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Sorting old and new toys, describing toys, even images and moving toy pictures. It's like Santa's workshop in here, toys from the past and present feature throughout.
Bedford Bytes Toy activities
Visit in a new windowA great old/new toy sort as well as worksheets for the unit. Selection of activities for use in class.
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Bethnal Green Toy Museum
Visit in a new windowA selection of games and exhibitions of old toys. Some great games to play in class involving toys from the past.
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British Museum Toy exhibition
Visit in a new windowExample of some very ancient toys. Just type "toys" into the search box.
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Describing and sorting toys
Visit in a new windowLesson plans and textease activities to describe and sort old toys. This forms part of the popular embedding ICT CD s History section which was produced by the DfES.
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Images of dolls from the Liverpool Museum
Visit in a new windowIncludes images of Victorian doll toys.
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Images of old toys from the Bowes museum
Visit in a new windowPlenty of pictures of old toys for you to view. Victorian toys, army figures and more recent toys are displayed.
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Make a teddy bear
Visit in a new windowDrag and drop shapes to make the face of a teddy bear.
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MAPE toy gallery
Visit in a new windowA selection of toys categorised into decades from 1900-2000. Ideal for copying and pasting to a whiteboard flipchart.
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Moving toys
Visit in a new windowLots of moving images of toys. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "moving toys". You will then be able to choose to view a video of your selected toy. A fabulous resource which can be used to teach forces, dance, history and DandT. An all time favourite!
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Moving toys
Visit in a new windowA great selection of moving toys for you to view. From most decades - there are wind up, pull along, electric etc.. toys to look at. Wonderful.
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Photos of 20th century toys
Visit in a new windowDivided into the decades, there are plenty of clear colour photos of toys that you could use in your own lessons, perhaps on worksheets etc. They could be easily made into a matching-pairs game on the interactive whiteboard. Part of the ictopus picture gallery.
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Toy Museum
Visit in a new windowPictures of toys from the 20th century. Bring back all those happy memories, there are a selection of delightful pictures including doll's house furniture and radio controlled cars.
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Toy room
Visit in a new windowThis wonderful toy room allows children to explore toys from now and then also suits the moving toys topic in DT taught much further up the school.
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Toys ClipArt
Visit in a new windowUseful (if mixed) collection of freely available clipart images of toys past and present.
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Toys from ancient history
Visit in a new windowThis may be overkill, but why not show children who are interested in this topic toys that Egyptian or Roman children played with. Just type "toys" into the search box.
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Victorian Toys
Visit in a new windowUse the "themes" gallery and take a closer look at "childhood".
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