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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 nowA 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 nowA 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 nowExample of some very ancient toys. Just type "toys" into the search box.
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Images of old toys from the Bowes museum
Visit nowPlenty of pictures of old toys for you to view. Victorian toys, army figures and more recent toys are displayed.
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MAPE toy gallery
Visit nowA 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 nowLots 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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Photos of 20th century toys
Visit nowDivided 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 nowPictures 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 nowThis 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 from ancient history
Visit nowThis 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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