Let's Learn English! Topic: Kids' Toys! πŸͺ€πŸ§ΈπŸ”« (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about Kids' Toys.
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I thought that since Christmas was coming up in a number of
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countries around the world that it might be a good time to talk
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a little bit about kids' toys. This will be a lesson about
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toys that I had as a kid. Toys that are modern and current. Um
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some toys that are very old fashioned. Um but I think it
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will be a fun lesson. Uh it's fun to learn all of the names
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for different toys in English. I think most of these toys will
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be familiar to you. I think you'll have the same toys in
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your country. Um I do have to say one thing though. The
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slides for this lesson are very colourful. I think kids toys
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are often painted or the colours are usually very
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vibrant and bright. So welcome once again to this very
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colourful lesson about kids toys. So blocks probably one of
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the first toys that every child has is a set of blocks.
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Sometimes the blocks have the letters of the elf bit on the
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side. Sometimes they're just plain blocks like this. And
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they're the first toy you can play with where you can hold
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them. You can stack them. Uh you can roll them. You can
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throw them. Just don't throw them too hard. But blocks are a
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very very common toy for a very very young child. Often the
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block is made out of wood. So we would call them wooden
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blocks. When a toy is made out of wood we use the word wooden
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to describe it. So some kids have plastic blocks. Some of
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them have wooden blocks. One of the first Toys that you have as
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a child. And then another very common toy is a toy called
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Lego. I put this as the second slide because this was my
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favourite toy when I was a kid. When I was a kid I can't
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remember when I got my first Lego set. But I do remember
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quite often playing with Lego. Lego are a collection of bricks
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that click together and then they stick together so you can
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build things out of them. You can build houses. You can build
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little cars because you can get wheels for them. Uh Lego is
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just a very very fun toy. In fact I think my mom still has
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my box of Lego from when I was a kid. I should go pick that up
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because maybe I should reminisce and build something.
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We also have what are called action figures. An action
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figure is a small figurine that's made similar to look
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like something someone in a movie or cartoon. So here you
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see the Incredible Hulk. This is an action figure of the
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Incredible Hulk. I didn't have a lot of action figures when I
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was a kid. Um I did have Toys Soldiers when I was a kid. Um
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but some people had action figures from GI Joe when I was
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a kid and I didn't have one. I don't know if you know what GI
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Joe is. Uh Brent from Speak English with this guy would
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know what that is. But yes an action figure. So in this
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current modern era you could have an action figure from the
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Marvel movies. You could have an action figure of Iron Man or
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Captain America if that was something you enjoyed watching.
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A puzzle. This is what I would call a classic toy. A puzzle is
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simply a picture that's cut into pieces and you need to
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figure out how to put it back together. When I was a kid I
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had a lot of puzzles. Now when you have puzzles as a kid they
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have less pieces. Then a puzzle would have for an adult. My mom
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loves to do puzzles but they have a thousand or 2000 pieces.
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When I was a kid I had puzzles like this. This puzzle has
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let's see here. I think about 3-five pieces if I'm counting
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That would be a normal puzzle for a small child. I loved
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doing puzzles as a kid. They were a lot of fun. This I would
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say is one of the most common kinds of kids toy. And this is
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a stuffed animal. We also in our house sometimes just call
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them stuffies. But a stuffed animal is a soft toy. This is a
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teddy bear. A very common type of stuffed animal. I had a
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small dog as a stuffed animal as a child. And when I got
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older my sister and I started to fight. Because we both
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thought the stuffed animal belonged to us. But I was
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pretty sure it belonged to me. It was a small red white dog.
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Um and still to this day I believe that the stuffed animal
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that I had as a kid was mine. But my sister still thinks it
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was hers. Anyways once again a stuffed animal is a very soft
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toy. Um almost has the same stuffing as a pillow. Um and a
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teddy bear is one of the most common kinds. And then we have
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of course all kinds of toy cars toy vehicles. When I was a
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child I had toy tractors. But I think most kids will have a toy
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car or toy truck. Um sometimes they're big. Sometimes they're
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small. I'll talk about smaller ones in just a moment. Uh but
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definitely when I was a kid I did have toy cars. But because
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we lived on a farm I had toy tractors. As well. So just a
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car but made really small for a kid or a tractor or truck but
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made really small for a child to play with. And we had a
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specific kind of toy car and toy truck when I was a kid. We
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would call them dinky cars, Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars. So
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here you can see them. They were about this big. They were
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very tiny. I had a small collection of Hot Wheels cars
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when I was a kid. By the way we have different names because I
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think Hot Wheels and Matchbox are the name of the company.
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And I'm not sure about Dinky Car. I think it's an older way
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to talk about it. Um to talk about tiny little cars. They're
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all the same scale. I'm not sure what the scale is. But
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they were all about this big. They were a lot of fun to play
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with. And you could get a track to drive them down and you
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could hook the track up to a table and drive let your cars
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drive down the track. That was a lot of fun. When I was a bit
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older as a child I had a yo-yo. Again this is a bit of a
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mixture of this lesson is a mixture of older types of toys
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and newer types of toys. We would say the yo-yo has stood
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the test of time. The yoyo is still a very common gift today.
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Um we have a couple yo-yos in our house. I do like doing a
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yo-yo. I should make a video someday of me yo-yoing. I think
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that's the word for it. But the yo-yo is a spinning top with a
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string that you can throw down and then pull back up again.
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It's a lot of fun. I really enjoyed I actually learned how
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to do the yo-yo when I was in university. Not when I was a
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child. When I was a child I had one but I didn't really know
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how to use it. This is a toy that I never had. This is what
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we would call an old fashioned toy. This is a toy that people
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had many many years ago before my time. The were things called
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rocking horses. They were usually made out of wood. So it
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was a small horse with rockers on the bottom. So if you sat on
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it as a kid you could rock back and forth. Um I think these
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were pretty common like in the 50s and sixties. I'm not sure.
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I think my mom had a rocking horse when she was a kid. But I
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did not have a rocking horse. But certainly you'll if you
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watch an old TV or an old movie and if there's children in it
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they might have a rocking horse. Um one of the other toys
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you get very early on in life is called a rattle. So this is
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anything that you shake that makes noise. This is a very
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common toy for babies. When a baby is able to sit up and hold
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things one of the first things you might give the baby is a
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rattle. And that's why we sometimes call it a baby
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rattle. We actually just say baby rattle. Um but a baby
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rattle is something a child can hold and shake that makes a
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little bit of noise. I don't have one in front of me but I
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should have brought one. I think we have one in the house
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somewhere. Probably another very very common type of toy is
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just a doll. This is a common toy. It's usually just a small
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person. Um sometimes like the far doll they have they're kind
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of soft. Sometimes like this closer doll which is called a
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Barbie doll. So the girl in the blue dress right beside me is
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called a Barbie doll. A very common type of doll. Um usually
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kids when they have dolls they will play house. When you play
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house it means that you play with your dolls as if they're
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people and maybe the doll gets in her doll car and goes and
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get some groceries or the doll goes to her doll work or
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something like that. But dolls are certainly a very very
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common toy. If I was to say top five I think dolls are in the
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top five as type of toy that kids play with. Um educational
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toys. So I didn't have toys like this when I was a child.
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But there are toys that are educational toys. This is a toy
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that it looks like the child had to build it. It looks like
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it has some electronics on it. It looks like they needed to
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attach the wheels and they needed to hook up wires and
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they probably needed to put a battery in it. And I'm sure it
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drives around. So as they built this toy and as they play with
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this toy they're also learning something. So we would call it
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an educational toy. Um when I was a kid my brother had a a
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think he had a science lab or little electronics lab where he
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could learn how to make and program different things. It
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was really really cool. Um he enjoyed building stuff with it.
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A Frisbee. So a Frisbee is a disc that you can throw and
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when you throw it it flies really nicely. Um it kind of
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glides through the air. Uh you can throw a frisbee back and
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forth to another person. When I was a kid I did have a frisbee.
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Frisbees are super fun. When I was in university I played a
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little bit of frisbee golf. So frisbee golf is where you play
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golf but you use frisbees instead. And I think there's
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something called Ultimate Football where you play
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football American style football but you use a frisbee
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instead. But at its simplest level it's fun to have a
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Frisbee just to throw back and forth. It's fun to play frisbee
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with a friend. Do you want to go play Frisbee? Okay let's go
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play Frisbee. And you throw it back and forth. When I was a
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kid a relative visited from Holland and he brought gifts
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for all of us. And he gave me a kite. I had never had a kite
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before. A kite is a small flying toy with a string. A
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long string on it. And on a windy day you can go and fly
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your kite. So the wind catches the kite which goes up in the
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sky and then you hold the string and the kite flies up in
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the air. Um it was a lot of fun. It was a big kite with a
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lion on it. Um and I'm not sure the exact details but I had it
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for I think almost a whole summer and then eventually it
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did break. It broke. But I did enjoy flying my kite. So
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another common type of toy that a lot of kids have is a kite.
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We also had when I was a kid we always had water guns. So water
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guns shoot water. When it's hot in the summer it is very fun to
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have water guns. It's fun to have water gun fights. So you
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fill your gun with water. And then you go and squirt people.
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They're also sometimes called squirt guns. So water gun
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squirt gun. A very fun toy to have on a hot day. But not good
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to use the squirt gun to squirt water on your parents or
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adults. Adults don't like being adults don't like it when
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little kids run around with water guns and shoot them with
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water. We also as kids sometimes just had toy guns.
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Toy guns are sometimes futuristic. It might look like
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a laser gun. Sometimes it just looks kind of like a real gun
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but sometimes you would play different games. Uh you would
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play cops and robbers. And so cops and rob is when some kids
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pretend they're the robbers and other kids try to catch them.
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But definitely we do have different types of toys. Some
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are a little strange. It is a little strange to me that you
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would make a toy out of something as destructive as a
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gun but we do have them. And then there's something called a
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Nerf gun. So I'm not sure if you've ever had a Nerf gun. It
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shoots a very soft foam projectile. Um and we actually
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own this very nerf gun. It is kind of fun because it has a
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suction cup on the end. So the projectile or bullet will stick
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to the wall when you fire it. So Nerf gun. Very fun to play
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with. Um if you have a target on the wall, it's fun to shoot
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the Nerf gun at the target. So as I mentioned before we
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sometimes have wooden toys. It could be wooden blocks. It
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could be a wooden train set. Wooden train sets are actually
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very common still. We have an entire wooden train set at our
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house still. Uh it's from Thomas the tank engine I think.
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Thomas yes. Um my kids loved playing with it. The tracks
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were made of wood and would connect together. And then they
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could drive their little wooden train on the train track. So
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wooden toy Toys are still very popular. Um and there's other
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wooden toys as well. There's a toy where you have a ball on a
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string and you have a wooden cup and you have to try and get
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the ball into the cup. Wooden toys are still good and still
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fun. So I never had a radio controlled car when I was a
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child but my younger brother did. I think they were invented
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sometime between when I was a teenager and he was still a
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kid. So he had a radio controlled car. We sometimes
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call them remote controlled cars. Um but basically this is
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a car that you can drive using a controller. The car has
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batteries in it. And you can drive the car around the room
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using the controller. Um I think there's all types of
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controllers. My muscle memory said this is how you control
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it. So we must have had a controller like that. Um but
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lots of fun. Uh when the batteries are dead you recharge
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the batteries. Um but it lets you drive a car around. And
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have a lot of fun and you can do little jumps with the car
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and those kinds of things. So this is probably the most
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common type of toy right now and some people would say it's
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not a toy but I think it's a toy and it's called a gaming
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console. Some people have a PlayStation, some people have
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an Xbox, some people have a Switch, a Nintendo Switch or an
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older console. This is something you connect to your
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television and you put games in it or you download games onto
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it. You might have a cartridge that you put in or you might
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down load games from the internet and then you use a
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controller to play a game on your television. Um we have had
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a number of different consoles. Um usually the Nintendo console
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was the most popular. I think we had a GameCube and then we
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had a Nintendo Wii and now we have a Nintendo Switch. So a
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very common toy but the only thing I don't like is I feel
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like this replaced a lot of other really good toys. A lot
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of kids now just play games and they don't play with their
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yo-yo or their frisbee. Um or their radio controlled car. And
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if you play a game on a console you buy a video game. So we
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sometimes during Christmas break play Mario Kart with our
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kids. We're not good enough. Jen and I usually lose. But
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after a few days we do get a little bit better. Um Just
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takes time to relearn how to play it every year. Um and
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another common toy is to have a toy kitchen. So when our kids
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were young we had a toy kitchen. It looked a little bit
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like this. It had a toy microwave and a toy mixer and a
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toy coffee maker and a toy toaster. Uh and it also had toy
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dishes, cups and plates. And then sometimes our kids would
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play house as well using the toy kitchen. They would pretend
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they were making breakfast. They would pretend that they
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were eating lunch. Um they would do a lot of fun stuff
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like that. So a toy kitchen is just another I guess a
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collection of different toys. You you certainly have your toy
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cups in your toy mixer and everything like that. So toy
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kitchen lots of fun. Our kids really enjoyed playing in their
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toy kitchen when they were little. Sometimes kids have a
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tea set. A tea set is simply all of the same things you
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would use as an adult. But they're either made out of wood
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or plastic and much smaller. So that kids can pretend to have
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tea. They can have a little party with their toy T set. So
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we definitely had a toy T set in our house. Our children
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played with it a lot. Some people like to play with model
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trains. When I was a child we actually had a model train set.
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And it was very very fun. We had a big table. And we could
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set up all of the tracks. And we had a toy train with toy
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train cars. And then we had a little electric controller and
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you could drive the train around the track. It was very
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Very cool. Um it was really nice because I would imagine
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different things happening on the toy train like the
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conductor would stop the train and I would just tell little
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stories to myself while I played with my toy train set or
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model train. It was a lot of fun. A lot of kids will have
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tub toys. Tub toys are toys that you play with when you
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have a bath. That you play with when you're in the tub. Usually
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they look like this. They're soft. They usually sometimes
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you can fill them with water and squirt water. Um but tub
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toys are a lot of fun for kids. When they're having a bath
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there's lots of bubbles from the soap and they can play with
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their tub toys while they're in the tub while they are taking a
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bath. And then we also have sandbox toys which are also
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beach toys. You can take these toys to the beach. By the way a
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sandbox is something like this. It's an area in your yard.
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Where you put some sand for kids to play with. Sand is very
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fun to play with. You can dig in the sand. You can build
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things out of the sand. You can do sand sculptures. Um but
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certainly sandbox toys are things like little shovels. A
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little pale, a little dump all of the things that you would
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enjoy while playing in the sandbox. And then of course
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there's the bike. I would put this on as one of the top five
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toys. Uh I like bikes. I like it when kids bike around. I
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like it when they enjoy the outdoors by riding their bike.
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And there are all different kinds of bikes for kids.
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There's super tiny bikes for really little kids all the way
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up to bigger bikes that they can use when they are a
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teenager. Now there are a a type of toy. There is a type of
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toy called a stacking toy. Um there are toys where you can
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build towers. Even blocks could be considered a stacking toy.
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But this is something that very young children learn to do.
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It's good for their brain. They learn to take different wooden
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objects or plastic objects and stack them. Uh that toy over
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there I think is a very common toy that kids play with that
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parents give them and we would a stacking toy. Another top 5
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toy. The ball. There are all different kinds of balls in the
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world. Uh here you see a football, a basketball, a
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soccer ball, and a baseball. Um they're not actual size though.
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I think these are small plastic versions. But it's very common
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if you were to look in a kid's toy box. There's probably a
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ball in there somewhere. Uh small one, a bigger one. Um
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it's really fun to kick a ball, throw a ball, hit a ball, a
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ball a very very very common type of toy. Another top five I
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would say. Now, we want our children to express themselves
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artistically. We want children to be creative and one of the
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ways we do that is by giving them crayons so that they can
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color. This child is coloring. This child is using crayons to
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color. That is the verb we used. Um I'm going to do some
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coloring. He's going to color in his coloring book. So, here
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you see crayons are small things you can draw with. They
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come in different colors. Usually, they're made of of wax
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or a waxy substance. Um and they are just one of the first
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things a kid will use when they start to draw and start to be
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creative. A Rubik's cube. This is a toy I had as a child. I
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could do the Rubik's Cube in less than 3 minutes. Currently
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one of my children can do the Rubik's Cube in about a minute.
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And I have forgotten how to solve the Rubik's Cube. The
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Rubik's Cube was very popular when I was a child. It was a
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must have toy when I was about nine or ten. Um a must have toy
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is the toy that every child wants that year for Christmas.
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It's basically a cube where you can turn all the sides. And
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when you mix it up there's different colours everywhere.
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And when you solve it each side of the cube has the same colour
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on it. I loved doing the Rubik's Cube. I might relearn
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the Rubik's Cube this winter. Um I think that might be good
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for my brain to relearn how to do the Rubik's Cube. Another
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common toy would be the slinky. The slinky is either a metal or
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plastic spring. And it will actually if you put it at the
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top of a stairs and you start the slinky it will walk down
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the stairs by itself. Or you can have it in your hands like
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this. And it goes back and forth and makes a very funny
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interesting noise. Um I didn't have a slinky as a kid but my
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sister did and I think my brother did. There was there
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was always a slinky somewhere in the house. And it was a
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super fun toy. And here we have the cardboard box. When you buy
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something as a parent when you buy something like a
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refrigerator or a stove or even a computer it comes in a box
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and sometimes kids just like playing in the box. They like
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pretending it's a fort. They like pretending it's a
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spaceship. Sometimes they'll colour on the side of the box.
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Uh sometimes they'll cut holes in the box to make windows. But
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an a plain old cardboard box. A big cardboard box can be an
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awesome toy for kids. So if you're a parent don't throw the
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big boxes out. Uh give them to your kids at least for a week
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or two to play with. I'm sure they will enjoy it. And then we
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have the board game. Uh a board game is a game that you play on
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a table with other players. A board game has rules. A board
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game is something you can win. So when you play a board game
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you try to win. You learn the rule and you use different
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strategies to try and win the game. I like playing scrabble.
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My mom loves playing scrabble. I cannot beat my mom at
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scrabble. She's too good. But Scrabble is a board game where
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you try to make different words and they can connect together
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if they share a letter. So scrabble is a fun game to play.
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Uh you should play it with other people who are learning
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English someday. It's a great way to learn English as well.
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You learn some new words. Play dough. So Play Doh is I think
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it's also called plasticine. But it's a very soft dough.
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Dough is something that you make when you're making bread
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when you mix water and flour you get dough. But we also have
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this type of dough which is for kids to play with. It comes in
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different colours. They can make little things out of it.
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They can make a little dinosaur or a little dog because they
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can mold the clay. Any way they want. So Play Doh is a very fun
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toy. Um just don't mix all the colours together. That's always
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a bad thing. You might have had a toy robot as a kid. Depends
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how old you are. When I was a kid there were they were just
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starting to have toy robots but they weren't really robots. But
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a robot is kind of a little toy you might wind it up and it
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walks or it might have batteries and you push a button
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and it walks and maybe it's arms move. Maybe it talks in a
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robot voice. Um so it's not a real robot. It doesn't clean
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your house for you. Uh but it is certainly it looks like a
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robot. It probably has flashing lights and buttons and probably
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does. It should probably at least walk I would think. When
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I was a kid I entered a colouring contest. The local
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hardware store had a colouring contest and my sister and I
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drew pictures. I drew a picture of purple mountains. I remember
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and we submitted it and then we won the coloring contest and
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the prize was an etches sketch. An etches sketch is a really
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old toy where you turn two knobs and it draws a picture on
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the screen but you you you have to draw it in one complete
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line. So one knob moves the line up. The other knob boosts
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the line over and then you can by turning both knobs you can
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draw and then when you don't like what you've drawn or you
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want to it. You turn it upside down and shake it. And then
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when you put it down again you can start drawing again. I
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loved my etch a sketch. I think because at that age it was
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kind of like a computer. It's not a computer at all but it
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feels a little bit like a computer. It looks a little bit
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like a tablet doesn't it? But Etch a Sketch. I really really
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enjoyed playing with my Etch a Sketch. Probably one of my
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favourite toys as a kid. Etch a Sketch. I should I should buy
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another one. Just for old time sake. That's when you buy
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something just for fun because it reminds you of your
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childhood.
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