Toys

Key Stage 1
Links to QCA History Curriculum Unit 1
How are our toys different to those in the past?
Links to the Literacy Strategy Reception, Yr1 and Yr2
Word level work:word awareness and vocabulary to describe old and new.

An exploration of old and new toys. This session is a practical, hands-on session and children will play with a Victorian jumping monkey toy, handle a pretty Edwardian lady doll and have fun with a host of lovely toys from the museum's collections.

Children will :

• Have fun comparing old and new versions of the same toys and the materials used to make them
  
• Learn words to describe old and new toys
  
• Explore why girls and boys had different sorts of toys in the past
  
• Play with replica toys such as a falling ladder man and pecking hens and learn about hand-made toys

"I liked the monkey that climbed up the pole" - Pupil from Burley Gate Primary School

Booking
To Book this session please contact Heritage Services on (01432) 383595 herefordmuseums@herefordshire.gov.uk

Charges
See table of prices on page: General Details of Schools Sessions