Traditional Toy

Eldest sister makes a kind of traditional toy for the children when they are here for the Chinese New Year. It’s a bamboo-gun as shown below:

The bullet used for the gun is wet tissue paper; it is pushed into the hollow of a thin bamboo stem and is then pushed and shot out by a bamboo-stick-made plunger with the help of the air pressure in the stem.

The children enjoy playing with the gun so much, but the consequence of introducing the bamboo-gun to the children is: lots of “tissue bullets” are found sticking on the tv screen, fridge door…..every corner of the house!