


Oh, that jingle: "It's Slinky, It's Slinky, For fun it's a wonderful toy ... " debuted as a TV commercial in 1963. (And now we bet it's stuck in your head.)

In this age of complicated toys that often take more time unboxing than kids spend playing with them, let's give it up for a simple toy. (It was the reason I was jealous of friends who had stairs when I was in elementary school and my parents bought a ranch house.)


Other toys we love for their simplicity:


Silly putty

Legos (but not the complicated sets, we're talking a box of different sizes and colors of Legos that I can decide what to build them into) or any building block


Bouncy balls


Any stuffed animal/doll that doesn't have a built-in backstory. Use your own imagination, please.

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