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This was the first thing to come to my mind. Nothing as fun-inducing as giving a 6 y.o. an electric hot plate, steel molds to place in it, and toxic goo to bake. Then, using a thin wire clip as a handle, lift the hot molds out and put them in a tray of water to cool! Water and electricity is such a great combo for kids. I still have scars from the burns, but oh what fun I had!
BB guns, jarts, and riding a bike without as much as a thought of a helmet! And we survived!
Anybody else recall playing mumblypeg with a pocket knife?
I spit mtn dew all over my phone so funny btw anyone remember. Potty time with Elmo from 2005?
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I'm not a fan of the avalanche of cheap plastic toys that come with every kid birthday party, vending machine, dollar store, pinata, etc. I throw them out at every opportunity.
I'm not a fan of the avalanche of cheap plastic toys that come with every kid birthday party, vending machine, dollar store, pinata, etc. I throw them out at every opportunity.
Exactly.
They need good, well-made toys like Vise-Grips, band saws, and no-bounce hammers. A nice propane torch is useful, too.
We lived in a very hilly subdivision and had bicycles and lots of bad ideas involving plywood and cinder blocks. Evel Knievel wore a helmet but we didn't figure we needed one. I'm amazed that I was able to have kids still.
Lawn Jarts. the ones with the heavy metal ends. Combine those with a 10 years old boys reasoning ability and you have a recipe for disaster. Combined with a 10 year olds curiosity and you have holes in the side of a house, trees or whatever else we wanted to see if we could throw them at.
Bottle rockets and BB guns. No one lost an eye but neighborhood pets were very wary.
Glass coke bottles and firecrackers. I still have all my fingers.
I remember some kind of lab chemistry kits that were sold for kids. I especially remember that it came with sulfur. My parents remember the exact moment that I figured out it will burn, inside the house of course.
Anyone remember those toy motorcycles where you put the long plastic strip in the weighted rear wheel and pulled it out really hard? It would scream across the floor and you always made it go as fast as you could. Turns out my sister never payed much attention to mine until I got the rear tire spinning at the speed of light and put it in her hair. Evel Knievel wins again.
As an interesting side note on improper uses for toys. Anyone remember the racetracks that came with 2' sections of plastic that you snapped together to build your own hotwheels tracks? My mother repurposed those a few times when a belt, flyswatter or switch wasn't handy.
First, you take various bottles of colored goo. Then you pour the goo of the color(s) you desire into metal molds (of monsters, insects, flowers, etc.).
Finally, you cook the goo-filled molds on a hot plate (the goop solidified at 390F, to give you an idea of how hot) until the liquid solidifies.
Hot plates! For young children!
What could possibly go wrong... ?
[Let me guess - someone will be along to tell us shortly that kids these days just don't have enough character, in part because they have no scars from youthful hot plate burns...]
I remember the clackers,,,my sister had white ones,,,and I was a bit slow on the learning curve, so I got nailed all the time..
silly string ,,was quite combustable
wasn't there a vegan Barbie?? her hair falling out,,she looked sickly ????
there was some odd bubble blowing toy - gobbing on this awful smelling stuff at the end of a hard strawlike thing,,,blow thru and hope to blow a colorful bubble,,,
a neighborhood kid swallowed this stuff and an older brother called the poison hotline and they said to induce vomiting.... so we were all screaming and this kid,, to vomit or die..... he did get it out,,,,wouldn't have looked good on youtube....
there was some odd bubble blowing toy - gobbing on this awful smelling stuff at the end of a hard strawlike thing,,,blow thru and hope to blow a colorful bubble,,,
a neighborhood kid swallowed this stuff and an older brother called the poison hotline and they said to induce vomiting.... so we were all screaming and this kid,, to vomit or die..... he did get it out,,,,wouldn't have looked good on youtube....
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic
Another Wham-o product. I remember seeing it sold as "Plastic Bubbles" under a different brand before the Wham-o version hit the market.
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