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Article: Children's playthings are treasures today.(Features)

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Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
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January 21, 2006
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Children instinctively try to imitate their parents' and other adults' behaviour and a great many toys are produced to nurture and encourage this behaviour pattern.

It is impossible to put a date on the time when children first discovered that acorn cups make perfect miniature drinking cups, or realised they could race pieces of wood in a stream, but children improvise and all manner of objects are used as playthings.

The ancient ...

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