A history of play and toys
November 14, 2016
Toys are an important ingredient of play and are therefore invaluable for children’s physical, mental, social and emotional development. Although play differs from culture to culture and generation to generation, it is clearly an instinctive, essential part of growing up. Anthropologists have found evidence of toys dating as far back as there is a record of human life. This timeline links historical developments from 4000BC to today with contemporary toys.