The Medium and Large Rocking Horses are both made from solid mahogany and are expertly hand carved, hand-assembled and hand polished. Extreme attention and detail goes into the creation of each masterpiece. The saddles and bridles are made of leather. They have brass hardware, including the stirrups. They are both timeless pieces and a classic for any decor. The large rocking horse is a swinging rocking horse and has a classic safety stand.
Small: Our petite rocking horse has all the same features as our larger masterpiece. Hand carved and just the right size for mantel, desk, or pedestal. Size is 75cm x We do have one of these in out store. Can ship by U. Mail or UPS. Medium: Commanding presence with a size that fits pretty much everywhere. Iconic children's playroom classic, hand carved in rich polished mahogany, saddler's accoutrements, classic elegantly curved rockers.
Size is cm x This item must be shipped by Truck, so shipping MAY vary from what the shopping cart shows. Large: In the classic British manner, hand sculpted in laminated and hand polished mahogany. Synonymous with quality and detail. Truly a work of art. This reproduction is in high demand. Each piece made to order and truly unique. Swing horse on classic safety stand. The safety rockers are chrome plated.
Size is cm x 46cm x cm, Rolling Hoop Item Last Updated: Tuesday, Aug EDT Sept Godey's Children have been "rolling", "bowling" and "trundling" their hoops from the time of the ancient Egyptians through the hula hoop craze of the late 's. Artwork on ancient Greek vases illustrates hoops used in play as well as exercise. The early North American colonists brought this pastime with them from Europe, the hoops being made from whatever material was at hand. 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. A dowel is included as a rolling stick, as well as a history card. This is an oversized item and requires an extra shipping charge. Here is a table of prices, depending on how many you order. Here is a selection of items that would be need by school children. School House Chalk Board Set: Our Schoolhouse Chalkboard Set includes a 5-inch by 7-inch wood frame chalkboard, two sticks of chalk, and a booklet featuring eleven 19th-century popular schoolroom and childhood games.
Our Chalkboard Set is great for car rides, party games or teaching children what it was like when students in one-room schools had to do their learning on slate chalkboards. Early American School Set: Our Early American School Set includes a 6-inch wood ruler and four round, natural 7-inch cedar pencils without erasers like those imported from England to the colonies during the 18th century.
Cedar Pencils: Our Colonial Cedar Pencils are a set of five round, natural 7-inch cedar pencils without erasers similar to those used in England and imported to the American colonies during the 18th century.
Pencils of this nature would have had to be sharpened by whittling or cutting one end with a knife. No pencil sharpeners for those colonists! Pencils are neatly wrapped in a parchment history sheet. The Hornbook in America: ABC Hornbook in America is a cute book that contains the definition of a hornbook, a description of Colonial American schools, an explanation of what horn is, and how a hornbook was made.
Also included is information about other learning tablets, the decline of the hornbook, and how the hornbook was used as a toy. Available at the back of the book is a hornbook to cut out. This publication is filled with nostalgic line drawings and more. Manners and Morals: Our Children's Manners and Morals book includes moral maxims, how to behave, general rules and laws of etiquette, conversational etiquette, table manners, classroom rules, excerpts from books on morals and manners, the art of writing, proper pastimes, and other interesting information about expected behavior of children in the and s.
This best-selling book includes many nostalgic illustrations. Tops Item Last Updated: Tuesday, Aug EDT The whip top may be the most ancient member of the toy top family, thought to have originated in the Far East and making an appearance in manuscripts as early as the 14th century AD.
At least 5 types of tops were known in England by the 16th century, including peg tops, whip tops and hand-spun tops. Toy tops brought to the new world colonies by European settlers would not have been the first tops on the North American continent, however. Tops of all kinds were very popular with North American Indian tribes, who often played their top games on the ice. Peg Top CF : Our peg top is the familiar "turnip shape" top set in motion by a wound string.
In the interests of safety we have adapted the traditional "peg" from a long, sharp point to a rounded spinning top. Our solid wood top is decorated with burned lines, packaged with history and instructions in a poly bag. I had and still do had one of this shape but in red when I was a boy. Whip Top: Whip tops are most often used in racing or endurance games. The top itself is tossed or twisted to start it spinning, whereupon it is lashed from the side with the whip to maintain the spin or drive it forward.
The shape and size of out solid wood top is based on an 18th century engraving. The top is packaged in a poly bag with a whip consisting of a wood dowel with a rawhide lash attached. A history and instruction sheet is included. Finger Top: Reproduction of the 19th Century s wooden spinning top. It is spun by holding between your thumb and fore finger and then snapping your fingers. Instructions for two top games are included on a card that comes with each Finger Top.
Historical Background of Finger Tops: This top is an authentic reproduction of an early 19th-century spinning, wooden top. Some are used with string; others just have a long round stem like our Finger Top, for spinning between the thumb and first finger. This cute little top fits in your pocket and travels a long way to quiet a curious youngster on just about any flat surface.
Play with two tops and see which top spins the longest. Similar toys have also been found in Native American cliff ruins, indicating the toy's antiquity in North America. A folk toy that could have been easily made with materials at hand, one can imagine this toy amusing children from colonial times right through the westward migrations, and continuing to fascinate children today. Pewter Whirligig Whirling toys made of hammered lead musket balls or coins too old or thin to be of value have been excavated from early American towns, plantations, and military campsites.
Our whirligig, packaged in a poly bag with a history and instruction insert, is fashioned from our lead-free pewter reproduction of a Spanish milled dollar, a silver coin widely used in North America during the 16th through early 19th centuries. The scalloped edge of our buzzer identifies it more particularly as a "buzz saw" toy. In past times the edge was often sharply cut into a sawtooth pattern, but a buzz saw with any shaped edge will produce an impressive loud, whizzing noise when it reaches full speed.
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Building Blocks Wooden. Cup and Ball. Drop Spindles. Game of Graces. Jacks Game of. Jacob's Ladder. Nine Men Morris. NinePins Table Top. Pick-Up Sticks. Quoits Ring Toss Game. Rocking Horses. Rolling Hoop.
Toy Guns Wooden. Chess Set Checkers Draughts. Marble Board Games. Card Decks. Canvas Ball. Battledore and Shuttlecock. Balls and Ball Games Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. These items are Made in USA. Cup and Ball Small. Cup and Ball Small Colorful. Cup and Ball Large. Historical Background: Toss toys date back to ancient Greece. It is similar to, but much easier than the Bilboquet, which has the ball landing on a pointed stick instead of inside a cup.
See if you can catch the ball with the cup. Play with others and see who can score the majority of points by catching the ball the most.
Do not let this toy fool you; it takes good hand dexterity to score. Wagon of Building Blocks. Made in the USA. Building Block Set 28 Piece. Building Block Set 48 Block Set. Building Block Set 62 Block Set. Ages 2 years and up. Building Block Sets Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. Slate Board assorted sizes. Abacus Slate Board. School House Chalk Board Set. Chalk White. Sarah discontinued.
Betsey discontinued. Eve discontinued. Penny Doll. Penny Doll Kit. Corn Husk Doll Kit Traditional. Handkerchief Doll Kit. Miss Poppet Doll Kit. Pocket Folk Doll Kit. Spoon Doll Kit. Early American Dolls Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. Domino Games Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. The Eskimo name for dominoes means "standing upright side by side. Drop Spindle - Wool.
Drop Spindle - Cotton. Silver Rope Tension Toy Drum. Blue Rope Tension Toy Drum. Wood Rope Tension Youth Drum. Complete Music for Fife and Drum. Game of Graces Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. Historical Background: The historical game of Graces is meant to be played outdoors by two people.
It was brought to America by the French where it was known as La Grace. Also known as The Flying Circle and French Hoops, it was most popular during the Victorian period, particularly with young ladies, and used for exercise and to teach gracefulness. Young men never played this game together but were willing to play with a lady. Times have changed and we now encourage everyone to play this game, young and old, boys and girls, men and women.
This item is Made in USA. Hopscotch Games Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. Hopscotch Games Sidewalk chalk, 5 pucks and directions. Historical Background: According to most sources, hopscotch was developed centuries ago in Great Britain during the Roman occupation.
Because the original hopscotch courts were used for military training, they were over feet long! Roman soldiers used this road frequently, so a military exercise was developed to condition them for it. Roman soldiers tested their strength on these hopscotch courts by carrying heavy loads or wearing full armor. Today, football players go through similar conditioning drills by running through rows of truck tires in full gear. Game of Jacks and Game of Knucklebones Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted.
This game was also known as Jackstones, Five Stones, Knucklebones, and other names. Knucklebones eventually led to the game of dice which was mostly played by boys and to the game of jacks which was mostly played by girls. Jacks is a game of skill, as are earlier games that involve throwing the jacks into the air and catching them, or bouncing a ball and picking up a certain number of jacks from a surface. Children all over the world have played some form of jacks for centuries.
Jacob's Ladder Toy Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. Historical Background: The Jacob's Ladder toy dates back to Pilgrim times in the New World and was allowed as a Sunday toy for Puritan children because of its biblical reference Genesis Jacob was on a journey and had a dream about angels moving up and down a ladder between heaven and earth. The Jacob's Ladder toy is still enjoyed today by both children and adults as a "nice quiet toy".
Glass Marbles. Clay Marbles. Marbles Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. Historical Background: The history of marbles dates back to at least 3, years ago in ancient Egypt and Rome.
The Roman poet Ovid wrote of the game of marbles. The oldest marbles found so far were buried with an Egyptian child at Nagada. Marbles from Crete that date back to B. Marbles have also been found in ancient Native American earthen mounds in North America.
During the reign of Elizabeth I, tradition has it that a game of marbles was played to win the hand of a maiden. Nine Men Morris Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. Tabletop CF Ninepins Game. Tabletop Ninepins Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted.
Historical Background: Bowling games are among the oldest games in the world. Archeologists have found stone bowling pins and balls buried with the mummified remains of a child in Egypt who died around B. Cavemen probably bowled at targets to increase their skills at hunting. Ula Maika, an ancient Polynesian game, was played with stone pins and balls. An ancient Roman version of this game became known as "boccie," which is an Italian form of what the British refer to as "lawn bowls.
Wooden Pick-Up Sticks with bag. Bamboo Pick-Up Sticks in wood box. Pick-Up Sticks Jackstraws Check, by clicking, the box for each item and size wanted. One popular outdoor. Other fun games. In the historical days of early American life, these. They learned how to do things with their hands, how to aim. Made in USA. A Homestead site. Site designed and hosted by Homestead Folk Toys.
Product images and designs Homestead Folk Toys and their respective owners. All rights reserved. One player flings the ribboned hoop with two throwing rods and the other player catches the hoop with one or both rods. Includes four inch wands and two ribbon-tied hardwood hoops, complete instructions and history. Features nostalgic illustrations. Includes four 16"throwing rods and two smaller ribbon-tied hoops, complete instructions and history. The 'Graces' game was intended to teach graceful movements to young ladies and , later, young gentlemen.
Features hornbook lesson sheet on the wooden paddles. Are there any advantages or disadvantages to the stick you chose? Integrate :What are some other ways you can have fun with just sticks? Email me at WhyvnaQ jlc. Your email address will not be published. Where to play? The Game Here are two different throwing techniques to try: Single Player: Toss the hoop up into the air and try to catch it back on your stick before it hits the ground. How many times can you do this without dropping the hoop?
Place different objects out in front of you like a rock or a stick stuck in the ground or aim for a branch in a bush or tree that you can reach. Now try to lob the hoop onto the object. How far away from the object can you get while still getting the hoop around it? Multiple Players: Toss the hoop back and forth between players. How many successful passes can you make without dropping the ring?
Now try to lob the ring onto the object. Assign different points for objects that are harder or easier to get the hoop around. Keep score or just play for fun. Challenge: Try tossing with your opposite throwing hand.
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