Life as an egyptian - toys

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  what look to us like dolls or puppets were often used for religious purposes, such as offering to the gods,or for magic , to cast spell.

• these figures were meant to work as servants for the dead person in the afterlife.



• most children's toys were easily broken or destroyed over time by damp or fire, so few have survived, some have been found intact in the tombs of young children.



• the family members made most of the toys. rich families might have toys made by skilled craftsmen.
  

Toys for babies

• babies would be given clappers or rattles made of dried gourds,wood,clay or bones. some had metal bells or loose pebbles inside.




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  dolls were made out of cloth and wax. they often had movable arms and legs and different sets of clothes for dressing up.



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  some dolls were been found with holes drilled into their scalp to take hair made from fibres of flax.




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  as for older children play with whipping tops. these were usually made of wood, but some of clay and covered by 'faience'.

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  toys are the same but there made different and the materials or different now.