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Toys Past and Present Worksheet 3B

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Playstation

Troll dolls

Pogs Super Soakers

Roller blades

Pokemon

Nintendo 64

Lego

Model trains

Meccano

Sindy dolls

Barrel of monkeys

Game of LifeHot Wheels

Nintendo

Game Boy

Rubik’s cube Cabbage Patch Kids

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

My Little Pony

Hula hoops

Matchbox cars

Play-Doh Mr Potato Head

Pedal cars

Frisbees

Pez

Star Wars toys

Paddington Bear

WeeblesDoctor Who toys

Connect 4

Hungry Hippos

Nerf balls

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Toys Past and Present Information Sheet

Toys in the 1950s

In the 1950s, lots more people started buying cars so toy cars became very popular, especially Matchbox toys. Lots of children (mostly boys) collected Matchbox cars, trucks, buses and lorries.

Children spent a lot of time playing outside in the 1950s. Girls played with skipping ropes and hula hoops that were new from America. Boys played in pedal cars or made their own toy cars to sit in made from boxes and old wheels.

There were lots of new toys that came to Britain in the 1950s, such as Play-Doh and Mr Potato Head. In the 50s, children were just given the parts of Mr Potato Head and they used real potatoes to stick the parts into to make a potato man.

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Toys in the 1960s

Boys in the 1960s loved to build things, such as model aeroplanes, cars or train tracks. Meccano was very popular too and a new invention called Lego was brought out in Britain. Both boys and girls loved to build things out of these bright plastic blocks.

Sindy dolls became a popular toy for girls in the 1960s. Girls loved to dress Sindy dolls in the clothes that were fashionable at the time.

Lots of popular board games came out in Britain in the 1960s, such as Game of Life, Operation and Twister. Another toy invention in the 1960s was the Etch-a-Sketch. By twisting knobs you could draw a picture on a board and children loved drawing pictures and patterns on it.

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The first ever Star Wars film came out in the 1970s and Britain was swept by Star Wars fever! There were lots of Star Wars toys in the shops, such as action figures, dolls and games.

Other toys that came out in the 1970s were Weebles. These were a collection of people who you could push and they wouldn’t fall over, they just wobbled. Games like Connect 4 and the Hot Wheel Cars were also invented, as well as fads such as Pet Rocks. Pet Rocks were simply rocks that were kept in a pet box!


Toys in the 1970s

By the 1970s, lots of families had televisions at home. This meant that lots of toys were brought out that were inspired by TV programmes, such as The Wombles, Doctor Who and Paddington Bear.

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Toys in the 1980s

By the 1980s, the biggest change in the toys that children played with was computer games. Nintendo brought out its first games console in the 1980s, as well as the hand-held Game Boy. There had been a few computer games in the 1970s but it was during the 1980s that they became very popular.

Other popular toys were Cabbage Patch Kids, My Little Ponies and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. All these toys came from TV programmes.

A craze that swept through the 1980s was the Rubik’s cube. This tricky puzzle was played with by both children and adults. You had to move the sections until all sides were each one colour.

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Toys in the 1990s

By the 1990s, computer games had become the most popular children’s toys. New games consoles and games were being brought out all the time, such as the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64, as well as the first Playstation which came out in 1994.

Roller blades became very popular and were much more fashionable than traditional roller skates. Another popular outdoor toy was the Super Soaker. These were the best water guns children had ever seen!

Some other popular toys included Pokemon toys, Pogs and the Teletubbies. Polly Pocket toys were very popular toys with girls and boys loved Power Rangers.

Pogs

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