Toddler Toy Ideas I Wish I Could Sell ....

[lesliepear]

1. A simple magnadoodle for toddlers. Just the pen and drawing surface - NO removable stamps

2. Hot Wheels/Matchbox for toddlers with a simple track. No fancy volcanos or lights - just some ramps and perhaps some simple play pieces like a gas pump.

3. Edible playdough pre-made. (I am not sure playdough (TM) is ok to eat by accident.)

4. A toddler laptop with color screen of some kind and a mouse!

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[dstroy.livejournal.com]

4.) they got the 4th one in black and white:


Felix loves that thing!

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Alan has something like that without a mouse. But with the technology these days that goes into gaming machines, you'd think they could make a color screen instead of a 3-4 line LCD one?

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

with battery life being what it is....I suspect thats the biggest drawback at the moment. That and the cost of a color LCD - very prohibitive.

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

oh...and you can MAKE edible playdough!

http://homeparents.about.com/cs/recipescooking/a/pbplaydough.htm

[dstroy.livejournal.com]

there's also this non-peanutbutter one:
http://www.geocities.com/webcipes2/misc/m17.html

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I know. But some parents don't have time to do that.

I actually have been meaning to make some for Alan. Next shopping trip I'll get the stuff.

[wolfechu.livejournal.com]

I remember making playdough at some point. You can make some which is essentially flour, water and salt (Or bread dough, as it's known ;)), and some food colouring. It's certainly edible, if not actually tasty.

[ginky.livejournal.com]

We conveniently lost the stamps to Jack's big Magnadoodle, but my kids tend to prefer the travel sized ones. They're both getting new ones from Santa.

[ginky.livejournal.com]

Travel Magnadoodle

[goodjoan]

Target sells a plain large size magnadoodle with no stamps (or they did)its not a brand name, it's in the generic toy aisle.

It's ok to eat playdoh, in fact, I think it's manditory for children under 5.

Vtech has a new kid sized 'game' system called Vsmiles which may be what you're after. It's not a laptop but it's a kid oriented game system. Audrey has interacTv which isnt as difficult to use and LOVES it!

[siobhan-1.livejournal.com]

Play dough is safe (nontoxic) but tastes nasty. salt clay also is nasty.

I just say an advert for the new LeapPad - the next generation for the product, not sure what it is called, but it has the color screen and if not a mouse, I think it still had a pencil/pointer.

Also, there is the Reader Rabbit series for kids, they have a toddler version for the computer. My son started using the computer at 2, it took him a while to figure out that the mouse moved the cursor on the screen, and to coordinate the clicking, but on the Toddler game set they don't have to click, just move the cursor.