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Please comment on what your favorite childhood toy was!
43 comments:
My favorite childhood toy was... this is hard! I think my cabbage patch baby doll- her name is Violet, my godmother took me to Children' Palace for the Golden Birthday (I turned 6) and I got to pick out anything I wanted. I chose her. I got another cabbage patch at my birthday party (from my grandparents I think)- but Violet was always my favorite. She now has marker on her bald head (Denise wrote on her after I wrote on Elenor's hear- denise's homemade cabbage patch- I had one of those too... but I don't remember her name)
I think my favourite toy would either be one of the two stuffed animals I still have, or books. I was always sch a bookworm!
Hannahbelle- checking in!
My favorite childhood toy was a lamb that I named ‘Lambie’. I carried her around everywhere and I still have her.
Ummmm... I'd have to ask my mom because she would remember and I don't, but she's still sleeping (must be nice!), and I'm not waking her just to ask that, so I am going to have to guess on this one that it was probably my Barbie camper, but I highly doubt it, it's just one of the few toys I remember having because we only recently got rid of them.
I still have my baby blankies and sleep with them every night (they are rolled into a small pillow and I sleep horribly without them)... can they count? ;)
My favorite childhood toys were books. Seriously. I'd much rather read than do much of anything else. Apart from draw or color.
-Shea aka Zenfoodist
This is irunnaked, my favorite toy was my stuffed animal. It was a little cat with a santa hat. I thought it was so cool that he was from China so I named Chinese Cat...
My favorite was a Raggedy Ann doll -- I always called her "Raggy." The poor thing had a bandaid on her head and looked just awful, but I dragged her everywhere. When we went out to eat, I'd make my dad hold her on his lap! I had Raggedy Andy, too, as they were a matched set, but he was not as well loved.
~AJB30
Gee this is hard, especially at this time of the morning and no coffee yet... I (still) have a stuffed Smokey the Bear that is obviously well loved but the thing I remember playing with most was my box of 64 Crayola Crayons.
Umm..... My favorite childhood toy was hurm I don't really know. I think it was mine and my sisters stretch Armstrong. We used to pull that sucker across my moms living room and drive her bonkers!
This is hard. I honestly don't remember. I don't remember playing with things. I guess I liked Legos, building forts, reading, and my bear named Chicago and my kitty named Kitty (maybe - if she had a name - I sucked at naming animals).
--pikkle
debjac here - my favorite toy definitely is a Shirley Temple doll my grandfather gave me when I was 5. I didn't really play with her because I didn't want to mess up her hair but I loved her. She's still in her original clothes (including the hairnet) now in a case to preserve her. My kids think she's staring all the time but that's OK.
As far as actually playing with a toy it would have to be my jump rope. Old fashioned clothes line but I would jump rope for hours!
When I was really little, I had a small wooden dog with wheels and a pull-string. I'd "walk" him around the house for hours. Mom recently found him and sent him - so he's still here!
It's hard to remember one favorite toy. I was a super tomboy - always playing outside, very active. Also a bookworm. I did love playing with Legos and had one stuffed dog called Sophisticated Sophie that I begged for for Christmas and was totally thrilled to find under the tree!
psammeadred here - my favorite childhood toy was a Teddy Ruxpin doll that talked when you put a cassette in the player in his back. My sister, however, was either jealous or terrified and broke off his jaw.
When I was younger, I had one of those horse heads on a stick, that I can remember playing with around the yard and house. One of the neighbor boys ripped his head off, very upsetting.
Libra276/Barbie!!!
dramaqt99 here! I think my fave toy from childhood were my My Little Ponies. I loved playing with them and learned how to braid on their tails. :)
BARBIES! I would play with my barbies all day. Then I would pair them with my brothers G.I. Joes, that were never quite tall enough to make a good marriage :) Blancheknits83
Knittinmomma27. It would have to be a toss up between my expansive collection of My Little Ponies or my Strawberry Shortcake dolls. I would cart them everywhere :D
My favorite toy was Barbies, I loved them. They were such a great escape to life. I also loved loved loved my bike. It made me feel like such a big girl.
My favorite childhood toy were Barbies also, i used to love to wage war with them on my brother's GI Joes- Barbie always won of course because she was twice the size of GI Joe!
rav username: rubino
ninja8tofu here: My favorite childhood toy is still my favorite toy and that would be LEGOS!!!
That's hard, because I don't know if I can pick one! First it was Strawberry Shortcake, then Rainbow Brite and My Little Pony and then Barbie. I was a total girly-girl. :)
It's questionable here, back after a brief absence from the swap!! My fave childhood toy had to have been books, probably the Babar books. I had a huge stuffed Babar that I would snuggle with at night, even though his plastic crown would sometimes poke me by accident:)
oooh...dolls and books! Dawn dolls were my fav, and books! The sweet valley high series, little house series, and classics. I still have a few of the Dawn dolls and started collecting them and now my daughter plays with them. I'm also into the blythe dolls now, but I was a little scared of them when I was little LOL! The head and eye thing :)...
Oops, I forgot to include my rav id...achicagopurl is bravebird:)! Hi ladies!
I loved my stuffed animals - all of them! But one of my favorites was a fluffy, floppy, brown dog.
schellsie
My favourite childhood toy was the dark brown bear with moveable arms and legs, a red velvet ribbon who had a wind up doo hocker in the back that played This Old Man.
He has been gone for almost 30 years and I still am looking for a replacement.
Duncks
:)
I really didn't have a favorite childhood toy. I think probably like someone said earlier, mine would be books. I was quite the bookworm.
karako17
Hi, Knitastic132 checking in...
My favorite toy growing up had to be Barbie. I had her penthouse, pink corvette and her back yard pool. I would spend hours each day playing with her and all her friends. A close second would be my Easy Bake Oven and then the third was my Baby Alive.
My favorite childhood toy was a stuffed animal named Gonzo. He was blue and I'm not sure what kind of animal he was supposed to be.
-Mary Catherine
ManySkeins here...
Books and the series of stilts my brothers and I made with various heights and ummmm "accessories"
k2togkate here...
Hmmmm, fave childhood toy. OH! I had a pig crocheted piggie with a curly tail. I remember that now! I wonder whatever happened to that little guy?
My favorite would have to be the Peck Grande paper dolls. I had a ton of them. Especially the fairy tale ones. You could color in the outfits too!
Do over....Ainsleygrimm here:
Hmmm, I still have my stuffed wooly mammoth, but I do remember loving the dump truck I had in the sandbox and my pound puppies.
Wow, picking a favorite is hard but I'd have to say either my MyFriend Mandy Doll or my Puzzletowns (a building/role playing toy based on Richard Scarry stories). I also adored my Lincoln Logs.
And yes, I forgot my Rav name! Whoops! I'm dancingsheep.
I had a stuffed animal monkey from Japan, whom I called Monk-Monk. I used to like to tie a string around his neck , swing him over the beam in the cathedral ceiling in the den, and swing him back and forth. But really I loved him, the poor thing!
needlediva
My favorite was a stuffed rabbit my mom made for me! Her name was Rosie (because she wore a dress with roses on it), she was made of muslin and her ears were about two feet long - I used to play hairdresser with her long ears.
- evamae
What did I miss it?!!
My favorite Childhood toy... was... cabbage patch kids~~ I had a bald baby~ it was awesome~
and I had a love hate relationship with a clown doll- I loved it but I was scared of it~~
This is CornChowder by the way~~ hello people~~
seepattiknit here.
my favorite childhood toy was my shaggy dog. It was a stuffed animal that I loved so much and when he became frayed, my Mom took him apart and cut new pieces so she could sew me another one. I think I went through 3 or 4 before I outgrew him!
I had lots of different childhood toys. When I was younger my favorites were those Disney books with the records that came with them (you know, the small records with the big hole in the middle). Then as I got older, I loved my Willie the Waterbug as an outside toy (even though those tentacles whipped my legs when playing)...and I loved my Cabbage Patch doll Eliza. When I got older I loved my SheRa dolls, too. :)
<3 brunettemama
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