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I'm not even going to make a list, there are no end to the toys you can make with them.



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Have fun, and if you like, post some of YOUR ideas for toys from these here! (Never know when someone will come up with something I haven't tried.) :D

Typically I would fill this in with a Youtube video of an inspiring toy I had found. Today I would rather share with you one of the "toys" of my childhood.



We had plenty of toys of course, but my Mother liked to inspire us to play with one another, and to use our imaginations. (And I rather think she was most interested in us moving about vs sitting down to play with things.) Therefore, the majority of our "outdoor toys" were made up of what we could create with the things we found in Nature.



We had the privilege of having a wood right near the yard, and we created endless varieties of games and playthings from everything from pine cones to simple rocks and dirt. These could amount to: mudpie factories, secret laboratories, spy gear, weapons of no destruction with which to wage "war," and endless other uses. We even devised a chessboard made up of various pieces we found that resembled their counterpart pieces in the actual game.



On those occasions that she would allow us to take old sheets outside, we had tools of utmost importance. With those old ratty sheets we were able to comprise: circus tents, palaces of great splendour, clubhouses (nothing in the world was more elegant than a clubhouse), hospitals, headquarters, banks for robbing and jails for putting the robbers in.



Ordinary objects make some of the most wondrous toys of all. You needn't have, nor be, a child to play with them. When we lose our ability to play, when we give it away, life loses that flavor of fun that keeps us going. Our creative drive is literally that sacred spark that keeps us alive. Don't be afraid to play! And if you get lonely in your pursuits..hit me up..I'll "play clubhouse" anytime! :D