The Man may have confiscated your clackers (it's health and safety gone mad!) but fret not, Blue Peter has the solution. Originally broadcast 14 October 1971. 1971: Alternatives to dangerous Clackers.

While picking up the 789 smaller-than-an-atom LEGOs from my living room floor the other day, I had a thought every parent probably has at some point: “Whoever came up with these devilish weapons ...

So much for the iPad generation. Despite reports that children are wasting their hours staring at computer screens, gradually letting their brains wither to mush, it seems this is actually not the ...

People born in the 1960s or 70s may remember the children's toy clackers. They were two hard polymer spheres attached to ...

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DOES ANYONE remember clackers? One of the most basic – not to say genitally suggestive – toys of the 1970s comprised two plastic spheres, each suspended from a string attached to the same plastic tab.

The toy I most loved in my childhood was a lead soldier maker. You got slugs of lead, melted them in a tiny crucible, and poured the molten metal into molds by hand. You were supposed to paint the ...

When I was a young teen, in the early 1980s, a shockingly high number of my friends owned butterfly knives, Chinese stars, clackers, and nunchucks. The last, a traditional Okinawan martial-arts weapon ...