What's the best thing your parents made for you when you were a kid?

Cantona's Collars · 23-02-2012 06:21PM #1

This was inspired by Japanese woman who built her 4 year old son a replica F1 car from cardboard,looks pretty cool too.

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/LeCf7XxACv3Finoc3fRX1A--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYxMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/motoramic/rb8minicardboard.jpg

It's only mid-February, and already the world's best parent contest for 2012 appears all sewn up by a Japanese woman who spent a month building her 4-year-old son the ultimate video game station -- a cardboard replica of the 2012 Red Bull Formula 1 race car, accurate from the tail wings to the logos on the step nose.

As she describes in her blog, the woman -- a dedicated fan of Red Bull and F1 champ Sebastian Vettel -- says the project may still require tweaking, and she's not particularly happy with how the new nose came out. Working from a frame built before the RB8 was revealed, she finished the car based on photos and videos from the car's official introduction earlier this month. In addition to its detailed graphics and faithful reproduction of the aerodynamic bits, the car can fold up into thirds when not being used to speed Yoshi around on the Wii or as a desk for drawing and reading

http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/mom-builds-4-old-spot-replica-red-bull-175055702.html

My father built me a go-kart when I was young,those were the days when parents built stuff rather than forking out hundreds for it,plus it could be modified any way we wanted.Amazing what could be done with some pram wheels,pieces of wood & rope.

Did anyone else's parents build them stuff,be it a go-kart or a tree house?

John Doe1 · 23-02-2012 06:22PM

My dad made a treehouse for me and as he was a baker he built me a cake or two

some random drunk · 23-02-2012 06:25PM

My mam knitted a couple of Postman Pat jumpers for me when I was a young lad. Actually, now that I think about it, almost all my jumpers were knitted for me.

Peetrik · 23-02-2012 06:32PM

Veggie garden. It soaked up weeks of our time and thinking back he was probably just learning as he went but it was great. Hard work, rewarding and a great learning experience. Can't wait to do the same for my kids.

Cantona's Collars · 23-02-2012 06:35PM

Peetrik wrote: »

Veggie garden. It soaked up weeks of our time and thinking back he was probably just learning as he went but it was great. Hard work, rewarding and a great learning experience. Can't wait to do the same for my kids.

We had a veggie garden,problem was that it was huge.It was more like punishment than pleasure,was delighted when it gradually shrank and the lawn became larger.Still,being older & wiser now I'd love my own.

snubbleste · 23-02-2012 06:36PM

They made another kid.

Novella · 23-02-2012 06:39PM

My dad built me a 'playhouse'. It was like a wooden cabin and had windows with lil curtains on 'em and all. Inside I had a Fisher Price kitchen. Spent the majority of my childhood in there.

Jess16 · 23-02-2012 06:39PM

Dinner -I love my Mammy's dinners!

Seachmall · 23-02-2012 06:40PM

I found out 2 weeks ago my mum has been saving for the last 7 or 8 years to send me and some of my friends to Las Vegas as I was big into poker/blackjack/gambling in general when I was 12/13.

In that sense she made my 12 year old self's dream come true.

Where To · 23-02-2012 06:58PM

A will.

Ms. Captain M · 23-02-2012 07:00PM

A bosco box

23-02-2012 07:22PM

My dad made a treehouse for us when we were about 7. It was made out of old pallets and huge plastic sheets, it was nothing amazing and it was a serious tetanus trap, but the craic we had in it!!

One night my uncle got locked and decided to climb up into it but it disintegrated with him in it so he fell and badly broke his arm.

westendgirlie · 23-02-2012 07:51PM

My dad made me a swimming pool. Well, it was a 3 1/2 tonne dumper that he filled with water but was great!

My mum made a really big sheet made out of smaller sheets. I used to take over the living room, throw the sheet over the furniture and live in there for the evening with my dollies.

Good times

ihsb · 23-02-2012 08:53PM

My Mam got a second hand bike for me... sprayed it bright red and stuck my fav stickers on it for me... the best bike EVER!

Wetai · 23-02-2012 09:01PM

Mam made me a Thomas the Tank Engine cake for my 4th/5th (around that age) birthday.

Chuck Stone · 23-02-2012 09:03PM

Me Da made me a stainless steel sword.

kfallon · 23-02-2012 09:05PM

Me Da made me a goal out the back, I loved that

23-02-2012 09:15PM

My Dad dedicated an album to me! If that counts.

He used to paint me really cool birthday cards. He's not really good with the aul "manly" stuff, so never got a treehouse or anything like that

My Mother made lots of cakes.

meoklmrk91 · 23-02-2012 09:15PM

My dad built god knows how many rabbit hutches, dog houses etc. he was big into the rabbits and was constantly upgrading the hutches. In the end we had a huge one which had wheels so you could pick it up and move it around the grass for fresh grazing.

Come to think of it my dad was like mcgyver, we didn't have much money so he would fashion the most amazing things out of anything. When I was very small he made a air compressor out of an old gas tank and a fridge motor, it had a gauge and everything and still works to this day. This is a man who had little to no formal schooling, he should have been a engineer.

Biggins · 23-02-2012 09:16PM

zerks wrote: »

What's the best thing your parents made for you when you were a kid?

All joking aside, they helped make me the person I am.
(I will be eternally grateful to my parents for that.)
Everything else after that which they made for me, was icing on the cake.

pragmatic1 · 23-02-2012 09:32PM

Dad made me a wooden sword and mum made dinner every day.

danslevent · 23-02-2012 09:39PM

Nothing

I'm jealous of all your creative parents!

merengueca · 23-02-2012 09:39PM

Dad is the sort who will disappear into his shed and come out a few hours later with any manner of useful stuff you didn't know you need....

Best ever was the water park in the garden..... 20' of plastic sheet and a hose. Hours of fun sliding across the lawn!

Mum made dinner every night, but the one we all remember is the ONE time Dad was left in charge... a 'castle' of mashed spuds, invading army of beans and sausage cannons!:rolleyes::D

DEFTLEFTHAND · 23-02-2012 09:48PM

I remember in primary school everyone in our class had to make a nativity crib for an Xmas competition. I wouldn't do it so my Mum just made it for me. Needless to say I won the competition and received a 25 pound shopping voucher and the admiration of my peers.

The dam fools never discovered the truth, Muhhh Haw Haw.

phasers · 23-02-2012 09:50PM

My parents didn't really make stuff, they arent that handy.

My mam bakes amazing apple tarts though, and always makes me French toast when I'm sad. My Dad chased down Boyzone to get me their autographs a few years ago

Oh just remembered another one, when I was forced to knit in school my Mam knitted thenwhole feckin cushion for me, and if you knew how much she hates knitting you'd know how big of a gesture that was!

bergheim · 23-02-2012 09:59PM

My mum: waffle cakes. My dad: bow and arrow

joe stodge · 23-02-2012 10:27PM

a go cart out of a shopping trolly. it was cut up with a grinder and welded back together, it had 3 wheels and all the stability of a reliant robin.

IT WAS FCUKING EPIC.

Teyla Emmagan · 23-02-2012 10:33PM

My Dad made me a 'tree house', only it wasn't up a tree. It was in the ditch. It was basically a 3 sided lean-to up against a wall, but it had shutters and a working door and everything. I loved it, and spent hours in there. In the dark, with the spiders, and the really low ceiling (I couldn't stand in it by the time I was about 10).

Looking back this explains a lot about me.

jackie1974 · 23-02-2012 11:10PM

When sister sledge had frankie in the charts my dad made me a nuns habit and put a sledge hammer on my shoulder to go in a fancy dress as sister sledge hammer, I thought it was a ridiculous idea but I came first and won a fiver.

My mam knitted me a wham jumper.

When I was around ten I got a new jumpsuit and first time I wore it fell and ripped the knee out of it, I was bawling thinking my mam would murder me when she got home and seen the state of it. My dad came in and asked what was up so I showed him, off he went out to the shed and got scissors and glue, cut a piece of the material from the inside of the pocket and patched up the knee. Now he said mammy wont notice you cant even see the tear and when mam got home she didnt mention it Oh the blessed relief haha I really believed hed done such a great job that mam couldnt see the big glued on patch on my knee.

Cedrus · 23-02-2012 11:36PM

A climbing frame (well he got the maintenance guys at the factory to make it, to keep them busy during a quiet spell). With the addition of a few planks and a tarpaulin it transmogrified into a house, train engine, ship, spaceship, castle, can't remember all the things it could do:D

He also made a roundabout out of a cable drum, but it was nearly 4 ft high, taller than any of us, so we couldn't get up on it, but if you did get up, and if it went too fast you fell off:(
It had splinters too:(

BlueSmoker · 24-02-2012 12:23AM

Lia_lia wrote: »

My Dad dedicated an album to me! If that counts.

He used to paint me really cool birthday cards. He's not really good with the aul "manly" stuff, so never got a treehouse or anything like that

My Mother made lots of cakes.

Yep my Dad was like that

, he made me aware of all those DIY jobs that would kill me, (Still I ask my sister how to do them:)

He also looked over my CV, and never lied was home about what I had done, but managed to sell me for an interview for said company. He was brilliant at it and he never lied or told fibs either, he was amazing at selling people as themselves

He also wrote a letter to me, when I had moved to the UK after my leaving cert, which actually made me come home and sleep under the Kitchen table, I
was home

I really miss him after nearly 15 years without him, I still find myself quoting him, my Dad was a extremely sound person.

As for my Mom she is teaching me every day

What's the best thing your parents made for you when you were a kid?

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