Toys- Kids Favourites

On my Friday nights, with volunteering at a youth club, the kids are aged from year 1 to year 6. From looking into the idea of toys and childhood, I felt it would be most appropriate to ask the kids to write down there favourite toy, why and then their own interpretive drawing of the toy. When you are this young you have no recollection of real sufferings in life and every little thing is the best thing in the world. With asking them to write and draw their favourite toy, shows their innocent child-like life through their funny looking handwriting, spelling and simple reasoning.

I got an estimate of 17 favourite toys, each different, each with a different reason, name, and toy. Below are a couple of examples scanned in:

Here on the right this child's favourite toy is her teddy called Rosie. On the left their they love their favourite because it is interesting; 'intiristing'.

On the right their favourite toy is called Bibble because it is where their tooth is.

Even from those few examples you can see their child like innocence with their favourite toy mainly focusing around a Teddy and the reasons like because it's where I put my tooth. 

Each drawings were individual and unique, this project has helped give inspiration for further experiments; child like ideas compared to the older mind, or even the concept of holding on to something in their age, links to the idea of will that same toy be their favourite in 10 years time.