Hand-crafted toys In Victorian times, children would not have the toys we have in the modern world. They had hand-crafted toys that were very simple. Can you guess what the Victorian toys in these pictures are? The answers are at the bottom of this page.  | | Do you know what this is? |
Some are toys we don't see anymore and some are still being played around the world today.  | | Can you guess what it is? |
No electricity The Victorians did not have electricity so they played with toys such as marbles, skipping ropes and various wooden toys.  | | What's this? |
Many Victorian games are still used to model brand-new games. For example, there are now hundreds of different games you can play with marbles, including collecting stylish and trendy coloured marbles.  | | Can you name this toy? |
Activity games Victorians also played activity games such as Hunt The Ring, Follow The Leader (still enjoyed by many children throughout the world), The Potato Race and Buzz.  | | What does this toy do? |
Moving images Victorians loved moving images, in fact they made the first ever cameras and moving video cameras. They invented toys like the thaumatrope and zoetrope, which work because of the phenomenon of persistance of vision. What was life like for Victorian children in Leeds? Answers: 1. pop gun; 2. ball and cup; 3. skipping rope; 4. spinner from spinning top; 5. acrobatic squeeze toy. | 
