unusal games or play you liked as a child

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I read my encyclopedias too!

I used to do that too!

One of the more unusual games I played was playing with my games. For instance I would take a deck of cards and play with some of them. The cards I picked represented myself, other children in the daycare I went to and our respective parents (I used the Kings and Queens for that). The number cards were children and the number was their real age. They'd play, have gathering, be picked up etc.

I also played with my board games. Some of them, especially one called Sagaland and another about ghosts, had such nice imaginative boards, so I both played out and narrated all sorts of stories on them. Another game was about penguins moving on their ice and pushing each other off it, and when I played with it (as opposed to actually playing the game) they were fighting.

I don't know if it is unusual but according to some feedback I've gotten before it is. I had my plush toys play sports, like football and dodge ball. I also played teacher with my plush toys in first grade especially, and I'd give them their books back and tell them how they did.

I used to have a thing for slinkies, I remember putting two slinkies on my eyes and running around the holiday house in Butlins pretending I was a "googly-eyed" monster; it was mindless fun.

I also remember that when I was in both year 3 and 6 I liked to have games based on the Spongebob characters, I used to pretend that I was Spongebob and often interfere with others "mummy and daddy" games. "Hello son! You're a sponge!"

I liked to handstand against the walls, using the settee as a safe cushion place to rest my aching head and neck.

I used to hang for "dear life" onto the skate ramps at our quiet little park with my friends; if anyone fell you were dead.

I used to play "crocodile" and "bulldog" too, nothing out-of-the-ordinary I'm terribly sorry.

I liked to spin around with my old best friend and lie on the floor, as we felt like the ground was tipping over then; people thought I was weird for spending the whole break-time playing this type of game.

I used to go around with my unicorn outfit on and ran around the shops with my sister on my back.

I remember going outside once and pretending that "special white gloop" from stems of wild flowers was a type of "special healing milk" and as my 2 friends were pretending to get run over by trucks, I ended up covering the wounds.

I have a lot more random things than this, but since these are the only games that I find "different" enough for this thread...
I hate feeling as if I have broken the rules (even when there aren't none.)

I remember doing a similar thing as a kid, with a piece of equipment from my dad's tool box. It was a thing what you look through but what you're seeing through the other side is actually at another angle, so it's supposed to make you all disorientated as you walk. My (NT) brother actually showed it to me and made up a game called ''walking around the house looking through this interesting object without bumping into anything''. It didn't feel unusual though. We were just being kids.

I had a very small family. But I do consider it to be one of the better strokes of luck that has struck my life.

That is very cool. Don't think I could play that one! BTY: love your Avatar pic!

Another game I loved was to sit at my grandmother's dressing table (when she was at work) where she had a dozen or two bottles of lotions, purfumes, etc. These became little people to me with big bottles being parents and small ones children. I don't recall any narrative that went along with it, but I would move them around into and out of different groups, and could entertain myself with it for long periods. Then Gran would find things moved, get annoyed, and ask, "Whose been moving my stuff around on the dressing table?" I probably confessed, because I am quite honest. But when she went out again, I'd go back to it. I also liked a similar game with kitchen cutlery at home with Mom.

Also, I just tried the mirror game again, and it is still fun! Especially when you go through doorways and have to "step over" the upside down threshold. I had forgotten that little pleasure!

I´d fill a bathtub, find the smalles particle possible and make it float on the water. I would sit there for hours and look at it and feel the horror of being alone in such a vast area with such depths below me.
A real coping game.

I used to play football with pennies on the dining room table. It was a solitary game. I used to go "23, 46, hut, hut," or something similar.

Additionally, I used to pretend I was unconscious.