This season continued the summer's retro flash on chrome scooters and street-flying roller shoes. Hebenstreit joined the toy world after a 14-year career as an investment broker. We need diversion from everything. People revert to drugs and alcohol, movies. The hand puppet is based on a toy from India traditionally made with palm leaves.
Bull roarers whirl and hum.
Dillon saws a yardstick for the catapult as if he were logging. Leslie Jo decorates her puppet's body with rainbow stripes to match her own rainbow sweater. Scarlet puff balls zoom through the air. Here on the Issaquah plateau, where children hold birthday parties at riding stables and keep up with premium hand-held video games, it's astonishing they have so much fun with the same humble toys loved by children in slums and refugee camps all over the world. It's not just the kids, it's the parents and the teachers.