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Victorian childhood. Victorian toyshops. What did Victorian children play with?. Wooden toys.
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During the 19th century, factory-made toys, including tin toys and clockwork toys, went on sale. Rich children had more toys to choose from: train sets, toy soldiers, rocking horses, dolls and doll's houses, tea-sets and toy shops with toy fruit, vegetables, meat, hats and medicines. Other popular toys were alphabet bricks, sailing boats, jigsaw puzzles and Noah's Arks. In many homes, children were not allowed toys on Sundays - except Noah's Ark, because that was in the bible. An alphabet/spelling game This alphabet/spelling game (1850) had letters that stacked inside the box. Toys in rich homes
A girl with a doll Noah's Ark, from the 1830s The ark and the animals are made from wood.
Jigsaw puzzle made in 1870 This puzzle, made in 1870, shows people riding bicycles - a new craze. Two girls for the tea party
Table Top Nine-Pins Train sets games
Yo-Yo The Yo-Yo became popular with English children of the 1800s. Hoops By Victorian times both wood and metal hoops were favorite playthings. The hoop can be trundled along, raced, used for skipping or twirling around the waist.
Toys in poor homes Most Victorian toys were made of wood, paper or metal. There were no plastic toys. Poor children usually played with home-made toys. A clothes peg might be turned into a doll, and a lump of wood become a toy boat. A piece of rope could be used for skipping, and rags stuffed with sawdust might become a ball or an animal to cuddle. As a treat, families sometimes bought cheap factory-made toys from a 'penny stall' in the market.
OUTDOORS GAMES • The Victorians were keen on outdoor games, such as football. The first FA Cup Final was played in 1872. Schools encouraged team games to 'build character'. The Victorians made up rules for many games we still play. An example is badminton, which developed from a old game called battledore and shuttlecock. If they did not have a proper football, poor children kicked around a blown-up pig's bladder, from the butcher's shop.
Battledore and shuttlecock This 1845 picture shows children playing 'battledore and shuttlecock'. Modern badminton developed from this game.
Indoors play Indoors, children played board games such as Snakes and Ladders (which became a popular toyshop game towards the end of the 19th century), Ludo and Draughts, and also card games. A popular card game was Happy Families, introduced in the middle of the Victorian period. There were also pencil and paper games, such as Noughts and Crosses, which we still play today. Children played table games, such as Tiddlywinks, a new craze in the 1890s, and Shove Halfpenny and Bagatelle. At parties, children played traditional 'ring' games like Oranges and Lemons and Kiss in the Ring. In quiet moments, they pasted pictures into Scrapbooks.
Toys-makers advertised their toys and games This is an advertisement for a boxed game of jacks, or fivestones.
QUEEN VICTORIA & CHILDREN • During Victoria’s reign, there was a remarkable change in the treatment of children; Victoria herself and Albert devoted much time to their large family; they had 9 children.
