The History of Toys

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The History of Toys
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• Have you ever wondered about the toys and games
  you play with today?
• How old are they?
• Where did they come from?
• Where are they played today?
• How many people play them?

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This time line shows some toys and when they were
first made.
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• In the past 10 years many more toys have been
  made.
• Each time a new childrens film comes out, lots
  of toys are made.
• Toy Story
• Harry Potter
• Monsters Inc.

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• Let us first of all look at some toys that
  children played with about 100 years ago.

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• Lets look at some toys and games that you might
  play with today.

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These building blocks are made from wood and are
lots of colours and shapes cubes, cuboids,
circles, semi-circles, cylinders, arches and
prisms.
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• This Victorian annual was made 1876. It contains
  lots of stories and songs with full page
  illustrations.
• It cost 1 shilling and sixpence (7.5p) when the
  average weekly wage of working parents was 30 to
  55 shillings a week. (1.50 to 2.75).

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• This is a baby's rattle .
• It is beautifully made from silver with 6 bells
  and a whistle.
• It also has a pink coral teether.

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• This toy magic lantern has 11 slides, which are
  projected by the light of an oil lamp.
• It would probably have belonged to the son of a
  wealthy family.

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• Children from poorer working families had only a
  few toys, usually home made.
• They had little time for playing.
• These marbles are made from clay.
• Marble games were very popular and were played
  outside in the street.

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• Weve all had a teddy bear.
• Teddy bears are named after an American President
  called Theodore Roosevelt.
• In 1902, he went out hunting but wouldnt shoot a
  little bear cub that was brought to him.
• A cartoon appeared in the newspaper the next day
  and the bear cub was called Teddys bear.
• Teddy bears soon became popular all over America.

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• The yo-yo is one of the oldest known toys.
• Stone yo-yos more than three thousand years old
  have been found in Greece
• Yo-yos may also have been used in ancient China.
• In the 1700s, the yo-yo or jou-jou, as it was
  called, was used to entertain French royal
  children.

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• This doll is called Florrie. She is about 130
  years old.
• She is beautifully made with a porcelain head
  and arms and a leather body, which has moveable,
  jointed legs.
• She has cotton petticoats, a lace shawl, a
  green velvet dress and bonnet and leather
  shoes.
• These are just like the clothes that would have
  been worn by the wealthy little girl who owned
  her.

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• This is Florrie in her wooden pram which is
  black, cream and red with a folding hood.
• It was exactly the same as a real babys pram of
  the time.

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• Weve all had wax crayons.
• They were first made about 100 years ago.
• The first crayons were probably made of charcoal
  and oil.
• Later, wax was used making the coloured sticks
  neater and easier to handle.
• The first Crayola crayons came in a box of eight.
  
• The eight colours were black, blue, brown, green,
  orange, red, violet, and yellow.
• Today, one hundred and twenty colours are made.

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• In 1930 Scrabble was invented.
• Players have to draw seven lettered tiles from a
  bag and then make words.
• It was first called Lexiko
• 100 million sets have been sold worldwide.

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• In 1935 the game of Monopoly was invented.
• People thought it was too complicated and would
  take too long to play
• But 100 million games have been sold, making it
  one of the best-selling games in the world.
• It is sold in more than eighty countries and has
  been translated into twenty-six languages,
  including Braille.

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• In 1943 the Slinky was invented.
• 25metres of wire is coiled into two inches
• Business is as good as ever, thanks to Slinky Dog
  in 1996's Toy Story.

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• Barbie was first shown at a toy fair in New York
  in February 1959.
• She was named after the inventors daughter,
  Barbie. Ken is the name of their son.
• A lot of people thought that it wouldnt be
  popular.
• But who would have guessed that almost 50 years
  later Barbie would still be one of the most
  successful toys on the market.
• Each week, over 1.5 million dolls are sold
  that's two dolls per second.

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Old Toys and New Toys

• Lets have a look at an old teddy and a new teddy
  and see how they have changed over the years.

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Here is an old bear

• He has long jointed limbs.
• He has a long nose.
• He has a hump on his back.
• He feels hard.
• He has rough fur.

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Here is a new bear

• He is soft and cuddly.
• He has smooth fur.
• He has short limbs that are not jointed.
• He is fatter.
• He has a short nose.

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Which would you prefer?