A family affair
Andrej Jaroš
In an interview with Peter Hudák of Chorvátsky Grob in the district of Senec, the founder of a production concept of wooden building blocks for children, MoyToy, we talked about pros and cons of enterprise in the area of toy production. His company was founded in the nineties of the 20th century. Here, he combined teaching experience of his father with his own rich experience as a teacher of physics, a teacher of a primary school subject to develop workshop skills, and as a leader of a 3D modelling club. “Building blocks for children must be extremely flexible; from one set it should be possible to create twenty to forty variations. In this way, a child is motivated to build and rebuild, starting to play with one toy and, in the process and when the need arises, change the toys’s function more than once. Thanks to this, the desirable skills of a child are being developed naturally and the little boy or girl becomes a bright, skilful and confident individual,” Peter Hudák proudly introduces the benefits of building blocks for children, Mesto, Malá rodina, Lode (City, Small Family, Boats) and Hasiči – záchranári (Firemen – Rescuers).
Further articles in the magazine Craft, Art, Design 03/2017:
- Toys through the passage of time
- How the law perceives it
- Alena Hlucháňová: When making animal figurines becomes your hobby
- From the collections of the Museum of Puppet Cultures and Toys
- Bohuslav Šippich and Kyjatice toy
- Kyjatice phenomena
- Research into wooden toys
- Sixty tremendous years of šúpolienky (cornhusk dolls)
- Jaroslav Švihra: Accompanied by wood from early childhood
- Preservation research into dolls wearing folk costumes
- Wooden cubes or plastic jigsaws?
- What toys did our producers used to play with?
- Clay treasures from Heřman Landsfeld collection
- Toy as a souvenir
- Shifting boundaries of reality
- When game connects all players
- As Infinity came into being
- A family affair
- Slovak folk embroidery, edition Inspirations