Nostalgia Toy #6: Spirograph
March 23, 2007 by Kerri Aldrich
Filed under Arts and Crafts, General Play Library Goodies, Nostalgia Toys
I used to love playing with the Spirograph! We didn’t have one, but I gravitated to them anywhere we visited that did. I don’t think that my joy over this toy is at all unrelated to my love of pens. Yes, pens. If you ever want to treat me, buy me a pen. 
Anyway, what we really don’t need in this house is another toy with multiple parts to get lost and broken, but I still want one. This would, of course, mean more pieces of paper lying around the house. Maybe Aquadoodle and Spirograph should breed a new line of toy, the Spirodoodle, or the Aquagraph. Did I mention I’ve been up late all week with a sick baby and I think I seem to be losing my mind?
What was your favorite artsy toy when you were a kid?
Oh I loved my spirograph. Perfect creative toy, right up there with playdough.
Michelle: We just restocked the Play Doh today! Crunchy mixed-to-a-nice-brown was no longer feeling fun.
I loved my vacuform. It softened real plastic, the kind that stinks and gives you cancer, sheets and you flipped it over onto a mold and pumped a lever to form the softened plastic. You could get burned, had small parts and plugged into electric. Next to my toy iron that heated enough to really iron, and burn, I loved it. I got the irom when I was 6. 1959 and the other about 4 years later.