So, I was out in my back yard...hanging out. When I hear a ruckus in the living room. This doesnt surprise me, because my younger two are constantly AT each other. I go in to settle things down. I walk into them two if them kicking around the coconut I had bought...like a soccer ball.
I scratched my head at this...because they have like five soccer balls. Not to mention the thirty other types of balls we own!
What have you found your kids playing with...That just made you wonder? or chuckle...... or scratch your head a bit
My kids love brooms and dustpans. They not only love sweeping the ground, they love to pretend brooms and dustpans are swords and shields. It doesn't matter that we have plenty of play swords and sheilds either.
My twins love cardboard boxes! I can give them everytoy in the house but if they spy a diaper box forget it, they will play with it for hours. There are days I dont know why we have even bothered to buy anytoys at all
That made me giggle out loud :) Oh the things I have to look forward to...
My son is only 19 months, but he has the best time ripping up magazines, that can keep him entertained for a good bit. His latest though, is to pretend he's talking on the phone. Except nearly anything can be a "phone" to him. The funniest object he's done this with so far has been a kitchen spoon.
oh my - my kids have WONDERFUL imaginations!! sounds like yours does too!!!
My boys have turned fruit into balls, bananas into guns (typical boy!) and so much more...
there are times when I am VERY happy that they use their imagination - and then there are times when I want to SCREAM!!! URGH!!! I NEEDED THAT!!! for dessert, dinner - etc!!
they cant keep thier little feet out of dads workboots or his sandals or his tennis shoes. they clomp around the house in them and one of his hats and the next thing you know, dad cant find his work boot. hes diggin through toy boxes and lookin under beds. i actually enjoy that part too!
He can turn pretty much anything into a superhero outfit/weapon. Most recently he was running around wearing my sweater tied around his neck waving a tree branch pretending to be a wizard. He loves the cardboard rolls at the center of wrapping paper... swords, telescopes, ramp for matchbox cars, train signal.... all from that little roll!
card board boxes are always a hit at our house! They also love laundry baskets!
Yesterday it was a vinyl placemat ("a hat") and today it was a half-full box of bandaids - not to open and stick, just to shake like a maraca while shimmiing and dancing to the music in his head...
The kids always want squirt bottles ( we don't do guns)
They love junk mail and old magazines to cut up.
They love paper grocery bags and the card board tubes and of course Boxes!
Kristen will recycle ANY box ( even if its just a rice or macaroni box)
They are big on doing arts and crafts with recyclables...I am thinking if I am brave maybe this October we will save up enough gallon milk bottles to make the Skeleton I keep seeing...but that is a lot of empty milk jugs to be hanging around...
Cardboard boxes. My son LOVED the box his carseat came in.
The 'free' toys are the best!!
As an infant, it was a jelly jar half filled with water! The door stopper with the "Bshwaaaaoooonng-g-g-g-g-g-g!" noise. Kleenex in a box, or rather... out of the box. Like MAGIC, a new one just keeps popping up! Stop-action-noise by bwa-bwa-bwa-bwaing by face planting on the leather couch while verbalizing.
As a toddler is was wrapping paper, empty boxes, color coding laundry, shuffling about it other people's shoes, painting with shaving cream on mirrors, shaking a pringles can half filled with chips.
As an older kid, hangers and sticks have preformed 10 million uses/ played 10 million 'parts' in games. Gravity (hanging upside down off of a bed, jumping down the stairs, racing underneath or juggling those thin plastic produce bags.
You know... a study I would need to go look up to find the accurate numbers (aka I'm going to repeat my impression of the study, not the actual study) found that kindergarteners could find over 500 uses for a paperclip. A highschool senior, something like 16. The mind is an AMAZING thing when you're young.
Smile! You have imaginative children! What would they do with big cardboard boxes?
My 4 year old son likes everything that is not a toy. We can't leave anything hanging around because he will take it (mail etc). It drives me crazy at times! When we go to the park he picks up garbage like it is a treasure. An ice cream stick, a straw. I'm always scratching my head!
All the toys in thw world and my 6 year old daughter is obsessed with toilet paper rolls. She digs them out of the trash all the time and makes things out of them. I think it is super creative (she even made a telescope and a robot), but I had to draw the line when she dug one out of someone else trash and asked if she could keep it! :)
Wipes. Or kleenex. Either will do, as long as they can pull them ALL OUT. lol After I had my youngest, I caught my daughter playing with my sitz bath! (Yes, it was clean. She'd just pulled it out of the closet and thought it'd make a great bowl for cooking.lol) Strings. Sticks. The vine from a bunch of grapes. Remote controls. Mama's cell phone. (Only the real thing is fun!) Spoons. As in every baby spoon out of the drawer! I could go on and on...some days I think my babies prefer the "untoys" to the toys. ;)
