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Activity 10: Then and Now
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The Longfellow children played with a lot of different toys and games from the mid 1800s. We still have some of them in our collection! They liked to play with dolls and puppets. Some of the dolls were even mechanical or clockwork. They could be wound up with a key, and then they’d move on their own. The Longfellows had a lot of puzzles. Some were flat, but they also had 3D puzzles too. They had card games, dice, and board games; some of which were quite complicated. Sometimes they would play with more supernatural toys like ouija boards. Of course, they also had games that they would play outside, like the Game of Graces. We have that one in the visitor center.
What types of games and toys do you play with? Are any of them the same as the Longfellow children? Do you have anything now that they didn’t have in the 1800s?
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Compare kids' toys and games of the past to your own.
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NPS/Sven Market
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