Our Toys

OUR TOYS

For our Inquiry we designed a new toy and made it. We made games, juggling balls, soft toys, play houses and much more. It required lots of green hat thinking.

Te Manawa Visit

TE MANAWA VISIT

Today we went to Te Manawa to learn about toys and games of the past and present for our inquiry unit. We had a great time. We started at the Art Gallery where we drew art we saw. We then looked at the rest of Te Manawa before we went to learn about toys and games. We got to play with old things and new modern toys. It was a great day. Thanks to the parents who helped us and the teachers at Te Manawa.

Cup Game

Cup Game

Today we learnt how you can make, and have fun playing with something that doesn't cost any money. We first had to make our cups and balls. We then thought of different games we could play with it.

Old Toys

OLD TOYS

It has been really neat this week with many children bringing in their old toys from home. Some are from parents, grandparents and even older. Niamh's dad Chris bought in an old gramophone record player. We were also able to work out what toy cars were the oldest. The eldest one had metal wheels, the next was metal but plastic wheels (both of those were about 70 years old). Then it went to a metal truck with plastic windscreen and wheels and brighter colours (50 years old). Finally we had a car that was about 15 years old that was very colourful, totally plastic and had batteries in it so it made noise.