What is your favorite toy? What games do you like to play? Do you think that children in the past had the same toys and played the same games as you? Check out how children played in the past through these 33 funny pictures.
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| Hanging around in Swansea, April 1939 |
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| Keep cool in summer, New York City, 1937 |
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| Little girl playing with kitty, ca. 1910s |
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| London in the 1920s |
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| Messing around the phone booth, New York, 1975 |
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| New York City in the 1970s-80s |
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| On a play street in New York, ca. 1900s |
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| Playing time at school, 1956 |
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| Ring around the rosie, ca. 1940 |
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| These young Neapolitans hanging onto the backs of street cars, Naples, 1948 |
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| Two children have great fun hanging upside down off a low rail in stockport, 1966 |
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| Two girls play with their tricycles, ca. 1920s |
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| Two girls swing on a lampost, Manchester, 1965 |
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| Two little kids dancing on the streets of New York City, ca. 1940 |
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| Young boys hitch a ride, London, 1941 |
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| Brooklyn, New York, April 1949 |
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| Children balance on rail in South Dakota, 1959 |
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| Children draw on pavement with chalk, ca. 1960s |
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| Children drawing on the pavement, 1941 |
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| Children hanging on a full train after the liberation, 1945 |
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| Children playing at The Bronx, New York City, ca. 1940s |
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| Children playing on a street, ca. 1890 |
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| Children playing, Misawa, Japan, 1960 |
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| Edwardian children on stilts |
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| Girls doing handstands, Southam Street, London, 1956 |
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| Girls jump rope in Zennor Road, ca.1957-65 |
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| Hanging around in Swansea, April 1939 |
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| Children on seesaw in a park, ca. 1910s |
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| Children playing in the snow at residential school, 1946 |
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| Group of Gleichen boys playing in rubber tires, Alberta, ca. 1920 |
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| Little cowboys riding wild horses, ca. 1910s |
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| Sarcee children on Sarcee Reserve, Alberta, playing with bows and arrows, 1911 |