folk toys
Handmade cultural playthings
Folk toys are traditional playthings made by hand using simple materials—wood, cloth, tin, clay—and passed down through generations within a culture.
They reflect regional craftsmanship and local traditions rather than mass production: whittled wooden tops, corncob dolls, paper pinwheels.
The category includes items like spinning tops, rag dolls, and carved animals that children have played with for centuries.
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
- woodenMade from timber
- whittledCut away gradually
- peg dollSimple wooden toy figure
- spinningRevolving around an axis
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