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Nesz - If you know what a “palayok” is…imagine a very small version of it… one that can accommodate a cup of cooked rice! “palayok-palayukan” as its called in the province – that was my fave toy! An aunt gifted us with it and we would “cook” the gumamela “stew” – the sticky kind! —yummmm! Of course we never dared taste it, but in our imaginative minds…it had all the ingredients we want it to have! The mini-palayok was made of clay, sometimes reddish brown, sometimes black. It comes with a cover and a stove, all breakable so we were sooo careful with it, it lasted for years. Hmmm…wonder if they still sell those back home????

Janice - haha Alain! You almost got me!

Vanessa Caasi - Honestly, I don’t remember having a favorite toy. What I remember doing is always acting out filipino drama movies in front of my mom.

April Noska - I remember one of my favorite toys “back in the day” was the “etch-a-sketch” toys….oooo…that was soo cool back than. Hahaha!! I remembered when I played with it, I was thinking that I was sooo cool that when you turned the nobs simultaneously that the lines would than go in a curving motion rather than striaght lines. Hahaha! =)

gaile - reading ate sherry’s comment made me smile reminiscing my childhood back home..i didn’t like dolls either, my barbie dolls are just in the glass cabinet for display..lol …i used mud and water to pretend that im cooking…and i talk while i cook like in the cooking show… garter or rubber bands for chinese garter or 10/20..(its a girl’s game that you keep on jumping till you’re short of breath)and the longer the garter that you have,the more popular u r.lol..i used to play “sipa” too..i dont know how to explain it ate, just ask kuya ryan..lol..and we use santan flowers to make necklace and earings…=)

Andrew Fisher - wow cool! lol

well when i was a kid, i used to love blocks. i’d just build little towns and have toy cars driving through them and i’d even draw little people to live there haha. even to now, it doesn’t seem lame. in fact, i feel like playing again now! :P i remember even in the small towns i used to make with the blocks, i’d even build a chapel there with the blocks! had everything from pews inside to a parking lot! ahh i guess my mum taught me at an early age haha. then came lego… and the little wooden blocks became inferior to the world! but not to me!

Janice - My favorite toy of all time was a doll I had back when I was 5 years old. I still remember having it when we lived on “Eagle St”. (That’s how we used to name houses of relatives. Based on the street they lived in. =D)
I had the doll until we moved to Jefferson Street where my family still resides. I would treat it like my own little baby. I had a stroller for it, diapers and a diaper bag, clothes and everything. I spoiled this little fake baby of mine. haha
I’ve had many childhood toys growing up but this is the one I remember the most. =)

Sharleen Carlos - My favorite thing to play with when i was young were these little thick binders my dad would bring home. in the binders were over 500 cardboard color swatches (?) shaped like little bookmarkers that had every color you could ever think of. i think it’s used for people who want to paint their house; like, color samples or something. anyway, my dad had a few of these, so i used one binder for playing ‘payroll manager’ — using the book to “write checks” to my employees. i also pretended to be a cop and i would tear out some of the cardboards to ‘issue tickets’ — i even used some of the swatches in replacement for monopoly money that always seemed to get lost. lol. my imagination was endless… i could write you a paper on the things i came up with… those binders were the greatest thing ever! lol.

Myra - My favorite toy as a child…no barbies either…. the sungka made by digging holes in the ground since everyone knows it’s supposed to be bad luck to have one of the wooden ones inside a home(hmnn…any takers for the wooden one I have at home….). I don’t remember how my fingers looked, they’re probably disgustingly dirty, but we spent hours playing. I also figured I could count stones …hahahah…wow, I just realized i was a sungka shark….oh, and just playing “cember” when the moon is full and siako, and tumbang preso…no toy purchase required.

Lei Nacionales - I didn’t have a favorite toy because my parents didn’t buy my brother and I toys. We were poor. What I did love as a child was a little club house that my “tata” (maternal grandfather) made for me with extra wood that was laying around our house. It had stairs, a shingled roof, and a little porch. I guess I would have to say that my clubhouse was my “favorite toy” – but more like my “favorite place.” I loved to be outside and I know deep in my heart that my clubhouse was made with A LOT of LOVE by my tata. He was an excellent carpenter and he wanted to make me something that would make me happy. Now I miss him…

Eunice Concepcion - When Erika and I were little, we used to collect mc donald’s happy meal toys and we had a huge box full of them. Especially the disney princess/matchbox car ones, and we would play with those little mc donald’s happy meal toys on our carpet in our room. The carpet in our room was like a city and had streets and a school, a hospital etc. So the car was used by the doll to roam around the city..hehehe..we would play for hours!

Tira J - Ha! Two of my favorite toys growing up was my Big Wheel and then my Dressy Bessy Doll. Why? Because I could explore the world on the Big Wheel, win races with my neighbors, and then occasionally crash. Dressy Bessy because I learned how to zip, tie and button! Have a great weekend!