Childhood Toys - Rainbow Flakes

When I became a mother, I started becoming very nostalgic.

Whenever I look at my children, I tend to recall my own childhood.

The things they say, games they play, toys that they have, activities that they do during their leisure times. All these would take me back to the time when was a little girl.

I only have one sibling. Just like myself, my children only have each other as company. The difference is, we were both girls while my children were of different genders.

One of the things that I love is to see my children "re-living" my childhood. Playing the toys that I used to play or read the books I loved as a kid.

Me, reliving my childhood: Made a sun, a rainbow and an apple tree with my favourite toy.

My sister and I had a set of Saidina (which is the Malay version of the Monopoly), a Junior Scrabble and some card games such as the Happy Family and Old Maid, a set of Triominos and also a set of Rainbow Flakes.

Of all these, I loved the Triominos and the Rainbow Flakes the most.

Both toys are not common in the Malaysia market. When I mentioned about these toys to my sister in one of our conversations, she managed to get the latter for my children via the internet. (Hello!! I think I am living in the dinosaur age. Isn't online shipping the answer to everything?) And of course, I could also get the Triominos online but I haven't. Perhaps a gift for their upcoming birthdays? (Actually, we don't do the birthday thing. Will touch more on this in a different post.)

And so, here am I, playing with my childhood toy, reminiscing the past (On my own. haha!)

What was your favourite childhood toy? OR your favourite childhood activity?

Would you introduce them to your children? If you have, did they enjoy it as much as you do?

A Parade Float: A piece from my son, using my childhood favourite toy.

Note: The Rainbow Flakes that we had were a bit different from the ones my sister bought for my children. Ours were softer, bendable and did not have any numbers or patterns on them and the colours were different too! This new version is hard and couldn't be bended, thus, kind of difficult for my daughter to play with. She didn't have the muscle strength/fine motor skill to fix them together.

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