When I was a kid we put on plays and circuses for our parents. We played Tarzan and Jane and cowboys and Indians. We climbed tall trees fearlessly. We explored the country side and went fishing in the river with homemade poles, cooking the fish over tin can fires. We made forts out of anything they could be made out of, some of them pretty extensive. We played king of the mountain on a local dirt hill. We played teacher and taught the little kids how to read, write, know the states on a map etc. We played in tree houses and a children's little play house. We played house, dressing up as pilgrims going west. We played with dolls and troll dolls. We created haunted houses (wouldn't want my kid to do that today), and like to make homemade mysterious things and charged a nickle for other kids to see them and guess what they were. We roller skated, ice skated, rode bikes and scooters, played volleyball, badminton, croquet and other lawn games. We played so many games known and made up that we were hard to get back into our homes after dark. In the dark we played special night games. We had such great fun and tremendous imaginations.