You are learning about old toys to help you to understand the difference between toys people played with in the past and the ones you enjoy playing with today. It is important to understand how the world has changed over the last 100 years and will continue to change. You will discover that we now use a lot more plastic than wood and metal to make our toys. Many of them now use batteries and electricity and we even have games you play on a computer.
As you handle the old toys you will learn to tell which are old and which are modern. You’ll discover that many old toys were made by hand whilst most modern toys are made using machines. Some of you will even be able to sort out which toys your parents played with, which your grandparents would have played with and even those that were older still from the Victorian times, now over 120 years ago.
