Top Five Classic Toys and Games for Kids

Posted by admin on May 30th, 2010 | 0 comments

In this day in age when TV has taken on a new role as a babysitter for stressed out parents, the role of classic toys and games has lessened over the years.  However, the benefits of allowing your children to play with these vintage toys and games is plentiful — they improve creativity, they help to build social interaction, and they help your kids to learn, which is in stark contrast to many of the programs that are available on the TV airwaves today.

Here are our top five classic toys and games for kids.

Etch-A-Sketch

An Etch-a-Sketch is a great classic toy for kids of just about any age.  It helps teach them creativity and coordination while providing you with a few minutes of quiet time.  Even our two-year-old loves playing with the Etch-a-Sketch, and with no little parts to have to worry about, it’s a great game for toddlers and older children as well.

Checkers

Checkers are fun to play with, and they have a place in the home for the young and the old alike.  Not only is this vintage board game fun, it really helps to develop your child’s thinking ability, and helps them to learn about cause and effect.  While younger children really will not get much out of checkers as a game, toddlers will enjoy their stack-ability and their roll-ability… more or less fun for all ages. 

Twister

Twister is an exceptionally fun pastime that can be enjoyed with kids alone, or with kids and their parents.  It’s a relatively safe game, encourages a little bit of exercise through constant movement and laughter, and helps to build stronger relationships with those who are playing this game.

Candy Land

Candyland is a great game for younger kids.  In terms of classic board games, Candyland is probably the most toddler friendly of the lot.  It encourages social interaction, and is just great family-friendly fun.

Connect Four

Connect Four is a classic toy that encourages creative thinking.  In a way like checkers, it helps to develop cause-and-effect reasoning for simple actions, while providing a fun pastime for school-age children.  While Connect Four may not be suitable for preschoolers and younger, even teenagers have been known to enjoy this older, but nonetheless enjoyable, tabletop game.

Keeping your children, and even teenagers, entertained does not have to mean that you rely upon the television set to do so.  Classic toys and games, such as the five that we have outlined here, offer better benefits for your children, while still allowing you to escape and enjoy it a little bit of kids-free down time.

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Classic Toys and Games – Return That Childhood Feeling

Posted by admin on May 26th, 2010 | 0 comments

Classic toys and games have a way of taking us back — back to times that were less complicated, less demanding, and allowed us the freedom to maintain that devil-may-care attitude on a regular basis. Depending on your age, you may have a job, a spouse, bills, children, or any of life’s other responsibilities that are piled upon us as we grow older, but one thing is for certain — classic toys and games certainly remind us of those former days.

Maybe you remember the first Nintendo Entertainment System that came out in the 1980′s and the at-the-time cutting-edge games like Super Mario Brothers and Zelda. Maybe your early childhood consisted of playing chutes and ladders, playing with tinker toys or an etch-a-sketch — whatever the case may be — many of these classic toys and games are tied to cherished memories of long ago.

Bringing back those memories from long ago

As we get older, we sometimes forget things from our past. Experiences, fun times, games we used to play, friends that we once had, lovers that we have lost — all of these memories are tucked away, somewhere in our minds, just waiting to be released. Just like hearing a song that played during your prom reminds you of that night and the times that you had; playing a game, or picking up a favorite toy from your yesteryears, can help to bring back memories that were all but forgotten.

Even when we do not realize it, with every passing second, our lives move on. While it is not possible to go back and revisit those carefree days of our youth, we certainly have the ability to conjure up some of those old memories and feelings. Picking up some classic toys, or games, that we enjoyed in our lives of long-ago can certainly help to remind us of those times that would otherwise be buried and forgotten in our minds.

Bring back the memories of your childhood, or your youth, with classic toys and games. Grab the games out of the closet or basement, pick them up at a consignment store or purchase them online — nothing lasts forever, but a little bit of nostalgia and reminiscing can bring you back to the feeling of your carefree days again.

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