Essential toys
8 March 09
We have too many toys. (Don’t tell David I’ve admitted it, but I know it’s true.) I’ve been trying to be discerning with the toys I introduce, and I also have to keep a great variety of “educational” toys on hand for those “learning moments”, but some of the time they’re just a waste of space.
Square baskets + little girls become airplanes, complete with sound effects (no batteries required). In the background, you can see that the girls have tipped out ALL the toys from the baskets into one great jumble and have abandoned the pile in favour of their imagination.
There are some days when all the toys in the world can’t outrank the importance of those essential toys that every household should have.
- Building blocks
- A skipping rope
- Boxes to climb into
- Balls
- Books (and you can never have too many!)
- Shape sorter
- Puzzles
- Playdough
- A babydoll
- A car
Here the girls are playing creatively with the same skipping rope.
At one end, Aisha is making "music" by banging on a tin.
At the other end, Brioni is singing into a "microphone".
If you don’t have a skipping rope for your children, get one right away.
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1 · Anne · 8 March 2009, 19:31
I totally know what you mean about toys. Moving and having to put almost everything into storage has been so freeing. I’m dreading opening the boxes and discovering them all again. Many times it seems like we’re drowning in them-all of them nice-just So Many!
2 · sharon · 13 March 2009, 15:57
not sure about the skipping rope – with two boys in our house they get used to tie eachother (sometimes even guests) up:)
I guess that’s a boy thing… have found skipping ropes tied to cubby to drag all sorts of heavy, things to the top… Aparently Dylan H tried to jump from a tree with rope tied to his neck to be superman! having said all that they do have their place even with a boy when watched like a hawk!:)
3 · Lauren · 8 August 2010, 14:01
To this list of essential toys, I have to add a dress-up box. It’s invaluable in extending your child’s imaginary play!