In message , Janet Baraclough
writes
'scoubidous': thin plastic tubes in
all colours of the rainbow and even glitter, and must-haves for primary
school children: they braid them, make jewellery and animals out of them

My schoolfriends and I were making scoobidoos with coloured plastic
tubelets back in the 50's :-)

I can only remember plaiting pipe-cleaners and straws! (We moved to the
States in the 50's, and I remember being agog at the neon lights, the
colours, the multicoloured boiled sweets after grey post-war Europe!)
But did you really call them scoobidoos then? I thought that name was
born from a 70s cartoon!

--
Klara, Gatwick basin