Loony Links and Other Toys, Kindergarten Class, Baltimore, Md., 1965-66

Detail from a photo (see full photo below) of the students and teachers in a morning kindergarten class at a religious school in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1965-66 school year.

The boy at the head of the table is playing with Loony Links, an educational game with plastic parts that snap together to form figures of people and animals. The girl and boy at the front of the table are playing with blocks, and the girl sitting next to the Loony Links has an Add-A-Count Scale, which was an educational math toy (see the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History description of the Add-A-Count Scale in its collection).