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How to keep your children’s toys clean.

When your child is a baby you will regularly wash all the toys they have. The rattles and soft toys should be washed frequently as they will get sticky and messy. Young babies put everything in their mouth too so it’s important to keep toys clean.

Plastic toys can be washed in warm water with a dash of washing up liquid. If toys are crusted up then a soak should loosen the grot and wash off. Toys that have crevices should be washed with a kitchen dish brush. Rinse and leave these toys to dry on the draining board.

Soft toys can be washed in the washing machine. Toys that are dry clean only should be put away and never played with! It’s madness to spend money dry cleaning toys so if a toy states it’s dry clean only then you can either try hand washing it or put it in the washer on a delicates or woolens wash. Don’t tumble dry them but peg them out.

Teddies can usually be washed fine in the washing machine but the problems start when it comes to drying them out. You can hang them on the washing line to dry or put them on a radiator. Toys that say sponge clean only should just be sponged clean with hot water. Don’t get them over wet though.

Construction toys can often get dusty if they are left alone for a while. You can fix a piece of a pair of tights over the end of the narrow nozzle on the vacuum cleaner and vac them free of dust. The fabric is thin enough for the vac to work still but prevents you sucking up the bricks. This can be quite time consuming though so you should try and store bricks packed away. For models that children have on display a light dust with a feather type duster on a regular basis should keep them dust free.

Dolls can be washed in the bath or sink. A child might enjoy washing the doll and can learn about washing hair this way too! Stand dolls upright to dry and do not use a hairdryer on them – allow them to dry naturally.

Toys that are played with in the bath should be rinsed in hot clean soapy water and then rinsed again in clean water. They can be hung up in a special bathroom net to dry.

Lego is a great toy. It’s been around since 1949 when the Lego toy company produced the interlocking bricks for the first time. They were called automatic binging bricks as they had round studs on top and a hollow rectangular bottom and could be fixed together and taken apart again with ease.

The company name Lego was coined by Christiansen from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means “play well”.

From 1963 the Lego pieces have been manufactured from a strong, resilient plastic known as acrylonitrile butadiene styrene – or ABS.

For many parents Lego is something they enjoyed when they were a child. There are probably tons of it stores in attics around the world and you can guarantee when it’s bought out everyone will want to pick it up and build something.

There are so many different sets available that you will always find something for your child to love! When they’re little there’s duplo child friendly blocks and when they’ve got hooked onto building they can progress to the smaller normal lego bricks. With technical sets available with motors and all sorts of fancy extras there’s something for them as they get older!

It’s such a popular product that there’s a lego theme park in the UK. Lego windsor is a great place to take the family on a day out. It’s known as Legoland and it has so many amazing lego sculptures and buildings that you’ll spend the day open mouthed in amazement. There’s an amazing fire academy with a lego fire engine and you can put out fires here too! It’s got loads of rides and lego attractions. Miniland features some 40 million bricks in buildings from around the world including Amsterdam, USA, Paris and London.