#Playground

Clackers In The Playground

You swung them until they clacked top and bottom. Then they shattered, and that was the end of clackers.

Chopper Bike Playing Cards In The Spokes

Peg a playing card against the spokes and your bike made a noise. That was the whole technology.

Space Dust / Popping Candy

Carbonated sugar crystals that crackled and fizzed, accompanied by an urban legend about a child who drank cola afterwards.

Pogs

You stacked them, slammed them, and kept whichever landed face up. Then every school in Britain banned them.

Trainers With Lights In The Heel

Light-up trainers were the most desirable footwear in any primary school, for roughly six months each.

Loom Bands

A plastic loom and bags of coloured elastic bands that produced bracelets, and then covered every floor in Britain.