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Thunk 10:
Is a stick a toy?
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Definitely yes. In fact, everything is a toy, we just need to know how to play with it. Actually, I don't have much to say about this, a pretty straightforward answer. A car, a doll, a game, a plane- all objects that you play it and amuse yourself with, with a little bit of creativity you could do the same with a stick. It even extends to people now that I think of it...
Yes, actually anything can be a toy it's just how you utilize it, it's how imaginative or creative you are that makes it into a toy :) i think you're going to be getting the same answer out of everyone :P
Ishita,
So if your parents gave you a stick for your next birthday you'd be happy? :)
I dont know how a stick can be a toy. But then i agree with the fact that anything can be a toy if one is creative enough!
A stick for sure is a toy. Specially for pets. Your pet dog can play fetch with a stick the whole day without getting bored. You can do all sorts of things with a stick. You can have a tyre rolling race with the help of a stick. You can use a stick to make music, if you bang it against a metal plate or a drum set. You dont really need other things along with a stick to enjoy or make it a toy. A stick can act as a toy even when its all by itself. You can use a stick to improve your balancing skills. You can use a stick to count or make letters and shapes by breaking the stick into smaller ones. There is so much to do with just one stick. Its a toy for sure, whatever you classify it as, an Educational one, an entertaining one, a useless one or a musical one.
It depends actually, if it's just some silly old twig from the garden then yes it's a toy, but a very lousy one at that. I mean, sure you can play with it, be amused by it and all of that, but I guess I'd rather have a remote controlled car to play and amuse myself with. :)
On the other hand, if it's nicely carved and polished into say, drumsticks? Then it's a toy people pay as much as much as a few hundred Dirhams for!
It's all about presentation in this big, bad, materialistic world, :P
A stick can be a toy.
Mr Roberts, in answer to your question, I would be happy to have a stick for my birthday, one that has been present for hundreds of years, one that has lived through past and present, and consider it a toy. Before all our machines and artificial things, we actually used to play with sticks, and we used to play games that we find extremely boring today, such as spinning a cart wheel (made out of wood).
A toy does not neccessarily mean something that is new, or big, or looks good, or anything luxurious. A toy could be your finger, for example, or your hair, or your leg. So why can't a stick be a toy?
See, a toy can be classified as so many things, but, it all comes down to something that gives us some sort of pleasure, or recognition, and this includes a stick. A stick, to most, is a mere piece of wood, but, it has probably seen things that we could never see, felt things that we could never feel, and even be things that we could never be.
Did you know a mere stick holds more information than a computer? Not because its a guess, but because it is natural, and is full of life. So, if I recieved a stick, I would be happy, and I would treasure it (even though I would rather have a laptop or an Ak47 BB gun, gas powered and up to 100 meters in range, with an infra-red scope), because it is so extraordinary.
A better thunk would be: Is a stick worth more than a computer?
Yes, a stick is worth more than all the computers in the world combined. Also, you can shape a stick, you can combine sticks, you can extract cells from sticks, you can do so much to a stick, to make it a toy, if its not already, in its plain form.
I believe it is a toy, for it was all we had some centuries ago, and we have been pulled away from it, from nature itself, for it was as interesting as a computer was, back then, whereas today, no-one will think twice about breaking a stick, or glancing at it, and that has to count for something.
One more thing, every toy we get, we eventually get bored of it, and thrust it aside, and, eventually, forget about it. Look at a stick. It was a toy, centuries ago, but it has seemingly been forgotten, but that does not mean that it is no longer a toy, just a forgotten one.
Of course it is. Its the fact that our imaginations can turn items of no interest into wonderous pieces of excitment and intrigue.
Its not suprising to see our 21st century kids giving up on the computer or the games console, to go play a game once played by their grandparents who didnt have such devices. And its just because they stimulate the mind through imagination to give the same effect... Just in a much simpler cheaper form.
What Im trying to get at is that even if it is a stick, its quite possible for anyone (Not only children) to get some entertainment out of it, therefore we can call it a toy.
I think a stick could be a toy. As the above statements state what i'm about to mention; a toy could be defined as something that entertains an individual, based on that individual's creative imagination.
It just depends on what the person who has obtained a stick does with it.
yes a stick can definitely be a toy!
we cannot however say that anything can be a toy. Not all tangible things can be used as toys either. For eg. can we use a knife as a toy? or even an aircraft?
haha
no we cant =P
a stick is harmless and could be entertaining to play with =D
I think a toy is something you can play with and enjoy and use your imagination in so if you can do that with a stick then yes a stick is a toy =P
Well I agree with mostly everyone.. A stick can be a toy when you have countless things you can do with it by being creative and imaginative.
Yes of course it is, if it is entertaining and posseses some kind of joyment then yes it is :]
In my opinion, a toy is anything that can bring amusement to a child and/or adult so yes, a stick is a toy. Anything can be a toy if you have the creativity to utilize it.
Think of the kids in Africa... they can't afford toys and they cope with what they have (like making games out of sticks and tyres and anything resourceful). I'm sure our great-grandparents and maybe even grandparents would eagerly reminiscence about the games they created out of mere scraps.
ofcourse! anything can be a toy if you use it to play with or have fun. a rock could be a toy when you kcik it around. similarly this applies for the stick too
A toy is anything that amuses or entertains you. If you find a stick amusing/entertaining then by all means, do go ahead and play with the toy~
Also, who decides what's a toy or not? >:
Well, a stick can represent various toys or obejects for games and sports. In countless villages in India, a stick is used to roll around a tire of a cycle. In cities in America, a stick is used to play games like hockey or golf. But then again, I dont feel a child who grew up in a modern society would like to recieve a stick as a gift unless it had some significance in a sport, for example a baseball bat or a cricket bat. On the other hand if you gave a child in a rural village a stick, they would be ecstatic with joy and use it in various ways like drawing in the sand etc.
Can it be one ? Yes as a fact it can be one.
Is it one ? this entirely depends on the preferance of the user or his/her imagination capacity.
e.g. Someone who lacks imagination will only see a classfied and propely addressed toy as a toy and will se a stick as simply a stick
But someone with a imagination can easily see the stick as a toy and alot more.
It can be.
A light Saber.
A walking stick that once belonged to a caveman.
A Gun.
A Spear
A Bow and Arrow.
A Lighting bolt.
A Doctors tool.
A Fire hose.
A Tooth brush.
A Gardening tool.
A Pencil.
A Secret treasure.
A Building block.
A Catupult.
A Compass.
A Balancing tool.
A Hammer.
A Nail.
A Ruler.
A Sword.
A Tool to make kids behave.
A Message.
A Time Machine.
A Device that calls rain.
A Mind reading tool.
A Special Ingrediant to a potion.
A Giant middle finger.
A Magical piece of jewellery that is actaully a evil manifestation of a dark lord who's only goal is total destruction of all reality and to posses the wearer, unless it is taken back to it's birth place which is past the mountains of no return, under the valley of doom and between the desert of black sand.
Yup the possibbilties are endless.
I Rest my Case.
Yes, anything could be a toy. It just depends on the person's creativity.
(Children can actually play with anything, I used to play with leaves and ants when I was a child :p)
Nikol 10 g 2
Yes, it definately is a toy! Its just that not everyone will enjoy playing with it, for example i wouldnt love playing with a stick because i've got other, better toys. But children in villages find so many entertaining things to do with a simple stick because they can't afford to buy the fancy toys we play with (and they have an amazing imagination)!
A toy is something that you can play with. And like most here said, if you can use it in a way that amuses you then it is definitely a toy.
Hahaha, zaid your awsome, especially the last two!
Kudos to you!
I think that it is a toy because a toy is something you play with, and why cant you play with a stick.
I bet that everyone used to play with a stick when they were younger!
It could be a toy. I guess Zaid just said it all. :D
But a stick would be a very boring toy by the way.
A stick can be a toy, for example: in third world countries kids entertain themselves with sticks because they have never seen a real toy.
It only takes a little bit of imagination to try and turn dreams into a possiblity like a child who has been through wars and seen his families being killed, by using his imagination he can envision the stick as a gun defending himself or killing the enemies in his mind!
well to myself it is definetly a toy,i mean people can use it for all sorts of things.I guess you just have to use your imagination and turn a stick into whatever kind of toy you want it to be.
Yea, totally! why not?
If you're really bored, finding a stick to fiddle with would help you divert your attention from stupid thoughts.
And in the case of a child, if he has nothing else to play with, he could try his hand at breaking as many sticks as possible. And maybe also, poking it at things :D
definitely!!! like everyone has already stated a stick can be a toy! a toy is anything that entertains an individual. if you look at the older generations they never really had such sophisticated, complicated toys like we do now, they would play with anything from stones to tyres and even sticks. it really depends on ur imagination!!!
high 5 zaid!! well said!! XD
I'm gonna go all Spongebob Squarepants on this and say the word "IMAGINATION" with a rainbow appearing above my head. :)
A lot of people probably wont view sticks as toys, since we are all used to the shiny, plastic, battery-operated stuff we get. But didn't it strike anyone that children who cant afford the "real toys" have no choice but to use their imaginations to make out something amusing and interesting out of sticks.
Boredom can also be a reason, since if we're sitting on the ground and are bored outta our heads, we can always see a stick, go all "LOOK A STICK" then start playing with it.
erm, ahaha not that i would not know anything bout it *coff* I dont play with sticks *coff* (A)
Ummm that made me think……
Yes it is a toy because my little sister always comes with a big stick and asks me to play” harry potter on the broomstick” with her….this infuriating game lasts for around 1 to 2 hours, we sit on the stick and start scurrying around like retards………and I have to play this extremely discomforting game or else……
P.S =I think I’ve learned to ride a broomstick
A stick could be a toy but it could also be a very useful survival tool, e.g. a wooden sticks could be used to make a fire or even build shelter, metal sticks could be used to hold a tent together etc.
In my opinion, for humans, I don't find a stick to be a very useful 'TOY', however for animals such as dogs, they enjoy playing fetch with sticks.
A toy is primarily for children and chances are that they would end up hurting themselves with a stick by poking their eyes out or something similar therefore I personally wouldn't recommend using a stick as a toy as far as possible.
To conclude, a stick can be used as a toy, but personally, I don't think it is the brightest idea!
Well it depends on one's perception of the stick!
To a boring adult mind it is just a stick! To a child; it can be the magic wand that could conjure the best spell of all; Happiness!
That's the problem with almost all adults, they have been too busy cramming their minds with FACT (Starting from the day they set foot into these places called "Schools") that they forget to focus on fiction or CREATIVITY.
Heaven forbid I would rather think about tranquil beaches than crunching numbers! "STOP DAYDREAMING" yells Mom!
Exactly Its How Creative One Is !!
This Stick Given To A Very Imaginative And Creative Person Could Make Use Of It Efficiently...
But If Given To An Illiterate, Uninvented Person He Would Eventually Break It.. :)
I think a stick is definitely a toy.
As everyone mentioned -a creative person can make the best out of a stick and I so agree with that.
Aisha Bashir
10g2
Well yes, I believe it really does depend on the environmment you're in. If a child from a well-off family is given a mere stick, I don't think he'd be as happy as he would be if it were a toy car. But if it were a less unfortunate child who has no means of getting a toy car, or any other toy for that matter, a stick would prove to be quite enjoyable to play with.
I must admit though, if I am ever walking down the road with friends, and we come across a stick, we would grab at the opportunity to play around with the simple piece of wood. Quite delightful really, as immature as it may seem (A) It all depends on one's perspective, and their views of the little pleasures of life provided by mother nature.
Owais you dont need to be clever to play with a stick -.-
LOL; Exactly-.-
And, what's an 'uninvented' person? o.O
Owais, you'd be surprised to know what wonders people are capable off, even with a mere stick. Especially those who are illiterate and live in naturistic areas, as they appreciate nature alot more than we do and have a better understanding and can put even a measly stick to good use. Not just breaking it.
I believe anything you can entertain yourself with could be considered a toy, especially a stick. Looking back on when i was younger, i used to play with sticks all the time, they could be anything! One minute, i was a wizard, the next i was a caveman, and then id be a baton twirler. So basically, a stick is a toy depending on how you use it.
It depends on how much of the world you've actually seen. To someone who barely gets toys out of poverty - a stick would mean a great deal. To someone who's seen toys way more fabulous than a stick, it would be plain rubbish.
It also depends on how creative one is with the stick! :P If you were left alone on an old lonely island with nothing but a stick - I'm sure you'd do as much as you could to entertain yourself with it! :)
Yes, a stick is a toy. Like everyone has said it just depends on your imagination, how you think of it as.
For example when i am bored and find a stick lying on the ground i pick it up and play around with it hit it against against the wall or anything to make some noise or start spinning it between my fingers, there are hundreds of things you can do with a stick a few are mentioned by Zaid(now he has a wild imagination on how to use a stick as a toy)
So, yes a stick is a toy, but only until it is no sharp.
yes a stick can definetely be a toy and that to in many forms.
if u have the creativity and the imagination, you can make a toy with just about anything. it all depends on a person's perception.
I saw a movie called cast away where Tom Hanks thought a baseball was a person!!
Yes a stick can be a toy as toy is just a play thing to diverge one’s mind. A toy can be anything that can be easily carried by hand or an object whose position or shape can be altered. For example a stick was a play thing in the pre-historic times during our ancestors they used to play for example sticks and stones and even now the poor children also play with sticks. Dogs in particular love to play with sticks. Building sticks made from plastic that are manufactured are also toys. There are numerous amounts of games that can be associated a stick like limbo, dartboard, bow and arrow etc., but the only other thing required is a bit of creativity and imagination.
One single stick cannot be a toy on its own neither can it be any form of amusement to a child. A bundle of sticks, however, can be made into a toy and be given to a child to be played with.
stick a toy? hmm maybe yes it can be a toy for a child who belongs to a lower class family. Being an Indian many a times on the streets i would see many kids sitting with sticks and scribbling things on sand or maybe calling their sticks by name.I tried playing with a stick and believe me it didn't work too well. Sticks would never play an important role in my life but maybe it does for those children who cant afford other toys.
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