How did you play with toys growing up?

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I had always ONE specific teddy bear or a stuffed animal that i only thought about. I was fixated on stuffed animals and as a baby i used to line them up

I too used to line up my toys as a child. My mother said that one day when I was around three I unpacked my "toy suitcase" of cars, took all of them out, and lined them up in a row from one end of the room to the other.

I still own soft toys and line them up at my bedroom window. I think I have about 25. Should be a nice surprise if I ever bring a girlfriend up there.

I organized armies.
And designed officers with individual personality traits and, more importantly, areas of expertise.

I also had tricksters and double-agents.

The toys you liked and the way you played reminds me of my son. He has a bunch of those rubber toy animals. He also likes to collect things like: wands, plastic bats, plastic swords, and butterfly nets. He likes to play with my kitchen utensils too!! !! He's always taking my spatulas, large plastic spoons, oven mitts, and trivets. Most of his play these days is creative. He has characters talk to each other, but sometimes it just looks he's crashing two figures together over and over. If I ask him about it, he's running some scenario in his head that is more involved than crashing two things together.

A lady asked me this on another site, and i just realized how weird i was with toys haha.

I was obsessed with random weird toys, like had to have that toy everywhere i go, and idk it was weird haha. My toys consisted of a toy mouse, it was actually a cat toy haha, loved the fur on it, a stuffed rabbit i used to bite lol, a rubber bat, a rubber snake lol, this weird rubber alligator that was albino lol, and um i cant think of the rest but i know their prob just as weird lol . I did have dolls, but i mainly just lined them up, and other stuffed animals. I def had imagination though, because i always made all my stuffed animals, my matchbox cars that i had lined up, and dolls are lined up in family catergory. I had mom, dad, and children, in every toy i had haha, always lined up lol. I was obsessed with families, idk y haha. I also made a lot of things boys, like if i had a stuffed animal a good 75% of them were always boys, once again idk y lool. I also loveddd spinning my matchbox cars, and making them crash lol. Other then that, i really had a weird way of playing with toys.

How did you play with toys growing up?

When I was little I mainly played with Barbie. I had so many Barbie dolls. I would often just brush/braid their hair, make them have babies. I'd put the little baby up in her dress so it looked like she had a baby belly and the baby would come out after awhile. Um, I would cut my stuffed animals' fur, and I would dress and redress my dolls. I also had this toy set I think it was Melony's Mall? Something like that and I remember not liking that every single one of the dolls' hair was blonde. So I took markers to them. And of course, my microscopes. I did what you were supposed to do with those.

I played with toys like any other child. But when I got to about 6 or 7, I developed a wonderful imagination. I made up games so spontaniously that I even pretended it was on the telle. I made up the character's names, ages, personalities and even intentions, and the next time I played the game I remembered exactly who was who, and ect.

I always used to turn things into other things. For example, I had a big garden, and when I once played ''Home Alone'' in my garden, I used my imagination to turn the garden into their big house. I used flowerbeds as the walls, and grass in between flowerbeds were rooms, and the patio area was the ''kitchen'', and so on. Even when I played it in a different garden I still turned it into what I wanted.
I could just get lost in my make-believe games for hours.

But I did play with toys too. I had jungle animals, toy train set, Simpsons figures, cars, My Little Ponies, Lego....
I never stacked or lined them up in a way which made my parents look and ''worry'' about me. I did sometimes set the jungle animals up and pretend to line them up in an army or something - but that's what you're supposed to do with toys. And I didn't do that tell I was about 7. When I was a toddler, about 3, I never lined or stacked anything. I was a typical messy child, with toys all over the floor.

The last time I ever played a make-believe game was when I was 13. Then I began feeling embarrassed. And the last time I played with toys was when I was about 14 or 15 - then I started feeling silly and stopped. I only play with toys now if my little cousins come round, because I'm just playing with them and they're only little. I wouldn't get toys out and play with them now - I'll get too bored!

I made documentaries using my stuffed animals. I also liked to line them up.

Everything got patterned. I didn't line stuff up; one dimension would've been too annoying for me. I arranged things into patterns instead.

I did play with dolls. I went through a years-long medical phase, which tapered off but never actually ended, in which I was constantly treating them for various injuries and illnesses. Appendicitis was my favorite.

I think until I was eleven. My playing basicaly consisted of lining them up.

I was an advid collector of stuffed animals. I loved animals of all sorts, but I couldn't have the zoo I wanted, so fake animals had to suffice. Didn't really "play" with them, just liked having them around.

I also played primarily with plastic animals. I couldn't stand any toy that was meant to be "human," and barely tolerated action figures. Action figures that weren't actually human, like Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, were acceptable.

As to what I "did" with them, mostly I would spend hours constructing worlds, building houses, digging rivers and dams, and constructing bridges. Then I would organize the societies, deciding which groups belonged in which countries, who had trade negotations with who, which cultures were at war, who worshipped which god, ect. By the time all that was completed, it was usually time for me to come back into the house. Rarely did I get around to actually playing with them. Beyond that, I was an imaginitive little brat. I mainly played with my plastic animals and made them do the things I thought animals were capable of.

When I wasn't doing that, I spent hours stimming, or I was pretending to be an animal, or I was obsessively drawing animals. Did I mention I was obsessed with animals? In any case, I had a rather powerful imagination. Never could relate to that whole "no imaganitive play" thing. I just never played with others, didn't even know I was supposed to. 99% of all my time was spent in my head with very little need for talking or interaction, except when telling my mother to go away.

I don't remember much of how I played with my toys, but I had a teddy bear I took everywhere, action figures (I don't think I really knew how to 'play' with them as most kids do), my Power Rangers MegaZord that I loved to transform, and coincidentally, as the OP had I also had a toy mouse that was supposed to be for a cat, but I didn't know at the time and I loved the fur. I also loved Legos.

I would carry around a toy of whoever was my favorite cartoon character at the time and pretend it was actually the character. I would make the character talk to me and whoever was with me (like my sister). If I didn't have a toy of my favorite character, I would make a paper doll and do the same thing.

My sister and I would also make up our own stories for our favorite cartoons. If we didn't have actual toys of the characters, we would either make paper dolls or try to find toys that somewhat resembled them.

It's been a while since I visited this site. I've been browsing through the large selection of topics, but this one intrigued me the most.

I remember spending a lot of time organising toys. Hours and hours arranging Lego, Marbles, dice, etc by size, colour, number of sides. I remember I spent weeks working out simple lego shapes that could be inter-connected indefinitely.

And there were the collections of things. Plastic caps from smarties tubes were a particular favourite. I was drawn to anything familiar from TV, recreating storylines from cartoons and movies with the various action figures I had collected.

I was very reluctant to share my toys with anyone, and spent most of my play time alone despite having four siblings.