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

soozig

My son was obsessed with cardboard boxes...one night i went into his room to check on him and found he'd put a large box on top of his bed and was fast asleep inside the box

cosmile

my daughter loved tape measures (the soft type) played with it for ages.

Mics_chick

My ds also plays with some of the things you've posted in this thread - to me cardboard boxes/wooden spoons/saucepans are "normal" cos most parents I speak to their kids have all played with them and some have even given their kids them to play with...

Also in my experience all kids play with keys/phones/remote controls because that's what they see most often in their parents hands!!

My ds also likes playing with loo-rolls - full or empty :rolleyes:
kitchen timer - the new twisty one that we bought to replace digital one he broke :eek: but he also loves lids for squash/pop bottles (he used to squeal till I gave him one off my ever present cola bottle)

Now we have to turn washer off at the wall so we know if it's finished properly or he's just turned it off :wall:

stampyfoot

My Son loves my jewellery box, and my make up. He found my expensive Clinique moisturiser I got for christmas and started making up 'potions' it was 3/4 full this morning, now I have none left. He managed to smear it all over the bed and pour the rest in my jewellery box.:eek: :eek:

ailuro2

old sheet and two chairs to make a den...add cushions to make a sleepy den.:D she's 8 now and still loves doing it.

pingua

9 months - coat hangers, p.c, remote controls and plug scokets and any little bit of paper/rubbish he can fit in mouth are fav at the moment. Although he does have his eye on the toilet brush so we have put them on window sil but he screaches and tries to climb up on the loo !! Hygenic hay??!! Oh and toothbrushes and pens.

crutches

all my son wanted for his 3rd birthday was to stand on a bridge and his dad drive through the ford next to it and splash him for 30 mins!

Alikay

My children used to get all the packets and tins from the food cupboards to play shops. I tried buying them a set from the ELC with miniature cartons and tins, but it just wouldn't do! They were the same with toy money -much preferred to empty my purse and their piggy banks of the real stuff.
Loo rolls were pretty exciting for them too. They'd bat the roll with their hands whilst it was on the holder and screech with laughter at the pile of paper growing on the floor!

gingin_2

Alikay wrote:

Loo rolls were pretty exciting for them too. They'd bat the roll with their hands whilst it was on the holder and screech with laughter at the pile of paper growing on the floor!

My DD caught in the act :rotfl:

newcook

My neice went through a strange phase of taking all the bottles :eek: out from under the sink and lining them up in a specific order by her dolls house and then about an hour later she would put them all back in the cupboard... low and behold anyone who needed to use one of the bottles or switched the bottles from the order they had been in - just one look from her and you felt told off!!!! She's only 4! (don't worry - eyes were V watchful when she was with the bottles)

I used to love playing with my moms earing box - I would spend hours taking them out pairing them up and pinning them in different parts of the pin cushion in the box.

maybe its a strange hereditary thing... :eek: