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I found an interesting article today with tips that are sure to create a lot of fun for your kids as well extra noise and headaches for you. MSN, Family & Parenting has an article about household objects that can be great toys (noise makers) for your little one. This makes a lot sense, as I’ve noticed babies usually ignore their bright and colorful toys and go after things we parents wouldn’t consider toys at all.
Baby bottle caps & straws seem to keep our baby occupied for several minutes. The straws aren’t so bad but the noisy bottle cap hitting and spinning on the floor can get to you. I sometimes ask myself, “why do I keep buying toys”? If my kid can be entertained by empty shoe boxes, cardboard boxes, wooden spoons, and other regular everyday items then Fisher-Price is going to start losing some business.
A few of the household items featured can also provide some fun educational benefits. With the different sounds, shapes, textures, etc. your child is sure to pickup a thing or two.
“Providing a variety of shapes and sizes will encourage your child to invent new ways to balance and build that a set of traditional square blocks might not. Plus, it gives him a chance to understand size relationships.“
Read the full article here: Terrific Toys from Around the House
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Thanks for this, had a good laugh. I let my kids play with my pots and pans all the time. They love it, and I can cook while they play pretend cooking.
Hi Parentsovernight!
Missed your posts. I am back on track again. I will visit you more.
When my oldest son was small he loved my pots and pans! That child was the happiest baby on earth at dinner time when I was cooking as long as he had a pot and a pan to bang together. Now, it was very noisy, but he had a blast. When he was a bit older, I would give him a plastic spatchula and he would play drums on his pots.
My daughters loved boxes. Anything that came in boxes, they had to play with and boxes would keep them content for hours. Still to this day, my girls love getting packages in the mail, not because they think they get something, but because they want to play in the boxes!
Hi Work at Home Mom Tara,
Thanks for stopping by. Wouldn’t it be great if pots and boxes kept them satisfied even as they got older?
Isn’t still very funny though when we see them throw the toy aside only to play with the box?
It is! I keep telling my husband we will start giving empty boxes as gifts to our smaller kids. HA HA