Story: Children’s play

More links and websites

• Activity corner

  This section of the kidspot.co.nz website provides information about games and activities for children.

• Play and Folklore

  The website of the journal, published in Australia, which includes articles about play in New Zealand.

• Toy Library Federation of New Zealand

  The national body for toy libraries in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Best, Elsdon. Games and pastimes of the Māori: an account of various exercises, games and pastimes of the natives of New Zealand, as practised in former times. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2005 (originally published 1925).

• Sutton-Smith, Brian. The folkgames of children. Austin: American Folkore Society, 1972.

• Sutton-Smith, Brian. A history of children’s play: New Zealand 1840–1950. Wellington: New Zealand Council for Educational Research, 1982.

• Trewby, Mary. The best years of your life: a history of New Zealand childhood. Auckland: Viking, 1995.