Table game
Category
Sports equipment, games and pastimes
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper, cardboard and wood
Measurements
Box - 288 mm (length), Each frog playing piece - 32 mm (length); 32 mm (width)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 670727
Summary
A game entitled 'The Jumping Frog' consisting of a lidded cardboard box containing a rectangular piece of wood. This piece of wood contains seven square shaped recesses. Inside six of these recesses sit three dark green and three khaki moulded frogs sitting on green square stands. The lid of the box is decorated with a colour printed illustration of a boxer dog watching green and yellow frogs leap-frogging each other. The inside of the box lid has a printed paper label providing instructions for how to play The Jumping Frog Puzzle. Total number of items is 8.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Miss K. Fairclough in July 1976.