Within our big idea 'Look Back to Look Forward',
this term's Social Studies topic is 'Toys: Past, Present and Future'.
One of Mrs McKenzie's favourite toys when she was growing up in the 1960s were her little china tea-sets.
One of them had also been played with by her mother as a child!
Mr McKenzie loved playing with his truck.
Tell us about your favourite toy when you were aged
about 5-8 years old.
Which decade was that in?
2000- now,
1990-1999,
1980-1989,
1970-1979,
1960-1969,
1950-1959,
1940-1949,
1930-1939
or even earlier?
What do you think children will play with in the future?
dear B4
ReplyDeleteMy favourite toy is a doll. I am 6. It doesn't matter what toy you play with because it is just a toy. I play with my car and doll every day after school and cars are cool because you can bounce on the bed with them, but if you step on them they really hurt and they are cool because you can speed them around the house.
warm wishes
Jamie
Dear B4,
ReplyDeleteFirstly thank you for sharing this and letting me walk down memory land. My decade is 1960-69. My absolute favourite toy was my matching china teaset in a gorgeous blue box. I used to make tea parties for my dolls outside almost everyday. One of my saddest days as a child was when I tripped and fell down the steps carrying the box. There were so many breakages. My mum and dad tried to glue them back together but they were never quite the same. Can you believe I still have them somewhere in the basement. My own children spent hours playing with them too. My absolute favourite piece was the teeny tiny lid on the milk jug. I wish I could find them to take a photo and post it on here for you... I will try.
I think in the future children will play more and more with online games.
Thanks again for allowing this sharing.
Dear Anne
DeleteI have a teaset at home it was my absoletly fovrite. because they have roses over them. what parts do you have? I have forks cups jugs and plates. but... one of my plates broke last night. how because I was runing aronde and my brother was playing with his remote car and I triped over it
from jamie warm wishes
Thank you for replying. I have searched and searched but can't find my teaset. I know I have it somewhere. I loved the little pictures on mine. They were so white with a little girl on them.
DeleteI am very sad to hear your plate broke. I hope you weren't too grumpy with your brother.
Now you've hot me thinking about another favorite thing I used to spend hours and hours with - my dress up dolls! They were cardboard and had lots of changes of clothes that you folded little tabs to hold them on! Do you know what I mean? What a wonderful learning journey you are all having!
Mrs K
Back in the 1970's, I had a doll called Action Girl. I never owned a Barbie Doll but Action Girl was the competition. Action Girl had bendable joints and big feet like Action Man... My Action Girl had black hair and a fringe so she was very different to the Barbie doll that ALL my friends owned at the time!
ReplyDeleteDear Ms B
DeleteI have some action men. I don,t really play with it any more because I don,t like them and I cant find all the clothes because I have a bunch of toys because I was getting older.
sincerely
Gabriel
My favorite toy was a baby doll I got for my 6 birthday. Her name is Louise and she still sits on my draws. I have a suitcase of clothes my mother and sister made for her. She had a pram and a cot as well. It was 1977 when I got Louise.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your learning.
Dear Susan
DeleteI have a baby doll. I play with it every day. "weeeeeee," I said. And thankyou for your coment.
bye now.I hope you have a lovely weekend.
from Reagan
Hi B4!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite toys to play with were my nana's indoor bowling set that we used to play down her very long hallway! I also loved my care bear and glow worm. This was in the years 1980-1989!
What a great idea to be investigating!
Miss Signal
http://r7sps.blogspot.com/
hi Miss Signal
DeleteI would like to play bowling down the stairs, but I don't have a bowling set but my cousin has a bowling set. I will play with it down the outside steps.
from Skye
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DeleteDear Miss Signal
DeleteI have a bowling set. There is ten bowling pins and there are two bowling balls. One of the bowling balls is red and the secind one is yollow. I allways play it in the hollway but I play it down the stairs sometimes but I sometimes I do it up in stded of down.
warm regards
Liv
Dear Miss signal
Deleteif I hade a boling sit I wade thri and tes me dog with it other wise I wode go to the front door step
sincerely
gabrieli
My favourite toy when I was 4 (the 1960's) was a Dinky Toys Thunderbird 2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbirds_machines#Thunderbird_2] with a pop-out carrier pod.
ReplyDeleteBy 1970 it was a Captain Scarlet Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_Pursuit_Vehicle]. I don't have either of them anymore, unfortunately.
In the future I think Lego will continue to be a popular toy, although wider use of 3D-print could see toys becoming customised for each child 'on demand'.
Chris [onemouse]
Dear chris
DeleteI have a toy. It is lego. I can make lego city. It is cool because I can make a lego disco ball. I am going to the Reefton disco .
from Marcus
My favourite toy in the 80's was my Daffy Doll - she looked like this - http://www.butterflyrocket.com/BR_IMAGES/HollyHobbie_June06.jpg
ReplyDeleteShe was a Holly Hobbie doll but I called her Daffy. I still have her today but she looks a little bit tatty now and my mum had to sew a new face on to her when I was about 10.
My second favourite doll was Stringy - she was a doll that was the same size as me when I was 5 - my mum sewed her and I could attach her arms and legs to me and dance around the room with her.
Dear Miss Lyall
Deletemy Mums favrit toy was a teddy bear. When she was a little girl her friend gave it to her. Its name was Loss but I changed it to Ted. I sleep with it every night.
warm regards
Liv
Dear Ms B
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. Action Girl sounds like fun.
I have a fire truck. It is a remote control truck and it can turn. I like it.
from Marcus
Dear Ms Signl,
ReplyDeleteI would like to play bowling ball down the stairs. If I had a bowling set I would do it down the hallway too!
from Lily
Dear B4
ReplyDeleteWhen i was that age it was 1980. Barbies and Cindy dolls where the coolest things around. I had the barbie dream time bed and barbie dream furniture and about 4 barbies and 1 cindy. My fav teddy was a baby smurf that had a hard face and soft body i still have it to this day. Although my kids have some what made him even more worn.
From Chelsea's mummy Deb
Dear Deb
Deletethank you for making us a comment. We are injoying the comments that pepole are making. Lily's favourite toy is teddy. Jamie's favourite toy is moshe monster's. Moshe monster's are soft toys sometimes hard. I always sleep with it.
What is your cindy doll called?
bye for now Jamie and Lily
i can't remember the name of my Cindy doll i think i called her Sandy
DeleteThanks for the comment
Dear B4
ReplyDeleteDuring the 1980's my favourite toy was a 'Cabbage Patch Kid' doll called Archibald. I took him everywhere with me. He had his own birth certificate & hospital ID bracelet and I had a cot, highchair & bassinet for him as well.
I also had a lot of Barbie dolls.
Warm Regards,
Liv's Mum, Angela.
Dear Angela
DeleteI have a Barbie like yours, but my doll's hair is like my hair - brown.
your friend
Teagan
Dear Angela
DeleteI have a Barbie that I just got yesterday. I play with it mostly every day now and my others. I have a lot. I spin around the room with it. Did you do that too?
bye for now
Reagan
Dear Angela
DeleteMy sister likes barbie dolls. She plays with them every day.
Have you still got your cabbage patch doll?
your best blogging buddy
Caleb and Samuel
Dear Angela
DeleteI have a few Barbie dolls and I have to share the dolls.
Bye for now,
Skye
Dear Angela
DeleteMy favourite toy is a dog patch annimal. It is a hard toy. My brother take’s It and hopes in the bath with It. some are pigs and frezzing lilys.
from jamie
My twin sister and I were 5 in 1954. Our favourite toy was a pair of rollerskates each. We taught ourselves to do artistic swirls, skate backwards and also speed skate. We had a lot of concrete and a lot of friends would come to skate too. Our favourite game was to pull a few friends along with a rope as fast as we could and I remember the mixture of fear and joyous excitement. We skated for many years and I have never forgotten the happiness we got from our wheels.
ReplyDeleteFrom Lily's Nanny Helen
Dear Nanny Helen
DeleteWe like riding our bikes and we like our scooters. Thank you for your comment.
warm wishes
Ricci and Gabriel
Dear B4
ReplyDeleteIn the late 1970's my favourite toy was a little aeroplane on a long piece of string that you swung round & round your head. When you did that the propeller would spin & make it sound like a real plane.
From Liv's Dad, Troy.
Dear Dad
DeleteI am trying to make the aeroplane thing you were talking about. But it is a bit hard to make. I hope I can finish it before fathers day. I hope it brings some memories back.But the problem is, I don't know what it looked like?
warm regards
Liv and Aubrey
Dear Liv,
DeleteMy plane was a cammoflauge colour and the propeller was made out of plastic. I think it will be quite hard to make one but I am sure whatever you make will be awesome.
Love Dad
DAER Troy
DeleteI hove a plane when I was 5.
from marcus .
Dear B4
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little my family lived in Australia. My favourite toys were stuffed elephants. I used to bury myself in them when I snuggled into bed to sleep.
From Sameuls Mum
Dear Samuel's mum
DeleteI have a stuffed pig. His name is Daisy. His eyes are on his bum. The colour is brown and white. When you click a butten he picks his nose. Nana says yuk when he does that. It is funny. I snuggle into bed with him but his eyes fall off, so I have to sew them back on.
warm wishes
Jamie
Dear B4
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite toys when I was your age was a doll that would walk by herself, I called her Robyn and when you pushed both of her arms down she would go walking across the room by herself :-)
From Gabriels Mum
Dear Gabriel's mum
DeleteI would like one of those walking dolls because I would make it chase me. Where did you buy it?
from Braedyn
Dear mum
DeleteI wish my action men could do that so then I wouldn't have to make it work and it cold go and find its clothes
regards gabriel
Dear B4
ReplyDeleteMy favorite toy to play with when I was 5 years old was my Barbie doll. She had a very racy looking red convertible car that I loved too. All the doors on the car could be opened and it even had a working horn, lights and radio! My barbie had long hair that i liked to braid and adjustable limbs so you could sit her down. I never had a doll house but I made my own out of cardboard boxes and would make furniture and clothes out of old material, paper and cardboard.
From Braedyn's Mum
Dear Braedyn's mum
DeleteI think my mums favorite toy was a barbie doll.My mum doesn't have it any more.
My favorite toy is my lego. I have a lot of lego. I have about 5000 pieces. I play with my lego every day after school. On Saturday and Sunday I play with it an hour each day.
warm wishes
Ricci
Hi B4!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite toys when I was in primary school was my collection of Ferrari Matchbox cars. I took great pride in them and took special care not to scratch them or get them dirty. I still had the cars when I was an adult (my mum found them tucked away!) so I passed them onto Joshua and they are still in great condition!
I also loved playing with Lego, my brother and I used to pour buckets of Lego on the lounge floor and play for hours.
From Joshua's Father
Dear Joshua's father
DeleteI like playing lego at the school and after school I play cars at my house too.
from Aubrey
Hello B 4 i have been thinking what my favourite toy was when i was little in between 1980 and 1989. I used to play with toy cars lots but im pretty sure my favourite was a little green turtle it was soft and when u squeezed it it made a squeeky noise. My mum found it a while ago and Caleb and Jayden have played with it too.
ReplyDeleteFrom Caleb's dad
Hi Dad
DeleteI have your old cars. They are not play cars but I still play with them.
from Caleb
Hi B4
ReplyDeleteMy favourite toys when I was growing up in the 1950 were dinky toys - I used to play with my brother making roads and bridges for the cars to run around on in the sandpit. I also had a lovely doll called Sally - she had long blond hair that I used to comb and tie up in pigtails - she was a porccelain and her eyes would close when you laid her down. I also loved my roller skates - we used to skate in the old Primary School ground. I fell off them when I was about 6 years old and broke my are so I was really careful after that.
From Jamie's Nana
Dear Jamie's nana
DeleteWere dinky cars your favourite toy? Anyway my favourite was a Barbie.
from Reagan.
Dear Jamies Nana
DeleteI have a few dolls at my house.They are hard and their hair is soft.
from Lily