Toys Of Potatoes

Creative, History, Sculpture, Vintage1931, Carving, Children's Book, educational, Potatoe, Soviet Union, Spuds, Sweet, Toys

These images jumped out at me. What can I tell you, I’m Irish and I do like potatoes! They are the pages of a 1931 Soviet era schoolbook. I think that younger kids might find this fun even by today’s tricked out standards—although I doubt they’ll be packing a pen knife as per the instructions.
From Google Translate:

TOYS OF POTATOES
FIGURES OF AFEDULOV
10 kopecks. Ogis – YOUNG GUARD 1931.

Google Translate:

Pick the right potatoes and wash them well. Cut and hollow them, as shown, with a penknife.
Make arms, legs, necks, tails from matches or from sticks. Twist a paper tube and make a samovar tap and a teapot nose out of it.
Stick potatoes with matches.
SCIENTIFIC PATH from Ne40 421 l. Peningrad will oblast with 71563. Circulation 50.000 Gos, Litku.
Mx Tomsky. Leningrad, st. Mira, 3