NOW CLOSED: Fairy is 50! We want to know what you used to make from old Fairy bottles. Space rocket? Snowman? Tell us and you could win a year's supply of Fairy!

[GeraldineMumsnet]

Fairy turns 50 this year and to mark the occasion it's bringing back the iconic white bottle as a limited edition - look out for it on supermarket shelves from next week.

In the meantime, they're asking for your stories about the original Fairy bottles - did you (or your siblings) make a rocket, plane or crayon holder?

Do you remember John ("here's one I made earlier") Noakes on Blue Peter using one to make the Blue Peter rocket?

Did you want to make something but, just like the ad, your mum never seemed to have an empty bottle? What did you yearn to make?

We'd like you to take a sudsy trip down memory lane. The best stories will win a year's supply of 'mi-ild green, Fair-ry Liquid'!

And if you have (or could take) a photo of a Fairy bottle craft-y-creation still knocking around from the past few decades, please email it to [email protected].

Your stories will be used in the Mumsnet Fairy microsite, which is coming soon (featuring new crafty Fairy creations!).

If you're selected to win one of the prizes, we'll look up your email address and get in touch by 12 February 2010.

Thanks and good luck,
MNHQ

[TheElephant]

er a squirter to attack your brother?
dull eh?

[TheElephant]

would i win with a device to use a la turkey baster? ( inemination_

[bran]

How many bottles is a year's supply of Fairy? I bought a special offer 3-for-2 in late 2006 and I still have most of the third bottle left. So a year's supply would probably be about 50 pence worth for me.

We always used to make rockets or the turrets of castles out of them. But Fairy bottles are the wrong shape for that now.

[YouLukaAmazing]

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[shonaspurtle]

I made the Blue Peter snowman (scrunched up tissues all over for the snow).

That was a rare treat though. My mum used to cut the Fairy bottle in half to make sure she got all of it out .

[YouLukaAmazing]

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[Hulababy]

I remember making pencil pots from them. Would cut the tops of them and then decorate the outsides with all sorts of stuff.

[hobbgoblin]

Ahhhahahhahha... my parents used to cut the bottle in two too. And add water to the remains to make them go further.

We just used to use the bottles at the end of their life as magic fairy bubble producers. You get loads of fairy-esque bubbles after you add a bit of water and squeeze gently

Now, me and the DC do the Fairy song at bath time. (When I was little we used to recreate the Camay advert in the bath) 'For leggies that do dishes that are soft as your face...' replacing with various body parts.

They especially love if I let them include willies in the lyrics.

[TheElephant]

yes in two too
and mum washed out freezer bags

[Cyb]

I read in one of those top tips books if you tip half out and refill with water, pop in your airing cupboard it will magaically thicken and become proper fairy liquid again. So you get twice as much.

A bit like those ropey friendship cakes that did the rounds in the 70's and 80's

[babster]

I remember making a Dougal (Magic Roundabout) - perhaps it was a Blue Peter creation? Cut up yellow wool into even lengths, glue along middle to hand down evenly, eyes, feet, tail, tongue - job's a good'un!

[snigger]

Don't bring them back - my early teens were blighted by the humiliation of Mum's fairy-bottle bird feeders, the low point being when she attached one to a cuphook outside my bedroom window so I could watch the Fairy logo spinning slowly, upside down, and smell her lard-and-seed concoctions even long after they'd gone.

As far as arts and crafts go, I'm sure there was a kaleidoscope once, but only because we didn't have the kitchen roll innard as required by Blue Peter.

We did once moot a Fairy bottle as a suitably space age coffin for a hamster but this was overturned, even in the '70s, as being inorganic and wrong.

[MaryBS]

I have been advised that the old Fairy bottles make very good dog collars for Vicars!

[YouLukaAmazing]

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[MaryBS]

No its true, not an urban myth, trust me I know a vicar!

[YouLukaAmazing]

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[VinegarTits]

I hate fairy liquid, it leaves a residue on my dishes that stinks once it is dry

There are much better quality washing up liquids on the market that are much much cheaper, they can stick their years supply, thanks

[RustyBear]

At the junior school I work at, the Year 3 children make pneumatic animals like this with a balloon inside an egg box, and a squeezy bottle at the end of a tube. You squeeze the bottle to inflate the balloon which pushes the egg-box 'mouth' open.

Sadly the new Fairy bottles are not as good as the old ones because they are less flexible and much more difficult for a small hand to squeeze - so if they do bring back the old ones, the Year 3 teachers may be bulk-buying!

[MaryBS]

Thats a bishop in my pic, YouLukaAmazing, I've no idea where they get their dog collars from

[YouLukaAmazing]

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[bibbitybobbityhat]

At University I was in my friend's final television course piece. She did a spoof of Blue Peter and I played the female presenter. I had to "make" a tea caddy out of a fairy liquid bottle, except of course the shots were cut so that when I said "and here's one I made earlier!" it was a real Jacksons of Piccadilly tea caddy, not the hacked-about fairy bottle. Gosh how we laughed . We also had a real snake ("a special guest from Chessington Zoo") whose handler was played by a now v famous actor. I've got it on cd somewhere ...

[aristocat]

very boring here........only made rockets and castle turrets
but was great fun

bring the white bottle back for good

[bibbitybobbityhat]

Oh yes I remember the Dougal from Magic Roundabout .

[Ohforfoxsake]

Bangles, cut a bit off, wrap in wool, accessorise any number of outfits. I'd still be doing it today if they hadn't changed the bottles.

Infact, I think they should bring back the old bottles. There's a generation missing out. Such fun we had

[pollywollydoodle]

ooh, i remember making a volcano with a black paper skirt round the body of the fary bottle sprinkled with red glitter ...leaving a little gap at the back to slide your hand in and squeeze bottle which was filled with water coloured with red food dye...iwas only allowed to play with it outside though[boo]