Childhood Playtime

[EcclesCake]

This thread has been inspired by a thread about colouring books for adults.

What toy, game or pastime do you recall from your childhood that given half a chance you would resurrect today?

I was particularly fond of fuzzy felts and a pegboard where you had had coloured pegs to make a pattern in the pegboard.

Given a chance when visiting someone else's home I was (and still am) completely absorbed by Lego :-)

[Svejk]

I had hours of 'fun' with the thing that went down the stairs. Slinky?

[mallyh]

french skipping with knicker elastic lol
jacks and five stones

[Prudie]

Yes loved fuzzy felt, the paper clothes you cut out with tabs and folded onto a cardboard doll, Lego, Spirograph,

[Svejk]

My walls kept falling down and making me cry. I was putting the lego-bricks one on top of the other instead of interlocking.
Mind you, I was only 23 then.

[EcclesCake]

My slinky took a fatal tumble down the stairs and ended up in an irretrievable knot :-(

I loved French skipping, I'd use a dining chair if I had no friends to play with or my Mum was busy elsewhere.

Cats cradle was another cheap source of amusement.

[Prudie]

I did that too Eccles, at its height I remember all the local haberdashery stores had run out of elastic.

[hc4361]

Yoyo!

[MargoTester]

I liked spillikins.

[Zacs-Master]

Spirograph.

[EcclesCake]

I always wanted a Spirograph but never got one. I had to make do with creating my own compass roses.

[Svejk]

For outdoor fun you couldn't beat a stick.

[Zacs-Master]

Awwww. Bless.

[237SJ]

My spacehopper

[mallyh]

hop scotch great fun

[Sammy48]

Etch-a-Sketch.

[MargoTester]

Does anybody remember a cotton reel (I think) with little tacks in it and using coloured wool to make a long - completely useless - 'worm', it's just a vague recollection.

[237SJ]

I have a vague recollection of the cotton reel thing. Didn`t the resulting worm go through the middle of it? I also remember getting two pieces of cardboard, cutting them into a round and making pom poms with wool.

[mallyh]

yes it was called french knitting the posh people had little wooden dolls ,we used cotton reels lol x

[MargoTester]

Yes that's right it did go down the hole in the middle! I did the pom-pom thing too. Can't imagine kids today would play with anything like that.

[mikey4444]

Meccano, without a shadow of doubt.