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Hand-crafted
toys
In
Victorian times, children would not have the toys we have in the
modern world. They had hand-crafted toys that were very simple.
Can
you guess what the Victorian toys in these pictures are? The answers
are at the bottom of this page.
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| Do
you know what this is? |
Some
are toys we don't see anymore and some are still being played around
the world today.
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| Can
you guess what it is? |
No
electricity
The
Victorians did not have electricity so they played with toys such
as marbles, skipping ropes and various wooden toys.
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| What's
this? |
Many
Victorian games are still used to model brand-new games. For example,
there are now hundreds of different games you can play with marbles,
including collecting stylish and trendy coloured marbles.
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| Can
you name this toy? |
Activity
games
Victorians
also played activity games such as Hunt The Ring, Follow The Leader
(still enjoyed by many children throughout the world), The Potato
Race and Buzz.
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| What
does this toy do? |
Moving
images
Victorians
loved moving images, in fact they made the first ever cameras and
moving video cameras. They invented toys like the thaumatrope and
zoetrope, which work because of the phenomenon of persistance of
vision.
What
was life like for Victorian children in Leeds?
Answers:
1. pop gun; 2. ball and cup; 3. skipping rope; 4. spinner from spinning
top; 5. acrobatic squeeze toy.
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