Bl**dy Scoubidous!

Bun

Sheel wrote:

This sounds very like something that I remember my brother playing with in the sixties and looking at them HERE , i'm convinced it's the same sort of thing.

Doesn't anyone else remember them from then? Please tell me i'm not imagining it? :rolleyes:

These are the things I used to do in the late 70's/early 80's.
Deely boppers will be back next!

Sarahsaver

My daughter has the Hama beads at her dads. She spilled a whole tub of them there one weekend :rolleyes: ROTFLMAO!

System

After much nagging by our 9 year old son, we bought some of these Scoubiedou thingies and a book which told us how to make the creations on Friday. The idea was so that he could make weird, wonderful and colourful creations over the school holiday.

However, i looked at the book first, and couldnt make head nor tail of how to start let alone anything else. So i passed the job to my 19 year old daughter who has A levels (thinking if anyone could sort it out she could), she cant make head nor tail of it either. So then i passed it on to MrJudi who also ought to know how to work out how to do it as he also has A levels and works with coloured wires for a living . He also couldnt figure it out. Along came my 15 year old son who picked the strands up and without the book started creating these weird and wonderful things for his keyring. He has tried so hard to show the rest of us how to do it, but no one has been able to pick it up from him. Now hes getting a bit fed up cause hes getting requests from us as to what colours and designs we want. However, the colour is a bit of a problem as hes totally colour blind lol. He's beginning to wish he hadnt started them now.

Sarahsaver

I luckily managed to 'finish' one of these for my son today, but now he says I 'Have' to make him a 6 threaded one... :rolleyes:

Queenie

Queenie wrote:

Curious mind wishes to know ....

a) why are you doing it *for* your child? Surely, half the fun is surely teaching them *how* to do it.
b) if, at 5yo, you believe your child is too young to even be able to do it himself they why buy it in the first place?

:hello: Bump???

Savvy_Sue

Queenie wrote:

Curious mind wishes to know ....
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b) if, at 5yo, you believe your child is too young to even be able to do it himself they why buy it in the first place?

Well I don't know about Sarah, but I know I've bought things for my kids or done things or let them do things which I know are going to go pear-shaped, because that is also part of the learning process! And a nimble fingered 5 year old might manage it.

FWIW, I'm considerably older than 19 and we had scoobidoo (as I seem to remember they were called then) at Junior School as well. We are talking 30+ years ago here. I don't remember it being that hard?

Claude_2

Sheel wrote:

This sounds very like something that I remember my brother playing with in the sixties and looking at them HERE , i'm convinced it's the same sort of thing.

Doesn't anyone else remember them from then? Please tell me i'm not imagining it? :rolleyes:

Well, I remember them too. I used to play with them as a kid in the seventies. And so did my Mum when she was a kid too. But that was in France...
And my daughter loves them too and can plait some very complicated scoubies that i could never do... I don't think they are meant for children as young as 5 though. And the good thing about them is, when my daughter is plaiting them, she keeps her fingers off my computer!!!

Bendybops19

Queenie...

I think that children need to have challenges, its half the fun for them trying to work out how to make the blimmin things! :rolleyes:

I dont think it really matters in this case if they are 'too young' because they arent expensive, they arent dangerous, and they are very creative, so why not buy them and let them fiddle away with the plastic strands instead of sitting doing something that doesnt challenge their minds and artistic side?

Curry_Queen

I've just had to ask my DS what on earth these scooby things are

Apparently they're meant to be very good fun so I've told him he's got to go out and buy me one so I can have a play with it :j :rotfl:

Queenie

Bendybops19 wrote:

Queenie...

I think that children need to have challenges, its half the fun for them trying to work out how to make the blimmin things! :rolleyes:

I dont think it really matters in this case if they are 'too young' because they arent expensive, they arent dangerous, and they are very creative, so why not buy them and let them fiddle away with the plastic strands instead of sitting doing something that doesnt challenge their minds and artistic side?

Fully agree!!! Which is why I asked the questions.

Queenie wrote:

Curious mind wishes to know ....

a) why are you doing it *for* your child? Surely, half the fun is surely teaching them *how* to do it.
b) if, at 5yo, you believe your child is too young to even be able to do it himself they why buy it in the first place?

The child mentioned isn't doing them - the parent is.