Toy

A toy is an object that young Sims can play with in The Sims series. Some toys increase skills or secret skills.

Toys in The Sims
There is a toy box in buy mode which has a Fun rating of 2, and can only be used by children. Makin' Magic adds a pink toy box that occasionally dispenses Faerie Dust, which is a magic ingredient for kids. There is the Urchineer Train Set by Rip Co., which is a scaled-down kid's model of the adult train set. There is also the Will Lloyd Wright Dollhouse, which can be used by one or more Sims.

Toys in The Sims 2
In the base game, there is a toy box in buy mode, and some expansion packs and stuff packs have toy boxes. All toy boxes have a Fun rating of 7, and can only be used by children. The Will Lloyd Wright Dollhouse returns. Also, toddlers have special skill-building toys that only they can use, though older Sims can play with toddlers who are using them.

In The Sims 2: Open for Business, Sims can craft toys at the toy making station, or can buy toys that other Sims have made. In general, these toys can be used by older Sims, though the Twirl, Spin, and Wobble! can only be used by toddlers and children.

Toys in The Sims 3
Toys in The Sims 3 generally raise the fun motive. A few toys let toddler and child Sims learn skills that they normally could not, but the skill is usually capped far below its upper limit for these life stages. There is no Toy Making skill in The Sims 3, however the Inventing skill introduced in The Sims 3: Ambitions will allow Sims to construct some toys.

In most cases only young Sims can use toy objects, however Sims with the Childish trait can also use most toys.

Special toys

 * Wugglesworth Schnuggles Bear
 * Ducksworth of Bathington
 * Inventing widgets.

Skill toys
In The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, the following toys increase skills for the respective life stages.

Toys that teach Toddler Sims skills
 * Rip Co. Xylophone (Creativity) (Guitar)
 * Rip Co. Wobbly Wabbit Head (Charisma)
 * Magical Mystery's "Shape, Rattle & Roll"/Baby Brainiac Peg Toybox (Logic)

Toys that teach Child Sims skills
 * Rip Co. Little Baker Oven (Cooking)
 * Chess table (Logic)
 * Genesis Building Blocks (Mechanical)/(Handiness)