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Acrobatic Bear Folk Toy
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Folk toys similar to this Dancing Bear have been delighting children for generations. We won't try to trace their origin, but we don know that this design has changed little over the years.
The basic concept behind this type of toy is the use of tension (from squeezing the bottom end of the sticks together) to straighten a pair of crossed strings. Since the toy is assembled so that when the bear is at rest the strings are crossed, when the strings are tensioned the bear flips around in acrobatic gyrations.
The loose pinning of the bear's legs and arms to the body results in a positively unpredictable action, which in turn produces always predictable laughter from the little ones. |
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