The Mother Nature Toy Company

 

With the geese flying and the leaves turning, Autumn is upon us with all of its splendor. And now with those leaves falling, walking through them is as enjoyable as it was when growing up. 

Besides walking through them when growing up, raking them was just as fun. My cousin and I would rake them into a huge pile. Then we would divide them into smaller piles. From those smaller piles we would construct leaf houses using our rakes as our tools. After forming leaf walls into place, we would divide the house into rooms. The bedrooms would be complete with leaf beds complete with leaf pillows. The kitchen would include a leaf table with matching leaf chairs. We played in our leaf houses until the wind blew them away.

When outside the other day, watching my grandson raking leaves that had fallen and then jumping into the huge pile of leaves he created, I had the strangest thought. 

The best Toy Company ever is the one created by Mother Nature, if that was ever possible. When you think about it, Mother Nature is responsible for those leaves my grandson raked. Then gathered into a pile. Then ran and jumped into the pile and repeated all of it over and over again. Mother Nature causes snow to fall which gets turned into snowballs, snow forts. Snowmen. Snow Angels. Mother Nature creates mud puddles for little feet in rubber boots to march through and splash in. The Mother Nature Toy Company brings sunny days at no charge. Those sunny days make picnics possible as well as baseball games and playing in sand boxes and going swimming and riding bikes.

After watching my grandson playing in the leaves, I am sure The Mother Nature Toy Company would come out the Winner of Best Toy Company ever despite no use of computers or phones with games or artificial coloring or a fee to pay. 

Mother Nature offers Play, pure, fun, enjoyable play with no strings attached.