When space is limited, toys need to be too. Wait...is this really true? No, not if you're space savvy: big toys can be replaced with small toys that are just as fun and do the exact same job. Here are a few small space alternatives to popular big toy items:

Landscape Dinner Set

• $42
• My Sweet Muffin

This set makes me think of summer camp dining halls with a designer twist. Playful and smile-inducing. Designed by Barcelona-based DOIY. 

OYOY Silicone Placemats

• $28/set of 2
• Huset

When young kids are at the table, cleanup is more than sweeping up crumbs. I like easy-to-wash and easy-to-wipe silicone mats and am digging these stylish, Danish-designed ones from OYOY.

If your child had the chance to give you any, ahem, additional facial features, what would she choose? I'm guessing you might end up with some kind of old-timey mustache, maybe a nose piercing, or perhaps some villainous eyebrows. With this DIY crazy family book, you'll be able to find out... and your child can indulge his creativity and sense of humor.

The Mad Hatter is always ready for tea time, so maybe you and your kids should be, too. If you stock up—or DIY it!—on these cute tea party essentials, your kids will certainly not echo Alice's sentiment: "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!"

Do you remember building stilts out of cans or wood? That has to be in one of my top happy memories. So when I saw my kids finding out how to do this, it made me smile really wide. 

I think I'm becoming strawberry-obsessed. It's part of my spring awakening every year: when affordable organic strawberries begin to appear in the stores. Thank heavens for fresh fruit! 

There was something so beautifully simple about the design of Fisher-Price's Little People in their prime: that circle face and peg shaped body that has allowed for so much imaginative play for so many children across the last 60 years. But Little People haven't always looked the way I remember them, or how my kids know them now. So...just what happened to the Little People?