Welcome to the Y1 Toys and Games page!
In this History topic we learn about toys and games from the past.
We learn that, in the past, children would play lots of different games and make toys to keep themselves entertained.
Here are lots of fun, optional extra activities you can do at home.
Enjoy! Mrs Howley xxx
Try some these activities at home…
Ask older family and friends what they liked to play with in the past. How are their toys and games different? How are they the same?
Learn a skipping rhyme
Make a fortune-teller
Make a peg or paper doll
Make a paper aeroplane
Make some puppets and put on a play.
You could even make a theatre from a cardboard box
Learn a clapping game
Learn some string games
Witch’s Broom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWerCnJf3o
Cup and Saucer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AtT-pioprk
Open the Gate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11omMUvluwQ
Flower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQSJW0G3D08
Finger Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjhw563Oc2o
Jacob’s Ladder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXV1rX-PvR0
Fishing Net
Make a whirly-gig
Start a scrapbook. Victorian children loved to save their favourite pictures and paste them into a scrapbook. Sometimes they would cut out images from newspapers and magazines or greetings cards. They would mix flour and water to make the glue.
Start a journal
Victorians liked to keep a journal. They would write about things they had done, places they visited and people they met. They would also sketch interesting things they saw and glue in souvenirs like tickets, pressed flowers, etc.
Or Try learning how to play one of these games…
Hopscotch
Hide and Seek
Sardines
Noughts and Crosses
Blind Man’s Buff
Charades
Squares
Marbles
https://www.wikihow.com/Play-Marbles