The company Tomy over the years I've known
them have made a lot of very clever toys.
This one is brilliant. It's a way of collecting
sand in the hopper,
you've got to get as much sand here as you
possibly can.
So you start by...the sand has got an extraordinary pink colour to it but there we are.
It sits in the top hopper like that and starts
pouring down into these little rocking hoppers.
Then this little thing has got to catch as
much sand as it can and tip it down into there...
there's more over here, and they come over
to here.
Oh I missed that bit there, never mind.
Here's some more coming in here.
Oh, and some more over here. And so on.
The kids have a lot of fun with this.
And trying to see how much sand they can possibly
collect by the end of the run of the hoppers.
There's quite a bit more sand to come down.
It's a very nice little skill toy for children
to learn how to be skilful with their hands.
Well done Tomy.
