Our Toys:
Hoola
Hoops, Easy Bake Ovens, Incredible Edibles, Skiddle Kiddles, Candy Land,
Uncle Wiggly, Monopoly, Clue, Go to the head of the Class, Operation,
Ping Pong, Hot Wheels, Pogo Sticks, Jacks, Jump Rope, Chinese Jump
Rope, Colorforms, Duncan YoYo's, making
funny pages imprints with Silly Putty,
Clackers (They were
eventually banned. Two clear
plastic balls on a string. You hold a ring and move your hand up and down
and they would make a clacking sound.) Barbie (cutting off her hair!)
making her and Ken do the nasty. GI Joe, Dominos, Super balls,
Mexican
jumping beans, soap
that
grew hair called "Fuzzy Wuzzy", Making chains from gum wrappers
in class, Lincoln Logs, Troll Dolls, Homemade tissue flowers (with a bobby
pin in the middle), Plastic dip flower kits, making multicolored pot holders
on the frame and giving as gifts,
making things out of popsicle sticks or toothpicks, Silly Sand, playing Cowboy
and Indians, Erector Sets, Thumbelina, Baby Bye
Bye, electric scissors, hoppity horse,
Barrels of Monkeys, Oiuja Boards, Playing Go-Fish, Solitaire and Concentration,
Tiny Tears dolls, Chatty Cathy, Origami, Roller Skates, Scrabble,
Sea Monkeys, Rock 'em, Sock 'em Robots, Ant Farms, Lite-Bright, those ball
shaped radios that looked like a smiley face, skatemania.