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

[oakmouse]

Look, you can put things in it and take them out again, you can wear it as a hat, you can rip it up...


You can push it along the floor and pretend it's a bus or a tram car, and stop it here and there to add or subtract stuffed animal "riders", thus also amusing the slightly older child... Lots of fun to be had from an empty kleenex box! *g*

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

With very young children anything that isn't dangerous is a potential toy.