You are 10 years old....

[Sunny]

Playing outside with other kids.
If it started raining, playing inside with other kids.

 

[Quackers]

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

 

[Been There]

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.

 

[Babs2u]

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.

 

[gruntlabor]

Playing "King of the Mountain", rowboating around a large pond, climbing pilings up to the docks, sorting through people's garbage cans, walking the beach for treasures ...

 

[Oldeagle66]

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

Every sidewalk had chalk marks.

 

[Oldeagle66]

Riding my bike terrorizing the neighborhood.

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Riding two and three on a bike and no helmets.

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

Riding my bike, roller skating, hanging out with friends on the block, walking around, daydreaming. At night: catching lightning bugs. counting stars. What a good life it was.

 

[Della]

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.

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!

 

[MACKTEXAS]

There were a lot of kids in my neigborhood when I was 10. My favorite thing was roller skating down the sidewalks, but it made a lot of noise and some people complained. And we rode our bikes, but not on sidewalks. Played hide and seek, and climbing up where we shouldn't over at the water tower, not far from home. We weren't allowed to go there, but once in awhile we took a chance and went anyway.

My parents didn't want me going into other peoples' houses, but we could sit on the porch and listen to radios if it was raining, or play with a tape recorder that one kid had. My dad had a ping pong table set up in the garage, and it was okay to go play in there, as long as we kept the garage door open.

 

[HoneyNut]

I'd go to the library and come home with an armful of books, I read a lot in the summer. When I was outdoors I'd play with the dog, climb a tree, dig a big hole. I might have gone to the local strip mall and bought an ice cream cone, or to 7-11 for an icee. I remember playing school with my older sister in our garage.

 

[astralcat]

I, too, would probably have my nose in a book.

 

[Coco]

i did much of the same as most of you. But there weren't a lot of kids in my neighborhood and my sister is 6 years younger than me. I played with the one girl next door. We often played with paper dolls, happily cutting everything out with gigantic scissors our moms had. Her mother made us popcorn in a big frying pan and green kool aid!

 

[Della]

Her mother made us popcorn in a big frying pan and green kool aid!

When we got to be teenagers we would play with the neighbor kids, kick-the-can in the yard until it got dark, then cards and board games on the screened in porch. Whoever's house we were at, it would always be popcorn and Kool-Aid. It's hard to believe there was a time before pizza and Coke.

My favorite thing was roller skating down the sidewalks, but it made a lot of noise and some people complained.

Grumps! When I raised my son in the city liked the sounds the kids made because I knew where they were. I loved the sound of his BigWheel.