Stick Joins Toy Hall of Fame

The wooden stick is the latest toy to be inducted into the New York based National Toy Hall of Fame

A small selection of wooden sticks, including a pistol shaped stick join such classic toys as the bicycle, the yo-yo, the teddy bear and Monopoly. The stick was one of three items nominated for induction by around 35,000 Americans. The other two toys were the baby doll and the skateboard.

I’m not sure I agree with the decision. Isn’t a stick an object that is used as a toy rather than being an actual toy? If a stick is included then how about a saucepan and wooden spoon – otherwise known, as many parents will know, as a drum!