Why Are Household Items More Appealing to Children Than Expensive Toys?

A psychologist and family counselor said: Through play with household items, children experience participating in the real world of adults, and through this they can feel capable. When this play involves enhanced imagination, it can increase its appeal for the child; sometimes a luxury, expensive toy cannot provide such appeal.

A psychologist and family consultant said: Children also experience the need to participate in the real world of adults through playing with household items, in this way they can feel empowered and when this game is accompanied by an increase in the child's imagination, it can increase the attraction for him and it can be said that sometimes a luxury and expensive toy cannot provide such attraction to the child.