School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)

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1. Homemade Toys (continued)

   

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   wood and shape it like a doll, and another round piece of wood for the head. Then four small sticks or matches are provided for the legs and hands. Then they make a nice dress for the doll, to make her look pretty.
   Boys are very fond of making toys. They make a threshing engine with a tin box, four covers of polish boxes for wheels, and then they make the thresher with a timber box.
   This is the way to make a top. Get a piece of timber and shape it round; then put a nail in the middle of the timber, and paint the top with different colours. Some boys make tops out of nuts and put a nail in the middle of the nut.
   Boys are very fond of making cages and traps. This is the way to make a cage. Get twigs and out them all together, then get a piece of timber for the door, and a little bit of wire to hang up the cage.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
            1. toys (~1,598)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Martha Burns

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Clogheenavodig, Co. Cork