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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Talking teddy bear to promote Scots Gaelic

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The Gaelic teddy will repeat words for colours, shapes and numbers

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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

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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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

 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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Teddy Bear Picnic 2009 program

In the lead up to the 2009 Teddy Bear picnic the Unit had included the following:

• Making bear out of balloons
• Inviting ther CFA to the Hazelwood South Hall
• had made origami animals.
• Coloured in pictures of bears.
• Taking ID photo's of the Teddy Bears attending.
• making a fundraising "best Teddy Bear " vote.
• Planned the menu.
• Practiced BBQing.
• Made no bake biscuits to take along.
  
• Read, then made up their own Bear Stories.
• Learned Teddy Bear songs to sing while on the Rac Wac.
  
• Included the event as part of the Rac Wac 2009.
• Sewn Teddy Bear Puppets.
• made cloths peg Teddys for the fridge.
• Created invitations for the day - these went home pegged to the clothes peg Teddy.
  
• Tried to organise the transport.
• had worked on first aid (just in case)
  

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