If you're a parent, you quickly find out that your baby is more interested in the everyday stuff. Our little one loves paper- anything from the bills we have waiting to be paid to a bowl of wrapped tea bags to books or magazines. Oh, and of course, there's jewelry and electronics too...
Over at Baby Gear they were asking this same question and listing a few of their own favorites including a parachute (like the kind used at Gymboree classes) and stacking cups.
What items does your baby gravitate towards?
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Eleanor loves our kitchen timer. She's fascinated by it!
Coaster, phones, remote controls.
My husband's Blackberry. The only way we can cut my son's finger and toe-nails is to let him play with it while we do the dirty deed!
paper, our cell phones (she somehow knows the difference between our real ones and my old cell i so smugly thought i could give her), shoes, the screen door and anything with a handle
my son loves to play with anything that has buttons especially our automatic garbage can int he kitchen
We have all these great toys, and she'd rather play with: the velcro closures on her shoes, my sunglasses, cell phones (except the toy ones), the TV remote (the real one, not the fake one we bought to keep her from the real one), any paper than can be ripped to shreds.
I forgot to add, she recently discovered an addication to plastic beach shovels. If she's ever upset we can hand her a shovel and it resolves the problem.
my son loves the dishwasher buttons and turn dial. cell phone, remote controll, and the KEY BOARD!!!
ipod touch- just waiting for the day I find a toy one at the dollar store
The tupperware cupboard, books with bookmarks, my dental night guard, curlers, votive holders.
vacuum cleaner, cell phones, keyboard, swiffer, remotes, lamps.
My ten month old son has been crawling around with a plastic ladle for the past few days.
She loves my wallet with all of the credit cards in their little slots (Should I be worried?!). She loves to pull them all out & then intently put them back.
She will also spend hours playing with snap buckles, the kind on her stroller and my camera bag.
mouse, keyboard, makeup, toilet, cell phone, broom, soda cans
My melon baller
Cuff bracelets, pearls, belts, my perfume bottle (davidoff) with the little cap that comes on and off, on and off, shoes...my son has good taste ;)
keys!
iPhone
Just going to buy some apps for preschoolers. I let my child play with it.
like a lot of the other posters, i find my son is fascinated with the remote control and cell phones. we recently retired our tivo, so Simon (my son) now has that remote--a real one!--of his own to do i-don't-know-what with.
he also loves paper:receipts, shopping lists, mail, etc. he likes to lick and chew on it!
his favorite household items are chairs and stools. he doesn't crawl yet, so he scoots around to get under the furniture, pull up on the bars, and push the furniture around the room. he's my little strong-man!
the usual - cell phones, camera, remote control, really anything with buttons. but it has to be real. fake stuff (or even old non-working cellphones and remotes do not cut it!)
the most "delicious" items are the remote control and my laptop.
My son (10 months old) also loves tearing apart catalogs.
oh, to entice babies away from real remotes and instead give them broken ones, my pediatrician made a good point... they need batteries in them to give them the same weight as the real deal.....
The remote of course. I can't tell you all the funny shows she's TiVo'd for us. And some good ones too (like Fight Club on AMC). I'm always interested to see what she's chosen to tape for us.
She goes crazy for my sunglasses.
The cats have also become unwilling playmates. They are truly saints.
Microwave oven buttons.
modern on long island raises an excellent point. My little guy can sense when he has a bum remote. It doesn't light up and it's not heavy enough.
He loves the remote and will constantly turn to the polish channel. I don't know why.
He also loves keys and always wants to suck on them and play with the buttons on the house alarm fob.
Sungiiis!
or sunglasses as she likes to call them. keys, cups, DVD player, anything in the recyle bin, flashlights, and of course the computer with mouse. She also enjoys going through the dirty laundry basket and announcing which article of clothing belongs to whom. She also loves to carry around her toothbrush.
The babe is 14 months old. My wallet is at the top of the list. If I need her to play quietly for five to ten minutes, I give her my wallet. Fortunately, there's only two pockets and a minimum of cards, so it's not too hard to put it back together. She like both landline phone and iPhone. She like remotes, but I think she really is trying to turn them on. We think she's trying to turn on the Atari Flashback II and play Centipede. Of course there are also shoes, socks, lids to pans, any container with a lid to take on and off, and any bags with a handle that she can carry all over the house.
Please keep your keys away from you child. Keys are a brass alloy that typically contains lead.
The crinkly package that baby wipes come in. My 12 month old can play with that for hours. He likes the way it crinkles, and he especially likes pulling out each wipe one by one. We don't even bother with other toys ;)
The close second are the straps on his stroller/high chair. When he's sitting in them, he's entertained and good to go for at least an hour.
mine is obsessed with a ball that she has named Spatula. then she found a small spatula in her play kitchen. that one is named Spatula as well. apparently, the ball is the father and the (real) spatula is the child. we are in for an interesting life with her. :o)