favorite toy that isn't a toy

LOL..^_^ i still dont have a child, but sure i can share some of my memory.. im supposed to be like that^_^ i use to play with seeds, since we got sorts of vegetable seeds for the garden.. my mom says, i use them to act like my money, i pay them with seeds..^_^ i get stuffs like my dads shoe, my moms favorite shirt, my brothers and sisters stuff.. i act like having a store, and they cannot buy it unless they pay me the seeds i want^_^ when they take away my seeds and keep it, i always find them in a day or two^_^ when my dad recalls this, he just embrace me and we laugh together.. i really miss those days.. well im 22 now, i cant play anymore..eheheheh^_^ take care now, and happy parenting^_^

He sounds like my son. He played with the toys that I bought for him for just about five minutes and then he would look for his normal "toys" that include cell phone charger, a spoiled computer mouse, a spoiled electrical extension cord, empty mineral water bottles, old magazines and other stuffs that are not supposed to a be toys and the best thing is that he would play with those things for hours...

My almost 2 year old loves everything she isn't supposed to have. The kids have a little broom and she adores that thing. The kids had broken it years ago and I thought it got tossed but my dad saved it, taped it back together and had been using it for sweeping into the dustpan. She found it one day and wouldn't put it down. Now whenever I sweep she runs for her little broom. She is so cute. She gets into a lot of other stuff. She takes the drumsticks for our Rock Band game and will pound away on the drums. She actually has pretty good rhythm for a 2 year old and she broke the controller for my Game Cube by playing with it because she wanted to be like Daddy who is always playing video games. Of course both of those are "toys" just not her toys, lol. Her favorite thing to play with is my computer. She is always messing things up on it.

When I was little, I absolutely could not fall asleep without Myrtle, a pink candle shaped like a turtle.

That is so cute! I remember when my son was 2 or 3 he used to be extremely attatched to my swiffer sweeper type duster/broom thingy. He would go back and forth in the kitchen cleaning, then he would unscrew all the pieces of the handle, seeing how short it could get and still work right, then put it back together and start cleaning again!This seemed to go on for hours! Of course now that he's 8 and I WANT him to help with cleaning, now thats a different story!!!

My son had a passion for vacuum cleaners. We never had any problem with him in large department stores. We always knew where we would find him - right there examining every cleaner in minute detail. Same deal at anyone's house - straight to the vacuum cupboard. He had a sixth sense about where to find them. Now he's 11 and refuses to admit their existence. It was good while it lasted!

I remember playing with an expanding mesh basket at my babysitters house. I think it was a vegetable basket. It fascinated me! My six-month-old grandson likes to kick the keyboard tray shut when I have him on my lap at the computer desk. Now, he is getting his little hands on everything and likes to "help" me type. He likes to watch the fire-work type screen saver, too.

Wow--I don't think that is weird at all. My own girls when they were young loved 'helping mom' around the house and they had all kinds of toy brooms, mops, stoves, fridges, irons, ironing boards, etc, but loved to help mom use the real ones too. My four grandkids also llike to help out sweeping or vaccuuming, dooing dishes, etc as well. Household chores can be fun for them if you let them be. And 2 of my grandkids are boys! Thanks for this thread, love it!

Well, my daughter is very much fascinated with the rice dispenser... not only the one in our apartment... but even the one at my mother's house... she thinks they are like a place to put her toys and other stuff... because most of missing items in the apartment could be found inside the rice dispenser... She plays around it... scan books beside it... i just don't understand her fixation with rice dispensers...

Jerritt loved cooking utensils,wisks,spoons,measuring cups..etc. My nephew came over he's like 8 months and my brother thought I was a genius for giving him the dry plastic measuring cups and spoons, he was happy for hours playing with them!!When I was a little girl my mom said I was big on playing dress up if that counts, only I didn't stop with just her clothes,I would have my dad's sunday shoes on with her big garden hat and her aprons...that must have been a sight! :)

My daughter loves playing with cardboard boxes of any size and shapes. She put her softy bed in one of those long horizontal boxes along with her toys and declared it her Princess Playground. I remember playing with boxes when I was young. I think some toys comes cheaper than the ones we buy in stores for our children, they are more imaginative and can play with cheap stuff longer than the expensive toys. It enhances their imaginative play since my child would talk as if she's playing with someone and all her dolls are her playmates.

Pots and pans and a wooden spoon and boxes. Forget the toys, just give them boxes. Ainge

My 3 year old son is in love with the vaccum atachments- I can't keep them away from him to save my life...lol My 3 youngest all love the bathroom sink- it drives me crazy, but they have a blast. All 5 of my kids love boxes! It's a car, it's a plane, it's a hide-out... it never ends...lmao

My daughter loves tupperware! When she gets presents, she loves the wrapping paper more than the toy. But one of her favourite things is the vaccuum cleaner. She loves all the attachments.

As a child I had fun with cardboard boxes! I was never interested what came inside, whether it was a new television set, or piece of equipment for the house or even a new toy for me, I was far more interested in the cardboard box, there were so many uses for boxes as a child, I even embarrassed my mum because at primary school I had made a dog using boxes and I tied a piece of string to it and I dragged it all the way home! I also used to tie them together to make a train and I would pull that train all around the garden, we had a big garden and I loved it in, none of my more expensive toys bought for me got much of a look in, give me a cardboard box anyday LOL! Who'd have thought you'd get so much joy and happiness from a cardboard box eh!

a baby snake i love it so much.