By: Sue Anganes
What are some of your all time favorite toys? We recently dug out from our closet a Lite-Brite set for my granddaughter, Amelia, to play with. She spent hours plugging the little multi-colored plastic pegs into the light box and creating her own special designs. We also hauled two bags of Mega Blocks down from our attic for my grandson, Elias. He’s kept busy during the last few times I’ve babysat him, just making towers. At 16 months he’s starting to compare the shapes of the blocks, and he loves to find all the matching sizes and put them together. It is fun to see that the toys that my kids enjoyed playing with are just as entertaining to the next generation!
Play doh was something that kept my own kids busy for a long time. I also liked ink pads (washable) and rubber stamps, crayons and markers, construction paper, glue and glitter, and street chalk for the summertime. My boys (and girls, for that matter) would play for a long time with matchbox cars both inside the house and outside in the dirt. All my kids loved their stuffed animals, and my younger daughter spent most of her childhood playing with her dolls. There were so many other things that kept them busy: puzzles, books, legos, and some plain, old-fashioned sticks they would scavenge outside.
I would love to hear what you moms have discovered to keep your kids occupied and help them develop their own creativity. Feel free to post!
