My favorite toys when I was a little kid were the wheelbarrow, the hammer, rope/twine, and the spade shovel.  I guess I like hatchets, knives, and matches when I could get my hands on them as well.  Anyways, give a kid a shovel and a place to dig in the back yard...hours of fun!  With a wheel barrow and a hammer, you can fill up on cool-looking rocks at the old stone pile by the edge of the potato field and spend hours breaking them open with the hammer, although sometimes it's easier to just throw them against other rocks.  Oh...and the bucket is a great toy as well.  You can fill it with clay from the stream and then make little pots and dry them in the sun...or just smear the clay all over your body.  Needless to say, with a little twine or an old hay rope, one can make a pretty good bow and arrow set.

Stop shopping in toy stores and toy aisles.  If you want to enrich childhood, show your kid the garden shed.