Mamagus

We called our ball on the string a "Skip It"

amma

My List
easybake oven
thumbelina doll
handheld transistor radio
schwinn bike, when the bananna seats came out
skate boards
skates
pogo stick
stilts
tether ball
Barbie dolls and all of her friends
doll house
similar to legos, but they were little tiny realistic bricks
the toy with the lit screen and you used black paper and little plastic colored pegs to make pictures that lit up?
toy robot that was on lost in space
45rpm and 33's LOL
8 track tapes
cassette tapes
Pong game


Nintendo
Playstation
hot wheels, garage, tracks
barbies, cars, asst accessories
teenage ninja turtles and accessories
Strawberry Shortcake doll and accessories
Rainbow Bright and accessories
hand held games
skip its
bikes
inline skates
skateboards
computer
baby dolls/carriages/beds/etc...

butterflywing

paddle ball
slinky
jacks
howdy doody marionett
BOOKS
marbles
little plastic horses with bowlegged cowboy riders that fit in the saddles
chutes'n'ladders
scooters
bikes
teeny electric chain-stitch sewing machine
little metal dishes and pots and pans
tiny china tea set
tiny plastic dolls from all nations - never got the whole set but still have 'em
stamp collection

side note: amma, how young ARE you?

butterflywing

can anyone remember toys from during the war (to end all wars)?

i'll start:

pots and pans with wooden spoons
rubber band balls
clothespin dolls with clothes

Butterfli19

omg this will either make me smile or cry...lol

Midge
colorforms
spirograph
Beatles tunes on 45's
silly putty that worked!
wax lips
chinese jumprope
marbles
old maid card game
candyland
paper dolls
bicycles
hula-hoop
wishniks!
rabbits foot
paint-by-number kits

edit:
paddle with small ball attached to long string
large ball with elastic on end that you just bounce back and forth on your hand.
metal slinkies
yo-yo's - the kind with the string...haha

sigh...

Baren*eh*ked_canadian

I remember those bricks, I had them as a kid, and my brother too.


The light-up thing is called a Lite-Brite, I had a few of those


I still have my original Nintendo, from the early 80s, but my brother got rid of all the cartridges at garage sale, so I've slowly been buying more. I can't remember all the games I used to have. I also have my Super Nintendo, and my N64 :)

I used to have a bunch of Rainbow Bright books, though never the doll. My friends did, though.


My dad had an Atari when I was a kid, I sort of remember it.

barbsbus

I was a small child during WW11 and so most of my toys were made by my mother and grandfather. I had lots of cloth dolls and lots of matching outfits that were made with the scrapes from my clothes that my mother made me. I had several sets of Raggedy Ann and Andys and all the books, and she also made me all the animals characters in the books, yoyo clowns (my great aunts made me), puppets and marinettes (my grandfather and mother made), Wooden stilts ( grandfather made quite a few sets which increased in height as I grew) Wooden sleds (we lived in New York and it snowed) Barrel hops my bothers and I would roll using a stick. We had a huge box of building blocks my grandfather made us.
Grandfather used make me dolls using coconut shells for the heads and sticks for the bodies and arms and legs and I would dress with my doll clothes. We had hobby horses and rocking horses and lots of pull and push toys made by my grandfather. I also got sewing cards (simple outline pictures that had holes drilled about 1/2" apart that were painted on thin wood panels and long boot shoe strings that I would lace in the holes. I have seen cardboard versions and got some for the grand daughters 20 years ago. I think I am going to make some of these for the great grands when they are a little older. I also had wooden puzzles that my grandfather used to make. He cut them with a jigsaw but I make lots of these using my scrollsaw.

butterflywing

oh, barbs
at last!! someone who remembers as far back as i do LOL! :lol: :lol:

i remember everything everyone mentioned, but i remember back further, too. i lived in new york city, so some of my toys were different, but a lot were exactly the same. do you remember long strings and wooden beads the size of wooden thread spools? some of them were thread spools. did you have oilcloth animals that you sewed around the edges, like cats and cows? they were stuffed but were still flat. did you play cat's cradle?

once my father came home, i always had crayons and scrap paper and scissors because he was a stationer. i swapped scrap paper for fabric scraps with a girl whose dad worked in a dressmaking factory.

we never had money, but we had such fun.

:lol:

Deara

did you play cat's cradle?

I lived in Brooklyn until I was six and played Cat's Cradle too.
My Dad worked at Sunrise Market and he brought home butcher's twine for me to use.
I played hop scotch on the sidewalks too and jump rope with other little girls in the neighorhood. Those were days when it was safe to play outside.
My Dad taught me how to play a game of ball bouncing it off of the steps. (He called it stoop ball). One bounce a single, two a double and so on. Caught before hitting the ground was an out.
Dad also taught me how to play hand ball.

Those were the good old days.

henryparrish76

I still have both of my Cabbage Patch kids along with my My Buddy