What did kids do for fun in the 60's and 70's?
by 
CincinnatiDrummer
ANSWERS: 20
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drugs?
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They tye-dyed shirts and bought hair spray at stores after boycotting shoe stores and barber's shops.
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Well, i guess with the hippies it was drugs and music. I guess it depends entirely their personal interests.
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They played together. They participated in sports and in other extracurricular activities. The rode bikes, swam outside in the warmer months. Took vacations with their parents when they were on holiday from school. They read books. They watched some TV. They listened to the popular music, and read magazines and comic books.
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we played a lot outside. hide and seek, ball games, hopscotch, elastics, hoola hoops, jacks/knucklebones, acting out our favourite TV shows, going to our friends' places, to the park, to the local shop, climbed trees, played with our barbies, sindys and other dolls, did colouring in, made paper dolls and clothing for them, played with the dog, read books and comics, listened to records, went to the local swimming pool, picked mulberries from the lady next door's tree, pretended that the seeds from some plants were pearls, made clover chains and daisy chains. Lots of stuff. If we said we were bored, our mums threatened to find stuff for us to do.
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I Listened to music on record players, had Pajama party's - Respected our parent's
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lsd
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They would either runaway to the circus or join the Marines!
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blaze
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I can't speak for all kids in that era, but I know what the kids in my neighborhood did. We played baseball, football, kickball and street hockey. We listened to records together. We played board games and built puzzles. When we were younger, the girls played with dolls and doll houses. We played pingpong in the basement. In winter we rode sleds down a steep hill in the neighborhood. In summer, we walked the mile to the county pool. We rode bikes and roller skates. We read books. We were pretty active and we were always together. We ran in a pack. I miss that and I hate it that my child isn't having the same kind of childhood.
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We played Tag, Red light/ Green light, Red Rover. Sometimes we played stickball with rocks(I have a nice scar on my forehead to attest to that one). We pretended we were the guys on Battlestar Galactica, we played War. Later, in 1978 or so, we had Intellivision, Atari, and the Oddysey console(Pong, squash, tennis, and hockey, which all looked suspiciously alike;). Then, Grass swept the neighborhood, and in one semester of shop class everyone went from making Zip guns to Hash pipes. It was all downhill from there;)
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Read Mickey Mouse magazine of course :)
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played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.:)
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We did everything outside! We had almost daily football games, with every kid in the neighborhood participating. We'd start in the afternoon, and go til after dark. In my house, we weren't allowed to sit around and watch t.v., and there was no video games. We would hunt "horney toads", (one kid had one for a pet for as long as I knew him), and hunt regular frogs, in the dark. Life seemed so simple.
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Played outside, read books, played with toys, made things, explored.
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I wasn't even born in the 60's but the 70's were pretty cool..toys with no warnings...fun dangerous toys! Drive in theaters with the playgrounds on friday and saturday nights, roller rinks and arcades! sit n spin, green machine, star wars and adventure people toys! But better than all of that...people actually went outside and played! we went out in the morning and didn't come back inside till dinner or dark. There were no game consoles or PCs to keep us indoors, we stayed outside and got lots of exercise climbing trees, riding bikes, skateboarding, tag, or just running around the neighborhood pretending to be different things, lots of cuts and scrapes and lots of fun experiences....
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I was a "kid" in the 60's and 70's and you would be suprised just how much we were like kids of today. We rode our bikes anrond the neighborhood, played baseball, street hocky and shot hoops. We watched TV, and played board games and cards with the family - we had a dog and a cat, did tricks on skateboards, went swimming in the community pool or the lake. Ocassionally we tracked bears through the wilderness and killed them with our bare hands so we could make coats for our family - we would pimp for our sisters and sell smack to pay for our fathers iron lung, etc. The only thing we did differently from kids today is when we went to school - we had to walk 20 miles uphill every day in the freezing cold to get to class. All in all - we lived our lives back then pretty much the same as kids today.
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We played SPUD, eenie inie over, various types of tag, and bloody murder (a hide and seek at night). We rolled down hills inside tractor tires, did sledding in the winter, and walked on 55 gallon drums tipped on their sides. We walked the neighborhood, just talking with our friends. We walked to local party stores for soda and candy. On rainy days we either played in it or sat inside coloring or driving our parents insane. We stomped on beer or soda cans and walked around with them stuck to our shoes. We lay on our backs and watched the clouds.
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We mostly were outside...playing softball, kickball, hide and seek, swimming, bike riding. We used our imaginations to make our own fun. When were inside, we played board games, listened to our records or the radio, just made up games to play. It was wonderful!
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Used their imagination,,,turned a stick into a sword,,,turned a string and a couplee of cans into a phone, that sort of thing.
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