List of 18th Century Toys & Games

By Ruth Hodges, Lincoln Minute Men, 2018

Documented To The 18th Century

Toys	Games/ Sports
Marbles	Sack Races
Doll	Grinning Martch (see seperate file)
Whizzer/buzz-saw	blind man's bluff
ball-and-cup	house of cards
rocking horse	blowin gbubbles (through a pipe or reed straw)
hobby horse	tea party
cards	leap-frog
kite	see-saw
trundling hoop & stick	hide & seek ("hoop & hide")
toy drum	playing catch
toy recorder/flute	hop-scotch (played by first throwing a tile into one of 10 squares)
toy gun, bow & arrow, sword	Base-ball/ trap ball (hit ball, run post to post to home)*
child's wagon*	battledore & shuttl cock [now badmiton]
spinning top	dancing round the May-Pole
nine-pins (now bowling)	fishing
windmill/whirligig on a stick	swimming
pull-toy (especially horses)	ice skating
dice, knuckle bones (evolved later into "jacks"	horseback riding
rattles, coral-and-bells
toy soldiers
doll houses
alphabet blocks
tea sets

* see A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery, 1744, for more information and more games
** most children had few toys, so they played games --- and most toys were gendered

No Documentation (yet) to the 18th Century:

Jump Rope
Graces
Jacob's Ladder? (Winterthur: 1770-1820)