Today I am working from home. It is raining and I am waiting for a delivery of some new products to arrive. It has been the first week with both children at school. My daughter started prep this year and has completed her first 4 days (Wednesdays are a rest day from school). I got to thinking about when they were young and the games they played and what were some of their favourite toys?
When my son was very young we gave him a set of nesting oval boxes with lids from IKEA. They were glossy and brightly coloured - beautiful and he spent hours and hours stacking them, taking the lids on and off and putting the boxes inside each other. Problem was he chewed them and ate parts of the soft cardboard.
Then someone gave him some nesting boxes with Beatrix Potter designs. Classic images and so pretty. These boxes were played with by him and then is younger sister. They stacked them, created towers and knocked them down, put them in size order and then when the kids got older, they used these nesting boxes as homes for their farm animals or as garages for their cars. The imaginative play from a series of boxes was endless...
