Toy materials and making a traditional toy

Children look at how the materials used for making toys have changed over the last 50 years. They then design/create their own simple wooden toy.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand how the materials from which toys are made have changed over time .
To recognise and identify a range of everyday materials, describing their properties.
To design and build a wooden spoon puppet.

Children will:

• Understand that the materials used for making toys have diversified over time.
• Explore and make decisions about the fitness for purpose of various materials used to make toys.
• Design and make a traditional toy out of a wooden spoon.

• Range of material samples
• Sorting labels
• Wooden spoon puppet guide

• Wooden spoons
• Range of fabrics and decorative materials
• Range of toys from different decades including old wooden toys and modern plastic toys (also some with batteries)

Toys through time from mylearning.org
Dolls and toys from vam.ac.uk
Toy images, old and new from museumofplay.org