New Toys Designed to Teach Children
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There’s a shortage in toyland
this year, a scarcity of toys design
ed strictly for play.
But there is an abundance of in
structive toys—playthings that
teach how to tell time or make a
clock or split an atom, or launch a
rocket.
Many toys that wind up under
Christmas trees will reflect the
concern over the nation’s know
ledge of science. Both the Toy
Guidance Council and the Toy
Manufactors of the U.S.A., Inc., re
port a record variety of toy kits
gtlared to teach the use of labora
tory equipment.
Biology and physics kits are the
latest additions, while chemistry,
astronomy and aerodynamics kits
have been enlarged. A physics set
is desiginel to give the junior scien
tist basic training in fluid dyn
amics, solar heat, light bending
and optics. An electronic set per
mits him to build 15 different rad
io sets.
Space launching equipment is
available for age groups from tod
dlers to teens, une ..wie
complicated is a tv,v . t-xn.
rocket that is fueled with sodium
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Catering to children’s up-tothe
minute awareness of style, toy
land offers shoji screens for jun
ior cecorators, mosaic painting
kits, and kits for building the latest
in sports cars.
Television's influence on the
younger set is plainly evident.
There is a game for virtually ev
ery tv program of interest to
chiiuren. A replica of a tv set has
a setting and magnetized actors
which are manipulated from be
neath 'the set. ^
The Western influence is still
strong. A tricycle is designed as a
surry with the fringe On top. A
battery-operated authentic fron
tier train is available.
For young children there is a
kiddie car that can be taken apart
and put 'back together, a large
size clock building kit, and a hob
by horse on coasters. A new model
ing compound resembles wood-yell
low pine, redwood, anl walnut—
and hardens when left exposed to
the air.
The young homemaker can have
a 9-piece set of operating models
of kitchen appliances- A tea set ’
comes accompanied by a book an
etiquette.
In the strictly for fun category
are a miniature ‘penny arcade’
with a crane to grope for prizes, a
hand puppet—‘sippin sam’—that
pours himself a glass of milk
from a bottle and then drinks it,
and finger puppets.
LITTLE HOSTESS: Learning etiquette
BAT MASTERSON: Another TV game
TWO-STAGE ROCKET: Chemically fueled
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PHYSICS SET He studies prisms
TRAIN: Authentic design
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