Playtime Activities Quotes

When I was six all I could think about was ding-dongs and yo-yos.

I still remember with gratitude a series for children on everyday life where we learned about the games children in other times had played and the food they ate.

When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a backdrop and a dressing room. There were three colored spotlights - a red one, a white one, and a blue one. Blue was for nighttime scenes, and red was for when we were in hell. If the neighborhood kids wanted to use the stage, they had to incorporate me into the play.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.

The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.

One of life's primal situations; the game of hide and seek. Oh, the delicious thrill of hiding while the others come looking for you, the delicious terror of being discovered, but what panic when, after a long search, the others abandon you! You mustn't hide too well. You mustn't be too good at the game. The player must never be bigger than the game itself.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

I never played with anything like toys. I wanted to be grown-up.

Toys are not a need people typically think of, but they've got all these kids who have absolutely nothing to do.

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

I've actually never played with any of my brothers before. They've always been too old for me.

Because I am interested in the growth and development of early hominids, I play with my kids, you know, looking at their teeth or measuring their heads, which they like also, because it's kind of fun.

With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren't very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.

Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.