Remember When...

[a-l]

I don't remember the name but you folded paper and wrote on the squares then held it on both forefingers and thumbs and manouvered it to tell fortunes ?                                                      Also folded paper again to cut out a row of attached people ?

[LizzieW]

I remember that alienlady, but I don't know what it's called.  I remember we made cats' cradles and other things with thin string.  Still available but now packaged as a game - it would be wouldn't it, we just used thin string, old bits of wool etc. whatever was available.

[a-l]

Absolutely ! Shoe boxes became so many things too , imagination is a wonderful thing but sadly lacking these days I think. I was certainly never bored there was too much to do or invent.

[groom]

Children still make those origami fortune tellers http://www.dltk-kids.com/world/japan/mfortune-teller.htm

[Rishile]

Not sure how old I was - probably about eight or nine - when I got the best book ever for Christmas.  I have no idea what it was called, sadly.  It was a book of children's stories each one of which had one of those pop-up illustrations: you opened the two pages out to their full extent and a scene jumped up, and by moving the pages up and down something in the scene moved.  One was of a toucan on a log and when you moved the book its beak pecked and there was a sawing sound which came from sandpaper inserted on the card.  Another was a fairy house with see-through windows and when you held it up to the light you could see a real fairy reflected onto the far wall.  How exciting was that!  I do wish I still had that book, it was a true work of art.

I had a book exactly like that.  It was opened so many times the plastic windows fell apart but you could still see the fairy (I think  ) or maybe I just imagined it.  I loved that book but especially that house.

Rishile

[BumbleB]

What about "Biggles" - I used to love the books when I was a child (and I'm female  .  I've just found a whole collection set of them - 15 - and have bought them for my grandsons for one of their Christmas presents.

[Greensleeves]

I'm very excited that Rishile remembers that book as well - was such a beautiful thing and like yours, I suspect mine eventually fell apart.

How about street games then, like Kick the Can.  Does anyone remember that?  It was my favourite and we invariably played that just as it was getting dark, with the can conveniently positioned under a lamp-post.

[candleflame]

I remember my sister had a miniature garden which came with lots of plastic flowerbeds and flowers. Then there were all different sorts of fences to put round the gardens.

O yes still have mine made by Britains. It has a greenhouse with shelves and a garden swing as well as different types of flowers like roses and lupins.

[candleflame]

Famous five books - full set. Wiggy I loved those dress up dolls made of card too.

My brother 7 years older than me had an electric train set - not a massive one but still an electric train set. It lived in a wooden chest with a sliding lid. I wasn't allowed to play with it and parents said 'until  I was older '. When I was 'older', they had sold it! I wasn't impressed at all.