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   Girls make daisy chains for necklaces and some girls wore them on their necks. The girls go out to the fields and get different sorts of flowers and plat them together.

   

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2. Homemade Toys

   

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   Up to this day children make homemade toys. The girls make necklaces from flowers. They also make rag dolls. The boys make tops from spools, kites from umbrellas, guns from eldars, boats from eldar and caterpults from forked branches of trees and elastic. They also make bird traps with a dish a stick and a cord. They make snares for rabits and hares with cord snare wire and stick. They also make lamps from turnips. Long ago the children made roses from potatoes. They pared the potatoe until it was the shape of a rose. These were called artifical roses. This is how children make

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
            1. toys (~1,598)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Sheridan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Baltray, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Mrs Peter Sheridan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Baltray, Co. Louth