| A lot of people have hobbies. |
| Hobbies are interesting things that people like to do in their spare time. |
| My father has a hobby. |
| He has a model railroad set that he put together. |
| A tiny electric train runs through make-believe villages and travels through tunnels and over mountains. |
| My father also enjoys sailing. |
| He has a real sailboat that he takes us out on. |
| He is teaching me how to sail. |
| I like to collect things. |
| I collect comic books, stamps and coins. |
| I trade comic books with some of my friends, and sometimes I buy comic books at stores. |
| Some of the very old comic books are worth a lot of money. |
| I have stamps from all over the world. |
| Whenever any of my friends get a letter from a faraway place, they save the stamps for me. |
| I have stamps from England, Japan, Australia and even Russia. |
| I use a magnifying glass to look at the stamps, and I keep them in a special album. |
| I don’t have too many coins yet, but I have a very old dime from Canada, and I have a coin with a hole in it from Africa. |
| My mother used to collect dolls when she was a little girl. |
| The dolls wore costumes from different countries. |
| My friend John’s hobby is painting. |
| He does oil painting. |
| He has even sold some of his paintings. |
| He is a good artist. |
| My friend Linda sews. |
| She has made clothes for herself and some of her friends. |
| Maybe Linda will be a fashion designer when she gets older. |
| Sometimes people’s hobbies lead them into their careers. |
