I am doing a school project, what did children do in the 1880's!? Does anyone know because it would help a lot! Thanks!Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: well, take my advice!. I am a roleplayer in the 1880s!. I play a 13 year old, so your in luck!. really, the older the child is, the more they help in the house!. for the younger kids, they play alot of games like graces, hoop and stick, blind mans bluff, and fox and geese!. These games are a lot less familiar!. More know ones are pick up sticks,marbles,checkers,and drawing on slate!. they also made alot of cornhusk dolls!. for the higher class girls, they played a lot!. But the middle to lower class girls, they were laundresses!. They would help people in their village with their laundry and general housekeeping!. Children from 5 years to 20 years old went to school!. They were called schollars!. The teachers were called Masters!. The boys, however, did alot of work and less play!.They often would do "fatigue duty"(chores)!. These include chopping wood, tilling gardens, hauling water for laundry, and stuffing tics(straw pillows)!. For fun they sledded, trapped, skied, fished, and skated!. also, another fun game thay would do was snap apple!. You can search all these games on google!. Hope this helps!Www@QuestionHome@Com Young children played age old games like hide and seek, tag, hop scotch, foot racing, wrestling, and so on!. By about the age of 3 most farming children were set to work weeding and picking berries!. They did chores that children could easily perform, such as feeding the chickens, gathering eggs, milking cows, dumping the ashes accumulated in the fireplace or stove, and girls began to sew!. By about 5 or 6 boys were learning to hunt and fish, and when not in school they were helping their fathers in any way they could!. In the cities children went to labor in factories at about the age of 10!. They had the same 10-12 hour shifts as adults, and did dirty and dangerous work which killed and maimed a great many of them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It would really depend on their class, and where they lived!. if they were country children living on farms then they would be expected to help out as soon as they were old enough, but they might also go to school if there was one near enough!. for instance, in Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' books, the girls go to school when they settle near enough to a town to enable them to walk there!. if the children were in towns, they would go to elementary school, but if they were children from poor families they would probably leave school quite young and start work!. children from better-off families would stay in school longer!. Both boys and girls at that time could go to college, though far fwere went than do now!. By 1880, about 40,000 girls were in college (about a third of the total student population), so an intelligent girl from a reasonably prosperous family might well be looking forward to going to college one day!. When not at school or at work, children played a variety of games!. Ball games were very popular with boys just like they are now!. Ball games were not exactly considered ladylike for girls, though some girls did join in (again, see the Little House books)!. Girls enjoyed skipping and hopscotch!. Boys would play with toy soldiers, and girls with dolls!. In the country, boys would enjoy going hunting and fishing, and would build treehouses etc (see 'the Adventures of Tom Sawyer' by Mark Twain, set in an earlier era, but I don't suppose the 1880s were much different)!. girls were expected to be more restrained than boys and less adventurous, but some managed to get out and about more!. children of both sexes read a lot more than they do now, as books were the only easily available form of ready-made entertainment!. some popular children's books of the era include the 'Uncle Remus' stories of Joel Chandler harris(popular with both boys and girls) the books of Louisa M!. Alcott, the 'Katy' books by Susan Coolidge , the Elsie Dinsmore books by Martha Finley(more popular with girls), and the adventure stories of Horatio Alger, Jame sOtis, and Howard Pyle (probably more appealing to boys), of course tom Sawyer, and 'the Story of a Bad boy' by Thomas Bailey Aldrich!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Most children in rural communities spent long hard hours working on the family farm!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Which children!? Where!?Www@QuestionHome@Com they usually worked in farms/factorys for past times they probably played some old school games like tag and all thatWww@QuestionHome@Com Work the farm!.Www@QuestionHome@Com hunt and fishWww@QuestionHome@Com |