Born in 1960 - Does anyone remember an item called "Creepy Crawlers" ?  It was a heated unit that made rubber like bugs.  You'd pour this liquid stuff into a  mold & put it in a heated tray type thing & when it boiled it was ready to take out & cool and out popped a rubber spider etc etc.

They had this same thing for jewelry/flowers etc etc.

Gads we were also allowed to make jewelery with teeny beads!!!!

I loved Dark Shadows watched it all the time.  Outside of that I was always outside playing various forms of tag/hide n seek/hopscotch/roller skating(no helmuts/knee pads etc etc)

In our neighborhood the people with kids had these HUGE bells on flagpole type things.  Each bell was distinctive in sound.  When it was time for kids to go home the parents would go ring the bells LOL