19 retro playthings that made us feel like arty geniuses
In the olden days, we spent much less time in front of screens, and a lot more time making (often quite disappointing) use of art and craft materials.
We’re kind of sad that kids these days may never know the pleasure of melting glass beads to boiling point or doodling all our mum’s shirts with puffy paint masterpieces. Okay, maybe we’re not sad at all, actually!
Here are just some of our favourite nostalgic creative toys.
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Hama beads
Hands up who spent their childhood bugging the heck out of Mum, asking her to quickly iron their latest Hama bead creation? So many patterns, so many colours, SO MANY BEADS. Pretty but also pretty useless.