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Balls ~ I've lost my fluffing marbles SBC12

Hello Hello to all Hivians, Silver Bloggers and anyone else reading this.

This week's The Silverbloggers Chronicles - Prompt 12 is ....

Tell us about simple childhood toys.

What were some of the toys you played with?

You may even have made your own toys from ordinary stuff around the house, or made up your own games?

Fresh Air the best toy

Looking back the biggest thing we did as kids was to spend time outside.

In the summer almost all the time was spent on the beach.

Buckets and spades were never far away. Who didn't love to make sandcastles for example.

Sticks were so useful too.

You could use them as swords to have playfights with your friends. Or if the rival gang was on the beach, then you could use them for some more real fighting lol. The amount of cuts and bruised knuckles we would get I am sure would have todays society running to the police claiming child abuse or something, at least in this UK society of ours.

Of course sticks were also our dog's favourites toys too!

Talking of dogs, the other thing we would never be without was a football, see the lead image...

Unless of course your dog got to it first and yep it got deflated haha!

We used to play alot of marbles too.

Indoor Toys

There was no phones or PlayStations in my day as a child.

I used to love playing with toy cars and also now that I think about it toy soldiers!

I know I would devise little contests amongst them all, I am sure others did the same!

I also had a dart board in my bedroom and would play all sorts of games on there.

We really were creative with what we did.

The other item I had was a pack of cards. I remember one year for Christmas I got a paperback book of card tricks and would practise them for hours on end.

To this day I can still pull some tricks from up my sleeve lol!

What about you? What were some of the toys you played with??

Let me know in the comments! And why not join in with the fun and start your Chronicle!?

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!

My previous Chronicles ... are :- 1 Colour ~ my 1 2 Joy ~ my 2 3 Hometown ~ my 3 4 Wheels ~ my 4 6 Memory recipe ~ my 6 7 summer holidays ~ my 7 8 Moves ~ my 8 9 back in time ~ my 9 10 Life of an Object ~ my 10 11 Childhood friend ~ my 11 12 Childhood toys ~ my this one ...

All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated..

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@tengolotodo September 22nd 2025

Comments · 13

@hive-lu(65)· 338d
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@geneeverett(76)· 343d
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@riverflows(82)· 344d
No balls for me...;) well not til I was 16 bahahhaha

Sand for me too. I am glad I didn't grow up with the Internet. .
@lizelle(79)· 345d
So very true - fresh air for sure is the very best toy! I often think of the stuff we used to do, and how we or our parents would get into trouble if got up to that kind of mischief!
@sunscape(75)· 345d
I bet you still have some tricks up your sleeve. 😜🤩
@nancybriti1(75)· 345d
I had toys similar to yours, in fact, I remember a race track that was mistakenly given to us and that we used to take our dolls for a ride. I still have knee marks from the injuries I got back then just from running or playing with the ball. In our favor: although dangerously, we were children who had a lot of fun!!! A hug as transparent and colorful as a marble.
@isabelpena(70)· 345d
The beach. I remember one day I was almost forgotten because I was playing with my plastic doll on the beach. I don't remember the script, but I made up a whole story and forgot we were going home. I played marbles just to find out what you kids felt like throwing those little colored balls, but I never understood. What I did like was their color. In the movie Toy Story, there are some little soldiers with parachutes. It took me back to those days when we would throw those little soldiers into the sky to see how they would land on their parachutes. Tender and fond memories @tengolotodo
@bozz(83)· 346d
Did you guys have lawn darts over there? They have been outlawed here but I think my parents still have a set of them somewhere in the garage.
@thebighigg(78)· 346d
No PlayStation for me either, as it hadn't been invented yet! Atari was the first games system in the house, that was a while ago! But real toys were what we all played with back in the day. Toy cars and trains, LEGOs, Tinker Toys... It's hard to believe that so many years have already gone by!

I hope Monday is treating you well so far, and that the weather is nice and sunny!
@seki1(71)· 346d
The ball is every lads best toy.
@grindle(79)· 346d
fresh air the best toy, couldn't agree more. These days I blame society, which has become risk averse, tales of kiddy fiddlers and attempted abductions of kids blah blah bah. Fuck me growing up we were always warned about the "bogey man". No matter how far our gang looked searched hung around we never found him.

Rubber matting under swings and climbing frames? just chuck a length of rope over a low slung branch, sometimes over open water and way to go. Did me no harm!!
@asiaymalay(67)· 346d
I don't have interest in playing with balls back then. Not even volleyball. I feel my wrist would break hitting that ball😛. You like to look for trouble back then and start the fight?😬
@coinjoe(73)· 346d
Soccer really wasn't popular here in the States when I was kid, but basketball was, so we would pick up a basketball and shoot hoops outside somewhere. As far as sticks go, I am with you, they made great all purpose toys and weapons. I had the little minitature green toy soldiers in a bucket when I was a kid and would play with them like crazy when I was little. I was mostly an outside kid, so even those made their way into the outdoors for playtime.

Hope you are doing well my friend.

Tell us about simple childhood toys.

What were some of the toys you played with?