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

kay41_2

evilwitch wrote:

My 10month old is obsession with the phone and tv remotes. She thinks its the best thign ever to have a remote in each hand.

The recycling box. Empty coke cans are a thing of delight.

Cat food. Why buy rusks when cat crunchies are so much more tasty and make such a lovely mess on the floor that can be flung into every corner and the empty dish makes such a good loud bang noise. If there's water in dish its even better. God help the poor old cat if it tries to eat when she's around. She rushes straight there and shouts and whacks poor old cat as if its no right eating her 'toys'

Washing. dry/wet/clean/dirty. I'm trying to think she's helping mummy but I think I'm fooling myself

The door on the living room. She cannot stand it being open. Other doors don't bother her its just that one, she goes over to it and shuts it. We have such fun playing the shut the door again game for hours on end


Thinking about it I don't think she's actually played with any toy today at all.:eek: :rotfl:

I remember the washing thing too - it used to drive me insane - she was always pulling it off the rack - I think I even used to set up a small one with clean teatowels on it so she could pull them off. A friend of mine filled a empty baby wipes tub with small scarves and bits of fabric and her child spent hours pulling these out through the holes! My daughter was brough a beautiful wooden doll's house when she was 18 months old and spent the first 6 months dropping the dolls through the hole in the roof! Great game!

kay41_2

this has made me laugh loads - I think my daughter was quite good really. tupperware boxes - she had her own 'plastic' drawer in the kitchen with all her plastic boxes and cups in, washing up was a favourite in the summer, she had a little washing up rack and a plastic teaset and spent hours washing it and rewashing it! For a time she put the wicker waste paper basket on her head quite a lot, she had a little rocking horse and I really remember her rocking on it with the bin on her head! Loony. Basically I have been able to trust her in another room since she was about 2. The other great game was sliding down the stairs on her tummy (she did this even before she could walk!) and flapping her feet to gain speed! The other things that have always provided hours of fun are things like earwigs and worms that she keeps as pets. A woodlouse had a short but very exciting life skiing down our banisters with a mushroom and bit of carrot to eat in it's nest! Poor thing died of fright I think after about 30 minutes! Best cheap toy - a bit of floorboard sanded and oiled with holes drilled in it and a bit of old rope tied round our apple tree - instant swing that she still plays on 4 years later!

Sarahsaver

corks
lychee pips
sheets (wrapped around them in various ways for different effects)
Brooms and dusters (fantastic they think they are playing, they are doing housework - bargain!;))
They also once did a poo in a cup to see what owuld happen when you left it a couple of days
I think children with such imagination will play with anything.

CRICKETWIDOW_3

my 6 year old girl loves nothing more than playing with my cloths line and a old bed sheet, making den's !! then she fills her den with furniture the washing basket is a kitchen table, pillows are seats and toilet roll inners are cups ???

When my son was 2 yrs he would love playing with a toy hoover hes how 9yrs and loves hoovering up with the real thing, he'll make a fantastic husband one day.

my 6 month baby boy loves throwing telephones, mobiles, remote, etc but doesnt even hold any of his toys and to make matters worse he laughs after throwing them its a good game .

Mics_chick

kay41 wrote:

My daughter was brough a beautiful wooden doll's house when she was 18 months old and spent the first 6 months dropping the dolls through the hole in the roof! Great game!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Think this is very funny!!

My daughter used to do a similar thing - she had her doll's house when she was 2.5yo and she used to put all the dolls that came with it behind the back of the table it was standing on?? One day she just suddenly stopped doing it - I've no idea why she did it and why she stopped?

Kids are a bundle of fun but they don't make much sense sometimes :rolleyes:

lizbug

my 8 year old daughter likes nothing more than to wrap herself up in an entire roll of sellotape and jump around the house, unfortunately it never occurs to her to actually tape over her mouth so there is always lots of shreiking going on too!