What can happen when we're anchored for a while in the kitchen and the G!Kids are roaming the GrandHome to find amusement?

Recently I found out.  With a long day ahead of us, I was astonished recently when a threesome of my grandsons aged four, three, and 'nearly two' discovered something at the back of my closet that occupied them for a whole day, with no fighting and endless variations on the game.

I thought you'd want to know that they found...

Because after some thought about this, I decided that anything that provides hours of entertainment for the G!Kids (and no arguing) I should share with you, no matter how peculiar, right?

A basket of my long-forgotten hair rollers, tucked deep in the back of the closet, gave them a day of joy.

It started when I heard my Dear Little Robber Band howling with delight (always a red flag) so I quickly beelined to the source of the squeals.  I peeked my head in to see them huddled around this basket they had found tucked deeply in the back of my closet floor.

You would have thought that someone let them in by the back door to ToysRUs after closing.  They were passing out those crinkly little things to each other like a found treasure.

I quickly gave this mischief an instantaneous approval rating (I don’t need the rollers and replacement cost is less than $10 – so why not?), and went back to the kitchen to prepare their favorite lunch (from my Five Minute Recipes collection, which I hope to share with you soon).

Very quickly my little tribe figured out how to pull out the sponges  which broadened the game:  They stuck them on their fingers, and I enjoyed their continuous flow of imaginative play as those 'sponge fingers' were first waved around as monsters; then became currency as they created a store for exchanges of various colors and sizes.

They packed them up to be carted from room to room, threw them, chomped them, pulled them, traded them, and buried them for hide and seeks.  For hours.

So I said to myself, why hide this Unconventional Plaything from my Grandgifting comrades?  Maybe you too would like to try them out?

Assuming that you don't have such a basket already in your closet, I've gathered a nice colorful selection of hair rollers in our GrandGifting Amazon Shop for GrandGear for you.

And here are some suggestions for a curious Roller Basket implementation:

• Get a few different sizes and colors – this is easy as they come that way.

• Get ones with sponge inserts that come out and go back in easily, for little hands.

• Put them in a basket that’s 30% bigger to allow for expansion as they won’t be able to stack them so neatly on the way back in. (Sort of like baking cupcakes with batter in tins only 2/3 full)

• Bury them deep in a closet floor, where they can find them during sneaky forages :)

• Don’t tell all your friends about this – not sure this ‘toy’ will make it to Dr.Toy’s  picks or the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio , although I think I’ll tell my daughter-in-law who is a pediatric occupational therapist about it...

Click  here or on any of the pictures to Browse & Buy your own colorful rollers in the GrandHome page at our Grandgifting Amazon Store!

But please remember where you saw this first...

Because if ‘Granny’s Rollers’ appears one day as the new Fisher Price classic toy, we’ll know where it came from.

In the meantime, if your preference is for a true classic toy, here's a link to Browse & Buy a true classic, the Fisher Price Little People Play n'Go Farm celebrating it's 50th birthday!

Enjoy the sweet memories!

Ronda Kay    

p.s.  I sure hope some of you have equally curious G!Kid entertainment revelations to share? 
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