Children's Toys: Teddy Bears

Teddy Bear



a toy bear filled with soft material, which is a very common British and American child's toy.



Teddy Bears' Picnic



a children's song which was first popular in the 1950s and which starts:

If you go out in the woods today

You're sure of a big surprise.

If you go out in the woods today

You'd better go in disguise.



Teddy Picker



A 'teddy picker' is Northern slang for a crane machine: a popular machine at carnivals where prizes, particularly stuffed animals, are picked by a mechanical crane.



Where does the term Teddy Bear come from?



Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) was a US politician in the Republican Party who was the 26th president of the US from 1901 to 1909. He was a popular president and is remembered for having a large moustache for saying things were "bully" when he liked them. Roosevelt described his foreign policy using the phrase "speack softly and carry a big stick". He was informally called Teddy and the Teddy Bear is named after him.