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What does your 6 yo DD play with?

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NumptyNu · 22/06/2014 12:12

Apols for posting in education, but I couldn't seem to find an appropriate place elsewhere.....

DD is 6 and tells me all the toys we have are too babyish. This is true - she has two younger siblings. We don't watch any TV channels with adverts so are in the dark about the latest toys, or what is out there for a 6yo. What do yours play with?

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MrsWinnibago · 25/06/2014 21:49

It's just a lump of plastic Numpty and we paid a fiver for one from a market stall which came with loads of bands. Youtube is full of good instructions.

ISingSoprano · 25/06/2014 21:54

My dd is 16 now but the thing she played with most when she was about 7 was a white board. She would come home from school and play schools. The white board is still in active service - most recently as a gcse revision planning aid.

Wafflenose · 25/06/2014 22:05

Mine likes running around outside and climbing/ making 'dens' in our big apple tree, collecting snails, paddling pool, cycling and scooting.

Indoors, she likes writing and drawing, cuddly toys, Lalaloopsy, Lego, cutting and sticking, loom bands (still needs help) and games like Guess Who and Uno.

fuzzpig · 26/06/2014 08:55

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fuzzpig · 26/06/2014 09:04

Oops Blush

I'd like to know more about loom bands too - decided against buying DD some for her birthday, as she'd not asked for them, but if she wants to buy some with her birthday money then it'd be good to know where to direct her! The looms all look the same but apparently the bands from the pound shop are too delicate and snap easily?

The lego she got for her birthday this week went down really well BTW - it was the cloud cuckoo land set from the Lego movie. It's the first time she's really managed with the instructions all by herself so she's very proud :)

Also the rollerblades - which were a last minute idea when dad gave me some cash to choose something - are officially her favourite present this year! I was amazed as I was expecting her to be too nervous but she's taken to them really well.

I think it's good that children do a lot of play without toys too numpty, more exercise for the imagination I reckon! :) Mine have too many toys really, should try and reduce them further.

weatherall · 26/06/2014 09:23

Loom bands
Moshi monsters
She has just learned to cycle without stabilisers so her bike
Roller skates
Planting seeds
Watching DVDs
Number flash cards
Uno cards
Jigsaws
Colouring in/painting/glueing
Nail varnish Blush
Dressing up esp halloweeny stuff
Making dens
Baking
Stickers
Collecting loose change in a little safe
Jewellery
Cbeebies games on computer

Madcats · 26/06/2014 09:48

DD, just 7, doesn't really play with "toys" much. Certainly not dolls.

She is obsessed with Minecraft (and Stampycat videos), but went through a phase of Angry Birds and Plants v Zombies and all those virtual zoos/petshops/reefs that I ended up looking after when she was at school.

I try to keep her outdoors/active after school and there seems to be a lot of imaginative "let's pretend" play with friends then.

All cardboard boxes and old kitchen roll tubes etc are commandeered and converted into cars/castles/houses. "Makedo" have some great sets for budding cardboard creators. She seems to do some sort of colouring/drawing every day (sometimes using colouring pages downloaded from the internet - usually just freehand)

I had to put my foot down when she started making homes for snails and woodlice. She is very happy digging and getting muddy (so I have given her a bit of garden for a few plants and her assorted collections of sticks/stones/shells/bugs).

She likes board games when she just wants to chill (typically snakes & ladder/who am I/Junior monopoly, but we also have a few of those Lego games). From time to time she must have been paying attention to a Dinochess App I bought her, because she had a pretty good stab at playing chess last week.

Looking round the house to see what is currently being played with:
-loom bands* (from a playdate at friends house)
-Hama beads*
-Lego (trad stuff, not Lego Friends)
-Schleich African animals

*Saw a great tip for tidying these off the floor up the other day. Simply pop a long thin sock/tight/stocking over the nozzle of the hoover and the pressure is sufficient to suck up (but not in).

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