1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Earl Darnley

School: Earl Darnley (roll number 13573)

Location:
Athboy, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Siubhán Ní Loichéid
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 192

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0696, Page 192

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Earl Darnley
  2. XML Page 192
  3. XML “Homemade Toys”
  4. XML “Homemade Toys”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Homemade Toys (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    Homemade Toys
    Most boys like to have a sword when playing, but as a good many cannot have bought ones, here is a way to make home-made ones:- first cut a stick (preferably and elder) about two feet long, then cut a round piece of stiff, brown paper and cut a hole in each side thus:-
    [Drawing]
    then put the end of the stick through the holes, point the other end and there is your sword. It makes the sword nicer to peel off the skin from the stick.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  2. Homemade Toys

    Share Share Post
    To make a daisy chain you collect a lot of daisies and put a small hole in each stem. You pull each daisy through the stem and keep on doing this until the chain is complete.
    To make a pop gun
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
          1. toys (~1,598)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Grace Crawford
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stirrupstown, Co. Meath