games did children have in the Victorian times?

Question: What toys/games did children have in the Victorian times!?

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For both adults and youngsters, Skittles and Charades, a Victorian game which is still played today!.

Blindman's Bluff !.

"I'm Thinking of Something" similar to the game of "Twenty Questions"!.

For the Victorians, games like Checkers, Chess, Backgammon, and Cribbage were also popular!.

Ice Skating was an approved winter-time sport!. In 1876, however, the first artificially refrigerated ice rink was crafted in Chelsea, London!.

Horseback riding was often learned at an early age!.

Marbles were enjoyed by both boys and girls!. Wealthier players had marbles which were made out of real marble, while others had marbles made of glass or clay!.

Tops and Jacks were Victorian games and toys that could be played!.

The first rules for Badminton were written in India in 1873, and this game hasn't much changed!. Formerly known as "Hit and Scream"!.

Upper class and middle class!.!.!.

Girls honed their home-making skills while boys would learn either estate management or financial procedures!.

Dances and other group gatherings would happen on a regular basis!. Trips to the seaside or to The Continent!.

Victorian toys for these children were expensive!. Rocking horses with real hair and doll's houses!. Wax dolls and tea sets would often be set up in a corner of the bedroom!.

Boys would have train sets, toy soldiers, marbles, checker boards and chess sets!.

Working class children!.!.!.

Although perhaps not played with often, Boys would use yo-yo's, tin soldiers, and toy drums!. Marbles were popular!.

Girls would make their own dolls from bits of rags and buttons as well as hopscotch!.

If toys couldn't be found, rolling a hoop down the street would use any energy which was left over from a day of work!. Games of hide-and-seek and Blindman's Bluff would be enjoyed by groups of children

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Poor families made their own toys, such as cloth-peg dolls and paper windmills!. Children would save their pocket money to buy marbles, a spinning top, skipping ropes, kites or cheap wooden toys!.

Rich Children :-
Girls played with dolls and tea sets whilst boys played with toy soldiers and marbles!.

During Victorian times, people became fascinated by toys that made pictures move!. One of the earliest and simplest of these was the thaumatrope!. This is a disc with a picture on either side that is attached to two pieces of string or a stick!. When you spin the disc quickly, the two pictures appear to combine into one!.

Rich children had rocking horses with real horse hair manes, and dolls houses full of beautifully-carved miniature furniture!. Other popular toys for rich children included china or wax dolls for the girls and clockwork train sets for the boys

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Toys haven't really aged much in truth!. Unless you're counting the rich kids who could have little train sets or porcelain dolls, most kids just play with anything they could put together!. A little girl could have a rag doll, or be like the other kids and just play with whatever's on the street!.
There are certainly some games in which we'd never let our kids play today!. Search in google for the 'Court of King Cholera' for a contemporary view of urban childhood!.
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corn dollies were popular!. Cotton doll bodies with corn shucks for stuffing!.
Wooden toys were used a lot!. Tops, building blocks!. Horses with wheels!.
Hoops rings from Barrels were used when available!. THey were rolled and spun!.
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