Expensive Toys

[poliphilo]

My mother has to buy a present for her great-grandson, my great-nephew, who is two. I'd been playing with Odi's kids earlier and suggested she give him an empty Kleenex box. The truth is that up to a certain age kids really aren't impressed by toys that come with batteries. Something like the Kleenex box will do just as well. Look, you can put things in it and take them out again,  you can wear it as a hat, you can rip it up...

Remember Eeyore with his burst balloons and empty hunney jar?

Another great game we were playing yesterday afternoon was "throw the ball into the waste paper basket". 

Comments

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Sir, Your post has annoyed me immensely. After 3 yrs in Aussie, I returned with Ma & Pa to Ingerlund, where my paternal Granny was to present me with a suitably posh toy. Aged 7 I thought this a GOOD THING. However upon unwrapping it the bastard Toy Robot was bust as my bastard cousins had "pre enjoyed" it. I will now blame you for the trauma I am plunged into anew. I remain, C Rehill, Esq.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah but you were seven. Seven is an age when you can appreciate things like toy robots. The kids I'm talking about are much younger.

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

Depends on the 7 year old surely? Anyway good luck with "throw ball into basket". I amused a 4 yr old recently with a magic (invisible) tortoise.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Magical invisible tortoises rock!

[ron-broxted.livejournal.com]

It was an especially bright magic tortoise. I had to draw and colour it after. Thank God I am still good at sketching!