Our New Toy

Some of my earliest childhood television moments are of watching Sesame Street. We had one of those “old time” antennas, and we only picked up one station with it. However, my dad worked at Sears, and they had cable. So he would take VHS tapes with him to work and record kid friendly television for me and bring it home. My favorites were the Fraggles and Sesame Street.

I was super excited when I received a package from Team Mom and opened it up to find a K’Next Elmo and His Piana Building Set. Sad for me, it was a little young for Cameron, but I would not be deterred. I ripped right in it and played with it myself (shh! don’t tell anyone that). Then I sat it up in our living room toy box. This is a box that is a mixture of toys and books that Cameron doesn’t play with any longer, but when we have company with younger kids, it gives them something to do.

I had company over two nights last week – a fellow single mom, and her daughter LOVED the Elmo blocks. She took them apart and built Elmo over and over. I’m not sure she ever made the other blocks to a piano, but she loved making Elmo in as many interesting ways as she could. I was reminded of the fun we have making silly Potato Heads.

She had so much fun playing with Elmo that I’ve started researching, and in addition to the Elmo set, I think that she will be getting a couple more smaller kits to go with it. I love the Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch sets (Oscar was always my favorite), and they are priced at a reasonable $10.99 per set.

If you’d like to encourage imagination in the children in yoru life between the ages of two to five, check out the Sesame Street line of K’NEX. They are a definite plus.

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