When the stock market crashed in 1929, many banks and big industries shut down. The Great Depression affected American families and their children. Then the children had to work because of the Depression. And the kids ran away from home and set their lives on the railroads. They were called The Box Car Kids.
Now, imagine that in order to help your family buy that bread, you had to run around the neighborhood looking through trash cans to find bits of scrap metal. You'd be dirty, tired, hungry... then you only got a few pennies for all your hard work!
Parents werent always able to feed their children and sometimes they would have to send them off to other relatives because they couldn't afford to keep them.
Hope this helped!
great the children loved the drought and watching relitives die because of it i mean they loved it
My daughter thinks it bites.
She hates the fact that I have depression and wisehs I were happier.
children played hopscotch and jumped rope, the also helped mothers in the kitchen, put together jigsaw puzzles, and sometimes even found small jobs to help support their family and younger siblings.
Some were able to continue going to school, while others had to stay home and help their families. In the way of entertainment, some kids had radios in their living room on which they could listen to their favorite program. Some had saved enough money to take a trip to the movies on the weekends. A lot just made their own little toys and games to entertain themselves.
Twenty percent of Canadian children were hungry and without proper clothing during the depression. In some coal mining regions, the percentage of malnourished children reached as high as ninety percent. Many children had to go without shoes and warm clothes for the winter. Thousands of schools had to close down because they lacked the money to stay open, and about three million children between seven and seventeen had to leave school. And forty percent of young people from ages sixteen to twenty-four were neither in school nor working.
Many teens got jobs to help their families.
Children that could helped in the kitchen with canning, solved complex jigsaw puzzles, read or were read to, rode bikes, invented games, jumped rope- Dr. Mae Sakharov
The life for children during The Great Depression was not easy and they faced many hardships. This is when child labor became rampant with 25% of workers being children.
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People had fun listening to the radio and playing board games
In reality people during the great depression looked for ways to have fun without spending much money. people danced with music from the radio, played cards and most importantly played sports such as football. Young children also read comics.
During the great depression, many people were depressed. Therefore, in order to keep themselves going movies were a way to have some fun. People in the great depression would commit suicide if they weren't making enough money. People like Babe Ruth entertained people during this time too. Sports were another big event.
Hoover villes got there names by the people living in them making fun of President Hoover who was not doing anything to help the Great Depression . I hope that helps you out .
*FUN* (APEX) Radio was a cheap source of news, music, dramas, comedy, and local and national information. Radios were as cheap as $10 during the Depression so most every home with electricity had one. FDR used the radio (Fireside Chats) the way Presidents today use TV, to keep the public informed and to explain what was going on in the nation.
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People had fun listening to the radio and playing board games
In reality people during the great depression looked for ways to have fun without spending much money. people danced with music from the radio, played cards and most importantly played sports such as football. Young children also read comics.
During the great depression, many people were depressed. Therefore, in order to keep themselves going movies were a way to have some fun. People in the great depression would commit suicide if they weren't making enough money. People like Babe Ruth entertained people during this time too. Sports were another big event.
The most popular sport during the Great Depression was probably baseball because almost everyone knew how to play it, it was very popular in America, almost everyone had a baseball bat and baseball because it was cheap, and in was fun and entertaining.
Hoover villes got there names by the people living in them making fun of President Hoover who was not doing anything to help the Great Depression . I hope that helps you out .
go to the movieslisten to radio dramasgo to dancesgo to vaudeville theatersetc.
Act parts of it out! You can also have them go to a play or movie about it. You can also possibly do research and see if any of your family members were in it and what they did. Kids like links to things.
of course! it's great for children because you get great excersize and have fun doing it (;
so children could have great fun on the move
nerf is a children gun that is great fun for boys . in my opinion it is amazing
They plat games everywhere