30 weird things each of us did as kids

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

In our youth, we all did things that would seem unusual to modern children, to put it mildly. "Secrets", sifa and the challenge of the Queen of Spades - Lifehacker has collected the most popular children's entertainment from the recent past.

1. Prank calls

Call a random number and say all sorts of nonsense from the series “Is this the apartment of the Zaitsevs? Why then are the ears sticking out of the tube?”, Enjoying the bewilderment of the interlocutor. The fun came to an end when the era of caller ID phones came.

In the era of pagers, fun has taken to the next level. One could search newspaper ads for numbers of potential victims and terrorize them with mysterious messages.

2. Huts

Probably, in every yard there was a hut built by children from cardboard boxes and other rubbish. In these shelters, meetings of secret societies were held, which had both a charter and even a secret language.

3. Citric acid and soda lemonade

For half a liter of water, take two teaspoons of citric acid and soda, you can add sugar so that it is not so sour. Home-made lemonade hisses almost like a real one, only noticeably smells like soda. But which of us cared about that?

4. Collecting lucky tram tickets

Eating them right away is a senseless waste, it was necessary to accumulate more tickets and use them in bulk before a difficult test.

5. Experiments with a blade of grass and an anthill

If you lower a blade of grass into an anthill, through the efforts of insects, it becomes sour. Why did we do this? Good question with no answer.

6. Haircut of dolls

Then the novice hairdressers waited a long time for the doll's hair to grow back, and were disappointed in life, learning that they would never.

7. Construction of barricades of branches and stones in front of the sprinkler

It was interesting to see whether the water flow would cope with them or not.

8. Extraction of lead from batteries

Smelt it in a tin can over a fire, and then pour the liquid metal into clay molds or holes dug in the ground. The arrowheads were excellent.

9. False nails made of cosmos petals

It was beautiful, although such nails fell off almost immediately.

10. Chewing gum made from cherry or plum resin

It tastes, of course, so-so, but in the absence of real gum, it is quite a worthy option. Anyway, better than tar (yes, we ate it too).

11. Sikalka

Take a plastic bottle of water, make a hole in the lid and chase your friends with the resulting weapon. A budgetary and quite a life hacking analogue of a water pistol.

12. Hypnosis

The hypnotized person closes his eyes and stretches his arms forward, and you make magical passes in his face. In theory, his palms were supposed to be attracted to each other. Some did it.

13. "Secrets"

Dig a hole in the ground, put a beautiful candy wrapper, flowers and other little things there. Cover with a shard of glass on top and bury it. Show your "secret" is a special form of trust, possible only between close friends.

14. Crossbows

There are a lot of options: from a bulb holder, from a rod for a gel pen and a spring from a lighter, from a clothespin, finally.

15. Slingshot from the neck of a plastic bottle and fingertip

You can shoot from such a weapon with mountain ash and other berries.

16. Calling the Queen of Spades

Sometimes, instead of her, a swearing gnome or a good cook was summoned. Of course, no one came, but it was still scary.

17. Ouija sessions

We evoked the spirit of Pushkin or Lermontov, and then asked them pressing questions in the hope of getting an authoritative opinion.

18. Fun with carbide

The most common option is to light the pieces of calcium carbide in a puddle.

19. Smoke from ping-pong balls

To make such a thing, you need a crushed ball, a notebook sheet and a thread. The smoke turned out to be notable!

20. Seth

An exciting game with an extremely deep meaning. In fact, these are the same tag, only they showered each other not with a hand, but with a rag, which was used to erase chalk from a blackboard (if it was at school), or some other nasty thing picked up on the street. The pinnacle of skill is hiding from the siph in a passing bus, jumping out at the next stop.

21. Collecting all trash

Beer lids, multi-colored plastic bullets, gum inserts, cheese figures, small tiles that were used to decorate some panel houses … We collected, it seems, in general everything that lay badly, and then bragged about who had the best collection.

22. Making bits from beer caps

Remember when everyone played chips at one time? If you put a beer lid under the tram, it turned out to be a good bit, no worse than ordinary plastic ones.

23. Concerts in the yard

We invited all the surrounding old women and younger children, and then delighted their ears by reading poetry and performing the immortal hits of Natasha Koroleva. Compassionate grandmothers gave sweets as a reward.

24. Hunt for passers-by

Pour water into a milk bag or a balloon and wait on the balcony for the victim to appear below. Take aim - bang! Who did not hide - we are not to blame.

25. Social experiments

It is believed that if you look closely at a person and rub his nose at the same time, he will decide that something is wrong with him, and will also begin to rub his nose. Of course, the children tested this theory in practice, frightening passers-by.

26. Eating everything

Instant cocoa and powdered juices - it's understandable who hasn't tried them dry. Green apples (with salt - the most chic), and larch needles, and even nettles were used - however, they ate it exclusively on a dispute.

27. Homemade mail

Friends who lived on a floor or two below could send letters by folding them in a jar tied to a fairly long line. Lean out of the window and lower the message, and a friend receives it and sends you a response.

28. Homemade phone

It needs two plastic cups, two matches and a string. Small holes are made in the bottom of the cups where the thread is threaded. Matches are tied to the ends of the thread. Audibility was so-so, but speech could be made out.

29. Dismembering toys out of research interest

How many dolls, teddy bears and toy cars have fallen victim to our curiosity - do not count. Well, what, we just wanted to understand how it all works.

30. Robots from cigarette packs

The guys whose family smoked were considered real lucky ones: they always had building material for the coolest robots.