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Grades 2-3

Inventing Fun

Find out how these cool toys got their start. Match each clue with the toy it describes.

1. When this bouncy goo was first invented, it was shipped to stores in egg cartons because of the shape of its package.

2. This toy started out as a bag of plastic eyes, ears, noses and mouths that could be pressed into a real potato.

3. When this reusable modeling clay was first invented, it could be bought in only one color: off-white.

4. At first, many store owners refused to sell these snap-together toy bricks, because they thought that toys should be made out of wood, not plastic.

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