What were your favourite childhood toys/games

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  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,984 Championing
    edited September 2020
    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
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Some good ones there @66Mustang
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited September 2020
    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
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Sounds like great fun @leeCal
  • Chloe_Scope
    Chloe_Scope Scope Posts: 10,511 Championing
    Cats Cradle!
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,715 Championing
    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  :D
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Great memories there @Cher_Scope and @Chloe_Scope

    I had fuzzy felt I had the circus one
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    edited September 2020
    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
    willow12 Community member Posts: 278 Empowering
    Mousetrap screwball scramble Ker plunk buckaroo frustration scrabble monopoly chess 
  • willow12
    willow12 Community member Posts: 278 Empowering
    Fuzzy felt and stickle bricks 
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,715 Championing
    Stickle bricks!! I could play with them right now.  

    I used to have an A la carte kitchen and a big yellow teapot too  :D
  • willow12
    willow12 Community member Posts: 278 Empowering
    @Cher_Scope I used too like action men too and GI Joe international  hero lol 
  • willow12
    willow12 Community member Posts: 278 Empowering
    And finders keepers polly pocket and these teddy things called popples 
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,715 Championing
    @willow12 I remember those! Did you have a tamagotchi too?  :)
  • willow12
    willow12 Community member Posts: 278 Empowering
    @Cher_Scope yes had one those 2 and sea monkeys lol 
  • Cher_Alumni
    Cher_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 5,715 Championing
    @willow12 :D I remember being so upset when my tamagotchi died.  I sneaked it into school and everything haha!
  • willow12
    willow12 Community member Posts: 278 Empowering
    @Cher_Scope yes I did same as you lol lol 
  • Grinchy
    Grinchy Community member Posts: 1,940 Championing
    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
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Some great memories coming out here of both mine and my son 

    He loved toy story and Thomas tank 
  • chiarieds
    chiarieds Community member Posts: 16,331 Championing
    Jigmaps
    Fuzzyfelt
    Pompom maker
    Knitting Nancy
    Snakes & Ladders
    Risk
    Monopoly
    Cluedo
    Etch a Sketch
    Solitaire
    Card games like Snap or Patience & Clock Patience

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