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List of toys and games

Toys, games, sports, play equipment, and anything else used to have fun.

Photo of a jigsaw puzzle
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A jigsaw puzzle is a picture that has been cut up into lots of little pieces. Then you have to put all the pieces back together to make the picture. The jigsaw pieces are usually cut into special shapes like in the picture, so they fit together tight and stay together as you are working. Jigsaw puzzles usually have between 100 and 2000 pieces, and can take a very long time to put back together.
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Juggling is the art of throwing some objects through the air from one hand to another, in a loop. You can juggle with balls, small bean bags, rings, skittles, burning brands, knives or even chainsaws. Juggling is most often seen done at circuses or by street performers. The lady in the picture is juggling with three balls, the more skilled you are the more objects you can juggle at once.
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Jump rope is a game where you swing a rope around yourself and jump over it as it comes under you. Sometimes two people hold the ends of the rope and one or more other people jump over the rope.

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A kite is something light that you can fly, and you keep it from getting away from you by holding onto it by a length of string. You launch a kite on a windy day by running with it until it starts to lift up, and then letting it go.
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Lego is a system of building blocks that come all sorts of shapes, sizes and colors. Lego can be used to make almost anything. While it is a children's toy, many adults enjoy playing with it too, or making full-size sculptures out of it.
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Marbles are small glass balls that are often colored, or have interesting patterns inside them. They can be used for a variety of children's games. They usually involve flicking one marble to hit another marble, or to knock it out of a circle drawn on the ground.

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A maze is a type of puzzle where you have to find your way from one point to another point through a path that can be hard to work out. Mazes are usually drawn on paper and you find your way through by drawing a line through it with a pencil. The maze in the picture has been grown out of hedges.
Photo of a boy swinging on the monkey bars
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Monkey bars are a piece of playground equipment that looks like a ladder held horizontally by some posts at each end. You use it by going across the ladder holding on with your hands.
Pin the tail on the donkey is a game where children wear blindfolds and try and pin or stick a tail onto a picture of a donkey. You don't have to play this game with a donkey, you can play pin the horn on the unicorn, or any other variation you want.
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A piñata is a brightly decorated container, usually made from papier-mâché, cardboard or clay. It is filled with candy or small sweet fruit and nuts, and is hung up for celebrations like Easter or birthdays. Children hit the piñata with sticks to try and break it so the candy falls out. Often they do this wearing blindfolds.