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!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIHfMkxVlnU

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