Elizabethan buffs needed!?

Question: Elizabethan buffs needed!!?

Can anyone tell me what the toy making process was in the elizabethan era!? were there any rules during playtime for children, or could they just play whenever!? give me any info about playtime that you can!. thanks a ton!

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I think most toys at that time would have been made of wood!. girls had dolls and boys had toy soldiers!. Hoops were popular, which would also have been made of wood, and skittles would also have been woodenBalls might be made of wood or of leather!. Battledore and shuttlecock was a game that was popular with Elizabethan children, the bats would be wooden, and the shuttlecock was made from feathers stuck into a cork!. In 'Elizabethan england' Alison Plowden writes:

'Most of the toys in upper and middle-class nurseries were imported from France or Holland!. There were stiffly jointed wooden dolls with painted faces, toy ships and soldiers and drums, and children of both sexes rolled hoops and played ball!. In poor homes, of course, the children had to make do with such unsophisticated playthings as coud either be made at home or perhaps bought at a local fair or from a travelling packman!.'

Most children in poorer homes would be expected to make themselves useful as soon as they were old enough, but they would have had time to play when they had done their work!. Young children of both sexes could attend elementary schools where they would learn reading, writing and simple arithmetic!. boys of the middle class often went to grammar schools, where they spent very long hours, but they did have playtime, and holidays!. the children of the rich were often educated at home by private tutors, but again they would have had time to play as well!.

Most people in those days still lived in the country, so children would probably have played a lot of games that did not involve actual toys, climbing trees, skipping stones on the rivers and streams, playing hide-and-seek in the woods etc!. Games like hide-and-seek and blind man's bluff were popular with children and even with adults!.Www@QuestionHome@Com