Dog Toys - Yum!

See this table setting in our play house center?  Looks delicious, doesn't it?  That's because I stopped using that dinky, plastic play food you usually buy for children to use, and starting buying dog toys instead.

Yes, you read that right.  Dog toys.  Tough, durable, able-to-take-a-beating-from-a-mastiff-and-a-class-of-Kindergarteners dog toys.  Yeah, they may cost a bit more, but they last for YEARS.  Plus they're very realistic.  And more importantly they're non-toxic if the kids put them in their mouth (which we all know they will at some point.)

Hint:  Check out your dollar stores!

(The dog toys are as follows (from lower left and going clockwise: hamburger, hot dog - chicken quarter, bacon - hamburger, t-bone - hot dog - and of course the sundae in the middle.)