The History Of Toys

For centuries kids have been playing with toys even if its just a piece of string. Basically any thing can be a toy; a stick could be a sword, a nail could be a seat for a fairy, an acorn could be cup for a tiny elf. Little things like that.

Toys may look different depending on what materials are available to make the from. For instance a metal yo yo could be shiny or dull, a dolls house could be made out of plastic or wood. in the tutor era some rocking horses were made out of hay.


Teddy bears were made in the years 1902-1903 they were made in two different country's America and Germany, America made them first in 1902 but because the two country's are so far apart Germany didn't know and thought that they had made them first in 1903.
Teddy bears were named after the USA president Teddy Roosevelt.
My oldest teddy bear is almost ten and I've had it since I was three

this is the oldest toy found in Britain

The oldest toy found in Britain was found near Stonehenge. It looks like a hedgehog and it was found in a three year child's grave it is possibly 2,500 years old it is the earliest known depiction of a hedgehog in Britain.

These days only some kids still play with things without battery's but a vast majority only play with electronic toys with battery's I myself play with both. The first electronic toy was called pong and it was made in the early 1970s by Nolan Bushnell.