Toys

Everything you should know about toys

1. What are baby dolls?
   Baby dolls are very popular as toys for young children. Methods and material have changed, but the use of dolls as playthings dates back to the ancient civilizations. There has been everything from home-made and crude dolls to finely crafted branded toys.
     
2. What are China-Head Dolls?
   China-head dolls were popular as children’s toys in the nineteenth century when plastic and vinyl were not invented. The name china-head derived from the material used for making some parts of these toys, namely china.
     
3. What are Composition Dolls?
   Composition dolls happened as an intermediary stage between the plastic and vinyl dolls of the 20 th century and the porcelain and bisque dolls of the preceding centuries.
     
4. What are Hard Plastic Dolls?
   Hard plastic is a thing of the twentieth century. Before plastic was invented, dolls and children’s toys were made out of porcelain and bisque which were easy to break.
     
5. What are Russian Nesting Dolls?
   Russian nesting dolls, or Matryoshka as they are regionally called, are a variety of popular folk art from Russia. The word ‘Matryoshka’ has its origins in the Latin word mater which means mother.
      
6. What are Toddler Dolls?
   Toddler dolls are a variant of baby dolls that became popular in the 1950s. These dolls represented a toddler or a young child in their appearance. Toddler dolls had chubby faces, rounded tummy and childlike features.
     
7. What are Vinyl Dolls?
   Vinyl is a material that is still in use for the making of dolls. Vinyl dolls made their first appearance more or less in the same period as fashion dolls, in the late fifties and throughout the nineteen-sixties.