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Nursery removes toys from children!!

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sunseeker Fri 22-Mar-19 18:49:19

A local nursery has taken away all the toys the children used to play with - and replaced them with boxes, tins and everyday objects. The children love it. They are using their imagination, going outdoors and making friends. (One child made a pretend meal for a reporter using a piece of wood, a saucepan and a slotted spoon - which the reporter obviously pretended to eat!)

This is a experiment for one month but a lot of the children are saying they don't want the toys back. As one father said a plastic dinosaur is just a dinosaur but a box and a blanket can be a tent, a space ship, a car or anything else the child wants.

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Lilyflower Tue 26-Mar-19 17:14:40

I remember many happy hours making houses and dens from blankets and chairs.

My own children had a playhouse which was made from pushed together plastic lengths with a canvas printed 'house' which slipped over the framework.

Firstly, they would get inside it and roll it over and over round the garden with them inside shrieking. Then, when they had had enough of that, they would dismantle the frame and play sword fights with the sticks.

I don't suppose the manufacturers had contemplated the way in which children would hijack their design.

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