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Paper Dolls, Paper and Card Games

Children often like to use pencils, crayons, paints, and paper to invent their own games and toys. They cut out paper dolls and make clothes for them, then happily play with them for hours. School children often invent pencil and paper games that allow them to interact with friends, drawing grids on sheets of paper in order to keep score. Card games also are a favorite with young children.

Playing with Paper Dolls in Taiwan

When I was a child, I played lots of games with my friends. Most of them didn't cost anything and were creative. We used natural materials such as chopsticks and leaves to create our own games or toys. They cost little and we had a lot of fun. I think we also learned how to get along with people in the games. There were two games I liked most--paper dolls and a kind of card game.

My favorite game to play with my girlfriends was paper dolls. We drew paper dolls and all kinds of clothes such as jeans, shirts, or skirts on paper and then cut them out. The clothes fit the dolls and had tabs so that we could fold the tabs back and hang the clothes on the dolls. We made more than one doll when we played together.

We copied adult life with the paper dolls. When we played with the them, it seemed like we were adults, too. Sometimes the dolls were classmates, colleagues or sisters, but they never had children or were mothers. We would admire a girl if she could draw beautiful dolls or clothes. Therefore, every girl worked hard at it.

Ang-Aa-Biao, A Card Game

With the boys, I played a kind of card game called Ang-Aa-Biao. There was a picture on one side of each card. You need at least two persons to play this game. We collected cards from each player, then put them on the ground picture- side face down. To decide who was first, we played "scissors, paper, stone" with our fingers. We used one card to hit other cards on the ground. A player won when he turned the pictures face up. He could win respect from the other children if he was the best player. It was fun to play this game, and at the same time we developed hand-eye coordination when we played it.

Gasing from Indonesia

Gasing is a traditional children's game from Indonesia. It uses a piece of bamboo about 5 inches long with a stick that pierces through the center of the tube-shaped bamboo, or the body. Part of the stick above the body is longer than below it. A piece of rope about 3 to 4 feet long is coiled around the upper stick.

Another piece of equipment is a small rod with a small hole. The player pulls the rope using his left hand, while his right hand is holding the rod against the gasing body in an upright position, causing the gasing to rotate and make a wailing sound. You can imagine the different sounds caused by two or more players who pull their gasings together.

The player with the gasing that rotates the longest is the winner.