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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How to encourage learning about tent care!

Fooling around?

Who use three?

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.

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Make an action scene box

Needed

• 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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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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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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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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learning knots again

Clamity Jane Teddy Bear has been learning how to make these different knots and hitches.

• The stopper knot,
• The double over hander
• Reef knot / flat knot or square knot.
• The half knot.
• Round turn and 2 half hitches

Then 'Calamity Jane' and others practiced their snake lashing and square lashing.  Not quite sure why the thing they made stood up but I think it had something to do with the added props.

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