Toys & games

A playground slide (or slippery dip if you are in Australia) is a smooth slippery sloped surface that you slide down. They are usually made of metal or plastic and have a set of stairs or a ladder at the back to climb up.

A pogo stick is a toy with two handles for your hands and two steps for your feet with a strong spring at the bottom which allows you to jump very high.

Puppets are models of people or animals that you can control and make them move how you want to. Puppets are worked by putting your hand inside them, or by moving them using pieces of string. You use puppets to make up plays and tell stories. An interesting kind of puppet is the shadow puppet, where instead of looking at the puppets performing you look at their shadows instead.

Quoits, sometimes called ring toss, is a game where you throw rings at a peg. The aim of the game is to get as many rings on the peg as possible. The rings were originally heavy and made of metal, but they can also be made of wood, rope, or even used horseshoes. Quoits using horseshoes is called horseshoe pitching.

A rocking horse is a toy horse, large enough for you to sit on, that has rockers on the bottom so you can make it rocks backwards and forwards as you sit on it. Not all rocking horses are in the shape of horses, you can get all manner of animals with rockers on the bottom. Horses are just the most common.