids make their own GOD idols, from MUD .. and, along with the god's idol, make a few more idols, toys, etc... that way, they learn and enjoy.

When I was a child I loved to create my own toys, and I was very creative. I made puppets, dolls or many other things. One day my uncle gave me a lot of old paper that he didn't need anymore. He was going to throw it away, but he decided to ask me if I wanted it, and I turned the paper into dolls. I made many, many dolls. I started with a few and I kept on adding new ones all the time. After a while I had more than 200 dolls and I loved them. I played with them for many, many hours

I loved to make my own toys as a child. Sometimes my toy inventions gave me greater joy than a store bought toy. It was the best time when inventing a new toy.

I don't know about making my own toys, but I know for sure I was breaking the bought ones :D My parents weren't very happy about that.

i certainly wasnt as creative as i am now. i dont remember making my own toys but i did think of different ways to use them.

I'm happy that you had so much fun making your own toys. It takes imagination to turn a big cardboard box into a house my making some windows or a ship or submarine. We made costumes and masks and capes and became superheroes. We made skateboards or scooters out of wood. Thanks for bringing me back to my childhood days.

I came from a not-so-rich family. I only had one barbie doll in entire childhood. I think that's the reason why I never liked dolls. So, what we would normally do is just play hide and seek, copys and robbers or any game that doesn't require any props or toys. Most of the time I would only watch tv. I'm not really very physical when it comes to play. My siblings would play wrestling and I hated it. I didn't like to be hurt.

i used to play bubbles using detergent soaps,but my father used to have something like leaves from such tree to make a bubble,i just can't remember anymore.i also used to play with my niece nowadays bubbles made of soaps also. i do try to make an airplane made of paper or boat then start gliding it in water,so much fun! oh,it really is fun to be a kid,cause you have no problems at all,just playing around and thinking what kind of play to have the next day.

It just feels good to recall those days when we were still kids when everything is just simple even the toys we used were not as complicated compared to the toys of the kids nowadays. I also played or made the ones that you have mentioned, like doing bubbles from plants and flowers and just adding a little soap, making paper dolls and desining its clothes. We also made phones out of cans and also cooking different leaves and flowers. It was really fun playing outdoor games and simple toys rather than just playing in front of computers and watching TV.

Yes,i think so.It is common for me to make my own toys when i was a kid.In my childhood,there was not enough money for me to buy some toys at all.So i made the toys by myself.It is a happy thing to do.

I made mine from parts of different toys which didn't survive my terror.

Hello Abitcurious. I can't remember ever making my own toys but we definitely had more fun than kids do now. Oh yes I remember making rag dolls from old clothes and playing with them. I was more of a tomboy though so I was more in to playing sporty games.

yes i did...as a kid we could hardly afford any toys. We used to use the motor bike tyres to play. We have also tired playing the bearing ring of the trucks. Its a ring which is around 10 inches in diametre. we used to maka an arc of a thick wire and push the ring with it. We used to make a paper ball wrap it with a polythene bag and put a rubber band around it to make it hard. We use to play with it. We used to catch dragon flies and tie a thread around its tail and let it fly....i dont recollect now but we have had lot of fun in childhood.