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Category: Outdoor play

  • Cars

Revved Up and Ready to Roll: Manual-Powered Ride-On Toys

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on March 11, 2021

Ride-on toys, or kiddie cars, first appeared on the paved sidewalks and driveways of America…

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  • Games

My Week with Brian: A Conversation with the Collected Works of Brian Sutton-Smith

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on February 5, 2021February 10, 2021

Despite growing up in Rochester and routinely passing The Strong museum en route to the…

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  • Culture and Society

Pickleball, Rules, and the Spirit of the Game

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on January 28, 2021

Recently I was engaged in a heated match of pickleball. For those not familiar with…

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  • Culture and Society

Chalking Up a Win

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on November 19, 2020

Congratulations to sidewalk chalk for earning a place of honor among the three toys inducted…

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  • Culture and Society

Skater Girls: A Brief History on Female of Skateboarders

  • by The Strong
  • Posted on September 10, 2020September 10, 2020

In 1959, Roller Derby Skate Company released its Roller Derby Skateboard, the first mass-produced skateboard…

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  • Culture and Society

Playing with Sidewalk Chalk Brings Us Together While We’re Apart

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 24, 2020June 4, 2020

Museums, schools, gyms, and malls are closed. Basketball games, poetry readings, dance recitals, and playdates…

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  • Games

Hand-Clapping Games Are Universal

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on December 9, 2019

Not because you’re dirty, Not because you’re clean, Just ’cause you kissed, A boy behind…

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  • Breaktime @ GTN

BREAKTIME: Dodgeball

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on June 16, 2019

Depending upon how it's played, Dodgeball can be an enjoyable, humiliating, demeaning, terrorizing, mortifying and/or…

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  • Culture and Society

Sidewalk Surfing: The Gnarly History of Skateboarding Part II (1973 to 1991)

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 15, 2018

In my last blog post we learned that the first big wave of skateboarding took…

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  • Outdoor play

Jump Rope Chants

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on June 23, 2018

(Its summer and time to celebrate outdoor play. Enjoy this article that originally ran in…

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  • Outdoor play

The (Sometimes Dangerous) Backyard Games of Summer

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on June 23, 2018

I sometimes, in looking back, think our parents were trying to thin the population by…

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  • Games

Wiffle Ball Joins the National Toy Hall of Fame Line-up

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on November 28, 2017

On November 9, 2017, Wiffle Ball took its place of honor in the National Toy…

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  • Outdoor play

Street Games for Seniors; An Opportunity For The Toy Industry?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on November 20, 2017

Most of us enjoyed playground games (sometimes called Street Games) when we were kids. Hop Scotch…

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  • Books

The Myth of the Magical Summer: The Tropes, Transformations, and Transitions of American Childhood

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on August 4, 2017

“Summer just opens the door and lets you out." Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart The…

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  • Apps

Gotta Catch ‘Em All!

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on July 12, 2017

Since last summer, you may have noticed small groups of millennials walking briskly toward landmarks…

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