According to all almost everyone I interviewed for this BBC feature - children don't need many toys at all. OK, this message won't make me popular with children, grandparents or Toys R Us at Christmas... just call me Scrooge. Are children given too many toys?
If you've got any good photos of your kids 'colonizing' your stuff into inventive toys, then do post them on Twitter to #whatmychildmade and the BBC might publish them.