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Designing a Toy for a 4-7 Year Old  

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Section 1 Toys are described as playthings for the use of children, normally a toy is to provide entertainment or to aid education. It is widely believed that toys influence the emotional, social, mental and the physical development of children. They play a great part to the early years of a person's life: to occupy and to teach. So it is important what toys children play with and the quality of them. For many centuries children have been interested in toys. Prehistoric toys must have existed because children and adults universally have used their imagination to create toys out of wood, straw, feathers and other materials. Objects have survived which have been made out of terracotta are expected to be around 3000 years old. These were made in the Mediterranean and the Near East, and were models of animals and some pull along toys on wheels. It has been proven that Egyptians, Romans...

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