Strange craft kits from the 70s

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Anyone else remember them?

Plasticraft - I mean who doesn't want to make a penny embedded in a plastic blob?

Enamelcraft - at least that resulted in a few hardly wearable items of jewellery

A board covered in black velvet. You banged small nails in, then wound gold thread from one nail to another to create the illusion of curves in a picture, often a boat. Yes really.

Did I miss out on any gems?

The Flumps!!!

(Tries not to derail thread with books but I had a sudden urge to google Bod and Aunt Flo yesterday, plus the Garden Gang books.)

BeautifulStar that was French knitting, discussed upthread! Utterly useless though.

Aah! Yes you just ended up with a tube of knitting that’s right - I remember using them as scarves for my Sindy dolls!

What about cardboard kits to cut out and stick together models of houses etc?
I had an amazing Victorian house kit with lots of individual rooms you glued together.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel

What about cardboard kits to cut out and stick together models of houses etc? I had an amazing Victorian house kit with lots of individual rooms you glued together.

My aunt Ali bought me one of those; it was so complicated!

Anyone remember I-spy books? Not crafting but of the time.

Oh and the badge-maker kit.

Fuzzy Felt
Shaker Maker-had a Peter Rabbit one I treasured.
Cut out paper dresses with loops/tags to fix to paper toy mannequin thingys.
Yes to Pom Pom things
Also flower press and flower arranging with green oasis sponge type stuff.

Ahh happy days

Art straws, yes, I had them too. And we made corn dollies at secondary school.

Going a bit off piste here, but does anyone remember ink eradicator? There were two bottles with difference coloured lids I think. They were the thing to have at our school. You could eradicate fountain pen and biro mistakes. Unfortunately the eradicator also obliterated the lines on your paper

Badge maker kit❤️ahh loved that too

I remember weaving a stool out of seagrass with this kit www.craftyarts.co.uk/seagrass-stool-kit-p3196
That stool is still in use at my parents house. We had 3 of them, as there were 3 kids. I made all of them, because my brother and sister weren't interested in the slightest.

I had a candle making kit. Everyone got candles for Christmas presents!

OP I've never encountered Ink Eradicator but it obviously did what it said on the bottle!

Anyone have a toy but fully working typewriter and also a printing set with teeny letters and tweezers?

Sorry not craft though, am just reliving my whole childhood.

On cardboard kits to make houses, we did a series of little ones, not one big one. I can’t really remember the finished houses, but the printed windows on plastic that you cut out glued behind the walls seem to have stayed with me. My dad and I made one every weekend ...

... But only after we had exhausted the entire range of a much better kit which I truly loved, where you got a small cylinder of wood with a slanted top and a selection of shaped felt, and you dressed the wooden shape up as a Viking, an owl, a minister, a Roman, a walrus, or whatever.

@JanuaryChill

OP I've never encountered Ink Eradicator but it obviously did what it said on the bottle!

Anyone have a toy but fully working typewriter and also a printing set with teeny letters and tweezers?

Sorry not craft though, am just reliving my whole childhood.

Yup I did. Remember the ink tin, tiny letters and tweezers.

Little wooden shapes that you hammered into a board with a little hammer. So you could make houses, people and weird shaped flowers!

Yes to so many of these.

I remember DM doing several of the 'gold thread on a black board' pictures and they were hung on the walls in our 1970's house. I had a 'knitting Nancy', the plaster models that never looked the same as the pictures, foil scraping kits, and a loom that could only produce teeny tiny bits of carpet.

And we had Shrinky Dinks. Even now I occasionally have a mad urge to bake a crisp packet!

Oh yes, John Bull printing set.

Also: Dymo Tape! Not officially a craft but a useful tool for making sticky labels, but so much fun!

@Biggles001

Little wooden shapes that you hammered into a board with a little hammer. So you could make houses, people and weird shaped flowers!

I think my parents still have this kit too. They say it's for the grandchildren, but the youngest grandchild is now 10.

I remember the ink eradicator. If you used too much it used to make holes in the paper.

I had a macramé kit to make an owl. You had to provide the stick for it to sit on. Mine was wonky.

I had a typewriter. The ribbon dried up and no one would ever get me a new one. And it was so LOUD.

And how could I forget sewing with Binca. Apparently it's still a thing....

Dr Remus kits

I found a picture. The smell was so strong and it took forever to set and if you touched it before it dried it left fingerprints.

Omg, I just googled Dr Remus and got Action Transfer kits. Remember those? A background and a sheet of transfers to make a picture.

Remembered some more! Sand art where you layered different colours in a bottle, cloth kit doll sets, friendship bands. We also made insane amounts of peppermint creams.

And coconut ice.

Anyone have a toy but fully working typewriter and also a printing set with teeny letters and tweezers?

I was desperate for one of those. Never did get one. But I did have a child size sewing machine in beige.