Got to hand it to this dog! After making his younger sibling cry because he can't share, he tries to make up for it by delivering just about everything but the kitchen sink!
If you are a parent and you feel like you're drowning in your kids' toys, don't feel alone. It's easy to become overwhelmed with all the stuff that kids get. Seriously, just have one birthday party for a kid and see if you don't need a whole new room for all their stuff.
We honored Abraham Lincoln on his birthday yesterday, and today we focus on a toy that some history books say was named after Abe Lincoln because he was born in a log cabin.
Lincoln Logs were invented in 1916 by the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
The other day, my friends and I got together, and we started talking about some of the incredible toys that we had as kids. We brought up everything from M.U.S.C.L.E.S. Wrestler figures to pogo balls, and everything in between. Somebody said, “Wouldn’t it be cool if you could have one of those toys mailed to your house?”
Sad to hear that the inventor of the Etch a Sketch passed away. Frenchman Andre Cassagnes came up with the idea in his garage in the early 1950’s. Originally known as the The Magic Screen – it was displayed at a toy fair in Nuremberg, Germany in 1959 and it was the president of the Ohio Art Company who paid $25,000 for the rights to what eventually became the Etch a Sketch.
It’s no secret. The National Museum of Play is one of my favorite places in Rochester to visit with my family. Now there’s a new reason to visit. They’ve inducted new toys into the National Toy Hall of Fame.
There are people who have held on to some of the toys they had as kids. I'm one of them. Some of those toys could be worth a lot of money these days. But would you part with those toys if someone offered you enough money?
I don't know if anyone caught VH1's show called "I Love Toys", but I did. Who doesn't love toys? Some of us still have a love for them. I bet many of fathers totally enjoy when little Johnny gets a new G.I Joe or Transformer...and daddy gets to play with it too.
The VH1 show dealt with the 10 best toys of all time and you wouldn't believe what came in at #1...Let's start at #10. Comi
It was one of the biggest crazes of the late 50’s and early 60’s. During the era of capri pants, the Twist and
Duncan yo-yo’s - one item came along that not only had everyone in the country doing it, but was the subject of hours of entertainment and exercise.
The Hula Hoop. On...
Christmas is a lot different when you’re a kid. I can remember not being able to sleep on Christmas Eve in anticipation of what I’d find in the morning. Every house has their own traditions, but in our house I was always the first one up and all the gifts were under the tree.