My wife is a Play Therapist with 2 masters degrees in the subject. The organization of a play space with limited and well chosen toys is key.
Additionally if you give a child an electronic toy that lights up and makes a lot of noise and does a specific thing, the kid will usually play with it less, because they find their options are limited. Whereas, if you give a kid a wooden spoon and a pot to play with they can find a 1001 uses for it!
She has a rule for herself to not have more toys than it would take to clean up in 10 minutes.
Here is a talk she recently gave to parents at our pre-school. She talks about this issue at the 33 min mark.
My wife is a Play Therapist with 2 masters degrees in the subject. The organization of a play space with limited and well chosen toys is key.
Additionally if you give a child an electronic toy that lights up and makes a lot of noise and does a specific thing, the kid will usually play with it less, because they find their options are limited. Whereas, if you give a kid a wooden spoon and a pot to play with they can find a 1001 uses for it!
She has a rule for herself to not have more toys than it would take to clean up in 10 minutes.
Here is a talk she recently gave to parents at our pre-school. She talks about this issue at the 33 min mark.
https://playla.co/talk/1