What Hobbies Did You Have As A Kid?

[Anomalocaris]

Being a general nuisance and limitless fount of irritation and despair for every adult who falls within my sphere of influence.

[polymath257]

Coin collecting (I still have many of the coins), reading, astronomy (with a very poor telescope, but it allowed me to see the moons of Jupiter and rings of Saturn), playing the trumpet (for a year or so), math.

[zwanzig]

Reading, writing, and drawing. 

I used to collect those action figures they had in movie and video game shops in the mall. I never played Final Fantasy VIII or Darkstalkers but I had every one of the main characters in 6" heavy plastic form with movable arms and legs. I had probably 50 at one time, having collected from a variety of sources, like the Pokemon anime(the human characters, like Ash, Brock, Misty, and Jessie and James), a couple of X-MEN, a few from video games I never played, Hellraiser cenobites, etc. I think I even had Sarumon but none of the other characters from the Peter Jackson trilogy. My friends and I would make up adventure stories about them and fighting tournaments. Dear Hastur, so many fighting tournaments.

[Brian37]

I had a brief stint as a early teen in model airplaines, specifically millitary arplains. I once bought a F-14 Tomcat model kit. I glued it together, no problem. But, I ended up painting it camoflauge.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I had a brief stint as a early teen in model airplaines, specifically millitary arplains. I once bought a F-14 Tomcat model kit. I glued it together, no problem. But, I ended up painting it camoflauge.

We know.

Boru

[Cecelia]

Video Games. My older brother was a big gamer, and one day I picked up his Nintendo and started playing Mega Man 2. He told me that I couldn't beat it because girls weren't good at video games. I proved him wrong, and have since beaten every Mega Man game, along with several others.

Soccer. I played on the soccer team for a few years.

Cheerleading. I now coach it! Though this year we haven't been able to really have a team. (My eldest daughters were kind of sad about that, but glad they don't have to deal with their mom as coach lol)

Scrabble. My older brother is a scrabble genius who's won tournaments. So I was also VERY determined to beat him one day. (I've beaten him all of three times. Which isn't too bad.)

[purplepurpose]

Boru check this out. This is one of the best hobbies out there.

[arewethereyet]

I'm not sure it was a hobby or simple boredom. I was grounded a lot and often stuck in the bedroom I shared with my little sister. We didn't have a TV in our room, just my old plastic Sears clamshell record player for entertainment. I put together jigsaw puzzles and since the selection we had was kind of slim I would resort to putting them together on the wrong side...with the cardboard backing side up. I suppose it was great preparation for 50 years later being stuck in the house for days/weeks/months on end with little to do. Most likely I was nearly as prepared for this pandemic as someone who spent years in solitary.

[Astreja]

I assembled plastic models, started out with paint-by-numbers paintings and eventually upgraded to oil painting, and had large collections of comic books and LPs.

[The Grand Nudger]

Weed, mostly.