Archive for January, 2010
Children play with their toys incessantly and typically have little regard for the condition that they are in. While it is important to let children have their freedom, grimy toys are not conducive to a clean and healthy living area. Stuffed animals that live on shelves are very hard to clean without damaging. Here is how to clean your child’s favorite plush bear without destroying it:
~Put the stuffed animals in the dryer
~Set the dryer on the lowest heat setting.
~Let the animals tumble for about 5 minutes.
~Take the animals out
In the world of plush toys, one character reigns supreme: the teddy bear. He’s been around for just over 100 years, and has gone through many transformations and adjustments in his time, but he still claims the stuffed animal throne.
The teddy bear came into being in 1902 when President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a bear that had been tethered to a tree on a hunting trip. Almost immediately afterward, two Brooklyn shopkeepers created a small, plush bear they called “Teddy’s bear.” The bear was instantly popular, and the teddy bear phenomenon took off. Over the next 100 years, the style and look of the bear changed, it went through periods of popularity and even a few decades where it fell out of favor. But “Teddy’s bear” has always landed on top, and remains one of the most popular plush toys of all time.