LAOAG CITY, May 2 -- The five-day farmers' festival in Batac City, Ilocos Norte, which has started, gets more playful this year with the revival of traditional games like trumpo (spinning top)-making and pal-siit (slingshot) competition.

Back in the old days, residents --young and old alike, would play trumpo, a native Filipino outdoor toy usually made of hardwood materials, and slingshot, usually made of wood from the guava tree or the madre de cacao.

"It's so nice to see the participants having fun in the slingshot competition and trumpo-making. It brings back happy memories of our childhood," Batac City agriculturist Mark Allan Abad told the Philippine News Agency on Thursday.

He said at least 22 adults joined the competition at the...