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Description

Students can examine and play with replica and original toys to give them an understanding of toys over time.

Through an exploration of the objects in this resource box students will be able to identify different materials, ways of manufacture looking at both mass-produced and home-made examples.

Box contents

Yo-Yo
Pick up Sticks
Swing Toy
Diabolo
Pop up Harlequin puppet
Whip & Top
Skipping Rope
Russian Dolls
Teddy Bear
Wooden Village (45 Parts)
Rattle
Spinning Top
Kaleidoscope
Set of Toy pictures 1930s – 1980s

Appropriate for

Key stage 1 (KS1), Key stage 2 (KS2)

National curriculum (NC) links

History

  • changes in aspects of social history
  • changes in living memory which can be used to reveal aspects of change in national life
  • identify differences and similarities between ways of life in different periods
  • understand some of the ways in which we find out about the past

Science (Everyday materials Year 1)

  • distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made
  • identify and name everyday materials

Hire period

6 weeks (one half term)

Collect from

Northampton Museum & Art Gallery, Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1DP

Price

£75