School: Clara (2)
- Location:
- Clara, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thomáis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0807, Page 231
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- Making toys makes your hands active and light. I made a necklace of daisies and tied the ends to one another. I made clothes for a doll with old clothes. I made a doll with some straw to play with and covered it with old clothes. I just rolled it the straw up and made a doll with it. I made a "dozey ball" with cowslips. I tied a string to a chair and tied the cowslips on it and tied the two together and I played with it but after a while it broke up in pieces.
My Brother Francis can make a catapult and a sling. My Brother Tommy can make a crib for catching birds and I saw it when he finished it. My Father and Mother never made toys when they were small. That is all the toys I made when I was very small.
- Collector
- Eva Griffith
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonshanny, Co. Offaly
