Did you ever.......

[Slate]

  Make a Jupiter 2 out of 2 paper plates?



  A gun from a stick or piece of wood?



  A Tree Fort?



  What we did before Video Games was to use our own imagination. Kids these days are missing out. 

[Lusche]

No, but I never heard of a "jupiter 2". Had to google it.
Yes.
No. (Couldn't climb up, and was too much afraid of heights  )


 

[zack1234]

Guns of sticks is awesome

I forgot about that +1

[Nath[BDP]]

Claes Oldenburg’s “The Ray Gun Wing”

http://collectingseminar.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/claes-oldenburgs-the-ray-gun-wing/

[Zacherof]

Guns of sticks is awesome

I forgot about that +1

PVC pipes

[VonMessa]

Yes
Yes
Yes.

Must be an East coast thing...

[Saxman]

No, but I did make Enterprise-D out of styrofoam plates and a couple Dixie cups.
Yes
No. I climbed trees, but our house didn't have any appropriate for the construction of a fort.

[gyrene81]

yes to all 3 and then some...

[eagl]

I think those things are felonies now. 

[Curval]

My father likes to tell the story about a birthday party they had for me when I was about 5 or 6.  Apparently there were lots of kids that had come and they had all brought presents.  Lots and lots of presents.

After the paty was over someone asked where I was and I couldn't be found immediately.  They eventually found me playing beside a puddle with leaves and a stick.  My father couldn't get over the fact that I had just been given a bunch of brand new toys but a stick and a few leaves were enough to keep me entertained.  (I was sinking the leaves which represented ships with the stick as part of an all out naval battle between the "goodies" and the "baddies")

[narsus]

Yes to all 3.

One of my favorite gifts was a couple yards of dirt. Awesome for matchbox cars, green army men, and mud pies. 

I was born in 1973.

Such great memories, we had the Atari 2600 and then 5200. The thing is I only ever played it with my father on rainy days, if it wasn't rainy I was out biking with friends etc.

[cpxxx]

My six year old is forever running around the garden shooting his little brother with gun sticks. This is despite the fact that his toy gun collection would equip a small army. But his favourite 'gun' is the one he made by taping the ladder from his fire truck onto a toy golf club.

But I was the same, never built a tree house though. We were too poor to have a tree in the garden!

I would reject the notion that kids nowdays don't play outside much. My two run wild outside all the time. Their latest habit is to sit on the garden wall greeting passersby.

[gyrene81]

I would reject the notion that kids nowdays don't play outside much. My two run wild outside all the time. Their latest habit is to sit on the garden wall greeting passersby.

i would go so far as to say, it's not a common as it was before the internet and game consoles.

[Zacherof]

i would go so far as to say, it's not a common as it was before the internet and game consoles.

I kid you not I know a guy who doesn't do anything bit play games. He lives at home with his mom and never leaves. The farthest he walked is 20 feet to throw a cigarette into the street. 

Being outside  created soome. Epic memories

[Nypsy]

We made many tree houses, plus many snow forts in the winter