School: Ashfield
- Location:
- Corballyquill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Eilís Latimer
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- There are several useful toys which can be very easily made.
Boys often make catapults to shoot stones.
They get a piece of forked stick and attach a piece of rubber to it and put a stone in it and let it off and the stone will go quite a long distance.
A spinning top can be made from an old spool. Put a piece of wood with a point on it through the hole in the middle. Then pare away the end of the spool and it makes a good spinning top.
A mill-wheel can be made from match-boxes. Take the bottom out of every match-box and stick them together in a round shape. About twenty-five or thirty would make a mill-wheel.
Crayon and decorate with gaily coloured paper.of n We can make mud pies out of mud and decorate with a piece of holly and let the sun dry(continues on next page)
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