School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana

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   “The dolls that were in my grandmothers days were a piece of cloth shaped like a doll and stuffed with hay and then sewed up.”

   

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   and mouth with ink.

   

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   “To make a doll in olden times people used to get a piece of black cloth or a black stocking.”

   

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   3. To make a doll in olden times people used to get a piece of black cloth or a black stocking, and they would sew on two buttons for the eyes and a white thread for the mouth. Two pieces of black cloth filled with wool made the legs.

   

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   “Long ago when our grandfathers were living, they used to have games, but not the games we have now.”

   

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   4. Long ago when our grandfathers were living, they used to have games, but not the games that we have now. One of them was playing top. This is how a top is made: get a spool and cut one end off it, and let the other side stay on. Then get a little round piece of branch or stick, and put it through the hole from one end to the other, and then spin it on the ground with your fingers.

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   1. gníomhaíochtaí
      1. gníomhaíochtaí sóisialta (~7)
         1. siamsaíocht agus caitheamh aimsire (~5,933)

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   “The young people made whistles out of the bark of a sycamore tree.”

   

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   5. The young people made whistles out of the bark of a sycamore tree.
   First they cut a thin piece of the branch and skinned it. Then they cut a little square hole in the middle and at the top when it was skinned. They put the skin on again, and blew like a whistle.

   

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