traditional wooden o-yo. Handcrafted in Portugal. Yo-Yo (Io-Io in Portuguese), a very old game We recognize the yo-yo as being the oldest
game after the spinning top. Its name comes from a Filipino dialect and
its origins are unknown. It was in the 1920s
that an American registered the name and marketed
it on a large scale. Since then, the yo-yo has
continued to delight all children and also some
adults because it is a very fun game of skill. Tradition and memory: Portuguese Baldufa toys Baldufa is a young company from the Portuguese
city of Porto which creates and distributes games,
toys and objects of the popular imagination of Portugal. The Baldufa project was born with the aim of
promoting the dissemination of a fundamental
element of Portuguese ethnographic heritage:
traditional crafts.