To PM Lee Hsien Loong
These are toys that boys love to play many years ago. When I showed my brothers the photos taken at Children Little Museum, their eyes lit up.
My first brother was very playful when he was a boy. Every day after school, he would throw his school bag aside, quickly gulped down his lunch, grabbed his bag of 'treasures' (marbles, bottle caps, ice-cream sticks ..... etc) and ran out to meet his play friends. Only at dinner time, when I was told to bring him back, would he come home. Those were his carefree days. hehe.....
hand-made 'helicopter blades'
Battle of the Bottle-capsSeeing the handkerchief toy gives me the shudders. The boys loved playing with it then. The girls would be screaming, crying and running for their lives!
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57 comments:
I play the soft drinks cap before..
My brother loved to play with bottle caps when he was little!
how do you play with the handkerchief toy? i used to play using the bottle caps, too ... lol.
Brings back memories! :-)
Amazing how cheap and easy it really is to keep kids entertained. :)
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happy memories! :)
I could totally relate on this one with my younger bro.
I used to play with marbles too. That was fun!
Hmm. I don't remember the handkerchief toy. How do you use it?
i didn't play with soft drink caps, instead i played with those national flags easer!
I never knew a handkerchief could be so scary!
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Kewel! Happy WW!
i remember playing those bottle caps and marbles :)
These would be the toys from my parents' yesterday. ;P
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Reminded me of those days that I tried playing marbles with male cousins and lost every time :) Happy WW!
Such fun games!! happy WW!
Self invented toys are the best !!
Hahhaha...played with those bottle caps before. Sometimes, no bottle caps we use lubbers! (erasers!) hahahha!
i remember so well the competition i have to do with all other kids to get the bottle caps. Sometimes on my break from school, we combed the streets just to collect them. Ahh, those were the days, where a child's play is all up to their imagination. I kept telling my kids about how fun it was without electronic games and all...exercise your creativity...then they all said, but all were invented now!! thank you for these childhood images.
I dislike the handkerchief game - it always made me run and run and run and run. And run! Hahaha... (=
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ECL,
BB here, Can u please tell me a little about wordless wednesday? thank you! is it like weekend snapshot? is there a theme like photohunters or any code to be pasted etc?
Wah, now I really feel old. The handkerchief is used to 'flick' at someone and it hurts!!
Bingo Judy!
hehe....
The boys were so naughty to come up with such games! They would chased every one, boys and girls and at close range, pull the rubber band hard and then let go.
The handkerchief would land on our limbs or body with a loud smack! Then a red swollen bruise would form. Sometimes they wet the handkerchief for a harder smack.
*sob sob*
u got extra bottle caps there. :P
ya, how do u play that hanky? snap it at the girls???
I remember those "blades" and the bottlecaps as well (we call them tansan here)...and of course the marbles! They all bring happy memories.
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These photos bring pleasant thoughts. :-)
Wah liao! The hanky game so kinky wan!!??!
too bad life's not that simple anymore,huh!
happy ww. :)
How simple our toys were in the old days. I used to play with bottle caps when I was little, sometimes I thought of it as coins...lol!
PS... I've not linked up to auto-linker coz i haven't joined WW yet.
The handkerchief toy sounds scary if it made the girls run away screaming...I can't even imagine what those boys were doing with it,lol
I remember some of those too!
Wow -- what ever happened to simple fun that is not electronic!
Stop on over and see the Victorian playhouse I posted. I think your toys would match the environment there.
I remember those bottle caps and marbles. But that hanky when I read what it was for, ouch!
Great to remember the past. I feel a little ancient now, lol!
Thats when kids had to be creative. The good ole'days:) Happy WW and thanks for stopping by.
Hello ECL, Happy WW! I would be afraid of the kerchief toy too, it looks dangerous. Simple toys still keep kids busy for hours.
The Volkswagon Thing you saw has been restored and is pretty pricey.
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eastcoast, that my younger brother in his nighttime Marine stealth uniform! I'm fine! Ha!
Very interesting toys! You can find things to occupy without spending tons of money!
I had never seen all these toys before leh...different generation I guess. The handkerchief toy looks interesting....use to whip people one? Hehehe
I had similar toys. I remember collecting bottle caps but didn't play battle of the bottle caps! Happy WW
Toys were so much better back then! :)
I don't know if kids today would be so inventive with creating their own entertainment.
Brings back a lot of memories of the games we created as kids!
Bottlecaps.... takes me back in time... Nice photos. Good story.
Ewww, that handkerchief game would not be my favourite either!
Wow I had no idea what any of those. Guess I am a young'n.
what fun memories
I saw in the comments how the handkerchief toy worked. Some children are cruel!
Oh yah, in those days you can practically make your own toys without paying a penny! I can't remember playing with bottle caps but playing with marbles; Yap!
I remember seeing many of these around when I was a child!
i remember playing with marbles and bottlecaps, too! :D
enjoy the rest of the week! :)
Ummm, I don't know what the handkerchief toy is...
Funny how many people collected bottle caps...I did too. I think todays toys are way to fancy, we used to play with all kinds of simple things when I was a kid. I lived in an apartment over my cousin David who was about a year and a half older then me. We used to love to climb up on the hill behind the house (which was huge to us) and let our imaginaions go wild. One can still find plastic indians up there from time to time!
I remember playing with bottle caps :) Happy WW
Since it's WW I feel I can't write books about my own memories regarding these wonderful photos
Great imagination on making those helicopter blades.
I remember how fond my younger brother was playing with marbles.
I buy colored Popsicle sticks at the bookstore and have fun making all sorts of things with my son, Yohan.
aiyooo!! very painful catapult!!
i almost forgot about the bottle caps game!
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