GRAND Magazine - April 2009 - (Page 16) grand central Best “play” value Some toys never grow obsolete or stale. Here are a few of my time-tested, reliable favorites. • Plastic food items . We’ve used them to play restaurant, grocery store, birthday party and plain old dinnertime with the stuffed animals around the table. Give the kids some shopping bags, play money and a toy cash register, and they can practice their math or teach nutrition by arranging the food into categories: fruits and veggies, carbs and proteins (or good and junk). • A sandbox. Clean sand can be purchased at any home and garden center. Even in winter we keep a sandbox in the basement and often add a pail of water to make it the right consistency for sandcastles . The sand vacuums right up off the rug without much fuss. A small plastic wading pool is good; I bought a round rubber horse trough that is very sturdy and almost a meter in diameter. We added a large bottle of glitter from the craft store to the sand and hid “pirate treasures.” You can gild gravel with gold spray paint and bury the “pieces of eight.” • Play-Doh: either the commercial variety or the heavy-salt-dough homemade kind. Kids love the texture and manipulative qualities of this old favorite. Add colored toothpicks for porcupines and spiky hairdos, googly eyes for real or imaginary creatures, candles for birthday cakes, a couple of rolling pins, various cookie cutters, some dull knives and scissors and some muffin tins. Even the older kids cannot resist the temptation to get their hands in the dough. Derrick, PA 16 GRAND APRIL Jillian, NY Nat & Selina, PA Nathan, MA 2009 http://www.thirdage.com?utm_source=grand-mag&utm_medium=ads&utm_campaign=grand-mag-b http://www.bizrate.com/kitchen_housekeepingtoys/products__keyword--plastic+play+food.html http://www.pbs.org/parents/earlymath/prek_games_sandcastle.html http://www.thirdage.com?utm_source=grand-mag&utm_medium=ads&utm_campaign=grand-mag-b
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