| Back in the days, when home was a cave | | | | Looking at some of the dinosaur toys available, |
| stuck on the face of a cliff.Kids, babies, cubs, | | | | would they conclude that these beasts actually |
| kittens or whatever you like to call the offspring, | | | | walked among the skyscrapers.In the 25th |
| all have one thing in common. They love to play. | | | | century if you dug up an old car toy that hadn't |
| So I think we can safely assume that caveman | | | | rusted away, how would you explain it.Would you |
| kids played. But with what did they play with.What | | | | say it was some sort of God that we worshiped, |
| amused the minds of our ancestor's kids. When | | | | or was it a decorative item we used to show |
| they were lying around the fire after a hard day | | | | power. It could have been a model of the king's |
| learning about staying alive. We are still trying to | | | | chariot.But do we stop to think, that it may have |
| work out the minor details of the past lives of | | | | been something for our kids to play with. While |
| children of prehistory, but we can dream.Anyway, | | | | we were out making more money to buy even |
| were the first jigsaw puzzles just leaves that had | | | | more things for our kids to play with.We have |
| been ripped up into little pieces so the little ones | | | | war games with tiny toy soldiers and cowboy and |
| could put them back together. Was this a | | | | Indian sets. What is to stop the tiny carved |
| teaching aid so the kids could learn which plants | | | | human figures from prehistory being toys to |
| were safe to eat. We will possible never know | | | | teach the kids the best way to hunt down a |
| but it is good to ponder.Back in prehistory, before | | | | mammoth or rhino or deer.If we made some |
| houses and cars and TVs, video games and all | | | | replica models of some of the artifacts, and gave |
| the modern gadgets that we have nowadays. | | | | them to our kids to play with in the sand pit. We |
| What toys did caveman kids play with, when | | | | might see them reenacting a mammoth hunt or |
| daddy was out hunting the mighty mammoth or | | | | chasing a wild deer into the ground.Some of the |
| giant sloth. And mommy was gathering | | | | most valuable artifacts would suddenly be |
| vegetables and herbs and grasses and whatever | | | | delegated from God status to kid status.I like to |
| else they ate back then.Anyway many artifacts | | | | look at what we do now and them dream about |
| have been dug up, mostly bone and rock carving | | | | what could have happened in the caveman |
| of people and wild animals. Beautiful carvings, | | | | days.Nowadays in any toy shop there is a shelf of |
| something to be really proud of. Don't you think | | | | toy plastic animals. Anything we see in the wild or |
| that maybe, just maybe, it might have been | | | | on the farm or in the home is there in little |
| made by a dotting daddy for his little son.In the | | | | packets.Did the caveman kids also have collections |
| future when future man digs up what we leave | | | | of toys. Now, our kids even have toy cavemen |
| behind, what conclusions will they come to. | | | | to play with, so what did caveman kids play with. |