Play thoughts

Creative Playthings 1971

Play Thoughts / Tri-Color Viewer / Big Looker / Perception Plaques / Frames / Mem / Connect / Sextett / Four Faces / Playsacks / Rainbow Box / Marble Pan / Parallelograms

16 page mini-catalogue. Princeton New Jersey.

Snakes & Swans

Snakes and Swans, set of puzzles designed by Fredun Shapur. made in Switzerland by Spiel-Naef for Creative Playthings.  

see them in mint condition with box here.

a surprise in today's mail. thanks P+W!!!

Fredun Shapur: Four Faces

Masks from the Four Faces portfolio designed by Fredien Shapur [sic] and produced by Creative Playthings, Princeton, NJ.
from Masks, Face Coverings and Headgear by Norman Laliberté and Alex Mogelon, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1973 (This book arrived in the mail today. It's amazing and deserves a whole week of posts, but I thought I'd start with this. Has anyone seen these before?! Thanks to P+W!)

Fredun Shapur previously

Fredun Shapur: First Steps In Reading

The Christmas Tree (First Steps In Reading) by Kathleen Brooks, illustrated by Fredun Shapur, Benn, London,1966

Other books from this series include Blackie and the Wool, Spot and the Paint, and By The Pool, all from 1966. Unfortunately, the storytelling is uninspired, so I've only scanned the illustrations.

More Fredun Shapur here

Fredun Shapur

endpapers

Round and Round and Square by Fredun Shapur, Abelard-Schuman, 1965 (reprinted 1968) (Shapur was also a designer for Trendon and Creative Playthings)

Fredun Shapur: Playsack

PLAYSACK designed by Fredun Shapur for Trendon (Made In England by Trendon LTD.Malton.Yorkshire) 1969. Found at a local thrift store and gifted to me (Thanks M.D.!!!). My package contains Panda, Leopard, and Bear.

From Design Council Slide Collection

United States Patent

Homemade knock-offs featured in Sunset Book - Things To Make For Children (revised edition) 1973, 1975