The Titanic provides opportunities to find out about toys played with by Victorian and Edwardian children.

Like Victorian children, young Edwardians liked playing with toy animals, dolls, puzzles, board games, tinplate and clockwork toys, including trains and model boats. Cheaper toys produced in Germany became available to more children during this time.

Titanic survivor Edith Russell carried a toy pig-cum-clockwork music box on lifeboat 11. The pig played a tune called the Maxixe. Edith entertained children in her lifeboat with this until rescued by the Carpathia. The story is told in Gary Crew's Pig on the Titanic! Harper Collins (2005)

The Teddy Bear was introduced during the Edwardian era, taking its name from President Edward 'Teddy Roosevelt'. The Steiff toy company produced very expensive, high quality jointed bears, including Polar Bears. Daisy Spedding's Polar the Titanic Bear (1913), written for her son, tells the Titanic story from the toy bear's perspective (See A Trunk full of Souvenirs). In May 1912, Steiff produced a limited edition of 600 black 'mourning bears' to mark the Titanic tragedy.

Titanic survivor, Marjorie Collyer, described how she was woken up by her mother and made to board a lifeboat, leaving both her father and her doll behind. One of the sadder finds during undersea exploration of the Titanic was a porcelain doll's head. Could this be all that remains of Marjorie's favourite Christmas present?

In Southampton a doll was given to Amy Wiltshire, the youngest child who had lost her father in the Titanic tragedy