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Post by men an tol on Oct 4, 2015 11:17:00 GMT -5
In different internet sites I have seen people who talk about youth who spend their time on electronic media. While such devices are (at least can be) great tools, it does seem that many people are concerned about these same children losing their creativity. Whether that is true or not, there doesn't seem to be the same concerns about toys from the past. So, what are these toys from the past? Are they no longer relevant? Or, do they have something to offer to today's children? Following here are a couple of sites: www.toysfromtimespast.com/ www.buzzfeed.com/twopoodles/toys-you-can-make-yourself Obviously there are far more older toys, marbles, tinker toys, Lincoln logs, Erector sets, trains, all sorts of toys. The point is, are older toys better or worse for kids to ply with, or does such a question even make sense? Opinions welcome! Your favorite Toys welcome! New sites welcome! |
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Post by men an tol on Oct 4, 2015 11:20:52 GMT -5
Has anyone ever thought about having a neighborhood get together in the park for games and toys from the past. Races which combine adults and kids such as human wheelbarrow races, the three legged races, the bag race, egg on a spoon race, no electronic games need apply.
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Post by annaj26 on Oct 4, 2015 13:46:47 GMT -5
Has anyone ever thought about having a neighborhood get together in the park for games and toys from the past. Races which combine adults and kids such as human wheelbarrow races, the three legged races, the bag race, egg on a spoon race, no electronic games need apply. They do a 4th of July celebration at one of the parks here that has some of those things. Everybody has a good time. I have had electronic games and a computer in my home since I was ab out 4. We have always liked board games and card games, too, though, both my parents home and my home now. |
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Post by men an tol on Oct 4, 2015 14:25:52 GMT -5
One of the things that parents can do today, is to collect small blocks of wood. Say, one inch by one inch by two inches or there abouts, lots of different sizes and shapes too. Then come Christmas or a birth day, give them to the kids. They'll likely ask you what are they. And you just tell them that they are magic because they can be lots of different things, for example a building. However, it is then upto the child to see a building in the pile of blocks and put them together.
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Post by Jessiealan on Oct 4, 2015 16:34:55 GMT -5
We had some of the more old fashioned kinds of toys when we were growing up in the 50s. Badminton, horse shoes and especially croquet were popular outside games. My own children liked Yard Darts but it soon became obvious they were too dangerous. Too many darts through little feet!!!
Both my generation and my kids' liked touch football and frisbee. Miniature golf was a big treat.
As Annie says, electronic games have been around a long time - starting in the 80s with Pong. For a family favorite, I think Mario Cart was the one we all liked best. It took skill to win!
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Post by men an tol on Oct 4, 2015 19:52:48 GMT -5
Ah yes. croquet. While this can be fun for the young, it can also be a very serious game. Finding a large very flat grassy place is the tough part, after that it is practice, practice, practice.
Learning to use a Yo Yo can also be a real challenge.
When I was young watching the older men throw house shoes was amazing, ringer after ringer.
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Post by Sysop3 on Oct 5, 2015 17:51:14 GMT -5
Ah yes. croquet. While this can be fun for the young, it can also be a very serious game. Finding a large very flat grassy place is the tough part, after that it is practice, practice, practice. Learning to use a Yo Yo can also be a real challenge. When I was young watching the older men throw house shoes was amazing, ringer after ringer. Horse shoes are still played here. The parents of one of my friends has a big cookout over Memorial Day weekend and a horse shoes contest is part of it. Good prizes, too. |
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Post by men an tol on Nov 28, 2016 14:55:30 GMT -5
With Christmas nearing older approaches to toys can be fun and instructive: happyhooligans.ca/70-awesome-toys-make-kids/ Thin of what you can make. For example, get some ready mix concrete, make some forms out of scrap wood. Mix the cement and pour it into the forms making cement bricks in all sorts of shapes and sizes and your child can then use them to make buildings and other things. Combine them with a Lincoln log set to create a town make from different materials. The point with these toys is that they are either free of very low cost, and they are teaching items as they can mimic adult activities which are far more interesting to a child than ready made toys. Home made kites are great fun and good teachers and there are all sorts of styles. www.motherearthnews.com/DIY/homemade-toys-zmaz74ndzraw www.backwoodshome.com/homemade-toys/ A site which list formulas to make you own bubble blowing mix. bubbleblowers.com/homemade.html |
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Post by mouse on Nov 29, 2016 7:35:04 GMT -5
Has anyone ever thought about having a neighborhood get together in the park for games and toys from the past. Races which combine adults and kids such as human wheelbarrow races, the three legged races, the bag race, egg on a spoon race, no electronic games need apply. we have those things at our annual village gala day.... they are imencely popular along with a cocoanut shy the best present my children had was a box of wooden building bricks my eldest son was given...we kept them and the grandchildren have loved them as well anf now they are boxed waiting for the next generation its all about keeping a sence of proportion and mixing the new electronics with traditional toys ... there ample room for both |
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Post by annaj26 on Nov 29, 2016 19:38:03 GMT -5
Has anyone ever thought about having a neighborhood get together in the park for games and toys from the past. Races which combine adults and kids such as human wheelbarrow races, the three legged races, the bag race, egg on a spoon race, no electronic games need apply. we have those things at our annual village gala day.... they are imencely popular along with a cocoanut shy the best present my children had was a box of wooden building bricks my eldest son was given...we kept them and the grandchildren have loved them as well anf now they are boxed waiting for the next generation its all about keeping a sence of proportion and mixing the new electronics with traditional toys ... there ample room for both Wooden blocks have never gone out of style. My little girl and her friends play with them a lot. she gets to use her Kindle a couple of hours a day on weekends and one hour a day on pre-school days. The rest of the time is active play with her best friends, the boy and girl next door. That will probably step up with elec. devices when she starts 1st grade. There, they receive awesome elec. pads with all kinds of activities. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 20:09:04 GMT -5
we have those things at our annual village gala day.... they are imencely popular along with a cocoanut shy the best present my children had was a box of wooden building bricks my eldest son was given...we kept them and the grandchildren have loved them as well anf now they are boxed waiting for the next generation its all about keeping a sence of proportion and mixing the new electronics with traditional toys ... there ample room for both Wooden blocks have never gone out of style. My little girl and her friends play with them a lot. she gets to use her Kindle a couple of hours a day on weekends and one hour a day on pre-school days. The rest of the time is active play with her best friends, the boy and girl next door. That will probably step up with elec. devices when she starts 1st grade. There, they receive awesome elec. pads with all kinds of activities. One of my favorite "toys" was silk squares of fabric. You can purchase them through a Waldorf School supply site, and they are usually called china silks. They come in about a dozen vibrant colors, and can be used for all sorts of imaginative things, from making costumes to making forts. My sister and I didn't have plastic or commercial toys and we really didn't miss them, either. |
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Post by annaj26 on Nov 29, 2016 20:13:15 GMT -5
Wooden blocks have never gone out of style. My little girl and her friends play with them a lot. she gets to use her Kindle a couple of hours a day on weekends and one hour a day on pre-school days. The rest of the time is active play with her best friends, the boy and girl next door. That will probably step up with elec. devices when she starts 1st grade. There, they receive awesome elec. pads with all kinds of activities. One of my favorite "toys" was silk squares of fabric. You can purchase them through a Waldorf School supply site, and they are usually called china silks. They come in about a dozen vibrant colors, and can be used for all sorts of imaginative things, from making costumes to making forts. My sister and I didn't have plastic or commercial toys and we really didn't miss them, either. How do you know you don't miss them if you never had them. You seem like a Barbie and Ken kind of girl to me.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 20:31:43 GMT -5
One of my favorite "toys" was silk squares of fabric. You can purchase them through a Waldorf School supply site, and they are usually called china silks. They come in about a dozen vibrant colors, and can be used for all sorts of imaginative things, from making costumes to making forts. My sister and I didn't have plastic or commercial toys and we really didn't miss them, either. How do you know you don't miss them if you never had them. You seem like a Barbie and Ken kind of girl to me. I never owned a Barbie doll. I had a doll with a china head, but I wasn't a doll person. I still have the stuffed bunny my Mom's friend gave to me whom I call Marcel. I guess that I can say that I never missed plastic toys as many of my friends had them, and I always preferred being creative with materials and colors. We had these wooden benches - hard to describe - but combined with fabric and things we found in the woods or made, they became forts and castles. We also did a lot of water-color painting, and had beeswax in bright colors that we modeled with. My parents didn't really allow us much media time, either, although we watched films and odd events on television occasionally. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 20:34:40 GMT -5
With Christmas nearing older approaches to toys can be fun and instructive: happyhooligans.ca/70-awesome-toys-make-kids/ Thin of what you can make. For example, get some ready mix concrete, make some forms out of scrap wood. Mix the cement and pour it into the forms making cement bricks in all sorts of shapes and sizes and your child can then use them to make buildings and other things. Combine them with a Lincoln log set to create a town make from different materials. The point with these toys is that they are either free of very low cost, and they are teaching items as they can mimic adult activities which are far more interesting to a child than ready made toys. Home made kites are great fun and good teachers and there are all sorts of styles. www.motherearthnews.com/DIY/homemade-toys-zmaz74ndzraw www.backwoodshome.com/homemade-toys/ A site which list formulas to make you own bubble blowing mix. bubbleblowers.com/homemade.html This is something that I can agree with you upon. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2016 20:48:59 GMT -5
In different internet sites I have seen people who talk about youth who spend their time on electronic media. While such devices are (at least can be) great tools, it does seem that many people are concerned about these same children losing their creativity. Whether that is true or not, there doesn't seem to be the same concerns about toys from the past. So, what are these toys from the past? Are they no longer relevant? Or, do they have something to offer to today's children? Following here are a couple of sites: www.toysfromtimespast.com/ www.buzzfeed.com/twopoodles/toys-you-can-make-yourself Obviously there are far more older toys, marbles, tinker toys, Lincoln logs, Erector sets, trains, all sorts of toys. The point is, are older toys better or worse for kids to ply with, or does such a question even make sense? Opinions welcome! Your favorite Toys welcome! New sites welcome! One of the things I really loved were Brio trains. They are wooden (I think Swedish) and over the years I collected more and more track segments, bridge pieces, and stations. There are no mechanical parts - just wooden track and little wooden trains that had magnets on them, so that the cars could be connected to each other. I'm sure that they have a website, and I will put it up here: www.brio.us (I never had the little people. The components were a little more basic when I was small.) |
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