School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Girls) (roll number 16333)
- Location:
- Skerries, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Caitlín Cadhla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0784, Page 184
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- Home-Made Toys
Long ago there were no toys as there are today. Toys are very amusing; they pass the time away playing with them. In summer children go out and make daisy chains. They cut the stems off and get a long piece of straw and put it in the petals of the daisy. [graphic example Daisy chain]
Rag dolls are very amusing. Some children get a lot of rags and put them together and tie a piece of string around the waist of them. They get a piece of paper and roll it into a round ball then they get a pencil and mark the eyes, nose, and mouth. (graphic example: Rag doll].
Some boys get a spool and put a match in the middle of it and put it spinning round. [graphic example: top]. Boys get turnips and scoop holes in them for eyes and a v nose and mouth. [graphic example; turnip]. Boys get a branch of an elder and bend it then they get a catapult and put it in it then it is a gun.
Kathleen McArdle 7 December 1937
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Ardle
- Gender
- Female
