Books. I’d go thru 3-4 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Tom Swift/others each weekend.
80-in-1 (and larger) electronics kits (some of you remember Lafayette I’m sure).
Fixing things (like washing machines, fans and other home appliances).
Chemistry sets
Erector sets
Tinker toys
Lincoln logs
Some LEGO but not that much
Making statues and art out of Ivory Snow flakes…and just playing outside.
We didn’t have to have a lot of toys to play. We made up our own games (usually things like ‘King of the Hill’ if we could find a mound of dirt, or ‘Robin Hood’, or ‘The Lone Ranger’, whatever was on tv the night before).
Did anyone else do that??
Summers were largely spent cutting firewood to burn in the winter. My bro is 6 years older so he ran the chainsaw and I did most of the splitting. No hydraulic splitter either. Maul all the way.
Books. Yeah I was that kid. Yeah I’m that adult
@Cerridwyn books about horses
for me 
Riding my bike.
LEGO bricks. Not Legos. Don’t make the Danes mad.
Lionel trains, for a while. Also books, bikes.
Electronics and Science Kits!!
NERD POWER!! 
@MrGoodGuy Edmund Scientific, HeathKit, even some Archer/Radio Shack
I’m old. It was Erector Set, Tinker Toys, and American Flyer trains.
Books. I’d go thru 3-4 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Tom Swift/others each weekend.
80-in-1 (and larger) electronics kits (some of you remember Lafayette I’m sure).
Fixing things (like washing machines, fans and other home appliances).
Chemistry sets
Erector sets
Tinker toys
Lincoln logs
Some LEGO but not that much
Football and Baseball card
Pokémon card as well
Skateboards and fire
Erector set, Lincoln Logs and wooden blocks.
Gi Joes. The 12 inch version- the little version is naff.
Making statues and art out of Ivory Snow flakes…and just playing outside.
We didn’t have to have a lot of toys to play. We made up our own games (usually things like ‘King of the Hill’ if we could find a mound of dirt, or ‘Robin Hood’, or ‘The Lone Ranger’, whatever was on tv the night before).
Did anyone else do that??
@Tadlem43 Playing “pretend” was my favorite thing to do with friends! Both at home & on the playground at school.
Books and horses
And books with horses in them.
/image “the black stallion”
@f00l
Books, art supplies, dolls (but no Barbies, my mother was kind of a Puritan about some things & didn’t approve of Barbies.)
Summers were largely spent cutting firewood to burn in the winter. My bro is 6 years older so he ran the chainsaw and I did most of the splitting. No hydraulic splitter either. Maul all the way.