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1. Homemade Toys

   

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   There are many ways by which boys and girls amuse themselves, the most common of them being making toys at home.
   The following home-made toys are:- scarecrows, kites, snares, home-made shot-gun, catapult, slings, whistles and other things. On the other hand the girls amuse themselves by making daisy-chains, primrose-crowns and paper-girdle.

   Scarecrow

   A scarecrow is made in the following manner :-, A long stick in the shape of a cross is put down in the ground representing the body of a man. An old coat and a pair of trousers are then put on the imaginary body, and a turnip made in the shape of a head to represent the man's head. Holes are bored in the turnip shaping the eyes, nose and mouth of the man, and this is attached to the body. The so-called man wears an old hat and is usually smoking a pipe, or has something in the shape of a gun in his hand. The scarecrow is generally set up in the middle of a tillage field where seeds or potatoes are sown. It

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