we used to take the wax paper wrappers from inside bags of loaves bread
to sit on while playing on the slides in the park. Then there were those roller skates: the kind you clamped to your shoes. And in winter the city would flood a flat area in the park so we could go ice skating for free. I loved to ride my bike and explored further and further from home..eventually riding to the neighboring city 60 miles awway.
In the autumn, i would go door to door to get jobs raking leaves.
and at halloween, would travel far and wide collecting treats.
i would check out book from the bookmobile and library...(i drive the bookmobile now...must have made a lating impression!!) and there was a summer reading club where we read as many as 100 book in the summer.
One of my favorite things to do was catch garter snakes...we had lots in our yard and neighborhood. Not many other girls liked to do this!
The Girl Scouts went camping, did crafts, and worked on badges.
I also went door to door selling cookies...yum..come to think of it the time of year for girl scout cookies is coming around again...
the local troops get a booth at the farmer's market these days.