Toys+of+the+1850's

Toys of the 1850's would have been made by hand. Toys and games would have included dolls, wooden toys, cup-and-ball toys, clay marbles, rolling hoops, Jackstraws (Pick-up sticks), bow and arrows, ring toss, see-saw, yo-yos, Blind Man's Bluff, hopscotch, Jacob's Ladder, tops, draughts (checkers), whistles, hobbyhorses, rocking horses, and rattles.

Read about toys of the times: 1 - http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic30-1-2/games.html 2 - http://www.ket.org/kentuckystory/program9.htm 3 - http://us.geocities.com/chasl45.geo/19th.htm 4 - "Ask Jack" about whether or not kids had fun back in the 1800's: http://www.osv.org/kids_zone/askjack.html?ID=2162

Try your hand at a game of the 1800's, against a peer or against the computer! //Game of Morris (AKA Nine Men's Morris)//: http://www.osv.org/kids_zone/morris/ //Fox and Geese//: http://www.osv.org/kids_zone/foxgeese/

Check out these photographs: 1 - http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1850/objects/1toys.htm 2 - http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic30-1-2/games.html

See a video: http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/video/how-to-make-an-1850-s-yoyo-doll-out-of-scrap-cloth-222361/