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At School 14

Players: 6
Girls 4
Boys 2
Age: 5-7

Items included Barbie Dolls, toy motorbikes and soft toy puppies.

At School 01

Players: 5
Boys
Age: 8

A boy brough in a home-made polystyrene aeroplane. Plane is thrown through the air and children chase it. Scientific explanation of flight is explained in detail by one child who, at home, also makes his own body creams and hair gels.

At School 08

Players: 3
Girls
Age: 6

Dolls and the sandpit

These girls were playing in the sand-pit and while one of them was partially burying the legs and lower body of her doll, in much the same way as children playing at the beach might bury each others legs to perhaps keep the sun off them, the other two girls merely had their dolls lying idly by them while they made unimaginitive sandcastles (the sand was very dry which would have made more detailed sandcastles virtually impossible). The dolls had been brought from home. She school provides boxes of toys for the students to use and although they allow the students to bring toys from home, they discourage expensive or fragile toys being brought to avoid loss or breakage

Players: 1
Boys
Age: 10

Boy playing with a toy truck he brought from home, driving it through the dirt and over the roots at the bottom of a tree. He played quietly by himself, not making any engine noises. This is the same boy who was practising shooting baskets with his little sister yesterday.

At School 19

Players: 4
Girls
Age: 6

Typical doll play. These girls appeared to centre their doll playing around the stair case out the front of their classroom. The 'Bratz' doll is a brand name doll, heavily promoted in much the same way as the 'Barbie' dolls have been for many decades with co-ordinated campaigns on television and in magazines.

Player 1
Boys
Age: 8

Holding and 'flying' a 'Bionical' toy through the air.

Players: 3
Boys
Age: 6

These children played with quoits

Players: 2
Girls
Age: 6

Played with Soft toy animals. Blue dog (Clifford) and pink lamb (Rolls). Carried around and fed grass

Players: 1
Girls
Age: 6
'Ice Age:' plastic toy. Squirrel - press a button and an acorn flies off its stomach. Juniper.

At School 10

Players: 2
Girls
Age: 12-13

The girls were putting together an aboriginal wooden puzzle as well as a large wooden puzzle of Australia.
They made the comment that they like going into the library because it is quieter and also cooler, especially during the hot months.

At School 10

Players: 2
Boys
Age: 6-8

Sports shed area. Hockey sticks game in old wooden frame

Players: 1
Boys
Age: 7

Hockey game 2 players use sticks and a ball to guide the ball through a series of holes in the box-frame construction. This had been made some years ago.

At School 18

Players: 3
Boys
Age: 10-11

Fantasy game: 'Bionicals'. Building walls with rocks. "Did you fulfil your mission?"

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Players: 2
Girls
Age: 6

Soft toy play.

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Players: 2
Girls
Age: 6

Baby doll play. Aboriginal doll: wrapped up and carried.

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Players: 3
Boys
Age: 7

World Wrestling Federation toy. Grey plastic wrestling ring with parts. Ring ropes tighten and loosen.

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Players: 5
Girls
Age: 6-8

Care Bears: They make a family of these toy bears and make up names: "love Bear" "Oopsy", "Grumpy", "Rainbow". They have adventures and travel over to the steps. They have a house in the sandpit.

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A little girl plays with a troll she made at aftercare.

At School 05

Players: 4
Boys
Age: 10
Small model toys of warriors.

Play with participants sitting on concrete apron adjoining building. They are playing with toy models - warriors on horseback which have armour and armed generally with bows and arrows. There is also a cowboy. The pieces are moved around by the participants. The play is called 'Ancient Warriors'.

At School 05

Players: 4
Girls
Age: 5-6
Cards from McDonalds Fast Food Outlets

Making up games using cards issued by McDonald's Fast food outlets AREA Y

Players: 2
Girls
Age: 6-7
Dolls and miniature furniture

Two girls sitting playing with miniature doll and bedroom furniture using the window sill as the play area. AREA Y.

Players: 3
Boys
Age: 9
Lego construction

Boys sitting on artificial turf talking, eating and playing with a 'Leggo' constructed toy. AREA W.

Players: 3
Girls
Age: 9
Toys

Three girls sitting in a corner near a classroom doorway playing with the toys one girl has brought to school and eating snacks. The girl with the toys has her arm in a plaster cast - she broke it when she fell from the monkey bars a week ago.

At School 12

Players: 6
Girls
Age: 6-7

A group of girls was sitting under the stairs beside a path, in the shade, sharing a plastic toy that came from Macdonald's. It was a square box that had a screen with a plastic grid over it. Paper maps can be pushed into a slot in the top of the machine, and there are knobs on the top and side of the box, for moving a little red light around behind the screen. The aim is to move the red light through the grid, and navigate your way to Macdonald's, or through a maze, or to other places according to which paper map was inserted.

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Players: 4
Girls
Age: 9 -10

The girls had 'Beanie Babies' and other soft toys, and one girl had made a swing for her toy by tying the ends of a piece of reed to a branch of a Bottlebrush tree and sitting the 'Beanie Baby on it. One of the other girls had hung her toy from the neck from another branch.

When asked if they often brought these toys to school, they replied that they had to bring them because their teacher had asked them to. They were using the soft toys to make 'Resilience Boxes', containing different items that they enjoyed, which made them feel good and which would be pleasant and comforting to them. They had decided to hang them from the tree, and were working out how to do it when they had the idea to use long dry leaves from a nearby reed.

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