International air travel does not respect the need to carry your own house with you when you move to another, completely alien city. Thus meeting economics in its rugged simplicity - the limited resources problem.
We traveled here with a completely inadequate stock of toys for the kiddo and now getting through the day with the same old, boring few is very hard. I am continuously scouting for durable, relatively low cost toys (don't want to pour all of the mister's salary into toys now, do we?). In the longer term I hope to build a good collection for her, to suit different play moods, weathers, etc. etc. In the short term, we have admittedly a problem on hand. The idea of toys from recycled toys was born out of this necessity and has almost possessed me. (I think I may start looking at items in the grocery stores with this lens soon enough - carton just right for train wagon, purchase, check check!)
Anyway we started with a milk carton ship. A simple cut here and there on the carton, a straw sail and we were ready to cruise to the local playgroup on the Monday morning - the theme for the week was ships! I don't think I have a picture of this ship; basically it sank pretty soon. Blame the architect!
Another hit was bowling pins - from flavored milk bottles. We got a ball two days ago and haven't looked back since.
This morning, we used a cardboard box to keep us busy for a whole two hours and come up with this tunnel-cum-road-cum-activity box. We have our panda-on-wheels, our excavator and our newly acquired porsche (from the said museum) to race through the tracks we painstakingly created.
We traveled here with a completely inadequate stock of toys for the kiddo and now getting through the day with the same old, boring few is very hard. I am continuously scouting for durable, relatively low cost toys (don't want to pour all of the mister's salary into toys now, do we?). In the longer term I hope to build a good collection for her, to suit different play moods, weathers, etc. etc. In the short term, we have admittedly a problem on hand. The idea of toys from recycled toys was born out of this necessity and has almost possessed me. (I think I may start looking at items in the grocery stores with this lens soon enough - carton just right for train wagon, purchase, check check!)
Anyway we started with a milk carton ship. A simple cut here and there on the carton, a straw sail and we were ready to cruise to the local playgroup on the Monday morning - the theme for the week was ships! I don't think I have a picture of this ship; basically it sank pretty soon. Blame the architect!
Another hit was bowling pins - from flavored milk bottles. We got a ball two days ago and haven't looked back since.
This morning, we used a cardboard box to keep us busy for a whole two hours and come up with this tunnel-cum-road-cum-activity box. We have our panda-on-wheels, our excavator and our newly acquired porsche (from the said museum) to race through the tracks we painstakingly created.
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