This is currently my go-to tidying up game: it’s a super simple activity; great for developing fine motor skills and practising hand-eye coordination; and most importantly, it helps the kids actually want to pick up the ginormous pile of assorted items that they love to dump out a billion times a day. Sometimes. (And then they quite often dump everything out again).
But I can say that playing with tongs in general is so popular in our house that it was my older son, and not me, who taught his brother how to play.
Slow Days, Small Feet 
Our favourite tidying games are: ‘Who’s going to win?’ (aka laying down a challenge to motivate my tiny tidier) and ‘Colour sorting’ (Can you pick up all the blue ones…?)
However, if we’re feeling really ambitious, it’s a combination of the two: ‘Can you pick up all your blue ones before I pick up my red ones?’
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We also really like the colour sorting pick up! It’s great now with my almost 4 year old, but at 18 months his little brother is too small for it yet.
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