In reply to Matt Schwarz:
> (In reply to Southampton Tom) I was going to suggest penknife, still got, and regularly use the one I got at that age (now 27)!
+1 for this! I got my first knife around this age, and spent hours whittling bits of wood. My mum also got me a bag of leather off-cuts from a local shoe maker and I made all sorts of things out of the leather using that knife too.