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The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use - W. A. G. Bradman
The Illustrated Guide to Building Wooden Toys for Indoor Use
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W. A. G. Bradman
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A History of Toys
A toy, broadly speaking, is any item that can be used for play – generally by children and pets. Toys and games are most frequently used (consciously or not) as an enjoyable means of training the young for life in society. The young use toys and play to discover their identity, help their bodies grow strong, learn cause and effect, explore relationships, and practice skills they will need as adults. Adults use toys and play to form and strengthen social bonds, teach, reinforce lessons from their youth, discover their identity, exercise their minds and bodies, explore relationships and decorate their living spaces. Many items are designed to serve as toys (often purely as collectors’ items), but goods produced for other purposes can also be used. For instance, a small child may pick up a household item and fly
it through the air as to pretend that it is an airplane. Today, another consideration is ‘interactive digital entertainment’ – a wholly novel development which is quickly changing the world of toys as we know it.
The origin of toys is prehistoric; dolls representing infants, animals, and soldiers, as well as representations of tools used by adults are readily found at archaeological sites. The origin of the word toy
is unknown, but it is believed that it was first used in the fourteenth century. Toys excavated from the Indus valley civilization (3000-1500 BCE) include small carts, whistles shaped like birds, and toy monkeys which could slide down a string. All of these earliest toys are made from materials readily found in nature, such as rocks, sticks and clay. The first ‘sophisticated’ toys were found in Egypt – where children played with dolls that had wigs and movable limbs which were made from stone, pottery, and wood. In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, children played with dolls made of wax or terracotta, sticks, bows and arrows, and yo-yos. When Greek children, especially girls, came of age it was customary for them to sacrifice the toys of their childhood to the gods. On the eve of their wedding, young girls around fourteen would offer their dolls in a temple as a rite of passage into adulthood.
Toys, of course, do not merely involve dolls and replicas; they train the brain and the body as well as the imagination. The oldest known mechanical puzzle also comes from Greece and appeared in the Third century BC, it consists of a square divided into fourteen parts, and the aim was to create different shapes from these pieces. In Iran puzzle-locks
were made as early as the seventeenth century AD. Such examples are anomalies though, and before the enlightenment era, toys were a rarity. This changed with novel attitudes towards