Thanks for inserting clips/pics of how your kids play with the toys too

I love this video , It actually introduced me to open ended toys , I love buying toys for my little ones , because I love them and im not ashamed to say it , thank you for sharing .

This video really helped me this past Christmas shopping for my two boys. I’ve been so discouraged for years with Christmas/birthday shopping because all toys sold in stores are cheap plastic dead end toys that are over priced. Also these brands have great ideas for Easter and Valentine’s Day as well as other holidays throughout the year! This video inspired and motivated me to buy more open ended toys for my kids. I’ve noticed my kids imagination and creativity start to climb by introducing open ended toys! Please keep sharing great videos!

You don’t need to justify the amount of toys that you have, toys over ipads any day! Lets bring toys back! 💁🏼‍♀️

I've had my eye on the 12 piece rainbow, but honestly didn't think of all the uses for the semi circles. I loved seeing the photos you inserted too- so inspiring for open ended play! My son's current favorite is lift the flap books. As a child, I loved the lite brite too! I think my favorite was the marble run. Thank you for sharing your space and the time you spent on this!

Thanks for the video! One of my favorite toys was a "My First Sony" recorder and tape player! I could use it independently when I was about 2 or 3 and would play my favorite story books over and over again. :D

This gave me so many ideas for toys to make for my baby boy when he gets older. As a carpenter and a woman who absolutely hates loud, flashy, battery driven toys I obviously want to make a lot of my kid's toys. If I have to buy something I want it to be good quality and to be fun for kids and to last unlike most of the crappy light up screaming toys my nephew's have that make me crazy... This honestly gave me ideas for my 9 and 11 yo foster kids too.

You are my spirit animal! This is what I’m striving for! Thanks so much for the video and i love how you included ways to play with each toy! 💛

@Abcdefghijajajaja

2 жыл бұрын

She’s not an animal?………

I've watched this twice. I love the toys and the shelving ideas. Thanks for posting. I'm inspired!

As much as I love the collection you owe, it's to much, overwhelming for any child and plenty for a whole waldorf kindergarten. Think about rotating maybe. Rather than having all our at ones.

I can’t wait to start my wooden toy collection I have a few, but starting a daycare in September so I can justify collecting them and they look so so beautiful!! Definitely love the Waldorf ark piece and I want to get a pikler triangle for my sons second birthday

She'll never need any toys for like 5 yrs! She has so many amazing toys! Wow! Awesome collection of the best toys you can get.

Thanks so much for sharing all of these toy ideas! I am getting a rainbow stacker for my almost 2 year old for Christmas along with the colored wooden balls and possibly the half circles. I hope she loves them as much as your daughter.

@DianaMcNeill

4 жыл бұрын

My daughter was just over 2 when we introduced these beautiful toys (it was ALL batteries and flashing lights before then 😬) and honestly it’s such an open receptive age. Just use pinterest, Facebook groups and/or instagram for inspiration on setting up play invitations for her. I think it helps a lot at that age. My daughter is 4 now and she does more independently 🤗 I’m always amazed by the things a child can come up with though for seemingly simple toys!

@romaynerae8820

Жыл бұрын

My son was 2 when I bought the rainbow too and he’s 4 now and still plays with it :)

Childhood the way it SHOULD be! Great job Mom!🤩

Great video, thank-you for showing what else you can do with them, I have no imagination so this is what I need. Spent ages trying to find this video as I watched you this morning on my TV and now I'm on my phone, subscribed!

Omg I love toys too! I only have a 3 year old and a one year old and I’m on the minimal side but the collection is growing quickly. You have some amazing items.

Absolutely love this video! Its given me alot of great ideas thankyou

Lovely tour, although I do find there are too many toys. I'm guilty of this as well. Wanted, still want, to be a minimalist mama, but it is hard to not get caught down the rabbit hole. So many pretty toys. 😂🙈💕

Nicely done! Thank you for sharing!

Nice video I would love to see a more detailed look of your collection of open ended wooden toys

Amazing toy collection! Now I want to shop lol.

My favorite of Riley’s toys is her wooden animals. My son who is almost your daughters age watched this with me and was really interested in Riley’s marble tree. My favorite toy growing up was marble works. Hours of entertainment :-) However we have a 5 month old so I’m a little anxious about having marbles in the house.

Also love the gemstone blocks!

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

They are definitely a favorite of mine - one of those toys I really bought for myself 🙈. My husband and I have had fun trying to stack them all! Haven’t even mastered the basic stacking yet, definitely not up to the level of stacking off the angles!

@thegollogang5828

4 жыл бұрын

I tried searching for them but since I'm in the US and unaware of how it's spelled ik having a hard time locating them can you please link ot at least type out the name so I can find them!

The wooden toys are great. I like the rocker/slide too. But children do not need a "play stand" It is more fun for a child to use ordinary household items and furniture to create their own pretend play space/ shop/ den etc. I think the Two enormous wooden frames are unnecessary. Children can build up great creative intuition if they don't have a ready-made frame and can invent their own spaces with the power of their imagination and a few ordinary household objects.

Such a beautiful collection of toys!

Shout out to the National Trust Handbook on the top shelf. So many ideas for my Baby Boo, thanks!

Great video and superb collection of toys :) Please make a detailed video on Riley's books collection.. will love to see it

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you watching and for the suggestion...I’ve added it to my list of videos to film :)

That's the playroom of my dreams.

Love your videos. Beautiful ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Where is the play stand from?? I would love a video on it. Looks like the best idea ever... 2 shelves that can convert into different things with some imagination and all the wooden toys you have provided her with.

It seems a little overwhelming. Play is important, so you can spend an hour outside every day playing in nature with what nature has to give, an hour or two on life skills, an hour with a playgroup. It's true that toys are important, but we don't have to introduce everything at once. I appreciate the video though, It gives me some ideas.

@HarrietFitzgerald580

5 жыл бұрын

laliday it does seem overwhelming. It seems like enough for a slew of children. Can't imagine what'll happen over the years, seems like there's enough to last a lifetime. 😅 I'm totally guilty of this too though, although to a lesser degree. My kid is going on two as well and honestly I know I've got too much. It's hard to not get caught down the never ending rabbit hole of toys. 😂🙈

@laliday

5 жыл бұрын

@@HarrietFitzgerald580As long as we try. Kids get anxious when they receive too much. Sometimes they can't focus or can't play independently. It's not criticism of the video. I'm just trying to navigate this and find middle ground. I like some ideas I just plan to execute some things differently.

@HarrietFitzgerald580

5 жыл бұрын

laliday same. It's all about trial and error. First world problems and honestly even a generation, certainly two, ago too many toys was not an issue. The toy market has truly exploded and kids are being marketed things younger and younger. Going into any store nowadays can be difficult as many stores are become superstores. I'm doing the groceries and there's now a kid isle.

@DianaMcNeill

5 жыл бұрын

We actually do go on nature walks and play at the playground of course 😬. We’ve stopped going to playgroups as actually that environment was extremely chaotic and made Riley anxious - obviously every playgroup is different but the ones in our area aren’t the best - we opt to take her to soft plays, playgrounds and museums instead as she much prefers that. Helping with life tasks is also a part of daily life - she helps me with chores - when she wants - like doing dishes, cooking, mopping - in the ways a 3 year old can. Toys at home haven’t been overwhelming as we keep things tidy. She knows where things belong - where to find them when she wants to play and where to put them away when she is done. I’m not trying to say we are perfect - obviously life for everyone has tough moments. But you can’t assume we just stay shut in and don’t see and do things in the world from me showing her toys. I’ve only shared her toys as when I swapped her toys over to open ended from traditional types I saw a big improvement in her creativity and enjoyment. 🤗

@DianaMcNeill

5 жыл бұрын

Natural Vegan Mom the irony is when we have parties or a few of her friends over at once I put toys away and leave out less. I’ve found ‘more’ for a ‘slew of kids’ to actually be more overwhelming. But for just my daughter - it’s fine as she knows what she has, where to find it and where to put it back. Her play is lovely and imaginative. I have zero regrets for the toy selection she has 🤗.

Thank you :)

Great video and great storage ideas !:)

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🤗

Wow I think you're collecting toys for yourself... It's easy to see why, since all of these wooden toys are the best on the market. Definitely enough toys for multiple kids - she needs a sibling ;-)

@LoveRachelXOXOXO

5 жыл бұрын

Astrid Neumaier some of my kids toys are more for me than them (not all, just a couple). Just because you’re old there’s wrong with having fun :-)

I love toys too 🥰 now I have a 10 month old I have to stop myself buying everything. I'm trying to wait to see what he is into 😂

I am with you when it comes to toys. On my channel I mostly review toys and games and use i for learning. The more kids play, the more htey learn.

Hi Can you make a vidéo on holztiger animals ,ostheimer......,and about Magic wood eco bloks,,pleaaaaaase😊

My favourite toys out of the ones you showed are the wooden animals, the reed flute/recorder and the grimms half circles. My favourite toy as a child wasn't a real toy, it was a long rope that was hanging from a very tall tree at my grandparents'house (I stayed there every weekend). It was attached to a branch about 9 meters above the ground and had a loop at the bottom, about 1 meter above the ground. Me and my nieces and nephews and my older brother and twin would use it as a swing or spin it around with one person standing in the loop or we would get bamboo poles and smack the rope around. My second favourite where all our dens, we would go there for "secret" meetings and make witch brews. My third favourite toy where my pens and I also liked my dolls and stuffed animals. I had more standard toys such as barbies, but I never really loved them (did love my lego, magnastix and K'nex but I was not encouraged to play with those "because they're for boys").

The stacking stones/rocks look amazing...the size is wonderful for a smaller child. Do you mind sharing the brand's name pls?

I’m also having trouble with storing vehicles my son loves ships and we have around 5 and my husband is a driver and we have all sorts of trucks. I’m thinking of building a shelf up high but I get lazy because I would have to bring them down everyday

Thanks so much for this! I would love to see a detailed video of the wooden animals you mentioned in the beginning! What was the brand again?

@wellhellohair

6 жыл бұрын

Never mind.. I see the answer in the description box lol I don't think they deliver to the US 😩😩😓

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

The brand is Ostheimer- they are a German make and definitely stocked by some US stores as well - you can do a google search but I know Bella Luna Toys carry them. Another great brand worth looking into is Holztiger - they are similar but slightly different and people tend to prefer one or the other.

@wellhellohair

6 жыл бұрын

Attached Mummy thanks so much! 💕

@AEBaughm

5 жыл бұрын

@@DianaMcNeill, what brand were the wooden dinosaurs?

@DianaMcNeill

5 жыл бұрын

AEBaughm dinosaurs are Holztiger 🤗

Thanks for the video! My favorite was probably the Black's Toy stacker. Wish I could get it here in the US. I went and looked at Black's Toys on the website you left below and now I want them all lol. My baby girl is only 11 months but she loves her Anamalz. Mostly just for mouthing. :) Oh and I would love to see that playstand video!

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

I think they will ship to the US but it would probably be expensive - but customer service is really great so they would let you know if you send them a question. The Blacks Toys are massively popular here - they literally sell out in minutes from being put on the site 🙈. If you are interested in trying to get your hands on a piece I highly recommend joining their babble Facebook page as they announce exactly when stock is due to go live...people literally wait online with their fingers hovering over the buy button to get some of these toys 🤣.

@lizplathe9125

6 жыл бұрын

That's how I feel about a waldorf b/s/t Facebook group I'm in! You literally have to live on that page to claim something before anyone else does lol

Totally agree with you. Playtime is so important and having open ended toys so children can use their imagination is the best. Where did you get the small wooden shelf on top of the Trofast with all the animals?

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

The shelf is actually part of the playstand - it’s meant to go across the back of the two so you can use as a shop or something similar. I just use it all over the place...I feel like just a narrow set of shelves on their side could do something similar? It’s a very basic structure so could be made easily of your handy 😬.

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

The playstand is a a German brand called Bio Kinder and it’s the Anna range but not sure if it can be bought in the US (I think that’s where you are?) as I’m in the US and had it shipped from Germany.

Hello! Great video. Trying to do a non toxic play room and love your ideas. Question about the green and wood storage bins/drawers. I’ve always wanted the ones from ikea but are the bins plastic and if so do you know if they are safe and non toxic or because they only hold the items is it a concern? Thank you!

Where to buy the playstand dear?

Thank you for your video! I don't see anything wrong with the amount of toys you have as long as she plays with them. I have a question, though. I can't seem to find the semicircles anywhere. Would you mind giving an amazon link or something like that? Thank you much!

@MissTiffanyK1

5 жыл бұрын

I don't see it in Amazon, but they sell it at Bella Luna Toys: www.bellalunatoys.com/collections/wooden-blocks-building/products/grimms-wooden-semicircle-building-set

What brand is the balance board?

Where is that dollhouse from? Great video btw 😊

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

The brand is Grimm’s - depends on what country you live in for where you can buy - I’m in the UK and bought from yes Bebe in the US I know Bella Luna Toys stocks Grimm’s (both online stores). For other countries I’m not so sure but I know Yes Bebe do ship to other EU countries.

@grabruloot

6 жыл бұрын

Attached Mummy Thanks for the info 😊

Any chance you might be able to list some of the brands of the wooden toys you have?

@MM-yh2mi

5 жыл бұрын

Grimm’s, Holztiger, Ostheimer

I love toys too but i cnt afford them but am Trying my best to get some for my baby boy

@DianaMcNeill

4 жыл бұрын

Aww I don’t know how old your little boy is now but honestly kids ‘need’ so little and I promise they end up piling up over the years and before you know it you will feel surrounded by them 🙈

can you tell me where you got that bee stacker from?

@DianaMcNeill

4 жыл бұрын

Julia Doula hi it was from YesBebe.co.uk but from a couple years back. Not sure if they are selling them anymore. The brand is Derevko.

@juliadoula1104

4 жыл бұрын

@@DianaMcNeill they dont :/ but still thank you for answering

does anyone know the name of the gemstone blocks?

@DianaMcNeill

5 жыл бұрын

Hi they are by the brand Ocamora and are called Teniques 🤗. I bought mine from YesBebe.co.uk

What is the green seat in the corner called?

@MissTiffanyK1

5 жыл бұрын

Moluk Bilibo

Please Can you tell me the Size of the magic Woods marble tree ,is this the medium one or the Big one???

@DianaMcNeill

5 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, it’s the mini (38cm). Was so much bigger than I imagined when I got it as well!

@Ahlemoumadam

5 жыл бұрын

Lol that's what i thought,i want to buy one for my 2years old son,i Was hesitating about the Size, thank you si much for this video,greetings from Paris 😉

Do peg dolls fit into the holes in the grimms calendar

@DianaMcNeill

5 жыл бұрын

Hi - not if you mean the Grimm’s peg dolls but you can find smaller peg dolls that will fit in them.

@LoveRachelXOXOXO

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

What brand were the gem/jewel blocks? I didn't find them on yesbebe

@DianaMcNeill

5 жыл бұрын

Nicolette Hyman they are Ocamora Teniques 🤗

@MissTiffanyK1

5 жыл бұрын

Bella Luna has some that are Grimms, and I have a similar set called Water and Lightening Pebbles

I am super late to this video, but would you be able to list the name of the wooden animal company and the stacking toy that looks like gems? Would love to get some for my 18 month old

@DianaMcNeill

5 жыл бұрын

Whitney Eckert hi - the animals are by a German brand called Ostheimer and the stacking gemstones are by a Spanish Company called Ocamora (the gemstones are called Teniques). I got both from Yes Bébé - a company here in the U.K. Not sure where you live though 🤗.

@whitneyeckert7

5 жыл бұрын

@@DianaMcNeill thank you so much!

@carygirl1990

5 жыл бұрын

I came to ask the same question! Thanks for sharing all these wonderful open-ended toys! #goals

Please

Where did you get the doll furniture you said was cheap?

@DianaMcNeill

4 жыл бұрын

flurry island amazon 🤗. It was so long ago I don’t know the exact set (was a random brand) but I have noticed there are many sets that are all very similar 🤗🤗🤗

Hmmm maybe you could do a giveaway? No lie, it took me 2 months worth of saving to get the Grimms rainbow (in medium) and the dinosaurs lol

Do you home school?

@DianaMcNeill

6 жыл бұрын

Yes - my daughter is only 2 1/2 now so we just learn through play but I do encourage certain types of play to help her learn 🙂

You need to declutter! You have to much toys smh 🤦‍♀️

@lanajohnson8424

4 жыл бұрын

Decluttering is overrated.

@thequirkykittymeow6038

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly it's not clutter she keeps it very organized .

That’s too many toys