What Are Fidget Toys and Where Did They Come From? - Speks

You may have seen your best friend, or your niece, child or mom playing with a fidget toy in the last year. From fidget spinners to stress balls, there’s many different options and styles of fidget toys. But where on earth did these stress-relieving toys come from? We’ll walk you through the history of fidget toys, below. Where did fidget toys come from? While it might seem that fidget toys cropped up from nowhere, parents have used fidget toys for hundreds of years in different variations in order to relieve stress and entertain their children. One of the earliest examples of fidget toys are the Baoding balls. The Ming Dynasty first produced metal Baoding balls thousands of years ago as part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. According to BaodingBalls.com, the Baoding Balls were prescribed as a health measure in order to
You may have seen your best friend, or your niece, child or mom playing with a fidget toy in the last year. From fidget spinners to stress balls, there’s many different options and styles of fidget toys. But where on earth did these stress-relieving toys come from? We’ll walk you through the history of fidget toys, below. Where did fidget toys come from? While it might seem that fidget toys cropped up from nowhere, parents have used fidget toys for hundreds of years in different variations in order to relieve stress and entertain their children. One of the

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