Yay! Thank you for this video! I love seeing which heavy hitters served your family across different ages and I especially appreciate your additional take on how to reimagine the toys beyond their more 'intended' use, such as color matching with the spinning drum. As always you are such an inspiration. 💕
It's so hilarious how different kids can be. Most of these top 10 items for your kids would make it into the flop 10 for ours 😂 in fact, most of them, I sold at this point even though we have our third on the way since both our nearly 4 year old and just turned 2 year old mostly ignored them. Big exception from your list is the bug shrub - both my kids were obsessed with it and it easily would be in our top 3. They also enjoy the felt flowers - they are great for pretend play but but it's not really used more than once a week. And it's not as if they don't like the concept of some of these toys - family gifted them a very simple plastic ball run and they were both obsessed with it but never touched the lovevery ball drop one. Same with the peg board - they both love the simple plastic pegs by skoolzy and play with it nearly every day even now (as a game, for pretend, or simply stacking) but seriously never showed any interest in the lovevery one. Besides the bug shrub, two other items that would be in our top 3, are the drop and match dot catcher (the 4 in a row type toy - actually, every kid who ever visited us was interested in that one) and a baby toy both my kids were absolutely obsessed with was that simple circle puzzle with the baby underneath. Of course, once they started being interested in other puzzles, it looses it's appeal pretty fast but before it was months of daily play for both of them. One way we were able to give some pieces a new purpose for us, is using most of the stacking and posting toys pieces as loose parts in our play kitchen. We also have smaller loose parts but when our younger one would still put things in her mouth, these bigger loose parts we used from lovevery toys were really useful.
Yay! Thank you for this video! I love seeing which heavy hitters served your family across different ages and I especially appreciate your additional take on how to reimagine the toys beyond their more 'intended' use, such as color matching with the spinning drum. As always you are such an inspiration. 💕
Thank you! I've been meaning to look up a video like this.
It's so hilarious how different kids can be. Most of these top 10 items for your kids would make it into the flop 10 for ours 😂 in fact, most of them, I sold at this point even though we have our third on the way since both our nearly 4 year old and just turned 2 year old mostly ignored them.
Big exception from your list is the bug shrub - both my kids were obsessed with it and it easily would be in our top 3. They also enjoy the felt flowers - they are great for pretend play but but it's not really used more than once a week.
And it's not as if they don't like the concept of some of these toys - family gifted them a very simple plastic ball run and they were both obsessed with it but never touched the lovevery ball drop one. Same with the peg board - they both love the simple plastic pegs by skoolzy and play with it nearly every day even now (as a game, for pretend, or simply stacking) but seriously never showed any interest in the lovevery one.
Besides the bug shrub, two other items that would be in our top 3, are the drop and match dot catcher (the 4 in a row type toy - actually, every kid who ever visited us was interested in that one) and a baby toy both my kids were absolutely obsessed with was that simple circle puzzle with the baby underneath. Of course, once they started being interested in other puzzles, it looses it's appeal pretty fast but before it was months of daily play for both of them.
One way we were able to give some pieces a new purpose for us, is using most of the stacking and posting toys pieces as loose parts in our play kitchen. We also have smaller loose parts but when our younger one would still put things in her mouth, these bigger loose parts we used from lovevery toys were really useful.