What to do on a cold or rainy day? Chemistry sets like this one from the 1940s provided countless experiments for kids to learn about atoms and molecules as well as the natural world. Toy laboratories like this one, as well as other educational...
In the early eighteenth century, "circus" meant a one person or one animal performance that usually moved from town to town entertaining travelers and local people. Circuses, like many other kinds of popular entertainment, were...
Stencils like these allow kids to make beautiful pictures without having perfect sketching skills. Marketed as educational tools for learning about animals, these stencils allowed kids to learn about the world around them.