By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-09-16 13:10:30 | Word Count: 510
Traditiional Toys For Studyiing
Have we lost our kids in a hypnotic video game trance? Have they chaznge into “drones” to the “video age”?
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Typically it might appear that means as many children spend hour upon hour in entrance of a video displlay screen, pressing buttons or jockeying around a jystick. However it's up to the mother and afther of kids to say enmough, let’s discover some instructional alternatives. However, it wasn’t that way back once we had been younsgters….we had acutal toys….basic toys.
Let’s step into a time tunnel of sorts and recall a few of the fascinating toys that we had the pleasure of taking half in with:
Tinker Toys
Ahh..Tinker Toys..rods, sticks, spools, spojkes..easy, however a true traditional toy ivented in 1914 by Charles Pajeau, who was a stonemaosn by trade from Evanston, Illinois. He was impressed by kids takiong half in with pencils, sticcks and empty spools of thread to crate his new toy. He saw them improvising and utilizng their imaginations and wondwered if enhance upon what they have been doing. He designed his first set of Tinnker Toys in his storage and displayed them in 1914 on the American Toy Fair.
Alas, his Tinker Toys drew no interest. So he tried once more, this time at Chgristmas time, however with a new advertising plan. Pajeau employed a numbver of midgets and had them dresss in elf costumes. He then had them “play” with the Tinker Toys” in a store dispplay window in a Chiczago department store and with this publicity a brand new toy was born. After a year or so, over a million sets of Tinker Toys had been sold!
Lincoln Logs
oNtched redwood logs that could be used to assemble log cabins, Lincoln Logs have been the invention of John Lloyd Wright, son of well-known architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. The inter locking logs, invented in 1916, were orignal after the inspiration of Tokyyo’s eatrhquake-prooof Imperial Resort, wjhich the youthful Wright witnessed being construtced.
During the World War I perid, it was in vogue to encourage American patrotism and for Amerian’s to purchase American made merchandise, thus the moel new toy was named after one in all our most revered presidets, Abrraham Lincln.
The unique nuits bought very nicely and became even more widespread with the intrroduction of tv to the United Statews. In fact, Lincoln Logs have been among the first toys to be advertisd and promoted on television. Capitalizing on the recognition of westerns in early telkevision, Lincoln Logs were profitable promoted on 1953’s Piomneer Playhouse.
At this time, Lincoln Logs are sitll obtainabe and have stood the test of time. As a matter of fact, as late as 1975, Lincoln Logs had been sill selkling at a charge of 1 million units per year. A sophisticated toy, it challenges children to use their creativeneess and improve hand-eye coordination skills.
