Well, not surprisingly it’s a backpack for carrying toys – or more accurately a child sized backpack for each child to use to carry their own toys. (obviously under a certain age, this is not advisable, but even very small toddlers love to have their own thing, even if it only has 2 crayons in it) We found this system had a few unexpected advantages:
1. it limits the number of toys –“you can only bring what you can carry, so choose carefully”
2. The child starts to feel responsible for their own things,
3. The child also feels a bit more independent, and will often get out their drawing stuff when there’s not much happening, or find their little toy binoculars to see something more clearly.
Possible Items for your child's backpack - but of course it's up to them to choose...
Modelling clay (plasticine seems to last longer than play-dough)
Story books
Activity books (join the dots and word puzzles for big kids, pop-up books and feely-books for small kids)
Drawing kit of pens, pencils and crayons
Toy binoculars
Soft animals (rather a family of pocket-sized ones, rather than one big fellow)
Toy cars (small, light ones)
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