Submitted and written by Kacie H

Remember playing this game with your friends to predict what your life would be like when you grew up? If you’re like me, you wouldn’t leave anything out – who you’ll marry, cars you’ll have, where you’ll live, job, # of kids, maid of honor in my wedding, the wedding colors, where we would go on our honeymoon and so on… the possibilities were endless. I must have played this a 1000 times on the bus to school.

Submitted and written by Kacie H

Who doesn’t remember making this fortune telling game out of a sheet of paper? After folding the paper, you decorate the outside squares with colors, then the inside flaps with numbers or words. Open the innermost flaps and write the fortunes on each flap. Then your friend chooses one of the four colors. You spell that color out, while moving the fortune teller in and out. Then your friend chooses one of the numbers that is showing. You move the fortune teller in and out the number of times according to the number they chose. When you finish, your friend chooses one of the four visible numbers, and you open the flap under that number to read their fortune.

It was especially useful for finding out which boy in your 6th grade class you were going to marry – and the friend who made it was always nice enough to put a couple nerds in there.

Submitted by Kim G

Epic win for anything Play-Doh related! Double win for having such a long-lasting name (32 years and counting) even though the name has become at least slightly inappropriate.

Submitted by Susan O

Even though we didn’t know it, our parents were totally tricking us into doing art when we they gave us the watercolor Paint with Water books. It’s a shame most of us never graduated to painting with water without the books as a guide, however, many a masterpiece, torn from the book, were hung from our refrigerators. Most of our masterpieces are probably still filed away in some folder or file, waiting to be remembered.

Submitted by mythbusting pyro

What was so fascinating about the Etch-A-Sketch? Most of us can’t create anything worth looking at on it, however, we all aspired to be Etch-A-Sketch artists. It was an iconic toy of the 60’s and 70’s and is still popular today, but we just can’t put our finger on what made this toy such a huge hit.

Maybe we all just wanted to be like this guy: