NOW CLOSED: Fairy is 50! We want to know what you used to make from old Fairy bottles. Space rocket? Snowman? Tell us and you could win a year's supply of Fairy!

[GeraldineMumsnet]

Fairy turns 50 this year and to mark the occasion it's bringing back the iconic white bottle as a limited edition - look out for it on supermarket shelves from next week.

In the meantime, they're asking for your stories about the original Fairy bottles - did you (or your siblings) make a rocket, plane or crayon holder?

Do you remember John ("here's one I made earlier") Noakes on Blue Peter using one to make the Blue Peter rocket?

Did you want to make something but, just like the ad, your mum never seemed to have an empty bottle? What did you yearn to make?

We'd like you to take a sudsy trip down memory lane. The best stories will win a year's supply of 'mi-ild green, Fair-ry Liquid'!

And if you have (or could take) a photo of a Fairy bottle craft-y-creation still knocking around from the past few decades, please email it to [email protected].

Your stories will be used in the Mumsnet Fairy microsite, which is coming soon (featuring new crafty Fairy creations!).

If you're selected to win one of the prizes, we'll look up your email address and get in touch by 12 February 2010.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

I wasnt allowed the fairy bottle as they were all cut up to make lables for seeds. I remember feeling quite hard done by!

notanotter - that's amazing, looks just like something you'd buy in a shop

you guys are/ were so creative - thanks so much and do keep them coming!

thanykyou Ann

dd helped me with it - she is great at product design !

' now hands that do dishes can be soft as your face ....la la la lalala laaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'

bump - any more?

i used to collect up all the empty ones from mum and grans houses and make little skittles, put some rice in the bottom to steady them a bit and decorate them it was a good game till we broke something. they also doubled up as shakers we got the pans out and had a band and really annoyed mum. good times...

they were wonderful for use in makeshift hamster cages - a couple of cardboard boxes could be connected via a series of strategically placed fairy liquid bottles

very handy for keeping mr squiggles happy and occupied whilst cleaning out his cage

they were wonderful for use in makeshift hamster cages - a couple of cardboard boxes could be connected via a series of strategically placed fairy liquid bottles

very handy for keeping mr squiggles happy and occupied whilst cleaning out his cage

a game of Wizard of Oz ( or insert film /tv series of choice) without some sleevelets - created from painted ( or covered with paper) old fairy liquid bottles with the tops and bottoms chopped off..

the ti man was never the same again

tin

A dolls house armchair - you cut it out, and fill the bottom part with soft stuff, and cover it with velvet. (from a reades digest book)

I made a hamster run from one

I remember making a boat for my brothers action man out of a couple of bottles and some used lolly sticks!

Would love this prize as boring as it sounds we get through so much of the bloody stuff.

Also can't wait for the summer now, I shall collected my bottles up and will enjoy masses of water fights with the 3 dcs.

cut two fairy bottles in half

string

tie together

drape string between bedrooms

use as 'telephone' ??? well we did !!

not certain it worked but we hollered down it! Luckily our bedrooms adjoined!

it was in the chivers jelly activities book!

I would sometimes get to do this:

Cut off the flat end of the fairy bottle.

make two holes in the sides and attach string.

loop the string over a broom handle or similar stick type thingy. balance this over a sheet of paper on the ground. (chair backs etc. I wasn't overly technical.)

making sure the lid was firmly shut, fill the bottle with sand.

while swinging the bottle flip open the little red lid and let the sand make pictures on the paper.

Okay, so I was easily pleased but it was good fun until the day I forgot the sheet of paper.

Wow this brings back memories. My brother and me used to make telephones. We would each have an end of bottle, thread string through ( a couple of metres!) and talk to each other from our dens. Dens were the clothes horse with sheets thrown over. We used to do this everyday during school holidays at our nans because mum worked.

Also used to make pen pots. Decorate paper with stickers and things cut out of magazines then stick around the washing up tube. In fact i remember making them for everyone one christmas - think that was a blue peter idea!

Any more before we decide which lucky washeruppers get a years supply of fairy liquid?!

come on who gets the prizes

is it me???

Twoifbysea - I remember seeing that on Take Hart! V jealous you actually got to do it...

i know

how much is a years worth anyway? those bottles went on forever...

Can't believe I managed to win one of these, there were such good stories compared to mine

But am absolutely made up. What a great prize! So, erm, practical.

especially if you have a dishwasher

Flight -I've won too and also thought mine was quite dull in comparison to those making things like high-tech plant watering systems!

Maybe its the Blue Peter connection that swung it

Have we all won?

I've got a dishwasher and still have some fairy in the garage from when it was on DHs list and as it was on offer he bought half a dozen.

Wonder if they'd substitute fairy dishwasher tabs?

WAHOO!! I won and mine was a right crap recollection, perhaps it was my parents lack of artistic flair that got me the sympathy vote!