Re: TOYS Or GAMES You Remember From Childhood!😊

SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@ECBG wrote:
I loved the sand pile, my big people sized play house, Candy Land, and roller skates. I also rode my bike a lot looking up at the Park Way or read my mother's old Nancy Drew books that I loved. If I ran out of books, I'd read encyclopedias.

@ECBG Welcome!🥰 Yessss!! I have not met ANYONE else that read encyclopedias, but I had a set of Collier's encyclopedias, and when I was bored or on rainy days, I would sometimes read them just like storybooks or fiction novels are read!!😁 I would also pick X amount of words per day to learn in the dictionary.😊

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@cody2 wrote:
I loved jacks. Especially when we played with a golf ball. That ball would stay high in the air long enough to clear out all the remaining jacks on the sidewalk before it came down. Pick up sticks were good. Cowboys and Indians with our stick horses and bike rides around the neighborhood with my trusty Teddy bear and my Raggedy Ann doll in my bike basket. And of course Hide and Seek. And a dime bought a whole load of penny candy.

@cody2 Welcome!🥰 I do not recall anyone mentioning Hide and Seek but I LOVED❤ it! I would find the BEST hiding places but sometimes gave myself away from giggling as the seeker got VERY close!😁 I had inherited Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls also! Ahhh the days of penny candy.😊 My siblings and friends and I would pool our pennies, and get a big bag of candy to share!😊 I would not trade those precious childhood memories for anything!❤

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candys mine · ‎08-20-2012

@They CallMe MRWILKES YEAH! Thingmakers! I wanted Yours but I got a Picadoo maker. I had the square plates with grid shaped wells. You'd make designs in the squares then cover the whole thing with a layer of latex to hold the design together. when it was cooked it looked like a cross stitch granny square.

Then there was Make it Bake its. you'd buy a metal outline of a bird or flower or ornament etc... they came with or without the little plastic colourful beads ( you could buy bigger packets of colours too.) that you'd fill the spaces in the outline. then bake. the beads would melt and make a stained glass like image. You had to be done by the time mom wanted to make dinner. Luckily the smell of meting plastic didn't linger. I still have a lot of little ornaments.

We went thruogh a Candle making phase. Hauling big blocks of parafin wax and wick home on our bikes.

I REALLY wanted an Easy Bake Oven but my Mom said no to That that right quick! She wasn't paying for some silly thing like that. That was the summer I learned how to read a recipe and make a cake big enough for Everyone to eat by scratch.

My City had summer programs at some of the schoolyards or city parks. Kickball teams played other schoolyards.

We played Jacks, Hopscotch, cards, Made " Gimp" lanyards. That was one of the " Big" things we did. Funny back then that we could leave our " Works in progress" hanging on the schoolyard fence and it would always be there the next morning.

@SandySparkles Thanks for the memories!

SouthernBee · ‎09-16-2010

@Zaimee : Yes, one of my neighbours had the set. I took very good care of what few toys and books that were given to me. But my neighbor wouldn't let me read them. I had cerebral palsy and need numerous surgeries. When school was out for the summer : surgery always scheduled and sometimes had homebound teacher and didn't return to school until November.

SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@candys mine wrote:
@They CallMe MRWILKES YEAH! Thingmakers! I wanted Yours but I got a Picadoo maker. I had the square plates with grid shaped wells. You'd make designs in the squares then cover the whole thing with a layer of latex to hold the design together. when it was cooked it looked like a cross stitch granny square.

Then there was Make it Bake its. you'd buy a metal outline of a bird or flower or ornament etc... they came with or without the little plastic colourful beads ( you could buy bigger packets of colours too.) that you'd fill the spaces in the outline. then bake. the beads would melt and make a stained glass like image. You had to be done by the time mom wanted to make dinner. Luckily the smell of meting plastic didn't linger. I still have a lot of little ornaments.

We went thruogh a Candle making phase. Hauling big blocks of parafin wax and wick home on our bikes.

I REALLY wanted an Easy Bake Oven but my Mom said no to That that right quick! She wasn't paying for some silly thing like that. That was the summer I learned how to read a recipe and make a cake big enough for Everyone to eat by scratch.

My City had summer programs at some of the schoolyards or city parks. Kickball teams played other schoolyards.
We played Jacks, Hopscotch, cards, Made " Gimp" lanyards. That was one of the " Big" things we did. Funny back then that we could leave our " Works in progress" hanging on the schoolyard fence and it would always be there the next morning.
@SandySparkles Thanks for the memories!

@candys mine Welcome!🥰 I like that you mentioned kickball because I really ENJOYED playing that! Many young girls had an Easy Bake Oven then; myself included!😁 It must have been a brilliant marketing campaign.😄

It was SO FUN to be able to bake something, and feel grown up!! The added bonus was the adults acting as if you had just served them a Julia Child's confectionery masterpiece!😊 Because I am a great baker, I believe I was inspired by that!❤

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mare54 · ‎08-14-2011

Mystery Date.

SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@SouthernBee wrote:
@SandySparkles : About 10 years ago we entertain a church group once amonth. Several mentioned playing Aggravation growing up.We found several of the games on EBay and ordered 6. The following month we set up tables to play. Seeing the groups facial expressions and excitement was priceless. Precious memories and hours of fun.❤🤓

@SouthernBee Welcome!🥰 I ABSOLUTELY loved it! We would have tournaments because it was SO popular!😊

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@SouthernBee wrote:
@SandySparkles : I had a next door friend. We didn't have the money for paper dolls.Someone gave us a Sears catalog. My uncle owned the neighborhood grocery store. He gave us card board boxes to cut up and we made paper dolls from people in the Sears catalog. We used empty Kleenex boxes cut to size to make furniture. So many hours of fun during the summer playing on the front porch.❤

@SouthernBee Welcome!🥰 I wish I had a nickel for every paper doll I cut out from the Sears and JC Penny catalogs. I would be paper RICH!😁 I also liked when my dear mother would discard them, so I could make a new "family" and "beautiful" HOUSE!❤😄

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@Zaimee wrote:
@SandySparkles
Venus Paradise Coloring sets

Essentially color by number pictures. Sets of numbered themed pictures with corresponding colored pencils to color.

@Zaimee Welcome!🥰 I do not recall this but it is DEFINITELY something I would have LOVED❤ playing with because I enjoyed painting with watercolors when I was a young girl!😄

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SandySparkles · ‎06-13-2010

@Burnsite wrote:
I loved Mr and Mrs Potato head. This was before there was a plastic potato in the kit and no theft from the pantry was involved. It drove my mom crazy because I stole potatoes from the bin. Irish families like their potatoes!

I liked the game Careers, always opting for outer space as a career, though alas that didn't happen for me.

Loved the cute tokens in Monopoly (an iron? really) but wasn't very good at it.

Our baby sitter (a sweetie pie) was the numbers runner for our factory town, and he taught us how to play poker. Loved it.

@Burnsite I am not familiar with the Careers game but I imagine being able to pick or win your career would have been fun!!😄 Playing Mr Potato Head with a REAL potato had to have been exciting; though perhaps a bit messy!😁

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