If you had some sticky back plastic, and a dozen loo rolls what would you make?

Cut an oblong piece of sticky back plastic about 1.5 cm bigger than the cross.

These are very nicely made from scratch as a magic effect, not just created with "sticky backed plastic" at a later date.

Just because I can make things with sticky back plastic doesn't mean that I can't break records."

I made quite a few things from Blue Peter, although there was never enough sticky backed plastic or washing up liquid containers.

For 50 years Blue Peter has been teaching children how to make models out of sticky back plastic, shoe boxes and washing up liquid bottles.

“Just made a black armband out of sticky back plastic,” joked Emma Freud.

The guages were simply made from screenshots, covered in sticky backed plastic, set in an aluminium frame.

This step is entirely optional, but if you want make your photo cube a little more study, cover the whole cube net in sticky back plastic.

Now, what did I do with that sticky back plastic? - Tamsin Blanchard, style director, Telegraph Magazine.

Some suggestions appear below.Preparation The board game is supplied in colour on A3 sized paper, but would be more durable mounted onto card and cover in sticky backed plastic.

Especially given Hart's genial, loose-cannon glee and Why-Don't-You sticky back plastic enthusiasm, which are winning enough to make you go weak at the knees on more than one occasion.

A piece of thin card Pencil Ruler Craft knife or scissors Six photos Spray mount or a glue stick Double-sided tape Sticky back plastic (optional)

The show gave rise to catchphrases such as: "Here's one I made earlier," and sent children scurrying in search of egg cartons, washing-up liquid bottles and the infamous "sticky back plastic".

The suit comes with sticky backed plastic and a roll of gaffa tape. $8,000 Note pictures are for guidance only and do not show actual product, nor do they show the same person.

It is possible, of course, to kill people with a round cheese carton and some sticky back plastic, but it is far easier to use a specialist tool designed for the purpose of killing.

The other ARTF models I have experience with (Kyosho Spitfire and Messerschmitt) have a kind of sticky back plastic covering and it becomes brittle with time.

It was a firm favourite among children, who eagerly waited for its contents to be quickly used up so that they could pull together their sticky back plastic and scissors and get working on making a rocket, pen holder or a flower pot.

I decided rather than use paint as I have done many times with my art I would try and use a textile of some kind and sticky back plastic seemed the best way to do it once the style of the decorating came to light.

STICKY BACK PLASTIC: I offered to work that evening instead, and at 2.30am I finally stuck my last piece of sticky-back plastic over a photograph to be used as a puzzle at checkpoints!

All albums to be laminated or covered with sticky-backed plastic in order to help it last.

Using what looks like sticky-backed plastic, three set designers are frantically trying to convert the shell of a white van into a makeshift ambulance.

• Back the pictures with stiff card and cover with sticky-backed plastic for durability (optional)

It could do with a bit of script-editing but satellite sceptics expecting a botch-job held together by sticky-backed plastic will be pleasantly surprised.

For a more permanent and attractive set of cards, colour the pictures and cover all the cards with sticky-backed plastic or laminate.

• Stiff card, glue, sticky-backed plastic (optional)

"And they should be handy with the sticky-backed plastic too!" she added, referring to the material that has been used over the years to make craft projects on the programme.

The phrase "here's one I made earlier" was born on the programme, when the presenters made models out of sticky-backed plastic, washing-up liquid bottles and pipe cleaners.

The seats had been lovingly re-upholstered with old tapestry curtains and the instrument panel had been expertly covered with red and white sticky-backed plastic.

Protect them by covering in clear sticky-backed plastic or in a sealed poly bag OS maps have undergone recent metrication, so check what is available before buying.

As mentioned in the introduction, the LEGATO.INI that you see here is one I made earlier from sticky-backed plastic.

Sticky-backed plastic nowhere is sight though, and we could have done with some to stick the angel wings on the book parcel to symbolise our logistics and distributions department.

An uninspiring kitchen can become a space fit for Nigella by applying some sticky-backed plastic to cupboards, putting up a nice blind and strategically arranging some condiment bottles.

• Trim the pictures, mount them on card and cover them with transparent, sticky-backed plastic (sold for covering books) to make them durable and easy and pleasant to handle.

The mere mention of its name is supposed to prompt nostalgic mutterings about sticky-backed plastic and loveable pets and fund-raising totalisers and bring and buy sales and ones you made earlier.

It is uncool to admit this, safer to make glib gags about sticky-backed plastic and “Get down, Shep!”, but as a knowledge-hungry working-class child in a leaden northern town, Blue Peter offered me the world.

I grew up in the Sixties, and can assure you that the majority of us were no more interested in constructing things from toilet rolls and sticky-backed plastic than today’s children seem to be (“Blue Peter: A sinking ship”, 15 February).

Her assignments included living in Mongolia with a family for a week, training with the England football squad for a World Cup special, joining the Cirque du Soleil and, of course, making things from yoghurt pots and sticky-backed plastic.

As if that wasn't enough, I added – on peril of being banned from ever receiving a Blue Peter badge – that once you get past the nostalgia about sticky-backed plastic, bring-and-buy sales, thermometer-shaped totalisers and ones you made earlier, the show was rather rubbish.

Although Blue Peter was the brainchild of producer John Hunter Blair in 1958, it was only following the 1962 arrival of Biddy Baxter - together with new director Edward Barnes - that things like appeals, foreign trips, competition, pets and sticky-backed plastic began to appear.

In the process, I inadvertently signed off as approved a design that included a very prominent Sky remote control in it, rather than the more neutral "sticky-backed plastic"-type of branding that BBC regulations require.