Favorite childhood toy

[sunny]

1969 April Shower, 14" tall, all vinyl, painted eyes, rooted short platinum hair, open mouth with teeth, wore a two piece pink jacket trimmed with lace and ribbon tie and panties. The doll who can take a bath and a shower at the same time. Came with a yellow plastic old fashioned bathtub with over head shower, when the doll was placed in the water, she turns her head and her arms go up. Marked: ©Ideal Toy Corp./BT-11-H128 on head.


I think I'm going to try to find one

[CajunMama]

Is this the April Shower doll?

[sunny]

That's her Mama!! She had the cutest little bathtub. The showerhead was in the shape of a flower

[Miss Mary]

My Easy-Bake oven - man I loved that thing

You and me both! Are we sisters? In a long ago, past life maybe...LOL

I made all my goodies in one day, once. And then carried on when I ran out. My mom would want to give me part of her cake batter. I would argue it wasn't the same, b/c it didn't come out of a little Easy Bake Oven mix!!! I think I sorely tested my family back then. All except my dad who tasted everything I made.

Mary

[sunny]

My Easy-Bake oven - man I loved that thing

You and me both! Are we sisters? In a long ago, past life maybe...LOL

I made all my goodies in one day, once. And then carried on when I ran out. My mom would want to give me part of her cake batter. I would argue it wasn't the same, b/c it didn't come out of a little Easy Bake Oven mix!!! I think I sorely tested my family back then. All except my dad who tasted everything I made.

Mary

lol - we must be sisters, Mary!! My sisters and brothers were willing guinea pigs. And that love of baking has carried over till this day - as well as the guinea pigs

[weathermom]

I also had an easy bake oven, but I still preferred to use my mom's real one. I made my first tiered cake with fondant icing when I was in high school for a friends parents anniversary party. I think it was on the cover of gourmet or something and I HAD to try making it. It was a tremendous amount of work, I made everything from scratch, not like now where you can buy fondant in a box and just roll it out!

I also seem to remember an ice cream maker, I think it was easy bake also, it was that same greenish blue color.

But I still have to stick with my first answer. I liked my matchbox cars the best. Maybe that is why I have been driving a truck for the last 22 years!

[azsnowman]

I had those little army men..100's of them with tanks a cannons...Had 2 different armys set up on dressers on different sides of the room...Every day they would do battle...Never did find out who won that war.....

Man oh MAN....talk about memories, "Thanks!" Yeah.....I had MAJOR war games with my army men, when I received my first BB Gun......I would set them up and shoot them, got pretty good too I could take the head off an infantry guy at 5 yards "LOL!"

Dennis

Yeah sometimes I would take the battle outside...I would shoot a tank round at about 20 of them that are sitting in dirt with fresh gasoline dumped on the dirt ..When I would shoot the tank I would throw a lit match at them and watch them melt....I would use a magnify glass to inflict bullet holes in them for the infantry hospital ....

Growing up on the reservation, fireworks were legal back then and I would take M-80 firecrackers and put them under the tanks, light them and run like HADES... Ah yes............thanks for the memories!

Dennis

[azsnowman]

I would have to say my matchbox cars. Let's just say I was never one of those pink and frilly little girls!

HEY.....that's how I met my FIRST girlfriend at the tender age of 7, she LOVED playing with my Matchbox's

Dennis

[O Town]

I had the easy bake oven too, and it was cool and all but not the favirote. Oh and that April shower doll, I forgot about her too. Although mine did not look like her. I wasn't born in 69 yet, but I remeber having a doll I could take in the tub and she had a life perserver type thingy she sat in and a hand held shower squirter. I remeber thinking that was cool.

[breeze]

I've still got my Barbie, Skipper, and Ken - but, NOT in their
original look - jeez, I cut their hair, lost their original 70's clothing....
LOL - my Mama crocheted clothes so they wouldn't be....er....NUDE!

My middle brother and I had these COOL dinosaurs that were
battery-operated and lit up when they roared - his favorite was
Triceratops - mine was T-Rex - we used to make them battle it
out for the death!

[O Town]

She was called the Rub A Dub dolly! I couldn't remeber at first but I found her.
A huge hit in the doll industry, the first water submersible doll that didn't leak. Tug boat could be purchased seperatley.
Created in 1973

[Pburgh]

My jacks, my fishing rod, my paper dolls and my beebee gun. What a combination. My Mom made me take ballet lessons when I was 8 just to make sure I was a little bit graceful as I ran around in the woods playing cowboys and indians.lol

[weathermom]

My Mom made me take ballet lessons when I was 8 just to make sure I was a little bit graceful as I ran around in the woods playing cowboys and indians.lol

My mom did the same thing. I think I lasted a couple of weeks and that was about it. I had 2 brothers and my best friend across the street had 4 brothers, we weren't very likely to grow up "girly".

The ironic part is that I put my oldest in ballet to help correct a problem with her legs, and she is now almost 14 and loves it still. Her 2 sisters have followed in her footsteps, I have 2 on pointe so far and a 3rd not far behind. ( I sometimes wonder if God is playing tricks with me!)

[Pburgh]

My two girls were "girly" too!! I love it that my grandson wants me to take him fishing cause his Dad doesn't fish!!!!

[weathermom]

Mine are girly until you put them on a soccer field. The littlest one especially is quite a tough little player, watching her play soccer you could never imagine her in a leotard, dancing ballet.

[Kim_in_MN]

My Lite-Britee. Once the coded pictures that came with the set were gone I would stick a piece of typing paper in there and make my own pictures; my kids have one today, but they no longer have the piece of plastic to put over the paper, so it is harder to find the holes where the pegs are supposed to fit in. Wish I still had my old one for them to use.

My Barbies, of course - when I could get a friend out to our house in the country to play with me - my little brother just couldn't get it in his head how to properly play Barbies

Other than that, no specific toys stand out in my mind. I know we had toys (nowhere near the amount my kids now have!), but we spent most of our time outside; making forts/clubhouses in the woods in the summer, and making snowmen and sledding in the winter.

Kim