Thinking about my childhood, the object I mos vividly remember playing with is a wooden dollhouse. I remember spending hours playing with it, thinking of different configurations of the rooms e creating different scenarios and situations with my dolls. I remember playing with friends and creating different stories but also playing by myself. I believe it has affected the way I think and learn because it allowed me to experiment with many possibilities of object arrangments and negotiation when playing with friends. It was also through this role-playing that I would recreate many situations I had seen or lived in throughout my life.
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Starting from the age of six, my father will buy me lots of books as gifts. Usually, when I have free time, I would read them. From storybooks to novels and lastly, textbooks as extra material for learning really influenced me to develop a habit of reading. And fortunately, I still keep most of them.
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I began skateboarding in elementary school and still remember my first attempts at learning to “tic-tac” – a process of generating forward momentum by repeatedly pressing on the tail of the board just enough to make the front wheels rise, rotating a bit, then dropping the front wheels back down.
A more experienced friend patiently showed me how to get started, and I spent the next several years learning new tricks and teaching them back to new skaters. I loved everything about the process – wandering around town with friends, getting creative on obstacles, and constantly helping each other to progress.
Mis recuerdos de la infancia están ligados a los libros, especialmente uno que era una colección de historietas de todo tipo y que nos disputábamos con mis hermanos al despertar
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Hola… tu objeto me recuerda un juego que teníamos con mis hermanos de construir con cartón un casa a la que lo podíamos sacar el techo y construíamos los objetos del interior…
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There were many religious objects where I spent a lot of my childhood, most of them frightening to me, however among them was a plastic ornament which was a red and ‘gold’ savings box in an irregular shaped base with a plastic golden molded (river) mill and a little white river wheel on it. I ignored the saints, the holy water and the crucifixes and instead played with the wheel on the mill. From time to time I got to put some small change in the box and then had to use a tiny sewing machine screwdriver to open the four miniature screws that secured the bottom of the base of the box. I opened and closed that box hundreds of times as a four or five year old, I might have had as much as 20P at times.
The box wasn’t the thing that was special to me, the tiny sewing machine screwdriver was the key object, the box took my attention because it was the only thing I could use that tiny screw driver on. (repeatedly)
The object was unusually small, even to my child’s hands it was small. I developed a penchant for all manner of tools and after first studying engineering in college I moved to training to become a field service technician where I had a full case of such tools… and a new world of ‘business machines’…
Which of course led to my early interest in computers and computing and creating computer games.
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I want to share the amazing experience I have had with Froebel’s Gift 1 - the ball. When Covid hit, I stood in to provide childcare for my new grandson. It was a perfect opportunity for me to explore what I was learning about Friedrich Froebel. My sister knitted 6 colored balls and shipped them to us to play with. I wished she could have been there to experience the absolute joy they brought to our play. We didn’t limit the play to just these though. We played with all kinds of balls. We dropped containers of rubber balls on the kitchen tile and squealed in delight in the sounds, colors and paths they took as they ricocheted off the various surfaces. Throughout the day we find the sphere shape all around and have fun dropping them to see what happens.
Froebel used verse in movement ball-games to convey a vast variety of learning concepts. Along with the play we use reinforcing vocabulary - “I found it UNDER the couch! It BOUNCED off the table!” “Where did it ROLL to?” This is a key point that I think is so simple to add to meaningful play. We sing to tunes like “Are You Sleeping” using location and movement words as the ball traverses about. We made up stories about the balls that disappeared over the back wall and the adventures that they may have encountered.
Froebel stressed the importance of the kindergartener - the guide - not the child. I had heard of Froebel many times but I never experienced Froebel until this play. The more I learn about his ideas and actually experience the Gifts the more in awe I am of the learning ahead. A whole new world has been opened up for me starting with the ball.
And the circle takes on an entire new universe with another childhood favorite - sidewalk chalk - it is so much fun to recreate the circles and shapes in the art of works like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers. There is so much to learn and to make!!
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Hi everyone!
I love solving puzzles!
One of my favorite object is the Rubik’s Snake Puzzle(or Snake twist puzzle). The puzzle has 24 3D right- angled connected triangles. It was a gift from my father and I became obsessed with it. It’s fun to play with. 
I fold the pieces and twist them to create different shapes and animals. I love it because of it’s 3D structure and the geometric patterns.
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So many interesting and special objects from my childhood. I can’t choose one only. So, let’s me to highlight that which really affected my way.
From BOOKS, I discovered new worlds…I put books in my school bag and sometimes imagined what heroes from the story which I read now are doing at the moment when I’m sitting at a lesson in my classroom? So, I like to imagine and write different own stories till now)))
I arranged my SOFT TOYS in rows and created my own classes. I was a teacher! At first, I explained my “students” math, geography, nature… after that I filled in their worksheets, and after that reviewed them and filled in a class journal. I’m a teacher till now))))
I and my brother had one pack of LEGO - it was a small house. It was from an amazing unknown for us world abroad: my father’s friend sent it for us from Portugal. How many times we re-built the house, made different other constructions, and played with them. It was fantastic! I love LEGO till now))) And LEGO became one of the most important childhood objects for my children too. We love LEGO altogether till now)))
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I liked it too! 
I played with it so often. And many-many years after, when I became a mother, I presented such toys to my kids. And we have had fun together) 
Good morning,
I didn’t remember a special object, except books. I love reading books. And I love to invent games. I remember our trips by car and I usually invent any game to have fun with my brother and my sister.
My parents told me that when I was two years old I only wanted papers and a pen, no other toys have any effect on me.
Kind regards and have a nice week
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jajaja It’s very similar to my smaller daughter room. Thanks for sharing Kathy
The thought of my childhood brings to my mind the concert of Aranjuez played by my dad’s record player in the living room.
I used to play with the music: act it out and dance to it. But also, I used to adjust my symbolic game events to the intensity, and the rhythm of the melody, especially my Playmobil never arranged with the purpose they were designed for.
Although sometimes it was a tune in the background, I was very conscious of the vinyl spinning round on the turntable. I asked my dad to let me display its cover on my bedroom shelf between my favourite toys. My toys were gone long ago, but the vynil has been there ever since.
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Me encanta que ustedes construyeran los objetos de las casas que armaban Bea 
Me da vibras de diseño de interiores + diseño industrial
Eu gosta muito desse brinquedo também.
Lembro-me de quando era pequena e brincava com meus primos construindo cidades, tudo precisava fazer sentido, eu gostava de criar as ruas e organizar o trânsito. As casas precisavam ter quintais e jardins. Acredito que meu “objeto” era a organização, estranho isso, mas era deixar as coisas organizadas na brincadeira, tudo precisava ser lógico.
I don’t have a picture anymore since I’m not sure this still exists, but I particularly remember a booklet that was sold outside of churches which my mother used that taught me how to read. The booklet just contained lists of words from start to end and no pictures. I appreciated that I got to learn how to read before entering kindergarten through my mother and that booklet.
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When I remember my childhood it is difficult to think of a single specific object. In fact, there were some striking objects that were important at different times of childhood. The first that comes to my mind are a lego box and a car to disassemble and assemble. I remember spending hours playing with these objects alone or with my brother, building different things with the blocks.
Then, another object that marked my childhood was the soccer ball, as it represents a different moment of play, now in a group, fun and with less concentration.
Finally, there were video games. My experience with them was that they gave me all the experiences that other objects gave me as well. I spent hours playing building games, games with various challenges, strategy, action, in a group or alone.
Anyway, I believe that my childhood was marked by these three objects.
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I used to play with houses a lot, and now that I am a teacher you have no idea how useful it is to practice storytelling with the kids through playing with the house. They talk a lot and make up stories with it and at the same time it is fun.
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I used to play Bingo with my mom very often, and at school as well. Now that I am a teacher, I realize I can teach numbers to children and play with them at the same time. They practice speaking while they reapeat the numbers once they find them on the board.