Hasta La Ideas

There’s an entire category of toys that involves emulating adult tasks, like toy sewing machines or the Holly Hobby EZ-Bake Oven. I always thought it was strange that these toys emulate distinctly un-fun activities; I mean who the heck wants to cook and sew? What is this, the 1800s?

A toy in this category that we’re surprised to see on the market is the Discovery Paper Recycling Studio. The kit actually lets children recycle paper (presumably without any harmful chemicals) and produce their own from the refuse, embedded with objects, as you can see in the sample photo above. And while recycling ain’t fun (at least not at real recycling plants) at least it’s teaching kids something important about the environment.

via gadget grid

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