I hadn't thought about some of those things in years. I loved jump rope especially double dutch, my kids thought I was amazing when they were little and I showed them I could jump two ropes at one time. Hopscotch....... how many of us tore the heels off our shoes for that one. There really wasn't anything else to use except a heel off a shoe. Rocks rolled.......cardboard flew away. I was on the phone with my daughter a little while ago and she is telling me she is eating oatmeal with apples and cinnamon. She goes on with how just smelling it makes her think back when she was little. I had a good laugh because now my kids are having memories of new stuff like "instant oatmeal"......we had the real thing LOL. Mom never said no when it came to running out in the thunder storms. YIKES I would be screaming for my kids to get in the house. Oh so many of them and we loved it, it's a wonder we weren't struck by lightening or something. The bigger the puddle the better. Oh how I loved the smell of hot tar but never put it in my mouth to chew. I guess we just never thought about that. Could never get the hang of the hula hoop.