The Tea Set – A Classic Gift For Any Child

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The Tea Set A Classic Gift For Any Child
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• Children can be hard to please any parent will
  tell you that, in fact Im sure we can all vouch
  for having been so at some point during our
  childhood! They can be demanding, and when it
  comes to buying them gifts for their birthdays,
  it can be difficult to keep up with the latest
  trends, crazes and fashions that are currently
  popular at school, on television, and online.
  Buying them gifts that they actually want seems
  to get harder as each year passes, and I dont
  believe there are many timeless gifts for older
  children. But for younger children, there can be
  no doubt that the tea set is a classic gift that
  will never go out of fashion.

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• A brief history of the childrens tea set
• Tea sets for children were originally designed on
  a smaller scale, to enable them to play at making
  and serving tea for their dolls. Many tea sets
  were made in porcelain and were hand painted,
  meaning that they were given to children as gifts
  to be treasured and taken good care of. Their use
  was only permitted in the presence of an adult,
  and only upon special occasions.
• Tea sets as toys for little girls, may have been
  in existence before the sixteenth century, but
  that is when the first records of them appeared.
  They were made in Germany and from materials like
  copper and pewter.

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• It then took a couple of hundred years for
  childrens toys like the tea set to gain
  popularity, in part because such ceramic items
  were expensive and available only to the wealthy
  for many, many years and also because the
  industrial revolution making mass production of
  such items, easier had not yet occurred. In
  1855, at the Universal Exhibition, childrens tea
  sets were a feature and from that point on, the
  toy industry as a whole, seems to have gained
  momentum.
• Then, in 1865, plastic came into use, and history
  seems to suggest that dolls were the first toys
  to be made from plastic. As the decades passed,
  plastic became the material of choice for many
  more childrens toys, and in the 1960s, the
  ceramic industry was overtaken by the production
  of plastic items.

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• Why have tea sets remained so popular among young
  children?
• Im not sure that there is any one single reason
  why the tea set is still such a popular gift for
  children, but perhaps it has something to do with
  childrens desire to mimic adults and to be able
  to do something that feels grown up, and yet is
  perfectly safe and fun to do.
• They can of course, also be helpful tools for
  younger children as they learn to drink from a
  cup, and when they have their teddy bears and
  dolls all gathered together to take tea, they can
  practice their communication and social skills!

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