Weirdest thing you ever made as a young child

I used to go to an art class where we had clay and other materials as well as paint. I had some kind of obsession with cannibals and tribes which made shrunken heads - not sure where I found out about them. I made a shrunken head from clay, painted and decorated it with stuck on hair! The art teacher didn’t react in any way and I must have grown out of this strange phase.

When Mum made pastry she gave me the leftover bits. I decided I would make my Dad a jam tart with a special surprise for him. Unbeknown to Mum, before I put the lid on this special tart I put in a little red plastic figure I’d got from a cereal packet. All the tarts went in the oven to bake and when she took them out she was mystified by this bright red gloopy mess on the tray. How I cried that my special gift had been ruined. I was too little to know that plastic would melt in a hot oven.

Auntieflo in the girl guides I remember soap carving competitions. Ok if you had a creamy soap but a nightmare with cheap stuff which all turned to dust.

FannyCornforth

This reminds me of a thread I started about weird childhood hobbies. It was so funny!

There was lots of manky ‘perfume’ making with rose petals etc.

For a while, I was something of a mini Christo, and enjoying wrapping everyday objects with cling film

I remember doing this too!

Also building dens in the woods... with fires amd obstacle courses for bikes

I remember at school in our art class, we were given rectangular blocks of salt to carve. This was in Junior school, and I have no idea what I eventually made, but do remember that I enjoyed it.

Callistemon21 You reminded me of the mirror. YES we did that.

I think this would make a good competition at WI. Will suggest it.

Stinky scent , with a chemistry set I got for Christmas. It got put on a high shelf and I could only have it back when I agreed to follow the booklet. A cousin who was an industrial chemist had sneaked me the iron fillings and I think copper sulphate crystals.

Oldnproud

I tried to make myself some skis - out of papier-maché!

You win OldnProud! ?

Oldnproud

I tried to make myself some skis - out of papier-maché!

brilliant!

I’ve just remembered something my mom made.
She French knitted a harness for her guinea pig, bless her.
Always practical (sort of!) and creative ♥️

In junior school we made papier mache heads for puppets, then painted them and made the glove part, hand sewn bits of material. They were OK for a while.

I tried to make myself some skis - out of papier-maché!

Little gardens on trays made with soil, stones, flowers and populated with snails!

RichmondPark with a small mirror for a garden pond!
They were lovely, we used to take the into school as there was a competition for best garden.

When I was five, a school chum and I collected poppies and soaked them in a bucket of water because we wanted to poison our teacher ( who was also my aunt!). I got the idea from watching The Wizard of Oz.

For Ostrich eggs? ?

I remember those little kitchens Callistemon! Elf & Safety would have a fit now! My granny taught me to knit and I became so enthusiastic that I knitted egg cosies for everyone. Massive egg cosies they were!

Necklaces made from melon seeds. My cousins and I loved these!

Rose petal perfume which looked and smelt disgusting.

I used to do Frenh knitting with cotton reels and make mats to give to people.

For a couple of years I was very keen on making plaster of Paris figures in rubber moulds; the favourite was a Guisso mouse figure and it was always difficult to get it out of the mould with the tip of his nose intact. Then I painted and varnished them an everyone got given them for presents!

A chemistry set, a toy oven which had a meths burner - it's a wonder I never burnt the house down ?

Perfume, made from rose petal leaves that were left to stagnate in a bottle of water.
Dens, made from bits of timber and corrugated metal.
We made a house by draping a blanket over an up turned clothes maiden or under the table.
We also tried to slavishly follow the various projects on Blue Peter, usually involving an empty washing up bottle, glue, plasticene and sticky backed plastic.

We lived near my grandma. She used to make us chocolate balls of icing and cocoa. One day I made some balls using mud from the garden. I told my brother that grandma had given us some of her chocolate balls. He innocently put one in his mouth, and spat it out in disgust!
I laughed my head off.

I upturned a 3’ removal crate and it became my playhouse. I squatted in it like a mini sentry. It was full of worms & snails

Necklaces from macaroni pasta painted with water colour paints. Whenever it rained, the colour just washed out and I had a neck full of soggy pasta!

We made mud lies and wrapped them in leaves and made perfume with petals and water.
My gs has a mud kitchen now both at home and at school so nothing new there apart from he has metal land and tools.

When I was about five I knitted a Christmas present for my Grandpa - when he opened it on Christmas Day, he asked me exactly what it was and I said: "A finger warmer" - I could not understand the general hilarity from the grown-ups that greeted this remark!! I think I get it now .......

Oh yes, i remember collecting rose petals and soaking them in water to make perfume.....oh happy innocent days!!!