If so, did that "craftiness" stay with you into adulthood?
Do you still find yourself making things out of old tissue boxes and washing up liquid bottles?





by DandyLionsInSiberia

26 comments

  1. Just got my 4yo into Art Attack! I sit there going oh i remember this one

  2. My Mrs kept this going, but it’s less random and more practical (making outfits for World Book Day etc) 

    I lost all interest in craft/art in secondary school. The art teacher wound me up so much that I started to hate the subject

  3. No, but I did like them, I’m absolutely useless crafting and have no imagination. But I made a good career out of being an electronics engineer so I’m fairly good with my hands

  4. I get this song in my head every now and then. Thanks to you, it’s going to be in my head again for days.

  5. My favourite of these sorts of programmes was a low budget one, Blast Off, that I can’t remember if it was on ITV or Channel 4. Fabulous anarchic nineties chaos.

    I never actually did any of the craft, but I do actually like making things as an adult. Or usually, starting to make them and then not finishing them.

  6. My problem was always that even if they used simple items – loo roll tubes, tissue paper, coloured paper, etc. we would never have any in the house. By the time we *did* have some, the inspiration had disappeared.

    I predate video recorders, so recording or streaming the program at an appropriate time was a non-starter.

  7. Not this show specifically, but generally yes, hugely. I was, and am, always making stuff

  9. I still love making Tin foil frames with my kids and glass painting I felt proud gifting my mum back her fave wine glass covered in paint that meant she had to find another fave glass 😂😂😂😂

  10. The only thing that inspired me was Tracy Island and an over abundance of bog rolls

  11. No. I wasn’t at all crafty, but I still loved watching Bitsa, Art Attack and Hartbeat.

  12. I remember watching Vision On. It seemed pretty crafty

  13. The art show from the 80’s with the plasticine men, Tony Hart I think can’t remember the name.

  15. I loved take hart with tony hart, mr bennet & morph.
    It really got me in to painting and drawing and influenced my career decisions all these years later.

  17. It’s hard to tell, I certainly liked the fact that it made it feel like there were creative adults, like being creative was an important thing

  18. Absolutely. I got through no end of toilet roll tubes, fairy liquid bottles and dried pasta after watching Art Attack and Blue Peter. My Tracy Island was never as good though! Also… who didn’t try to make their own Morph?!

  19. Well I tried it, but mine never looked anything like theirs so got really disparaged.

  20. I’m going to say no because I used to dislike stuff like this and all I wanted to watch was the exciting stuff like mona the vampire or raven

  21. Macgyver and Threads* did it for me. Stood me in good stead for my various hops between careers.

    (*For the confused… the threat of nuclear war led to me learning about self-sufficiency, knuckling down even if uncomfortable, learning how to restart civilisation… and how to properly cook a hedgehog in an Earth oven.)

  22. Not at all. I was massively crafty as a kid (and still am) but I never wanted to make any of the stuff they made on these shows! I found them quite frustrating because they were always doing something different from what I wanted to do with the materials provided so I hated watching them.

    Anyway guess who figured out they’re autistic as an adult

  23. I always disliked art at school and wasn’t very crafty but I did love Art Attack.

    And I’m now a designer…

  24. The old national TV museum in Bradford retrained the set from this and that. Now lost to history 😭 as it was all dismantled and anything worthwhile was archived to the British Museum in 2018-19.

  25. No but it did give me an appreciation for how things are made. As an adult I attend art/craft classes and I’m still more interested in the how than doing. I like to see someone else’s finished product but my own are usually rubbish! I have fun doing it though but generally I just want to ask questions and see the process.

  26. Hoo boy, I don’t think I’m old enough to remember this one, from the vibes I’m getting it must have been before the launch of the dedicated CBBC channel (but not before 1997, given the squared logo).

    But I think I remember some similar shows. Wasn’t there one on the ITV side called Finger Tips or something? I can remember actually making the giant chocolate teacake…

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