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   In olden times when there were no toys sold in shops, the children used make toys themselves. They used to make whistles from straw. They got the straw and cut a bit out of the side of it and when blew through it, it whistled. They also made whistles out of sticks. They used get a bit of a stick bore a hole through it and cut a bit out of the side of it and then blow. They made a car out of a box with four polish boxes under it for wheels. For wheelbarrows they used get a box and put a polish-box on it for a wheel and put two handles out of it. For handballs they would get paper and roll it up into a

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