Simple Toys for Children

Try these non-exotic toys for your small children: Tin cans, brightly painted and decorated with decals and pictures, and sized to fit inside each other. Be sure there are no rough edges. Empty spools, brightly painted, for building blocks, necklaces, or bubble pipes. (Dampen one end, rub it on a cake of soap, and blow gently through the opposite end.)—Leigh Hayden, Seattle, Washington