My
childhood was a long past period. My elder sister and I had shared
our toys. My sister's dolls and teddy bears, wooden blocks and plastic
kewpies had made fun. Our toys which have survived to this day in our
family are older than me. They were our fun, our treasures. Nobody
plays with them now. They are only two now: the wooden pyramid with
no signs of colors and the pale doll with a peeling nose. Those toys
were made from an environmentally neutral materials: the wood of lime
for the conical shape pyramid, and pressed sawdust under the painted
chalk glaze and cotton wool (doll body ) filling a bag from the tight
cotton fabric. We were very thoughtful kids. We were taking care of
our toys thoroughly, highly appreciating the pleasure, which we were
sharing then.
But one more toy was a real fun for us. We made it ourselves. It was a
bag of the dense material with rounded corners, full of scapular cloth,
cotton, and wool. It could be thrown at each other without fear of injury.
This toy was not visually appealing. But you could take it outdoors and
play "snowballs" with the neighbor kids even in summer. Today's
children invented the fun which had undoubtedly as the prototype our “snowballs”.
Only now the sack is crocheted of bright thick thread or braid. They fill
it with small, dense balls, petty pebbles or beads. And now, these "snowballs" are
not thrown at each other, they are thrown up by foot. It is a fine fun for teenagers. They are children too. A sack is one of a few of their toys.
My daughter and my sister's son loved to have such fun, throwing the pillows
into each other through the entire play room. It was a lot of noise and
fun. The adults were participating in that game. These were not toy pillows,
but they were pulvillus.
All these subjects (the puppet's body, and the "snowballs", and
the sack of beads, and pulvillus) are ancestors of the toys from the bright
velvet material with a rattle inside, which I have bought for my granddaughter.
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