What were your favourite childhood toys/games

janer1967

My list

Hopscotch
Skipping
Pretend shows

Operation
Buckaroo
Mouse Trap
Cluedo

66Mustang

Nice question

I liked making Airfix models.

BB guns and air guns were fun as well. I liked shooting.

Also games consoles/the computer.

I also used to like making stuff out of household materials, “craft” I think it’s called?

My favourite board game was Monopoly!

janer1967

Some good ones there @66Mustang

leeCal

My favourite toy when very young was a metal rocking horse called peter. I called everything peter except for Fred my guinea pig. 
I too liked airfix models and the soldiers, I bought a lot of them and had wars all over the place. Furniture made great cliff tops. 

I never liked board games except for chess, but I didn’t play that much. 

I also liked using the empty washing up liquid liquid bottles for a submarine at bath time or a space rocket, or as a fire engine much to the annoyance of bees I’m ashamed to say. Great fun. I enjoyed making various animals out of acorns and matchsticks too. Oh yes, cardboard boxes made great knights helmets, me and a friend or two would often be seen bashing each other with small sticks playing knights in armour, probably no the brightest thing to do...ouch!

last but not least I really enjoyed climbing trees. Oaks or fruit trees in the summer ...yum!

janer1967

Sounds like great fun @leeCal

Chloe_Alumni

Cats Cradle!

Cher_Alumni

I used to love fuzzy felts and had one of those pretend post office counters where I would sell all my relatives a dog license for three pounds 

janer1967

Great memories there @Cher_Scope and @Chloe_Scope

I had fuzzy felt I had the circus one

Ross_Alumni

Mouse Trap is a fantastic one, used to love that.

We used to play things like Kerplunk, Connect 4 and Marble Run, as well as the classics like Monopoly and Cludo. 

I also used to play with the toys from Toy Story, particularly Woody and Buzz. 

I used to love trains as well when I was a child so there was a lot of Thomas the Tank Engine stuff too, I used to build my own tracks and run the toy trains on them.

Good times  

willow12

Mousetrap screwball scramble Ker plunk buckaroo frustration scrabble monopoly chess 

willow12

Fuzzy felt and stickle bricks 

Cher_Alumni

Stickle bricks!! I could play with them right now.  

I used to have an A la carte kitchen and a big yellow teapot too 

willow12

@Cher_Scope I used too like action men too and GI Joe international  hero lol 

willow12

And finders keepers polly pocket and these teddy things called popples 

Cher_Alumni

@willow12 I remember those! Did you have a tamagotchi too? 

willow12

@Cher_Scope yes had one those 2 and sea monkeys lol 

Cher_Alumni

@willow12 I remember being so upset when my tamagotchi died.  I sneaked it into school and everything haha!

willow12

@Cher_Scope yes I did same as you lol lol 

Grinchy

Great idea for a thread, i unsurprisingly loved star wars and still do, have a nice collection in my star wars  room, also liked evel knievel i had the stunt cycle and had lots of fun with it, i used to love getting art supplies drawing pads etc at christmas time, it was a great time, no abuse etc went on during that whole two weeks of christmas, as long as the tree was up i was safe, 

janer1967

Some great memories coming out here of both mine and my son 

He loved toy story and Thomas tank 

chiarieds

Bayko - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayko

Jigmaps

Fuzzyfelt

Pompom maker

Knitting Nancy

Snakes & Ladders

Risk

Monopoly

Cluedo

Etch a Sketch

Solitaire

Card games like Snap or Patience & Clock Patience