Gift

As an antidote to the mad clamour for festive presents here is my dream list in recalling things that have entertained me as a child. I have simply listed the items first and then the actual play-value is to be found in a subsequent jumbled up section. Any entrants for the Turner Art Prize should be aware that I thought of the following things first.

Dinner tray, with raised edge, filled with table salt.

Large sheet of brown wrapping paper.

An empty cardboard box

Brown, Olive green and flesh coloured enamel paints.

Breadcrumbs and lemon juice.

A hole in the ground.

A Pile of bricks.

The fallen bough , large, of an Elm tree.

Oddments of wood, a hammer and assorted nails.

Sonia Harold

The explanations, in no particular order;

An impromptu music stand for playing the trumpet.
A model, of dubious scale of an aircraft carrier
Diorama of the polar regions for playing with toy cars
First girlfriend
Extensive road network system and one dimensional cityscape
Building a den
Nourishing snack meeting just about one of the recommended 5-a-day
Camouflage to cover toys not yet comouflaged, making up faces of Airfix football scale figures
Replica of the Apollo 13 command module
Scene of large explosion or something that Dr Quatermass discovered.