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What does your child play with that aren't toys???

Mics_chick
Mics_chick Posts: 12,014 Forumite
in Marriage, relationships & families
Don't know if anyone else has got a kid like my 2yo ds but he's got toys and likes playing with them but he spends as much if not more time playing with "non-toys" such as:

coat-hangers
dvds
jiffy bags
envelopes
mouse mat
credit cards :eek:
rolls of sticky tape
You should never call somebody else a nerd or geek because everybody (even YOU !!!) is an
"anorak" about something whether it's trains, computers, football, shoes or celebs :p :rotfl:
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  • Rikki
    Rikki Posts: 21,625 Forumite
    My youngest used to play skittles with empty sunny delight bottles and a soft ball.
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  • Penny_Watcher
    Penny_Watcher Posts: 3,518 Forumite
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    When my kids were little pans and wooden spoons were favourite (oooh my poor head :eek: )

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  • Slapps
    Slapps Posts: 654 Forumite
    my ds plays with my gas central heating controls and is costing me more than he earns lol
    1st son born 11/02/05 2nd son born 09/01/08
    thats all i'm adding to the human race so think yourselfs lucky lol
  • Feisty_Fairy
    Feisty_Fairy Posts: 784 Forumite
    PEGS, both of mine were really happy with my peg bag, we would fine pegs everywhere though, still do!
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  • Rikki
    Rikki Posts: 21,625 Forumite
    Feisty_Fairy wrote:
    PEGS, both of mine were really happy with my peg bag, we would fine pegs everywhere though, still do!

    I'd forgotten about the pegs. Hours of fun both my two had with them.
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  • gingin_2
    gingin_2 Posts: 2,992 Forumite
    My daughter (almost 3) plays with clothes, clothes and erm....clothes. She constantly tries on a variety of ensembles regardless of who they belong to and loves the long length mirror in my bedroom.

    Shame she hasn't learnt how to put them away properly yet.
  • Swan_2
    Swan_2 Posts: 7,060 Forumite
    years ago I had some friends who's 4 year-old asked for, & got, a large red plastic dusbin for Christmas, & he played with it far more than any of the other stuff he was given
  • Phil_rich
    Phil_rich Posts: 270 Forumite
    My 18month old son loves the washing machine. He puts things in, closes the door, opens it again, gets the stuff out then starts again. Keeps him happy so is fine with me.
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  • djdido2
    djdido2 Posts: 3,446 Forumite
    Hee hee!!

    My ds loves the bubble wrap I have bought for my little ebay venture. He also rags dvd'd and cd's out of there boxes and will play happily for hours with the ones he has managed to ruin so far.

    He also likes a damp dishcloth so he can randomly wipe anything he walks past. Got him trained up already lol.
    I'm not a "SINGLE" mum, I'm a "DOUBLE" mum!:D
  • dumpy
    dumpy Posts: 520 Forumite
    I apparently loved the cardboard boxes that toys used to come in. Well a toy doll is only a toy doll but a box can be anything with a bit of imagination!

    Didn't have to be a toy box either, any box would do, especially the ones you can get into!
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