I want! ..............Yes it's that time of year again. Every other advert on the TV is one for yet another "must have" toy. The supermarket shelves are all laden with Spiderman, Captain Jack Sparrow, Dora and Diego goodies. There is so much choice and so much pressure on the parents of today to come up trumps for their children.
Things used to be so much simpler!........
Toys Were Us
A clothes horse was a castle
When covered with a coat
The kitchen table upside down
Became a pirate boat
A saucepan and two wooden spoons
Just made an awesome noise
We didn’t spend a fortune
On entertainment or on toys
A fairy liquid bottle
And some sticky sort of plastic
Made a supersonic rocket
Now that was just fantastic
Two cocoa tins, a bit of string
Became a telephone
And with a friend invisible
You never played alone
Computer games and consoles
Are the newest fascination
But the greatest games are those
Which use a child’s imagination
©Marian Barker
rithompson
Oh. We used paper cups for the "telephone"!
I was babysitting a friend's son recently, and he had a variation of "telephone" made with small Pringle tins! 