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

[airstrip.livejournal.com]

Wait. There's an age when battery-powered toys become interesting? My progression was empty boxes and sticks followed by computers. The empty box and stick period ended when no one else cared to play anymore, though, not of my choice. :/

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think I'm too old to have had battery-powered toys. But I did have a train set that plugged into the mains.

[ibid.livejournal.com]

Agreed I thought empty boxes (aka busses, spaceships...) rocked right on up to middle school