Even babies who can’t yet stand unaided will pull themselves up and enjoy a rudimentary version of this sort of play.īut use of the doll’s house divides along gender lines in the 100 Toys house. You can get years of play value out of a toy kitchen or doll’s house. You might as well try to ensure that what your child receives is going to challenge and absorb them, not just amuse them for half an hour, before it goes in the bag for that furtive trip to the charity shop. Toys are going to arrive in your house whether you like it or not. If your family are like this (and mine are), what I’ve found works is to politely give them a list of toys that you’re OK with and, more importantly, are developmentally appropriate for your child. People want to put something under the tree. Friends don’t want to arrive empty handed at the party.
Kindly relatives will happily ignore your requests to give them tickets to a show or a castle instead. That’s it.īecause people are going to buy your children toys anyway. Blocks, figures, fabric, a few everyday household objects, some art materials and access to outdoor space.
You don’t have to look far on the blog to see that I think that children can thrive with far fewer than one hundred toys. There are fewer than ten toys on the list.īut now I’m revisiting the idea because it no longer seems so preposterous. It was more in keeping with our ethos to make the 100 about activities and experiences. When I launched the website my initial idea for The 100 was to create a list of 100 essential toys for every under-five, but seeing it written down it felt too pushy, too focused on consumption. That’s all before they start school and have parties to which the whole class is invited and you can reasonably expect to receive 30 presents for one child in a single day. Now add in gifts throughout the year - something from the museum shop, a toy to keep them occupied on a flight, something at Easter, and at Halloween. It’s not unusual for a child’s Christmas haul to come to at least 10 presents.
#My first five years plus
Gifts from parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, plus stocking fillers. That’s 17 Christmasses and 17 birthdays in total. The children in the 100 Toys house are 6, 5, 4 and 2 years old. Do you ever feel like your home is full-to-bursting with toys that you don’t want and didn’t ask for?
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