Favorite Toys from Childhood
By Jshean20
@Jshean20 (14348)
Canada
September 2, 2012 5:57pm CST
Toys certainly have gotten a lot cooler compared to what existed from my childhood, sometimes it makes me jealous actually but I can't wait to have children and play with fun toys with them. Growing up, one of my favorite "toys" was a child sized grocery cart. Might sound odd, but I loved playing "grocery store" with my sisters where we would go into my mothers cupboard and load the cart with groceries and then go up to the clerk (usually I was the clerk) to pay for them. Do you have any memories of your toys from childhood? Or maybe there was a game of some kind that you enjoyed playing? Thanks for sharing your trip down memory lane.
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@Kashmeresmycat (6369)
• United States
3 Sep 12
Now we're going to go back to a galaxy far, far away, haha. Yes, I did have favorite toys. There were two games I enjoyed quite a bit and one was called Pickup Sticks, and the other was called Cooties, lol! They were fun and I'm sure Pickup Sticks is probaby still around.
Then I had a Monkey Puppet that I loved dearly and he would talk to everyone, ha! I also took him to bed with me every night because I thought he was just soooo cute! 
@Jshean20 (14348)
• Canada
3 Sep 12
Haha I love your wording choices " galaxy far, far away", come on I'm sure it wasn't that long ago! Hey I think I know of pickup sticks. Is that the game where you'd have a thing in the middle and shove sticks through the holes, the idea was to not let them fall? Or am I way off here?
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@Kashmeresmycat (6369)
• United States
3 Sep 12
You are way off, hahaha!
Pickup Sticks were a bunch of very colorful thin platic sticks about 8" tall roughly. You would hold them upright but sit them on the ground with your hand around them, then let them go. They would fall all over the place. The object was to pick up as many as you could WITHOUT moving another stick and each color was worth different points, with Black I believe being the highest and there was only 1 Black. Sometimes that Black one would be on the bottom of the pile so it was hard to get hold of until all the other sticks were picked up.
It was loads of fun and gave great eye and hand movements and you learned coordination too. Not to brag, but I was pretty good at it, lol! I'm not quite sure what game you're talking about but it sounds like fun too.
@BulletsMama (221)
• United States
3 Sep 12
Toys now are a lot cooler -- however I think some of them are getting ridiculous! There are too many computer gadgets that enable children to sit in the house and not use their imagination!
When I was little, I played outside most of the time! I couldn't get enough of the outdoors. We had a playhouse that my neighbor's dad built -- we played house there....we would make a store by the tree, make a gas station that we used our peddle cars or bikes to go get gas at and other things. It was a blast...and we usually spent the whole day playing.
Ahhh....thanks for making me bring back those days! :o)
@Jshean20 (14348)
• Canada
4 Sep 12
I remember playing with friends outside, the time would just fly by and my mother would get upset because I didn't show up when she asked for me to due to losing track of time. You're welcome for bringing you back to those days, I hope you got a smile from it.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
4 Sep 12
My favorite toy was a mechanical duck. I call it "Tweety". It was a gift brought by my dad from Japan. I do not know why I loved that toy so much when all it did was qauck while walking. I remember crying over it when it got broken.
@jenny1015 (13366)
• Philippines
7 Sep 12
Yes,it was given by my dad from one of his travels from Japan.
@ardoy0731 (7308)
• Philippines
3 Sep 12
As far as I remembered my toy during that time was a cowboy and its horse.I used to play outdoor games before with friends,classmates and neighbors that time so toys is not a big deal with me that time.So I used to play that toy if I am just at home which is so seldom.Not like kids now that used to play gadgets and latest technology so they just stay at home and seldom interact with other kids.
@KOSTAS499 (1624)
• Greece
5 Sep 12
I think my plastic army men, my playmobils and my toy cars. I also liked to draw and paint A LOT!
@WakeUpKitty (8694)
• Netherlands
2 Sep 12
I don't think I ever had a favorite toy. The only thing I ever liked were books and comics (not all of them). As long as I can remember I am reading. My kids are the same, already at the age of 2-3 years old they were crazy about books, stories. My youngest is 6 years old, skipped a class is in the 5th class now since 1 week and the teacher says she is astonished she can read such difficult books and is reading so fast.
@vidhyaprakash_2 (7116)
• India
3 Sep 12
Hi friend, good to hear about your favorite childhood toy. We played with a lot of toys during our childhood. Children always have a lot of craze with their toys. I have a cute dog in my child hood and it is my favorite. I don't share it with anyone during my childhood. Now my son's using the same toy for their playings. I have 2 sons and they are fighting a lot to play with my favorite toy.
@Raine38 (12250)
• United States
3 Sep 12
I remember that my longest running favorite toy from when I was 1-4 years old is a plastic white swan which is a cake topper for my cake on my first birthday. That's my favorite because money is hard when I was growing up and that birthday cake was my first and last for years. I had such wonderful memories of that particular birthday that I kept the topper and as a kid, imagined that the play doh I mashed is my cake and I will place the swan on top of it. Even if my parents can't afford much toys for me then, I don't remember ever feeling that I have lesser toys than my playmates.
