Re: Playtime

Roscoe the Rascal · ‎04-19-2016

I loved paper dolls. My aunts took the magazine and I always got them.

My sisters never like playing with dolls and I was crazy for them. I have no idea what they did like do to be honest. I could tell you what my brothers liked. Funny. I will have to ask my sister that question.

I loved playing with jacks and also color. I still do color now and then.

DottieBlue · ‎03-11-2010

I loved paper dolls, and coloring, too. My sister and I would play "jacks" and "pickup stix" for hours. Just good, simple fun.

just bee · ‎03-10-2010

The Spirograph and kinematic models: Making math touchable (and pretty) | National Museum of American History

Liked my Spirograph -- in addition to coloring, dolls and paper dolls.

But my mother bought us a set of World Book Encyclopedias as well as a set of Childcraft books.

Childcraft 1970's Book Collection #2

With that came the Cyclo-teacher!

1961 World Book Encyclopedia Cyclo-teacher learning aid cycles. We had one of these and used it often.

Spent hours studying different subjects.

I think my mother worried about us all getting evicted so she kept us supplied with books and other "quiet" activities. (It worked.)

~My philosophy: Dogs are God's most perfect creatures. Angels, here on Earth, who teach us to be better human beings.~

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

paper dolls were a favorite. I must have used them around 4 til I was 10 or so.i think sometimes I woukd find paper dolls in magazines? Maybe McCall's. And another magazine. Otherwise at the Ben Franklin there woukd be a whole rack of all kinds of paper dolls, Doris day, , baby, teen ones. Take your pick. Along with jacks and pick up sticks erector sets were fun. Jacks and marbles were a favorite of mine. I was good at jacks and marbles. We took these to school and played each other at recess.

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MoJoV · ‎10-01-2010

I loved paper dolls. Cutting them out, they had the little tabs to fold over to hold the "clothes" on. Never heard about any in magazines. They always came in a book of them. Loved Colorforms, too. And I still color with colored pencils in adult coloring books occasionally.

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Elodie2 · ‎06-29-2017

Another Colorform girl, here. But, what I really loved doing was cutting out pictures of rooms from mom's magazines and designing a house. Sometimes it would have two or three kitchens if I couldn't make up my mind. We were quite creative back then and I'm grateful for it.

lynnie61 · ‎04-28-2010

I loved paper dolls. I had Barbie, That Girl, and Liddle kiddles. I bought my sister a Spirograph a few years ago. She had one as a kid, and she loved that new one! My grandma sent me the Betsy McCall paper dolls every few months in the mail.

I had a kiddle kiddles tracing board. Lit with a light bulb. We would trace pictures provided, to have more to color. It was one of my favorite toys in the 60's.

Junebug54 · ‎03-09-2010

For those that like coloring there are coloring books for adults. Instead of crayons there are colored pencils and of course much more details. I think they're called "Art of Coloring".