Colourless Toys

[Schoolsanightmare]

I’m looking at buying some gifts for a 1 year old for their christening and they are all beige!!

My child is 12 and when small they had bright and colourful toys - including wooden ones - we learnt colours this way, we had a colourful elephant chair and games.

Are they to fit in the design of homes? They look really sterile to me and not really for the benefit of the child but are colourless toys meant to be calming for children?

I don't like the greige toys either, so joyless! I think it must be so they coordinate with the parents' equally joyless grey/magnolia walls

Companies like Jacques London, Londji and Djeco are a few companies that have lovely colourful wooden toys that would be great for a 1yo.

IKEA have bright things too. And really lovely wooden bright toys are on websites like babipur & grimms toys. Expensive though. I got a few of them second hand.

I wish I'd known about vinted when DC1 was small! I've since got some gorgeous wooden toys from there for DC2, basically new!

They make pretty pictures for instagram, apparently.

I don't get it either! I mean, natural wood toys which are natural wood coloured, OK. But the Sad Beige Aesthetic in general is very dull. I have DC born ten years apart and while it was a bit garish when the eldest was little, I much preferred that to everything being grey.

When my dd was younger if was all about grimm rainbows. People will be along to tell you how enriching and wonderful their DC found them but my dd always preferred the plastic tat.

I have a 4yo and the house is full of colourful toys. I've never had a problem finding colourful toys, I'm not shopping in any expensive shops though so maybe that's where the beige themes are. Try Argos, Smyths, Home Bargains and you will find plenty of colour.
I have read that neutral colours are calming and support development as they're not over stimulating. There is a nursery in my area that is a forest school and they only have wooden neutral toys so the theory may be linked to forest school.

Thank you! I lost the link for this!!
I assumed I hadn’t posted. I’ll take a look at Jacques London. Djeco is really nice too. Thanks

Definitely doesn't help with development. If I remember rightly one of the first colors a baby can see is red