The other main plaything here is cardboard--nothing gets recycled here until it has been repurposed and reused several times!
peace
minnie
Wow I thought my DD9 was the only one! She has so many boxes! She is really into Littlest Pet Shops, but she doesn't "play" with them she creates things for them like buildings...she even made a trampoline one time out of sticks and plastic wrap. She has been using hot glue guns for years now.
The day after Christmas she woke up...instead of playing with all her new toys she watched a documentary on the building of cathedrals during the Renaissance!
EXACTLY like my daughter up until about two years ago, when she began to use the computer as a "social" toy. She has a stable of American girl dolls, a slew of legos, etc. etc. etc. As an only grandchild, she literally has more toys than MOST kids-- and plays with far fewer of them, IMO. Recently she used manicure scissors to cut up aluminum soda cans and rubber cemented them to a cereal box, stringing sections together to make a "robot costume" for an American Girl doll.
DS8 has never been much for toys. He has a huge collection of Bakugan, but he doesn't really play the game, he just collects them. His latest fascination is video editing. He got a video camera for Christmas and spend most of his free time filming us and then downloading and manipulating the film. I'm considering having him do next year's Christmas film. We send out a video every year to family in lieu of cards chronicaling our year.
He does love board games as long as there is an adult available to play with.
This is also true of my DD-- that's why she effectively still
has all of those toys that she doesn't play with. <SIGH> She is a "collector" and that
is the point, to her. She knows the identity of each and every one of her possessions, as impossible as it sometimes seems to us.
She has a thing for RPGs, but other than that, it's always been all about reading and 'making' stuff for her toys. We have to really keep her in check, since it's mostly about the novelty and the
acquisition of the object-- not about enjoying the ownership.
Clothes from printer paper for her CareBear collection at ages 3-6? Check. Houses out of legos for her Littlest Pet Shop? Check. Fairy Houses out of rocks and sticks in the yard? Check.
Paper, staples, tape, and post-it notes. I have to HIDE many kinds of office supplies-- still.
Now she has graduated to making devices from cooking utensils, wire and duct-tape. I mean devices like miniature catapults.
She also uses her computer to make animated short films which she posts to YouTube.
She's not much for tactile/messy activities and never has been.
At five?
Tape, paper, cardboard, scissors... Playmobil; but unconventional use and LOADS of 'adult' interaction... she liked it best when my DH would make up stories about the roasting of the animals on spits, etc... it had to be FUNNY. And snarky. Books, books, books, books. She also liked writing music for a while.
She likes computer games. CoolMath is one of her favorite places on the web, and has been for years.
WEBKINZ. We finally had to shut that one off, however-- because she was clearly obsessed
way beyond anything healthy, and she's sneaky as all get out, even with password protection, turning the router off, etc.
