Weird Japanese Toys and Tools
http://vimeo.com/4683457
Weird Japanese Toys and Tools ... Tokyo BarCamp Presentation #tbarcamp May 2009
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Inventing Toys (online videos)
http://www.thefutureschannel.com/movies/design_movies.php
Inventing Toys (online videos)
She designed a sailboat and a ferris wheel. He designed a motorcycle and a roller coaster. They're a team and they have jobs that most kids (and a lot of adults) would envy: They design toys and get paid for it.
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Trouble in Toyland
http://toysafety.net/toysafety.asp?id2=20594
Trouble in Toyland: The 20th Annual Survey of Toy Safety
The 2005 Trouble in Toyland report is the 20th annual Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) survey of toy safety. This report provides safety guidelines for parents when purchasing toys for small children and provides examples of toys currently on store shelves that may pose potential safety hazards.
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Tips on Toys : Choosing Safe Toys for Children
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/family/350-063/350-063.html
Tips on Toys : Choosing Safe Toys for Children Aged Birth to 12 Years
The suggestions made in this publication are based on USA national information about the kinds of toys most often involved in accidents. Most of this information was gathered by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the checklist was developed under funding from U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
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Toys for Dogs (and other animals)
http://tinyurl.com/7opzb
Toys for Dogs
For dogs and other animal companions, toys are not a luxury, but a necessity. Toys help fight boredom in dogs left alone, and toys can even help prevent some problem behaviors from developing.
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A Guide to Toys for Children With Special Needs
http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?SectionID=60
A Guide to Toys for Children With Special Needs SEN
When selecting a toy for a child with special needs there are also a few characteristics to look for that may make one toy more appropriate than another. This is where this Guide comes in: it has been created to help you?a parent, friend, relative or caregiver?o recognize these characteristics and identify appropriate toys for children with special needs.
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The History of Toys and Games
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/toys/
The History of Toys and Games
Discover the origins of your favorite toys and games, from chess and checkers to Barbie and Atari.
Find out how many crayons are produced each day, who invented Lincoln Logs (hint: he's the son of a world-famous architect), and which classic toy truck is the brainchild of a group of Minnesota school teachers.
Plus: Learn more about the industry's most successful inventors, including Milton Bradley and the Parker brothers. Also, take our special quiz to test your toy smarts!
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Toys Clipart
http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/clipart/Toys/index.htm
Toys Clipart : Northumberland ICT Team
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Paper Toys
http://www.thetoymaker.com/2Toys.html
Here are some free paper toys that you can make yourself. Just print them out, cut, glue and enjoy.
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Science Toys
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/ScienceP/sctoys/
Science Toys
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Marx Toy Museum
http://www.marxtoymuseum.com/museum_tour.htm
Marx Toy Museum
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The Cumberland (UK) Toy & Model Museum
http://www.toymuseum.co.uk/
The Cumberland (UK) Toy & Model Museum
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Toys of the Millennium : WebQuest
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002485/
Toys of the Millennium : WebQuest
We hope that our web site (Kids Only Toys of the Millennium) will give your mind a chance to expand in toy History, and supply you with interesting facts. The basic categories in our web site will be bikes, indoor toys to satisfy you on rainy or depressing days.
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History of Toys and Games
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/toys/index.html
History of Toys and Games
Discover the origins of your favorite toys and games, from chess and checkers to Barbie and Atari. Find out how many crayons are produced each day, who invented Lincoln Logs (hint: he's the son of a world-famous architect), and which classic toy truck is the brainchild of a group of Minnesota school teachers.
Plus: Learn more about the industry's most successful inventors, including Milton Bradley and the Parker brothers.
Also, take our special quiz to test your toy smarts!
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Toy Museum
http://www.toymuseum.com/main.html
Toy Museum
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A treasure chest full of toys
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/stage1_Modules/MYWEB/Toys.htm
A treasure chest full of toys has been found.
Which toy would you choose to have?
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Toy Scavenger Hunt
http://arthur.k12.il.us/arthurgs/toytr.htm
Toy Scavenger Hunt
Have fun finding the answers to our Toy Trivia Hunts.
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National Toy Hall of Fame at Strong Museum
http://www.strongmuseum.org/NTHoF/NTHoF.html
National Toy Hall of Fame at Strong Museum : N.Y. USA
The National Toy Hall of Fame?was established in 1998 by A.C. Gilbert? Discovery Village, a children? museum in Salem, Oregon, to recognize toys that have achieved longevity and national significance in the world of play and imagination. The hall quickly outgrew its original home and in 2002, Strong Museum, which houses the world? largest and most comprehensive collection of toys and dolls (more than 70,000 items), acquired it and moved it to its permanent home in Rochester, New York.
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The ToyMaker
http://www.thetoymaker.com/
The ToyMaker
Welcome to my odd, little world of paper toys, holiday cards, valentines, sun boxs,
baskets and bags, origami and ephemera... all for you to make.
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Paper Models and Toys
http://spacestation42.com/toys.html
Paper Models and Toys
Airplanes - Flying | Airplanes - Models | Animals & Insects | Boats & Ships | Buildings & Structures | Cars, Vans & Trucks | Cartoon Characters | Computers & Electronics | Furniture | Geological Formations | Geometry & Puzzles | Holiday & Seasonal Themes | Miscellaneous | Motorcycles, Military, Unusual | Origami | Origamic Architecture | Our Original Paper Toys | Paper Dolls | Science Fiction | Spacecraft & Rockets | Trains |
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Looking at Toys
http://www.mape.org.uk/curriculum/history/toys.htm
Looking at Toys
Lots of photographs since 1900 ... good resource for a history project.
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What were our parents' and grandparents' toys like?
http://tinyurl.com/7k8w
What were our parents' and grandparents' toys like?
This lesson uses a database (Junior Pinpoint) to record the children's observations about old toys. It can be used by children in Year 1 or 2 (our school uses a two year topic cycle).
database | ICT | toy | toys | databases | history | family | parents | primary | http://tre.ngfl.gov.uk/ |
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Paper Toys
http://papertoys.com/
A custom-designed paper model of your product will make your customers smile!
We can supply you with a high-quality, fun-to-make, custom paper fold-up model - for use as give-aways, promotional items, architectural models, Christmas ornaments, gifts, or for resale. We will meet any design challenge!
Lots of great free downloads ....
paper | toy | toys | Alfa Romeo | American Flags | American School Bus | Angkor Wat | Apache Helicopter | Big Ben | Chanukah Menorah | Christmas Tree | Christmas Santa |
Eiffel Tower | Electric Vehicle | Empire State Building | Ferrari Testerossa | Formula One Race Car | London Taxi | King's Crown | Nativity Scene | Paper Doll | Party Hat | Party Bugle | Patriotic Emblems | Pop-Up Card: Bird | Santa | Shakespeare's Globe Theatre | Space Shuttle | Statue of Liberty | Stealth Aircraft | Sydney Opera House | Taj Mahal | Tank | White House |
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DisneyLand
http://www.disney.com/
Visit your favourite Disney characters
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Puppets Worldwide
http://www.sagecraft.com/puppetry/
Making puppets and using them in performances... from all over the world.
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Visit the Muppets
http://www.muppets.com/
You can find all the Muppets here .... but you might have to click your mouse a few times
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