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Old-school toys

Wood, corn husks, and string are the building blocks of handmade playthings

By Tracy Rogers

Posted: September 7, 2011 at 4:02 a.m.

Eli Denham, 8, of Fayetteville plays graces at the Shiloh Museum in Springdale. The game was created to teach agility, poise and grace to children in the 18th century.

RYAN MCGEENEY
Credit: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
 Eli Denham, 8, of Fayetteville plays graces at the Shiloh Museum in Springdale. The game was created to teach agility, poise and grace to children in the 18th century.

Give a little boy a homemade toy and he probably isn’t going to be very happy. But give the boy a wooden disk, a drill and some string and show him how to make a buzz saw, and watch what happens.

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Family, Pages 31 on 09/07/2011

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