There was a movie a couple of years ago called Toys. It took place in a toy factory and was about how a family run company invented and made new toys. It was quite a serious movie, showing not only the fun toys but also the war toys like tanks and guns.
The toys that the factory made were imaginative and colourful, perfect Stocking Fillers, they were for children who really liked to be children. The evil character in the movie was trying to make the factory only make war toys because they were more profitable.
The movie is quite old now, and children in this generation almost certainly would not have seen it, though some parents might have. The kinds of toys that children are allowed to play with also form their imagination and how they play with others.
If children are only using tanks and guns and pretending to be at war all the time, what kind of imagination is that creating? How can children who only play at war be peaceful in their lives?
Children's toys which are colourful and bright and are in the shapes of animals or tools create a different kind of imagination. Children learn to be creative and play well with each other not by being at war with each other but by playing together to have fun.
