Take a giant step

The world around, big and little people walk on stilts.
But children like stilts best, because they make them tall.
 
In Asia, stilts are made of bamboo. They can be used to make music if you stand in a circle and pound stilt against stilt and stilt against ground.

On the Celebes Islands in the Pacific Ocean, children stand face to face while each lifts one stilt-leg into space, to see who can stand longest on the other.

In India's Central provinces boys in the spring stand on stilts in the fields - so the crops will grow tall as they.

Orphan children in Paris, France, used to dance in the streets on stilts, for money.

Children in Hungary call stilts golya-ldbak, which means "stork-legs." American Indians used to plant corn with sticks; Indian children walked on the sticks when the planting was done.

In Patzcuaro, Mexico, young boys parade on stilts to express to the Virgin their wish to be tall and strong. Some stilts are only branches cut from trees, but in the South Sea Islands some are carved so beautifully that museums like to display them.