A few months ago, I re-discovered a few of my drawing books from when I was a kid. It made me feel really nostalgic and it was interesting to read back on the things I did when I was younger. I thought this would be a good idea for a thread. What are some of the things you did when you were a kid and do you still have any drawing or writing books from then? Here are some of the things I did:

2006

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I used to make up my own cartoon and comic strips. It's pretty nifty that I not only wrote the date that I made the drawing, but also when I started and finished it. I was only 6 years and 10 months old at the time. :) In case you're wondering what the "black stroke" is, I did that prior to uploading the photo, because I didn't want to reveal my name.

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I wrote that when I was only 7. I became really interested in astronomy at that age and I've had an interest in it since. In case you're wondering, I did get some of the information from an astronomy book I own, however everything is in my own words. I didn't copy it straight out of the book. :)

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This is from the 7th January 2006. I've always had an interest in the media. I started to make my own TV Guides when I was 6 and I continued to make them until I was 10. The drawing above is actually from a drawing book which is full of mock TV Guides!

2008

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I've always thought of the future and the bigger future. When I was 9, I deliberately cut things out of newspapers, so that one day I could look back on it and see what the "world of 2008" was like. Notice how Blackberry's, Playstation 2's and Motorola Phones were still being advertised. :P

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This is from the same book. A newspaper ad for the IPod Classic and Touch. :)

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4403/37219504645_27f593df0b_z.jpg

I wrote down the then-current slogans of different car brands. Even though, "Bing-Lee" isn't a car brand. It's an electronics store. :P

Unfortunately, I no longer have any of my drawing books from before 2006. They were chucked out years ago. :( I didn't get a chance to take any photos of my drawing books from 2007 or 2009. I may do that at a later stage.

Ok, so I have my diary from 1993-1994. It is an old fashioned looking diary with the little keyhole lol. It was so precious to me! I also want to share one of the entries(which I don't mind sharing).

http://i65.tinypic.com/dgrnu9.jpg


Here is the page, it was April 29th, 1994. This was when I attended RISD for gifted art program. It was early in the year so I was still 13 years old.

It says: Dear Diary, Today I went to the RISD museum again. This time we painted pictures made out of shapes. I made a landscape. I drew a tree, two houses, the grass, the sun, and another strange looking tree. Dawn Perry wasn't in today. I love it when she's not in. But that's mostly what happened today. It was sunny and warm out.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2q2g0th.jpg

A few months ago, I re-discovered a few of my drawing books from when I was a kid. It made me feel really nostalgic and it was interesting to read back on the things I did when I was younger. I thought this would be a good idea for a thread. What are some of the things you did when you were a kid and do you still have any drawing or writing books from then? Here are some of the things I did:

2006

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4433/36381660824_76c03ee10d_z.jpg

I used to make up my own cartoon and comic strips. It's pretty nifty that I not only wrote the date that I made the drawing, but also when I started and finished it. I was only 6 years and 10 months old at the time. :) In case you're wondering what the "black stroke" is, I did that prior to uploading the photo, because I didn't want to reveal my name.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4436/37076358391_2b327b43f5_z.jpg

I wrote that when I was only 7. I became really interested in astronomy at that age and I've had an interest in it since. In case you're wondering, I did get some of the information from an astronomy book I own, however everything is in my own words. I didn't copy it straight out of the book. :)

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4381/36381674564_707f61aa67_z.jpg

This is from the 7th January 2006. I've always had an interest in the media. I started to make my own TV Guides when I was 6 and I continued to make them until I was 10. The drawing above is actually from a drawing book which is full of mock TV Guides!

2008

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4370/36821047140_e10bf2399f_z.jpg

I've always thought of the future and the bigger future. When I was 9, I deliberately cut things out of newspapers, so that one day I could look back on it and see what the "world of 2008" was like. Notice how Blackberry's, Playstation 2's and Motorola Phones were still being advertised. :P

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4382/36382309734_c62147c309_z.jpg

This is from the same book. A newspaper ad for the IPod Classic and Touch. :)

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4403/37219504645_27f593df0b_z.jpg

I wrote down the then-current slogans of different car brands. Even though, "Bing-Lee" isn't a car brand. It's an electronics store. :P

Unfortunately, I no longer have any of my drawing books from before 2006. They were chucked out years ago. :( I didn't get a chance to take any photos of my drawing books from 2007 or 2009. I may do that at a later stage.


I love your astronomy book the most out of all of them!  :)

Ok, so I have my diary from 1993-1994. It is an old fashioned looking diary with the little keyhole lol. It was so precious to me! I also want to share one of the entries(which I don't mind sharing).

http://i65.tinypic.com/dgrnu9.jpg


Here is the page, it was April 29th, 1994. This was when I attended RISD for gifted art program. It was early in the year so I was still 13 years old.

It says: Dear Diary, Today I went to the RISD museum again. This time we painted pictures made out of shapes. I made a landscape. I drew a tree, two houses, the grass, the sun, and another strange looking tree. Dawn Perry wasn't in today. I love it when she's not in. But that's mostly what happened today. It was sunny and warm out.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2q2g0th.jpg


Whoever she was, you weren't a fan of her.  ;D  ;D  ;D

Sharkfan,

you make me feel sane. I thought I was the only one that did things like these things.  :D

Sharkfan,

you make me feel sane. I thought I was the only one that did things like these things.  :D


Haha, I've always had the exact same thought. :P I'm glad to hear that other people did similar types of things as well. :)

^^Haha nice :). A few months ago when I when I was sick from school for a week, I was really bored and suddenly decided I really wanted to find all these things from my childhood and I found all this stuff piled up in my closet lol.
I found all of my drawings, schoolbooks and stories that go all the way back to when I was at Preschool in 2003! I honestly laughed quite a bit lol, I wonder what I was thinking back then lol some of the stories I wrote back then were just crazy! ;D it was also a bit of a time machine, one of my books I wrote about what I had done for every week during 2006, all of which i now remmebr and is a reminder of how different my personal life is now. :)

I made a robot for a project in first grade but I do not have it any more T.T

I have a project (picture book basically) that I did back in November or December 2002 that I refound recently and it gave me an IMMENSE amount of nostalgia. It was a project for Pre-K and I remember making it even though it's been almost 15 years since then.

I will post some pics of it later (the paper has aged because it's so old...so beware of that :P).

How do you post pics on here? This website is confusing af

How do you post pics on here? This website is confusing af


IKR! I was just thinking that ;D

I have a project (picture book basically) that I did back in November or December 2002 that I refound recently and it gave me an IMMENSE amount of nostalgia. It was a project for Pre-K and I remember making it even though it's been almost 15 years since then.

I will post some pics of it later (the paper has aged because it's so old...so beware of that :P).

Here it is the picture book project I did (with the help of my mother) all the way back in very late 2002:


https://i.imgur.com/tVOXM9r.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gtgbU2L.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nTLOKur.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9Y3rsWJ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/D1aKqWl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tF6PIRV.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ppVuHZH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/cF9eTOm.jpg

I blurred the cover picture in order to protect my identity and my toddler face :P. Also, these were pictures of just SOME of the book (I can't show them all).

Here it is the picture book project I did (with the help of my mother) all the way back in very late 2002:


https://i.imgur.com/tVOXM9r.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gtgbU2L.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/nTLOKur.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/9Y3rsWJ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/D1aKqWl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tF6PIRV.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ppVuHZH.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/cF9eTOm.jpg

I blurred the cover picture in order to protect my identity and my toddler face :P. Also, these were pictures of just SOME of the book (I can't show them all).


That's awesome! Thanks for sharing them. :)

It's great that you can look back on something like that. I personally don't have anything left from 2002.

How do you post pics on here? This website is confusing af


You need to have an account on a photo-sharing website (I use flickr) and then upload the photo onto that site. Once you have uploaded the photo onto the site, you can link the photo from there and onto inthe00s. :)

You need to have an account on a photo-sharing website (I use flickr) and then upload the photo onto that site. Once you have uploaded the photo onto the site, you can link the photo from there and onto inthe00s. :)

Or you can go on imgur (you don't need an account for that), just upload and the pics and copy the URL, then paste it on here and link it.

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing them. :)

It's great that you can look back on something like that. I personally don't have anything left from 2002.

Thank you! :)

Yeah, I'm actually glad that I found it because I didn't know that I had much things left from 2002 or before :P.

Whoever she was, you weren't a fan of her.  ;D  ;D  ;D


We were "frenemies". Sometimes we were friends, and sometimes we were enemies. Weird I know haha lol.

I remember in 5th grade I was doing Literature Studies and we had to draw a picture for this book. I tried to draw a girl with a long dress that dragged on the floor, but it didn't turn out right. Sadly, I don't have the original pictures. So I just redrew them to show how it looked like. This is what I tried to draw:

https://i.imgur.com/uCANerH.jpg

This is what I ended up drawing:
https://i.imgur.com/QvhI89K.jpg

I showed my friend what I just drew and she laughed so hard and so did I. Because of this, we drew different variations of it. Like this:

https://i.imgur.com/BbPcmt9.jpg

We still find it hilarious today lmao

I remember in 5th grade I was doing Literature Studies and we had to draw a picture for this book. I tried to draw a girl with a long dress that dragged on the floor, but it didn't turn out right. Sadly, I don't have the original pictures. So I just redrew them to show how it looked like. This is what I tried to draw:

https://i.imgur.com/uCANerH.jpg

This is what I ended up drawing:
https://i.imgur.com/QvhI89K.jpg

I showed my friend what I just drew and she laughed so hard and so did I. Because of this, we drew different variations of it. Like this:

https://i.imgur.com/BbPcmt9.jpg

We still find it hilarious today lmao

https://media.giphy.com/media/z8eMOIAUVrlcc/giphy.gif

Lmfao that's hilarious lol, what happened to the first ones face? ;D

Nice to see you figured out how to upload pictures!  ;)

Lmfao that's hilarious lol, what happened to the first ones face? ;D

Nice to see you figured out how to upload pictures!  ;)

I meant to draw her standing sideways lol

I remember in 5th grade I was doing Literature Studies and we had to draw a picture for this book. I tried to draw a girl with a long dress that dragged on the floor, but it didn't turn out right. Sadly, I don't have the original pictures. So I just redrew them to show how it looked like. This is what I tried to draw:

https://i.imgur.com/uCANerH.jpg

This is what I ended up drawing:
https://i.imgur.com/QvhI89K.jpg

I showed my friend what I just drew and she laughed so hard and so did I. Because of this, we drew different variations of it. Like this:

https://i.imgur.com/BbPcmt9.jpg

We still find it hilarious today lmao



Aww. ..that last one looks a lot like me! Hahaha same curves lol

I remember in 5th grade I was doing Literature Studies and we had to draw a picture for this book. I tried to draw a girl with a long dress that dragged on the floor, but it didn't turn out right. Sadly, I don't have the original pictures. So I just redrew them to show how it looked like. This is what I tried to draw:

https://i.imgur.com/uCANerH.jpg

This is what I ended up drawing:
https://i.imgur.com/QvhI89K.jpg

I showed my friend what I just drew and she laughed so hard and so did I. Because of this, we drew different variations of it. Like this:

https://i.imgur.com/BbPcmt9.jpg

We still find it hilarious today lmao


;D Well, at least you tried.

Ok, so I have my diary from 1993-1994. It is an old fashioned looking diary with the little keyhole lol. It was so precious to me! I also want to share one of the entries(which I don't mind sharing).

http://i65.tinypic.com/dgrnu9.jpg


Here is the page, it was April 29th, 1994. This was when I attended RISD for gifted art program. It was early in the year so I was still 13 years old.

It says: Dear Diary, Today I went to the RISD museum again. This time we painted pictures made out of shapes. I made a landscape. I drew a tree, two houses, the grass, the sun, and another strange looking tree. Dawn Perry wasn't in today. I love it when she's not in. But that's mostly what happened today. It was sunny and warm out.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2q2g0th.jpg


Very nice!!

I didn't have a diary like that (just a blank book is all I used), but this is awesome. Thanks for sharing it. O0

Or you can go on imgur (you don't need an account for that), just upload and the pics and copy the URL, then paste it on here and link it.

I should consider doing this for some of my pictures. Thanks for the advice.

I used to upload them to my Facebook profile and post the URLs here, but those URLs are temporary, so eventually nothing would appear in the post where the (img)URL(/img) thingy was.

I should consider doing this for some of my pictures. Thanks for the advice.

I used to upload them to my Facebook profile and post the URLs here, but those URLs are temporary, so eventually nothing would appear in the post where the (img)URL(/img) thingy was.

You're welcome! :)

Childhood? Huh! What's that? >:( >:( >:( >:(

Childhood? Huh! What's that? >:( >:( >:( >:(
That age span ranging from birth to adolescence.

Childhood? Huh! What's that? >:( >:( >:( >:(


???? Care to explain?

???? Care to explain?
I do not wish to ask... ?

???? Care to explain?


Sorry.

I didn't have a childhood.  So I didn't know what that was back then and I don't know what that is now.  :)  I was always looking after everybody with no time to be a kid.  :)

http://www.theoldrobots.com/images4/megoa7.JPG

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These are a few things from my childhood I enjoyed.  :)

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These are a few things from my childhood I enjoyed.  :)

I remember this one. I never owned one, but I think I had a friend who did.

Also one was used in the 1982 movie "E.T.".

I remember this one. I never owned one, but I think I had a friend who did.

Also one was used in the 1982 movie "E.T.".


http://www.speaknspell.co.uk/speaknspell.html

This is a free Speak And Spell online simulator. :)

Very nice!!

I didn't have a diary like that (just a blank book is all I used), but this is awesome. Thanks for sharing it. O0


It was fun sharing it! I guess it's silly now lol, but I still love my old journals and diaries.

It was fun sharing it! I guess it's silly now lol, but I still love my old journals and diaries.

That's good. I kept diaries for about four years (summer 1991-summer 1995) but always kept the contents private. Periodically I go back and read 'em when I have nothing better to do. :)

Sorry.

I didn't have a childhood.  So I didn't know what that was back then and I don't know what that is now.  :)  I was always looking after everybody with no time to be a kid.  :)


Even when you were 5 & 6 you were looking after people!? im pretty sure you would remmeber playing with friends or whatever wouldn't you?  ???

That's good. I kept diaries for about four years (summer 1991-summer 1995) but always kept the contents private. Periodically I go back and read 'em when I have nothing better to do. :)


I keep my old diary in my closet and I used to write in from about 1986-1988.

I keep my old diary in my closet and I used to write in from about 1986-1988.

Mine are in a storage box in the garage, along with other mementos from my childhood.

Even when you were 5 & 6 you were looking after people!? im pretty sure you would remmeber playing with friends or whatever wouldn't you?  ???


When I was 6 I lost my older sister and was shipped off to my grandparents' house for a month and I had worries that my mother would never come back.
It was after that I had to look after everyone.  ::)

As far as friends go no I didn't have any friends because my dad was always getting drunk and coming to the school yard visiting us and scaring them off. 

I had a Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do It Your Self book and I drew and wrote everything in it I had it in like 2012 or 2013 but I don't have it my friend does I am trying to get back from him.