Little wooden thing with a belt over it that balances on the end of your finger

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Brio (and similar style) train track is a good example. Both my nephews started out happy to push a single loco back and forth on a single section of track. And while their collection has grown and grown, and they do have some complex bridges and stuff, at the end of the day, they will push a train round and round a simple circle, if that's all they have.

Me too

 

[EltonFrog]

?...http://www.toysfromtimespast.com/toys/sky2.htm with some explanation here http://www.e-scoutcraft.com/science/sky_hook.html

'ows that do that then? It's the devil's work I'll tell thee, oh yes, no good'll come of it mark me.

 

[Arch]

Me too

And me!

I always wished I had some as a child, but never got any. I think my mistake was never actually asking for it, I just longed, quietly.

It's great watching their development, seeing how the tracks they devise become more complicated, and how they learn to solve not having just the right bit by altering the layout a little and using something else.

 

[EltonFrog]

And me!

I always wished I had some as a child, but never got any. I think my mistake was never actually asking for it, I just longed, quietly.

It's great watching their development, seeing how the tracks they devise become more complicated, and how they learn to solve not having just the right bit by altering the layout a little and using something else.

Brio is the perfect toy. It's non controversial, it don't need batteries, it's made from organic materials (mostly), it doesn't make a noise, it last a long time, is hand-me-downable. Over the years I have spent hundreds of pounds on Brio trains for various nephews and nieces amd friend kids, it ain't cheap but worth every penny. My mates kid who's now 19 has still got his, stored away now, but he won't part with it.

 

[simon.r]

'ows that do that then? It's the devil's work I'll tell thee, oh yes, no good'll come of it mark me.

What's your profession again?!

 

[EltonFrog]

What's your profession again?!

I'm a retired gynaecologist, though I go in from time to time, you know, I like to to keep my hand in.