Soap, Bubbles, and Kenner Products
In addition to providing generations of children with countless hours of open-ended play, 2014 Toy Hall of Fame inductee, Bubbles, played an important role in the formation of iconic toy company, Kenner Products.
Link Roundup: Toy Hall of Fame Edition
Break out your Rubik’s Cube and 7 other things we wanted to share this week.
Easy Bake, Easy Bake, Fast As You Can!
Easy-Bake birthday week continues with this #TBT post of a 1963 television commercial for the toy oven from Kenner Products.
The Magic 8-Ball contains a 20-sided die, which in geometry-speak is known as an icosahedron.
The most sophisticated people I know – inside they are all children.
– Jim Henson
Quiz: Which Easy-Bake Oven Are You?
Today is the Easy-Bake Oven’s 51st anniversary! With over 30 million ovens sold to date, and about 13 different models sold since 1963, there’s bound to be one that best represents you. Let’s find out!
Then & Now: Easy-Bake Oven
For over 50 years and 30 million ovens sold, the Easy-Bake Oven continues to provide generations of children with the delight of serving up miniature culinary concoctions.
Link Roundup: Ouija Board Edition
Learn what a “planchette” is used for and 7 other things we wanted to share this week.
When Play-Doh first hit store shelves in 1956, it was offered in three primary colors, red, blue, and yellow.
The 3-D Power of Play-Doh?
A recent story by Laura Bliss on the CityLab website pitches Play-Doh as a logical choice for inclusion in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) curriculum and blended learning approach that has become a working mandate in many schools in the United States.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
– Charles M. Schulz
Link Roundup: Big Mouth Billy Bass Edition
Break out your Ronco Pocket Fisherman and 7 other things we wanted to share this week.
CityLab: Another Great Design Toy Is Primed for Re-emergence
Is Play-Doh the next big thing in the educational toy market? In this article from The Atlantic’s CityLab, Editor-in-Chief Todd Coopee contributes insight about how and why Play-Doh’s value as an educational toy is not so farfetched.
Simon Says…
Milton Bradley launched Simon in 1978 at the infamous Studio 54 in New York City.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
– Plato
An estimated 170 million copies of Tetris have been sold since its debut in 1984.
Link Roundup: Return to Paradise Island Edition
Get ready to book a return flight on the invisible jet and 7 other things we wanted to share this week.
Rubik’s Cube from Ideal (1980)
Is it a toy, math puzzle or logic game? When it comes to the Rubik’s Cube, the answer is a definitive yes to all three questions.