Recycled paper toys refer primarily to small bird or animal forms crafted from rags, husk, tins, and toffee-papers stitched together and decorated with ribbons, sequins, tinsel, old cassette tapes, etc. to resemble cockbirds, parrots, elephants, etc. The toys are in themselves strong social statements of the dispossessed and deprived. They evoke images of wild animals threatened in the neighbouring forests by destructive development, and dispossession and deprivation for the child in the form of a new "coal culture" moving into the village, and it expresses itself through the child's world creating its fantasies out of things whose waste materials alone come to them --- expensive toffees, tape-recorders, and baubles associated with consumerism. Thus, these toys are strong social statements from the child's point of view.