Are children’s futures shaped by the toys they play with?

Baby Face

May 22, 2011

It occurred to me sometime in the last couple of weeks, as I have been running around town picking up bags of old toys till my car was overflowing, that there is some kind of connection between what I am doing now and a game I used to play when I was about 9 years [...]

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Building Our Future: Girls, Toys, and Media Conference

April 24, 2011

On Thursday April 14, 2011 three students from the Marlborough School participated in the Building Our Future: Girls, Toys & Media Conference held in Los Angeles. The conference was put together by Richard Gottlieb, CEO of USA Toy Experts, a toy industry consultancy and Publisher of Global Toy News, with Victoria Cushey, VP of Marketing [...]

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Girls, Toys, and Media: Video Pieces

April 13, 2011

On Thursday, April 14, 2011 some of the students from Marlborough School participated in the Girls, Toys, and Media conference held at Mattel Inc. in El Segundo, California. For the conference, the students and teachers worked together to make these video pieces documenting their projects. Amy: the Bionic Man Anjoun: Transformation Ariela: Mirror Haley: Inside [...]

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The Bionic Man

February 17, 2011

Posted by: Amy S- While creating a bionic man as a part of my AP concentration, I started dissecting used and broken toys. The sophisticated technology present in toys that people would throw away without a thought allowed for a combination of man and machine that looked real enough for several people to ask if [...]

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Dr. Barbie

February 10, 2011

Posted by: Madeline K Dr. Barbie–She knows best.

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Ezra’s Puzzle

February 10, 2011

Posted by: Madeline K Ezra is only two years old, but he got out this puzzle and completed it entirely on his own.

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Counterparts

February 10, 2011

Posted by ‘Ariela’ This is part one of a series involving juxtaposing and contrasting the bodies of dolls and of women.  It hopes to demonstrate the distortion in the body of a doll, the same body that girls are idealizing and attempting to achieve as they grow up.  In addition, it hopes to show that [...]

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Inside/Out Shadow Box Project

January 18, 2011

8th grade Art Concepts students at Marlborough use shadow boxes to explore transforming 2D ideas into a 3D space.  Here, students use the inside of their boxes to think about their inner self, or childhood experiences, and use the outside of their boxes to explore roles that they see themselves pursuing in the future.  Students [...]

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