[Vermonter]

We didn't always need store bought toys to get into trouble.

If you remember the spring type clothes pins, you could take them apart, wrap a rubber band around two of the ends and then re-insert the spring in a different manner.

Insert a kitchen match and you could shoot flaming matchsticks at your buddies.

[Merdoug]

The most fun I ever had as a young kid was with a plain old piece of cardboard. Rub that sucker with grass to get it slick and down the hill you go!

[Graybeard58]

If you remember the spring type clothes pins, you could take them apart, wrap a rubber band around two of the ends and then re-insert the spring in a different manner.

Clothes pins an old bicycle tube sliced into strips and a little wood and you could make a formidable weapon - even multiple shot weapons. Hurt like hell to get hit with one of those.

[Indy Pendance]

Any of you ever melt crayons in a tin can and dunk your fingers in the wax? Those were cool crayons. Of course, we had to make our own little fire...