Toy Invention Fair
Participate in a Toy Invention Fair - Invent Your Own Toy This Holiday
Calling all 4th-12th grade students! The Doll and Toy Museum of NYC is hosting a Toy Invention Fair. Inventing a toy involves strategic thinking, creativity & can be an exciting project for students or an entire class. First prize is $100 cash plus a special surprise, 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive board games & other prizes.
Entering the contest is Free! All entries must be postmarked by December 15, 2005. Entry must include at the top of an 8 ” x 11” piece of paper: your name, address, grade, teacher’s name, school address & telephone number. Next, include the name of your toy and its dimensions (height and width), a 250 word description of the toy, how it might work if it were made into a real toy and what age child would play with it. On another piece of paper, attach a drawing, sketch or photograph. One entry per person or class!
Finalists will be formally contacted by mid-January. At the time of notification, the student inventors will be given 3 weeks to prepare a visual table top display of their idea along with a sample of their toy invention for display at the Fair. Toy inventions can be made using clay, paper, cardboard, or any other safe materials.
The Fair will take place in conjunction with the Doll and Toy Museum’s Doll, Teddy Bear and Toy Show and Sale and held on Feb. 11, 2006, Saturday, in the social hall of the Ethical Cultural Society, 2 West 64th Street, NYC. The show and fair will be open to the public, from 10am-4pm. Suggested admission is $5 for adults and $2 for children. Cash & Prizes will be awarded the day of the event. Judges will include leaders from the Toy Industry and the show will be held the day before the American International Toy Fair which takes place annually in NYC at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. American International TOY FAIR Mail entries by Dec. 15, 2005 to: Doll and Toy Museum of NYC, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. The museum, est. 1999, is a not for profit educational museum with traveling satellite exhibits throughout the city including exhibits at the South Street Seaport Museum & Brooklyn Heights Public Library.
