Who’s a toymaker?
All children are toymakers. Sticks and stones, boxes and bones—all
sorts of throwaway things—can be made into toys. Toys are as much fun
to make as they are to play with. All you need are some odds and ends
and lots of imagination!
A big box is an ocean liner sailing over the sea. Or it can be a
spaceship landing on the moon. It can even be a stagecoach rumbling
through a mountain pass.
A worn old broom can be a camel racing across the sands of the Sahara.
Bits of cloth and cardboard can be turned into puppets for a play. And
with an old tire, some rope, and a tree, you can soon make a great
swing.
Children make toys out of all sorts of things. In Bermuda, they make
dolls from banana stalks and nuts. Swedish girls use rolled-up
birchbark. In the United States and other places, children make funny
little dolls out of cornhusks. Mexican children turn cornhusks into toy
donkeys. In the Solomon Islands, boys use large nuts to make twirling
tops. And everywhere, boys and girls make kites to fly high in the sky
on a bright, breezy day.
