Robert and I have been talking about toys for the last few months. With more children comes more toys. That is obvious! And our three oldest have birthdays around Christmas. So every year I am cleaning their rooms out, getting rid of toys, and organizing before and after the holidays so that we will have enough room for all the toys and clothes. About a year ago I minimized all of our clothes. Ten short sleeved, ten long sleeved, and four or five bottoms is more than enough. More than that and things get cluttery! But I kept ramming my head against a wall on the toys!
Anyone can tell you there are tried and true toys! My boys have a whole box of cool toys and they spend most of the play time playing with dinosaurs and small cars. I love this because these two toys allow for more imagination than their blinking "educational" counter parts. Blocks will never go out of style! Every child spends some time of their childhood building castles and towers out of blocks! Our girls play with dolls. Not Barbies but baby dolls. They dress them up and mother them endlessly! Again, I prefer these games more than I do the flashy toys. It's not even because of the noise either. I easily ignore the noisy toys. It's because I see how much more the simple staple toys encourage imagination and brain power! Add that to the fact that we are trying to minimize unneeded things in the house and we have our solution! We are slowly weaning ourselves from the flashy expensive toys. It is my goal to have a good supply of staple toys that are universal for most ages. Such as: -Wooden blocks -Legos -Cars -Baby dolls (and accessories) -Dress up clothes (less princess stuff and more adult stuff such as fire fighter, doctor, police officer, knights) -Balls of all shapes -Animal figures One day, we would love to adopt and we don't know if the Lord will bless us with more biological children. So as a family that is growing (and growing, Lord willing) we realize what that does to family members in regards to birthdays and such. So here is my solution! First, our kids would prefer to see you above all else. Skip the expensive toy and spend it on gas to see us! We will feed you and put you up in our guest room! Toys mean nothing beside a weekend with Grandpa or Auntie or whatever! Second, here is a list of toys/supplies to help support the kids' education. These are things that I would like to have but will likely never splurge on or at least it will take a while to get around to buying, but they are cheap! I keep my eyes open for these things at Goodwill or flea markets a lot! -an abacus -Johnathan Park audios -Adventures in Odyssey audios (this is a favorite for all the kids) -any Imagination Station books (Darby flips for these! She has the first 3) -dinosaur books by Ken Ham -any books or films by Ken Ham -sports equipment (baseballs, basketballs, baseball gloves, goals, etc) -toddler puzzles (poor Deakin has only one so far that I found at Goodwill) -simple sewing supplies for the girls -crocheting supplies for the girls -yarn -a car play mat -any Dandi Daley Mackall books (she does all age levels!) -a globe -legos (the normal small type without a theme) -a lamenator (for schooling, they are as cheap as $20 on amazon! Who knew? Not me! Also, this is more of a mommy gift) -a fastener toy for basic skills (like below)
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