Glitter unicorns and snail shells
5.7.2017
Translation: machine translated
There are toys whose appeal will not fade in a hundred years and others that are almost forgotten as soon as they are unpacked. A - not entirely serious - compilation.
Experts agree that good toys always encourage new games, can be changed and used in a variety of ways and stimulate the imagination. This is exactly what building blocks, balls and dolls, modelling clay and Legos, but also water, sand and stones do - and teach children a lot about the world. A short - not entirely serious - list of the most popular toys:
What rolls like this
Buying and selling
Before the wooden chicken and plush carrots go into the cooking pot, you first have to do some shopping. Depending on how many collecting campaigns you have been involved in over the course of a parent's life, you can also instil the desired shopping behaviour in your children: "No, darling, I'd rather have the organic tomatoes from the region, not the ones from the discounter."
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Steinli, Stäckli, Schnäggehüsli
The triad of outdoor play. As timeless as children's fascination with all the things they can find on a walk in the woods, the discussion about whether they should take the five dozen stones and the small family of snails home with them has been an inevitable part of the game for generations. Or at least the branch that the child has been dragging behind him, panting, for half an hour. Just once. Just today. Pleaseee.
Lego
They would do it for their children, you can hear fathers mumbling, bent over, who then spend the night building a scenario of burning houses for their offspring to go with their new fire engine. The path to a child's heart is paved with colourful stones.
The classic
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