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Toys of the Past Workshop
As part of our ‘Memory Box’ topic, we have invited history specialists to come and visit our school on the afternoon of Tuesday 30th April 2024. The session explores traditional toys from the past including, a Steiff Marionette Pantom bear, clockwork tin toys, bagatelle, shove ha’penny and a zoetrope. They will look at what the toys are made from, what they represent and who would have played with them in order to find out more about life in the past. The children will focus on similarities and differences between their lives and those of children in the past, including identifying differences in the materials used to make toys. Just like children from the past they will have the opportunity to make a simple moving toy that doesn’t require electricity.
