When you look at this you know that Teddy Bears have a love of friendship and adventure.
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Making a love of friendship and adventure come closer.
When you look at this you know that Teddy Bears have a love of friendship and adventure.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Teddy Bear Hearts.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
For the Love of a Polar Bear.
I really hope you enjoy watching these bears at Imax pictures.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Hang on mum I have not got a firm grip yet.
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Is he not so cute. Getting carried around by his mother just so that he does not get his little paws cold and chilled from the snow.
Teddy Bears come in all sorts of types, shapes and sizes. These were photographed in the Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The little bear is hitching a ride on his mothers back while his mum forrages for food.
How a 'big toy' can give a child a voice.
Sometimes Teddy Bears and their friends had days that just do not work out right. This big old 'friend' was crying so much over the Orangatang in the film that his eye suffered. We had all told our friend here not to put the hands near the face. The eye needed resewing on before the big button was lost.
We all forgot that the feet had toes. Rather than put his foot in the mouth our friend found comfort with the toe. Ho hum.
Our friend here is tall in height and very round at the middle. Although us big humans were not afraid of our friend's size the little humans were not sure of him. In order for our friend to be approached by the little humans something needed to be done. There was at least one Teddy Bear afternoon tea that he was invited to. The little humans also came. Some could only bring a smile while others brought friends or some food to share by all.There were games played and songs sung. The theme of the Afternoon tea was "Our World". Some of the little humans wanted our big friend here to tell them a story about being sooo big. But the problem was our friend had no voice. So the little humans took turn in a charades game.
Over the next few weeks though some friendly human made this big friendly toy into a puppet. When the next time our large friend came to play with the little humans the older ones had been practising how to talk and tell stories "puppet style'.
Over the years since this happened many of the people still remember our friend. They remember the ecological stories that were told. Some of these humans have each done something about their environment. They to now have a voice.
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Rubbish. How to horrify a Teddy Bear!
And then there is always the risk of a fire happening. What will happen to the tire trucks and other vehicles when they have trouble getting through?
Luckily there are World Clean Up days where all sorts of rubbish is found and taken away. But why do naughty adults go and fins places to dump home stuff and then they leave this rubbish there.
So we Teddy's all got together and told 'the dog'. Most mornings the dog takes his friend on a walk into the Pines. Here it the dog showing his friend the piles of rubbish. Thankfully the dog checked too and found not a scent of any Teddy Bears. But the mess. Someone is missing out something.
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Friday, March 16, 2012
How to encourage learning about tent care!
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So 'not' how you flatten the air out of a tent. But someone want to tell me they were not learning and having fun. I think big white teddy had a great time. Loved, patted sand falling for the girls.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Cotton Wool Teddy Bear pictures
Needed
- Teddy templates on slightly hard cardboard like paper[heavy paper]
- Glue
- Cotton wool Balls
- Very small Pom Poms for nose.
- Paint colours and paint brush for the eyes and mouth.
Methods
- Glue cotton wool to the inside of the teddy template.
- Add a dollop of paint for eyes and mouth
- Hot glue the nose onto the face.
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Make an action scene box
Needed
Method
- Magazines for pictures
- Children’s scissors
- Picture’s of Teddy Bear outlines in folder [same reason as to method two.]
- Empty cardboard box
Method
- Randomly have cut magazine [or other paper work]
- Use glue to stick the pieces on the preprinted Teddy Bear picture
- Glue the picture to a box
- Keep going until all the box is covered with pictures of Teddy Bear Action scenes.
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MOASIC PICTURE TO MAKE
Needed
- Selection of pre-printed Teddy Bear pictures on A4 paper that has the 2011 A.P.I.S. theme and contact details.
- Placed in plastic sheets in folder
- Colouring in things – Textas, pens, crayons, pencils.
Methods
- Selection of Teddy bear pictures for colouring to be in folder.
- Selection of colouring things to be on the table.
- As required pictures handed out to be coloured in.
End result
- To be blue tacked onto the wall boards
- To be taken home.
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Make a teddy bear from pom poms
Needed
- Pom Poms of different sizes.
- Ribbons –thin
- Scissors.
- Glues
- PVA
- Glue stick and gun
- Tag cards
- Magnet pieces
- Hot Glue the pom poms of different sizes together so that the body and head/legs / arms and ears.
- Add the eyes on face. Pompom for nose.
- Add small ribbon around the neck.
- Stick the Teddy Sticker to the tag.
- Hot glue the bottom of the teddy bear to prepared tag.
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A General History Of the Teddy Bear
| There are many stories about how the teddy bear came to be...but, because I am an American, I prefer the American version. As the story goes in 1902, while arbitrating a border dispute between Louisiana and Mississippi, our 26th President Theodore Roosevelt, went on a bear hunting expodition. The hunt was unsuccessful. The hosts eager to please the President, captured a cub and brought it to him to shoot. Teddy Roosevelt sternly refused.This incident was reported to the Washington Post Newspaper. Working for this newspaper was a polictical cartoonist named Clifford Berryman. Berryman decided to depic the incident in a political cartoon, called "Drawing the Line in Mississippi". This cartoon, was eventually published in newspapers across the country. A Russian immigrant and enterpenuer, Morris Michton saw this cartoon. He and his wife Rose operated a novelty store in Brooklyn, New York. Michton asked Rose to make a bear to display in their store window to sell. Next to the bear he placed the Berryman's cartoon and a sign that read...TEDDY'S BEAR. It sold immediately. The couple continued to make more bears. Their bears soon caught the attention of a wholesaler from Butler Brothers. With the financial backing of Butler Brothers, the Michtons opened a company called The Ideal Novelty Toy Company. Roughly at the same time, the German manufacturer Steiff was introducing a toy resembling a bear at the 1903 Leipzig Toy Fair. It was here where a big New York Toy Imported, Hermann Borgford of George Borgford & Co. ordered 3,000 Steiff bears. It was in 1904 when Teddy Rossevelt changed his mascot from a moose to the bear for his re-election campaign. The teddy bear craze began, it was similiar to the Beanie Baby craze of the 90's. It was in 1906 Playthings magazine, when the words "TEDDY BEAR" was first published, "Imported Teddy Bears - Best Quality with Voice!" In 1907 Steiff declared it the year of the bear - Bärenjahre! By the mid 1910's there where many teddy bear companies and many types of novelty teddy bears. Teddy Bear memoribilia was being produced. There were Roller Bears, Tumbling Bears, Teddy Bear china, Electric Eye Bears. It was also very fashionable for children to have their picture taken with their teddy bear. Then the war came...to be continued.... |
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What a tune!
Gordi's interests are t cooking, cleaning, singing and having friends pop in.
Gordi enjoys it when there are not people being critical of his missed keys and hits that open into another unknown song. Pity Gordi is tone deaf.
As the people in the know say being tone deaf may have something to do with High Functions Autism disorder [Asbergers]. Having said that it explains a lot about Gordi's behaviour patterns as well as the problems with spelling, reading writing and just plain not hearing you as you speak!
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Just helping
Attachment disorder. Gordi thought he was only helping to clean out the draws.
Yes when everything else went in Gordi could not think where this would go. So Gordi is keeping it until it is better!
Ever hear this story?
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Yes when everything else went in Gordi could not think where this would go. So Gordi is keeping it until it is better!
Ever hear this story?
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Talking teddy bear to promote Scots Gaelic
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The Gaelic teddy will repeat words for colours, shapes and numbers
A teddy bear that repeats Gaelic words for colours, numbers and shapes is being made to help encourage greater use of the language.
The toy has been developed by Western Isles-based publisher Acair.
Aimed at children aged six months and over, the teddy is based on a bear that speaks Irish Gaelic.
Acair's Agnes Rennie said the new bear supported Gaelic organisation Bord na Gaidhlig's hopes of getting more youngsters to speak the language.
She told BBC Radio Scotland: "Bord na Gaidhlig has made it very clear over the last few months that they are really giving priority to working not just with pre-school children, but early stages.
"If you are able to engage with young children, and more importantly their parents, at that stage it can be hugely important in how they feel about the language and how they use the language from then on."
Respond to cuddles
The Gaelic teddy is not the Highlands and Islands first brush with interactive cuddly toys.
In 2007, there was a plan for a robot teddy that could interact with its owner and could alert medical staff to changes in a sick child's condition to be tested in the area.
Huggable, which was fitted with sensors, was being developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.
The project had support from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
It was to have technology installed that would allow the teddy to respond to cuddles and recognise its owner as they approached it.
The first designs were shown to nursery children in Avoch in the Black Isle in 2006.
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An annual Teddy Bear Picnic for research
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| The Teddy Bear's Picnic in Lister Park is an annual event for the families in Bradford. |
In the UK's Bradford Lister Park parents and would be parents attend the annual Teddy Bears Picnic. Why? The Parents and the children give a yearly sample of blood
towards the research behind finding out why illness blights so many lives within Bradgford. Bradford having some of the most deprivves communities within the UK.
Between 1996 and 2003, the number of children dying in Bradford before they reached their first birthday was almost double the average for England and Wales. This corresponds with levels of childhood illness which are higher than usual, along with much higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, asthma and eczema in the city's population as a whole.The research project, known as Born in Bradford, is looking at every aspect of a child's development to try to get an idea of how factors like environment, education, diet, ethnicity and genes interact together to affect our health. Parents give blood and saliva samples, babies are measured and weighed and their progress will be tracked across the years.
Now once a year everyone participating attends a Teddy Bears Picnic. What a great use of the Day.
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A little history from Britian teddy Bears
Childhood favourites, Winnie the Pooh and Paddington Bear are as British as tea on the lawn or a rainy bank holiday.
Although teddies were invented in Germany and the US in 1902, it was the British who took the teddy bear to their hearts and opened bear making factories all over the country.
By the end of the 20th Century, they could not compete with the cheap bears imported from China and most of them closed down.
Of all the 30 or so teddy factories that once existed in Britain, only one still remains. Nestled in the Shropshire countryside, Merrythought Ltd has been making bears since 1930.
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The Merrythought way of making a Teddy Bear.
The Merrythought company makes bears to order and keeps a huge stock of material ready to cater to every possible taste.
On the upper level of the foundry, below the glass ceiling, stand row upon row of rolls of brightly-coloured fabric.
Merrythought has been making teddy bears for decades
Merrythought has every imaginable shade of brown - coffees, caramels, golds and chocolates. Each piece of fabric has a different feel: there is very soft angora and shaggy mohair, velvets and synthetic pile.
Once the material has been chosen, it is taken down to Leslie Hunnisett, who cuts out the arms, legs and heads.
Leslie uses what look like a series of giant cookie-cutters to cut each shape: ''This is probably the 218th ear I've cut out today," she laughs.
The parts then go to the machinists, who sew them together so the teddies can start to take shape.
Once that is mastered, the limbs are sent over to Pauline Davies who puts the eyes on.
Health and safety rules mean teddy bear eyes are no longer made of glass, but Pauline has drawers and drawers of painted, plastic eyes of all sizes to choose from.
The teddies are then sent over to Sharon Taylor, who operates the huge, noisy stuffing machine.
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Sharon places the limbs over a pipe and operates a pedal to fill each saggy limb with stuffing.
The result is baskets full of dismembered teddies with stuffing protruding out of their limbs. Luckily, they do not stay that way for long. Abi Summers quickly puts joints in each of the limbs and sews them up.
The bears now begin to look more complete and they go to Penny Reeves, who sews on their noses and mouths. The snouts are made from a tougher fabric and getting the needle through - and in the right place - can be difficult.
No-one wants a grumpy-looking teddy bear, so making sure the stitch falls in the right place is vital. "You sew down the middle first, then do one on the outside, then the other side and you keep building it up," says Penny.
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Before the bears can be packaged up, they need to be groomed by Wendy Edwards. Penny trims away excess material from the eyes and brushes each teddy's fur ''so you can see the eyes and the smile".
With a flourish a ribbon is tied around the teddies neck and the Teddy is finished.
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British Bear now Olympic merchandise
The decline of British toy manufacturing does not seem to have harmed the UK toy industry as a whole as people still want toys. Plush toys including Teddies) grew at 39% in 2010 / 2011.
Behind this growth has been an advertising drive that heralds "Creativity, resilience and relevance" all playingtheir part in helping the toy industry to weather the past two years" .. " Now the toy industry
The classic teddy bear has been given an Olympic twist
The trend for fashionable soft toys has led many businesses to take advantage of the 2011 Royal Wedding and the 2012 Olympics.
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The classic teddy bear has been given an Olympic twist
needs to maintain its focus on producing toys with great play value at affordable prices," states Christine Nicolls [Chariman of the British Toy and Hobby Association]
Toys inspired by blockbuster films proved particularly popular in 2010, with characters from Toy Story 3 bringing in the most revenue.The trend for fashionable soft toys has led many businesses to take advantage of the 2011 Royal Wedding and the 2012 Olympics.
Official London 2012 merchandise will contribute approximately £80m to the staging of the games and will no doubt generate huge amounts of publicity for the companies involved.
Merrythought is one of the businesses supplying 2012 products and Mr Holmes hopes it will mean "we can make Merrythought products available to a slightly wider and more discerning audience'' and keep the company going for another 80 years.
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Is 55 PB the first teddy bear ?
On July 26th 2011 BBC News Frances Cronin asks "Is the 55pb the first Teddy bear?
- A replica of 55 PB teddy bear is on display at the Steiff museum
- But its status as first bear is hotly disputed
- The name Teddy Bear comes from former US President Theodore Roosevelt.
- On a bear-hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902 Roosevelt was offered a stunned, lassoed bear to shoot but he refused
- This was depicted in a cartoon in the Washington Post, which inspired Russian immigrant toy maker Morris Michtom
- He created a bear to put in his toy shop window in Brooklyn and called it Teddy's Bear
- Richard Steiff registered his design in July 1903. There is evidence of a sample being sent over to the US late 1902/early 1903 but it would have taken a while to design and make
- The US bear appeared towards the end of November 1902 so the timing is very tight, possibly even simultaneous
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