Around the house toys

[Michelle & Fids]

What kind of around the house items do you offer your babies for toys?

I offer phone books, plastic bottle caps, coffee filters, paper and I'm sure other things I can't remember at the moment.

[FeatheredPaws]

I have Muscadine Vines that I use to make "braids" out of for him to play with. He loves to tear them up! He also likes to attack my keyboard as I am typing, so I found him an old keyboard to peck away at! He tries to play with the cats' tails, but they don't like that...lol!

[doodadz]

We recycle phone books here mostly....some paper towel rolls and cheap tp from the dollar store...

[2horse]

I have a sweat shop here, phone books are changed into papermache, water dishes can be used to help with this. Confetti can be made if the water dish is not used. We are the suppliers of quality bark or toothpicks made to requirement by many different size tools. Plastic bottles and takeaway sauce containers yield recycled plastic products by the simple addition of incentive, peanuts to larger nuts can be used. Production of a particular recycled product cant be guaranteed for a particular day, and sometimes too many types get recycled the same day so a big pile of rubble to be swept up results. The only things that can be recycled instantly every time in the blink of an eye is unattended cell phone and remotes.

[doodadz]

The only things that can be recycled instantly every time in the blink of an eye is unattended cell phone and remotes.

yep....we have that factory here too....I try not to start that line up very often!

[DancingGreenBird]

I had mentioned to my husband a couple of weeks ago that he should save the caps off the 2 liter soda bottles and water bottles for Ollie to play with. Ollie had a lot of fun with them. Then my husband got the great idea to expand that to plastic tops from everything: mayonnaise lids, creamer lids, peanut butter jar lids, etc. They come in all kinds of weird sizes and shapes to give Ollie a lot of variety. We run them all through the dishwasher first. I'm embarrassed to admit that Ollie's favorite lid so far was the plastic cap from the vodka bottle.

Sherry

[Michelle & Fids]

LOL!!! I have never thought to give them lids, I'll have to start saving them.

[Phyllis]

Mine will fight me for soda bottle lids. AND if they can get their beak on it, nothing will do but they have to pull off the plastic ring left on the bottle.

[DancingGreenBird]

Now this is an item that I do NOT recommend as a toy; however, it is a funny story.

I was playing with Ollie in his room when my husband Pete wandered in. He had picked up a ping pong ball off the floor in the other room with the intent of putting it away after saying hi to us, but Ollie was absolutely fascinated by it. Pete was tossing it idly in his hand and the ball is bright yellow. As Pete was tossing it up and down, Ollie was bobbing his head up and down following the motion of the ball. Now I have played with many balls in front of Ollie and he has never used his whole body to follow the motion of a ball before. So Pete tried moving it horizontally and in circles and Ollie continued to move with the motion of the ball. It was amazing! Pete tossed the ball back and forth to me and it was like watching a tennis audience only a loud, enthusiastic tennis audience. Then Pete tossed the ball in Ollie's toy dish on his tree just to see what he would do. I was afraid that Ollie would immediately crush it, especially since he was running to the dish with great excitement, but he picked that ping pong ball up and threw it at us! We did this over and over and each time, he picked it up with the perfect amount of pressure, never cracking or destroying the ball, yet very hyped up and excited to play the game! I think he loved the sound it would make when it struck a surface. We had quite a blast with that ping pong ball. We will probably play the game with him again in the future but only if he continues to play with it so gently.

Sherry
Sherry