Slinky

I remember playing with a big metal' slinky' spring when I was a wee girl. My Granny had stairs which we used to send it down, our house was all on the flat, so not much good for high octane spring work.

Mr H's Mum gave us this in a Christmas stocking a few years ago. It is a smaller and more colourful version of the original 'slinky'.

We couldn't make it go down the stairs, however hard we tried.
:-)