Remember When...

[Wiggy]

I remember Rolf with his wobble board - don't remember the stylophone - what piece did he play that in - i must go and listen to it!   

[Treetotal]

He advertised it on TV Wiggy 
Carol

[Wiggy]

Must have been a British thing!   

Did it sound like a wobble board, maybe?

[Greensleeves]

I remember the comb-and-paper and also kazoos, which must have been equally irritating.  And mouth-organs which were great for making a horrible noise and filing with spit but I never found anyone who could get a tune out of one.

[groom]

And mouth-organs which were great for making a horrible noise and filing with spit but I never found anyone who could get a tune out of one.

My grandfather could, he could play lots of tunes on it and I so wanted to be able to do the same. He bought me a mouth organ and tried to teach me, but gave up in despair. 

[groom]

Just thought of something else that made a noise. Two circles of cardboard, cut with zig-zag edges, and placed back to back, you then threaded string through the two holes made in the middle of the discs and tied it to make a loop. You put both hands through the loop and moved them in and out so that the string twisted, as it got tighter and you moved your hands faster it made a humming noise. If you coloured the discs as well it made strange coloured effects as they spun.

[Greensleeves]

I remember those too!  And also putting bits of cardboard in your bike spokes so that they made a noise as the wheels turned.

[missmolly]

making pompoms from 2 cardboard tops off school milk bottles with the holes in the middle punched out so that you could wrap wool all round the tops and then cut the wool all round the edge, part the 2 bottle tops then tie it round the middle and you had brightly coloured pompoms

Mo

[groom]

Have we mentioned the French knitting where you put nails in the top of a wooden cotton reel and wove the wool round? http://www.allaboutyou.com/knitting-patterns/knitting-techniques/knitting-techniques-French-knitting