ABSTRACT This study aims to advance our understanding of young children’s contemporary collecting. Collecting is a prevalent practice among young children. However, extant research typically highlights children of school age and emphasizes functions and motives of collecting, but rarely considers the relevant affective dimensions. Furthermore, young children today collect on digital interfaces through gaming, and their play tends to unsettle digital–analog binaries. Still, no explicit attention has been paid to young children’s collecting in these broader contemporary playscapes. In this study, I plug into ethnographic accounts of young children’s collecting in Norway, sociomaterial affect theorizing of early childhood play and literacy, and the key concept of ‘answering the world.’ The children in this case are found to enact relational sensibilities to their surroundings and collect in ways that leave the unfolding of the activity up to chance. They put less stress on the acquisition of a set collection than on moving with and feeling the collecting. The world answered refers to broad playscapes composed of spaces of tangible, fleshy, organic forest floors, and shiny, blocky, vividly colored Super Mario Worlds. The relational sensibilities enacted are found to be entangled with the tension and discord of young children’s material–discursive conditions.