What children’s toys do you like an adult?

And sorry but they do look like the Swiss artist🫢

Just googled them too and i must say i'd have been dissapointed to get one one those- my they are ugly!

No ive never heard of sacha dolls either.were they an American doll?

*board games

I still do colouring books- rediscovered them in lockdown and some of my GC love it also i found.Some of the board are still good fun as are jigsaws.Yes i should have kept spirograph too from when i was little but things hardly were kept back then.I do have my very old teddy though but doubt he's worth anything as hes got 1 different leg.

I bought my gd a dolls house and aithough she's still a little bit young for it I must admit I love setting the rooms out and playing with it😊

My husband built a fab train set when he was recovering from chemo grNd children loved it he always likes to make toys/games old fashioned ones the GC havent seen and they love it we do quizes as well with regards to manufactured toys we like board games and crafts lego stickle bricks nerf guns makeup lego turtles dollshouse action men probably all toys from all eras xx

He-Man & Thundercats figures & castles. All my DS’s passed down soon to DGS. Lots of Lego played with by my DS &I when he was young now played with by DGS.

I'd never heard of a Sacha Doll so I just googled them and I can't remember ever seeing them. I have 3 dolls, 2 I was given by my nans when my brother was born and a Swedish one that my aunts gave me when I was 5. They are tucked away somewhere. Apart from that I don't have anything except childhood books.

I still love Sindy dolls, and have my auburn Patch from the 60s in her Red Riding Hood outfit complete with basket.

I still have the dolls house my Dad made for us when we were small (now in the upper half of my 60's) which I still 'play' with (it's got its Xmas trimmings and xmas dinner laid out). 60's style furnishings, which was contemporary with the era in which it was made), plus a much larger Victorian style house Dad made for Mum and which I inherited - likewise trimmed up for Xmas!
I also enjoyed and still have a set of building bricks made of stone and with red brick markings, windows etc and indeed added to it with a larger set bought in an auction a few years ago.
In my attic somewhere is my Sindy doll, and her bed and wardrobe but haven't seen her in a long while.

I am looking to treat myself to a Steiff teddy bear . Is that really sad ? I never had a teddy as a child, had a few toys not many. Start of mental decline or some link to childhood ?

How lovely boheminan. 😍

As a small child I was, and still am, fascinated by wooden 'push up' toys - press the base and they flop down, to one side, etc. Seemingly worked with elastic threaded through them. I now collect them and have well over 100 different ones, dating back to the 1950's (my beloved originals).

What a fun thread, CoolCoco, thanks for starting it!

We have a few old items, like a bit box of Lego which still gets used. When the GC get bored, we have a timed round with a handful of pieces.

I also really like Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. Somehow I have the urge to make sure they are put together before they go back in the toy box. Maybe that is influence from the Toy Story movies?

And I love adding to my arts and crafts box. My 8 yr old GD especially loves colouring and painting, so I will sit happily with her and create artworks,

Mollygo I still have most of mine and also loved it a lot. - My 5 children enjoyed it too but I'm afraid some pieces are lost now. I saved ip for things for my garden and populated it with families of rabbits (as that is what i knew of my real garden, next to woodlands).

I had a pond in my Britains garden which seemed special with its shiny perspex coating - and a greenhouse with seedling trays.

The whole thing makes me think of how comfortable and safe my childhood was and how lucky I was to grow up in a rural area with big garden - and most of all with kind and loving parents.
My old stables is looking a bit the worse for wear though - but it is still functional.

Happy days.

I rarely get the garden out now - the grandchild who loves it best is usually here with her 3 year old sister who is not so gentle yet!

loads of Star Wars characters and spaceships.. lego of course

How lovely. I am envious!

My daughter-in-law, aged 41, has bought herself a vintage dolls' house and made endless bits and pieces for it (pic attached). I made a tiny piece of knitting for it by using cocktail sticks as knitting needles and sewing thread as wool. My favourite toy is Woody from Toy Story, who sits on a shelf in my art room. I wish I'd kept my Spirograph, but you can still buy it.

I’m looking forward to my granddaughter being old enough for a dolls’ house! I have such fond memories of mine, and of spending pocket money on little packs of furniture from Woolworths.

I'm with you on the Sylvanians! Yo-Yo's! Pippa dolls. Sindy Ballerina. Space Hoppers! All kinds of lovely goodies!

Spirograph, which we still use, but my favourite was Britain’s miniature garden sets. Planted out endless gardens with my sister. All you needed was a simple pointed tool to plant the flowers. Grape hyacinths were my favourites.

I have an old Jenga set which we bring out very now and again, kids love to see it collapse.

I love Marble Run! Unfortunately I have nobody to play with at the moment. My two older grandchildren are 12 and 13, so all the bits are boxed up under the bed in the spare room. My youngest grandson is only 11 months, so I guess I'll just have to be patient

We still have a small wooden pull along horse on wheels belonging to DH that his father made by German prisoners in the POW camp in his village. He says he also had a beautiful Noah's Ark, but his mother passed that on to a friend's child.