School: Ashfield
- Location:
- Corballyquill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Eilís Latimer
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A foot-ball can be made out of a turnip seed bag. Fill the bag with shavings and tie with a cord to keep the shavings from falling out.
A cart can be made of small pieces of wood. Take some pieces of wood and stick them together and put tin wheels on them.
Bows and Arrows. Take a sally stick and bend it the shape of a bow and tie in this shape.
Make the arrow with a piece of straight stick and point the end.
We can also make guns out of bicycle pumps.
Take a bicycle pump and cut the end out of it and put a cork in it and then shoot the cork out of it, by pulling long stem out of it and pushing it in quickly.
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- F. Mc Kay
