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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Did anyone actually make any of the wonderful items that the Blue Peter team shown us step by step how to achieve, and if so, did any of your finished work of art look anything like it was supposed to.
My brother once tried to make the Tracy Island but it was just looked like exactly what it was, a row of old toilet rolls stuck together with sellotape.
I made a advent decoration out of a coat hanger, again just toilet rolls with a bit of felt tip and tinsel hanging off a coat hanger. My mother refused to hang it up, she did say I could have it where noone else could see.
And it took me ages to realise that sticky back plastic was sellotape, why didn't they just bloody say sellotape!
That programme wasn't as good as it was cracked up to be  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Of course not! The presenters had a crack team of design graduates, architects and master craftsmen round the back of the studio ready for the 'Here's one I made earlier!' bit!! |
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We made lots of "attempts" at making things usually with fairy liquid containers. I used to save things and give them to callums school or do stuff with callum. Even now if im throwing something away like toilet rolls or tins and those boxes soap powder sachets come in i think of things i could do with them |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Err... Sticky back plastic came in sheets in a zillion different patterns... I used to get mine from the Midland Educational shop....;-)
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Oh well that's why mine were crap then, I only had sellotape, oh and my dads masking tape if I ran out  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
Advent coat hanger with tinsel here too. Our mother wouldn't let us save rubbish to make things with!
Sellotape is a brand name and couldn't be used on the BBC. It used to confuse me too as sticky backed plastic was the stuff to cover your school books in at the beginning of term (children don't seem to do that anymore). |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"it took me ages to realise that sticky back plastic was sellotape, why didn't they just bloody say sellotape!"
They called it sticky tape. Sticky back plastic is better known as Fablon.
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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago
North of The Wall - youll need your vest |
"We made lots of "attempts" at making things usually with fairy liquid containers. I used to save things and give them to callums school or do stuff with callum. Even now if im throwing something away like toilet rolls or tins and those boxes soap powder sachets come in i think of things i could do with them"
My god-daughter still collects them for nursery - then brings them back once she has turned them into a piece of art ie an egg box coveerd in glitter that sits on top of my fridge for a month or so  |
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I used to make my teachers christmas presents when at primary school, to keep their earings in.
It was a matchbox covered in sticky backed plastic, cotton wool inside and a stick on flower on the top. We always made our own gifts, calendars for grandparents and auntie and uncles |
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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago
North of The Wall - youll need your vest |
"Advent coat hanger with tinsel here too. Our mother wouldn't let us save rubbish to make things with!
Sellotape is a brand name and couldn't be used on the BBC. It used to confuse me too as sticky backed plastic was the stuff to cover your school books in at the beginning of term (children don't seem to do that anymore)."
We used to cover ours in wallpaper - used to love doing that at the start of a new term... |
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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago
Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum |
"I used to make my teachers christmas presents when at primary school, to keep their earings in.
It was a matchbox covered in sticky backed plastic, cotton wool inside and a stick on flower on the top. We always made our own gifts, calendars for grandparents and auntie and uncles"
Just remembered the matchbox trinket holder too! Memories...... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Err... Sticky back plastic came in sheets in a zillion different patterns... I used to get mine from the Midland Educational shop....;-)
Oh well that's why mine were crap then, I only had sellotape, oh and my dads masking tape if I ran out "
I always wanted to know what I could have made out of Lesley Judd and some gaffer tape...  |
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"I really enjoyed watching Blue Peter and thought the presenters had heaps of personality. Did not some of them develop into proper celebs? "
It's amazing what glue and sticky back plastic can do for your career! |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"Err... Sticky back plastic came in sheets in a zillion different patterns... I used to get mine from the Midland Educational shop....;-)
Oh well that's why mine were crap then, I only had sellotape, oh and my dads masking tape if I ran out
I always wanted to know what I could have made out of Lesley Judd and some gaffer tape... "
Wrongful imprisonment charges? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I really enjoyed watching Blue Peter and thought the presenters had heaps of personality. Did not some of them develop into proper celebs? "
What on earth do you mean? Presenting Blue Peter is the pinnacle of any career lol! From Sarah Greene, Caron Keating, Connie Huq and especially Helen Skelton - I've probably had more crushes on Blue Peter presenters that any other group of celebs |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Err... Sticky back plastic came in sheets in a zillion different patterns... I used to get mine from the Midland Educational shop....;-)
Oh well that's why mine were crap then, I only had sellotape, oh and my dads masking tape if I ran out
I always wanted to know what I could have made out of Lesley Judd and some gaffer tape...
Wrongful imprisonment charges?"
I was 11..... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I did the advent coathanger too.
Under protest I might add... 
And yes it just looked like a coat hanger covered in tinsel."
we did this at school and they looked great. Did load of other stuff and also from the Rupert books and other comics.
Passed on the bug to my kids and was handy when living in a country where toys were not readily available.
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Advent coat hanger with tinsel here too. Our mother wouldn't let us save rubbish to make things with!
Sellotape is a brand name and couldn't be used on the BBC. It used to confuse me too as sticky backed plastic was the stuff to cover your school books in at the beginning of term (children don't seem to do that anymore).
We used to cover ours in wallpaper - used to love doing that at the start of a new term..."
Yes we did as well. It had to be the best wallpaper oddments you could find though, as the kids at school would take the piss if you went in with really crap brown and orange coloured wallpaper.
In the 5th form I covered my book with a Soft Cell poster and some git wrote 'gay' across Marc's face |
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By *smCouple
over a year ago
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wow brought back memories.
I made the advent scene out off loo rolls , scraps of material and old tights for hands and faces.. it was rather good, even if i say so myself. lol came out for years every christmas.. I actually let the kids help... little bit... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I really enjoyed watching Blue Peter and thought the presenters had heaps of personality. Did not some of them develop into proper celebs?
What on earth do you mean? Presenting Blue Peter is the pinnacle of any career lol! From Sarah Greene, Caron Keating, Connie Huq and especially Helen Skelton - I've probably had more crushes on Blue Peter presenters that any other group of celebs"
Yep, Sarah Greene in her miniskirts was a joy to behold. I know I was in my 20's when she was on BP and I used to come home from work early just to watch her, er, it, but ....... so what?????? Ha ha!
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack! |
"Err... Sticky back plastic came in sheets in a zillion different patterns... I used to get mine from the Midland Educational shop....;-)
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I think the trade name was "Fablon". I recall my Dad using it to cover shelved in the larder. |
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"I really enjoyed watching Blue Peter and thought the presenters had heaps of personality. Did not some of them develop into proper celebs?
What on earth do you mean? Presenting Blue Peter is the pinnacle of any career lol! From Sarah Greene, Caron Keating, Connie Huq and especially Helen Skelton - I've probably had more crushes on Blue Peter presenters that any other group of celebs"
That one has sunk to the depths doing Most Haunted. She shrieks each week, as some silent noise is heard, and she's 'terrified'. No-one in the making of that show has ever been hurt, killed etc by any of the 'ghosts'. She would have been better going to acting school, after leaving Blue Peter, as she's so cringingly unconvincing now.
BP must definitely be the pinnacle for most of them. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Tracey island (my late father did more than me) the teenage mutant ninja turtles lair. Oh and I have one of Simon Thomas' blue peter badges!!! "
blimey.
you were lucky |
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