Children of the 70's & 80's.. Colorforms & Shrinkydinks

[tiggerlover]

Gosh, I haven't thought about Colorforms in ages!!!! I loved my Colorforms and loved Shrinky Dinks too! But Click Clacks were one of my favorites!!!

 

[SplashMom]

OMG!! I was reading through this thread and trying to think of those things that used to bruise our wrists and I couldn't remember the name--but there they are--click clacks!! I loved those! I also loved Skip It. These things haven't entered by mind in many many years!! I love the 70s!!

 

[disneysnowflake]

I wasn't allowed to use Shrinky Dinks. My parents didn't let us use anything that required cooking. I never had an Easy Bake Oven. When I was 5 I got Baby Alive, but my mom made my dad pull out the battery pack. They were afraid the batteries would hurt me. My friends called her Baby Dead. I was so embarrassed. Their Baby Alives had their mouth move, swallow food and crap it out. My did nothing but lie there with hair that looked like Don King.

I loved Colorforms. My favorite was Raggedy Ann.

Last Summer I found some Holly Hobbie colorforms for $2 each at a flea market.
One was a Holly Hobbie house colorform set. I sold it on ebay for over $60.

I used to have the Holly Hobbie General Store while growing up. I loved that set.

 

[snowwite]

I recently found a box of my old Dawn dolls,Waltons dolls and Kiddles.I am torn between selling them or saving them.The kids are not interested. I also loved my spirograph.

 

[Chattyaholic]

I grew up in the 60's and early 70's and I LOVED Colorforms. I know I had 2-3 different sets but the only one I remember is "The Beverly Hillbillies!"

I especially loved playing with paper dolls, and I remember one set came with a very thick book of different types of "material", only it was paper. You had templates to make dresses, skirts, tops, pants, etc. and then you could decorate the clothes with different "buttons and trims." It was so fun to "design" the clothes myself. I wish I still had the doll/clothes. There are so many things from my childhood that I wish I still had.

 

[disneysnowflake]

I didn't know they had Walton dolls. How neat.

My sister had Dawn dolls. All of their knees turned blue.

I had to look on ebay to remember what Kiddles were. My older sisters had these. My family didn't have a lot of money, but they could get Kiddles at the local drug store pretty cheap.

 

[Blueeyes101817]

i used to use the SKIP IT! for HOURS and HOURS!

 

[lizardqueen]

What about Glamour Gals dolls and Dollypops. Love those things! I was thinking about buying my DD some colorforms for the plane ride to WDW. Used to love them!

 

[BWVNUT]

OMG - my colorforms were Bed Knobs and Broomsticks!!

And I too had the Dawn dolls and Skipper!! Click-clacks - loved 'em too - but yeeeeowwww - did you get get hit by them - smash your finger?!

And, best of all. . . The Donny Osmond Doll!!! ahhhhh - he was so dreamy - my DD6 LOVES to play with him now!!

 

[DISUNC]

Do you remember them? A post I just responded to made me think of Colorforms for some strange reason... I remember I had Smurf colorforms and Dukes of Hazzard - even though I had never seen the show!

I loved my colorforms! And shrinkydinks too! I still have the Barbie shrinkydink that says "This room belongs to Cassi" that was on the door to my very first bedroom!

What other things do you remember from childhood?

We had them back in the 60's too! they sell MANY of them on EBAY

 

[MN Dis Fans]

I had Wendy the Weather Girl colorforms. I think this was from the tv show Romper Room. Anyone remember that? The lady had a magic mirror.

 

[desiab]

Cassi,

My best friend from childhood and I would do shrinky dinks like crazy. A few years ago we starting talking about them again and I came across a shrinky dink oven. I bought it for my daughter, but she just did not seem to like it as much as we did as kids.

One thing that stands out for me was wax lips. I remember them tasting so nasty to me, but we would still buy them constantly.

 

[OK!]

When I was 5 I got Baby Alive, but my mom made my dad pull out the battery pack. They were afraid the batteries would hurt me. My friends called her Baby Dead.

Sorry to laugh, but that's hilarious!

Some of my favorites from back in the day were Sit 'n' Spin (my brother and I used to sit on it opposite each other and spin it as fast as we could till we fell over. We were easily amused.), Lite Brite (though most of the pegs eventually wound up gnarled shreds of plastic courtesy of the vacuum cleaner), Yo-Balls, Playmobil people/sets, and Strawberry Shortcake dolls (check this out for a trip and a half! Lemon Meringue was my favorite.) I think my favorite toy of all, though, was my roller skates that had wooden wheels; I used to spend hours zipping around our unfinished basement, occasionally trying to plow into my brother when he tried to interrupt my fun.

Yay! I love threads like this!

 

[bevtoy]

Did anyone else use large metal Folgers coffee cans and put rope through them for handels and walk on them? Made ya feel ten feet tall!

 

[miss missy]

Loved shrinky dinks! Cant remember what ones I had, but it was a theme.. gotta think about that!

I LOVED the big wheel! I still have a pair of those romper room cup things with the string that you walked on I loved mexican jumping beans too.

 

[snowwite]

I didn't know they had Walton dolls. How neat.

My sister had Dawn dolls. All of their knees turned blue.

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The sister's or the dolls had blue knees? Sorry , I couldnt resist!

 

[snowwite]

Did anyone else use large metal Folgers coffee cans and put rope through them for handels and walk on them? Made ya feel ten feet tall!

We used to talk through them or the easier Dixie cup and dental floss version.I would not recommend using those kind as stilts.

 

[bevtoy]

We used to talk through them or the easier Dixie cup and dental floss version.I would not recommend using those kind as stilts.

Well they were the real large cans, but I have to admit they tended to collapse fairly soon...... todays moon shoes are $50 bucks ! We used Campbells soup cans for telephones with twine for the line.........
We also rode our friends on the handel bars of our bikes and never wore kneepads or helmits. Now parents have panic attacks if children don't have all the "recommended" safety gear. Sure we wrecked from time to time and skinned a knee or two, we even rode up home made ramps and wiped out.....just got up, maybe cried a bit, brushed off the dirt, shook off the pain and did it all over again.

 

[snowwite]

I wonder how we ever survived! We had contests in the neighborhood trying to do the best Evil Kneivel jumps! My mom would have died if she knew half of what we did but back then it was safe for us to go play until the street lights came on!

 

[rie'smom]

I had Wendy the Weather Girl colorforms. I think this was from the tv show Romper Room. Anyone remember that? The lady had a magic mirror.

I had this! Also the skip it,clickclack,paper dolls, and I remember The Mickey Mouse show. How about jacks,Liddle Kiddles,Twist-n-Turn Barbie,Twiggy dolls,Mystery Date, Hands Down,Tip it? Do ya'll remember those? Gee,this is fun!