With no electricity nor money, what do the kids play with?
What toys do they have?
Now, I'm not suggesting that these are the toys that may drag our own children away from all their modern, technical equipment, but I took a great deal of satisfaction watching various children using these improvised, handmade items of fun.
Missing 2 wheels - but it was obvious to us all from his sound effects that this was a motorbike that he was tearing around on!
Perhaps the most commonly seen toy - a simple hoop (old motorbike tyre here) with a triangulated stick to drive it along. Hours of fun!
This definitely had the most work put into it - a hand carved rolling piece of wood, for want of a better description, pushed along by a forked stick.
Bundles of dried foliage, wrapped up in a ball, whirled around the head at great speed, and also used for hitting each other. It's short lived but great fun, and plenty more material around! (Spot the 6 year old with the machete. Is he the referee, I wonder?)
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