While many children in Vietnam are celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with well-lit lanterns and delicious mooncakes, many of their poor peers have come up with creative ways to make toys from waste materials for this occasion.
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All kids need toys. Despite their poverty, impoverished kids across the Southeast Asian country have created things to play with from whatever in hand such as old milk cans, cardboard boxes, used bicycle tires, and other trash.
In this photo essay, you can see a “telephone” creatively made of two old milk cans by kids in a Central Highlands province or a “toy car” made of a motor oil container and bottle lids by children in Quang Ngai, located in the central region.
Meanwhile, kids in Ly Son – an island district off Quang Ngai – use brock foam to make their own “toy boats.”
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar. This year’s festival is due on September 8 (today).
Three poor kids in Trieu Phong District of Quang Tri, a province in central Vietnam, perform a lion dance using old cardboard boxes.
Kids in Co Ly, a poor hamlet in Quang Ngai Province, play with a see-saw made of wooden pieces which are often used to build fishing boats.
Children living in an impoverished area close to Cau Me Canal in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 11 have fun with used bicycle tires.
Two little boys in Cao Phong District of the northern province of Hoa Binh play with a hand-made spinning top.
Kids in Ly Son, an island district off Quang Ngai, play with their “toy boats” made of brock foam.
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