You are 10 years old....

Pretty much the same as everyone else has put - plus paddling in the local brook netting sticklebacks and putting them back, collecting caterpillars in the local park and putting the poor things in jam jars, pinching flowers off bushes to take home to poorly mum, going to the local playground enjoying the equipment/rides, so many things that were 'just fun things to do at the time', even if they were naff stuff like....

I particularly remember one of my friends and I used to sit on the kerb sometimes in the summer heat messing about in the gutter with sticks - one time she found some discarded chewing gum and put it in her mouth and chewed it (uuugh) - mind you, she used to eat raw bacon too!
Daft things like being in dad's greenhouse with friends whipping up sand and water or soil and water to make cups of 'tea'.

When 10yrs 9mths, it was Xmas and was run over on my bike (my fault, didn't put my hand out turning right), fractured leg in two places and in w/chair off and on for about 9mths.
Then the fun was how fast I could go up and downstairs on my bum to the potty to do my business, (cast was too cumbersome/awkward to sit on the loo) to hopping around with a bowl of porridge and falling over with the ensuing porridge sliding down the dining room or hall door, and onto the carpet - looked like lumps of sick 🤣
 
Helping Gramps on the farm and after that meeting up with my school best friend. We would go fishing, throw the baseball back and forth, hike or ride bike into the village and spend money on junk, walk the rr tracks, get into a little mischief, we also built birdhouses to sell and frog gigging down at Miller’s Creek. We sold the frogs to a bar. The owner wanted them to make frog legs. Ever eat one? I have.

Did you ever put a penny on the railroad tracks? We did.
 

We went exploring either creeks and woods or the grounds of closed up mansions. Or we would ride our bikes to the beach and swim. I got my first cat at ten. That summer a cousin on the north shore (we lived on the south shore) had a newborn and asked me to come and help with her two year old. We had a ceremony where I made my sister adopt my cat for the two weeks I was away. I have always loved cats.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Grab some friends and start some hop scotch
Or skipping
Or jumpsies
Play hide and seek
Red Iight, green light
Red rover
Go biking or roller skating
Play with Barbie’s
Get colouring books out and colour
Play snakes and ladders
Play checkers or
A barrel of monkies
Play monopoly or scrabble
Make sandwiches to eat along with some cookies and a drink

The skies the limit. There was always lots of things to do when we were kids
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Every sidewalk had chalk marks.
 
MarkinPhx said:
Swimming in the pool, playing whiffle ball or basketball with friends, or riding my bike.

Indoors I would be playing a very nerdy and geeky baseball board game called Strat-o-Matic Baseball with a couple of my friends. We spent many summer hours playing that game, replaying the previous baseball season.

At night, I was usually watching TV or reading once the Little League season was over.

My summer chores were brushing the pool every morning, helping my dad with the yard on mowing days, and watering the outdoor plants that the irrigation didn't reach.
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I just read your's to my son. His life to a T, except the pool belonged to the townhouse complex so he didn't have to clean it.
Strat-o-Matic was The Game!
 

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