Here’s a selection of old photographs chosen from the Evening News archive which illustrate some of the things which youngsters could enjoy nearly 50 years ago.
Scroll through the pictures and get a flavour of what life was like five decades ago for children in Edinburgh.
9. School dinners
Children eating school dinners at Forrester High School in Edinburgh in September 1977. | TSPL Photo: Stan Warburton
10. French Monopoly
A game of Monopoly is used to help teach French at the Grange children's home school in July 1976. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
11. Mannequin snow-woman
Four-year-old Keith Newton puts the finishing touches to his snow-woman - made from a mannequin - in Cockburn Street Edinburgh, February 1978. | TSPL Photo: Denis Straughan
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12. Custard pies
Dumbiedykes & South Side playscheme at James Clark school Edinburgh in August 1976 - playscheme leaders get covered in custard pies. | TSPL Photo: Alex Bronw