The Three Year Old: Friend or Enemy book that Aimee picked out for us a few days back has been one of the biggest sources of unintended comedy we’ve found in some time. Along with the aforementioned clown-burning advice, we’ve now found a helpful list of toys appropriate for 3-year-olds. And it’s as helpful as you might imagine: I never, ever would have figured out for myself that a ball would be an appropriate toy for a three year old. An astrolabe, maybe, but a ball?
Anyhoo, here’s a fun way to test your parenting skills. Some of the items in the list below are from the book, others are not. See if you can pick them out:
- Balls
- Blunt scissors
- Cards with holes punched in them
- Clowns, scary
- Felt pens
- Glass, shards, multicolored
- Housekeeping toys (carpet sweeper, broom, dust mop)
- Hookah
- Kegs
- Kegs, pony
- Musical instruments
- Medical syringes, used
- Nature specimens, such as fish, turtles, salamanders, rabbits, guinea pigs or plants
- Nail guns
- Small child-size hammer, large nails, soft wood
Okay, okay, so maybe I made this too easy. After all, who would give their child a guinea pig?