Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Electronic-Toys.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 1/15/2004 Electronic Toys Transcript Two and a half years ago, when our son J.J. was about 5 months old a well-meaning friend brought us an electronic “Kick and Play” as a gift. We loaded in the batteries, and placed our sweet son underneath the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Boating-on-Fifth-Avenue.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/18/2003 Boating on Fifth Avenue Transcript If you’re on downtown Fifth Avenue in New York City some time, with or without children, you could slip into another world in the Forbes Museum, on the ground floor of the magazine’s corporate headquarters. It’s free and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Toy-That-Wont-Lego.mp3 Author Laurie Taylor Air Date 6/5/2003 The Toy that Won’t LEGO Transcript Some toys never seem to go away. Remember those old Lego blocks with the LEGO people’s smiling yellow faces? Well, for a number of students at MIT a few years ago, those Legos were part of a […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-History-of-the-Whistle.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 11/6/2002 A History of the Whistle Transcript Should it be any wonder that children love whistles? Whistles are happy – they fit neatly in little hands and little pockets and they endow their bearer with a disproportionate ability to be heard-loud and clear. The […]
With the holidays approaching, Kevin Shortsleeve has been looking at toys and some of the unlikely origins of our favorite playthings.
Koren Stembridge has been in the toy stores recently and has this report about the difficulties of finding just the right plaything for her very young child.
It’s Roller Skating Month, and Shelley Fraser Mickle has her key ready to tighten her skates.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Raggedy-Ann.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/18/2001 Raggedy Ann and Andy Turn 85 Transcript It’s the 85th birthday this year of one of the most durable dolls in toy history, Raggedy Ann, and in Arcola Illinois, the birthplace of the dolls creator, John Barton — or Johnny — Gruelle, the […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lines-of-Communication.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 1/20/2000 Lines of Communication Transcript The day my brother and I decided to make homemade walkie talkies, I was nine and it was 1953. Ordinarily we didn’t have much to say to each other, and what we did say wasn’t always nice. But […]
Here’s Koren Stembridge with some advice about shopping for holiday gifts online.