What Toys Did Caveman Kids Play With To Pass The Time

in the days, when home was a cave stuck on thethings for our kids to play with.
face of a cliff.We have war games with tiny toy soldiers and
Kids, babies, cubs, kittens or whatever you like tocowboy and Indian sets. What is to stop the tiny
call the offspring, all have one thing in common.carved human figures from prehistory being toys
They love to play. So I think we can safelyto teach the kids the best way to hunt down a
assume that caveman kids played. But with whatmammoth or rhino or deer.
did they play with.If we made some replica models of some of the
What amused the minds of our ancestor's kids.artifacts, and gave them to our kids to play with
When they were lying around the fire after ain the sand pit. We might see them reenacting a
hard day learning about staying alive. We are stillmammoth hunt or chasing a wild deer into the
trying to work out the minor details of the pastground.
lives of children of prehistory, but we can dream.Some of the most valuable artifacts would
Anyway, were the first jigsaw puzzles just leavessuddenly be delegated from God status to kid
that had been ripped up into little pieces so thestatus.
little ones could put them back together. Was thisI like to look at what we do now and them
a teaching aid so the kids could learn which plantsdream about what could have happened in the
were safe to eat. We will possible never knowcaveman days.
but it is good to ponder.Nowadays in any toyshop there is a shelf of toy
Back in prehistory, before houses and cars andplastic animals. Anything we see in the wild or on
TVs, video games and all the modern gadgetsthe farm or in the home is there in little packets.
that we have nowadays. What toys did cavemanDid the caveman kids also have collections of
kids play with, when daddy was out hunting thetoys. Now, our kids even have toy cavemen to
mighty mammoth or giant sloth. And mommyplay with, so what did caveman kids play with.
was gathering vegetables and herbs and grassesI can remember “Fred Flintstone”
and whatever else they ate back then.on TV but did Pebbles and BamBam have any
Anyway many artifacts have been dug up,toys. All I can remember is BamBam running
mostly bone and rock carving of people and wildaround with this big club. Now you can buy big
animals. Beautiful carvings, something to be reallyair-filled clubs and hammers that don’t
proud of. Don't you think that maybe, justhurt when they hit you on the head.
maybe, it might have been made by a dottingBut back to reality, kids love to play and caveman
daddy for his little son.kids would also have played, but with what.
In the future when future man digs up what weToy bows and arrows and toy spears. Like kids
leave behind, what conclusions will they come to.today who love anything to do with war. Would all
Looking at some of the dinosaur toys available,the spear points belong to daddy's toolbox or
would they conclude that these beasts actuallywould the smaller ones belong to the son.
walked among the skyscrapers.They must have had something to play with, but
In the 25th century if you dug up an old car toywith what.
that hadn't rusted away, how would you explain it.Maybe in the future someone scratching around in
Would you say it was some sort of God that wea long forgotten cave will unearth the Barbie
worshiped, or was it a decorative item we usedprototype. Or the lovely bird carved from a long
to show power. It could have been a model ofdead mammoth tusk just might have been from
the king's chariot.mummy to daughter.
But do we stop to think, that it may have beenAnd not some elegantly carved offering to an
something for our kids to play with. While weunknown God.
were out making more money to buy even more