To ask which strange things your DC have been excited about?

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I popped into Wilko yesterday to stock up on craft bits for 4 year old DS. I grabbed him a 50p roll of masking tape as he likes it for making models and I have to keep getting the tool box out to find it.
He is DELIGHTED. He has spent the last half an hour thanking me profusely. I am the best Mummy in the world and may borrow his masking tape whenever I need to
Tell me I’m not alone in having a little weirdo!

Everyoneiswingingit I'm so stealing that idea this Christmas. My dc would love it.

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My 8 year old loves her roll of double sided sticky tape. She uses it for all sorts

When my DD was preschool age she loved to go to the greengrocer or supermarket, not in hope of a sweet treat but to talk to the vegetables.
They are still her favourite but she’s no longer a talker (she’s a teen)

Oh my ds also used to like looking at the fish in the supermarket on the fish counter.

I love this thread!

DGS(7) loves to browse through the photo books we have made of him. Every single time he repeats some form of: Isn't it amazing that I'm famous? Do people know I'm famous? I really am famous.

Bless his little tartan socks; he does entirely believe it, since there are books all about him :)

The dustbin lorry! He's 2 and every week when he hears it he will run and insist we lift him onto the window ledge to watch, he waves at the binmen and sometimes they wave back

Sponges! When my daughter was small she had an obsession with sponges. She got a pink pig one in her Christmas stocking one year and I swear she couldn't care less about anything else. She told everyone she saw that Santa brought her a sponge.

My one Yr old has an off cut of laminate floor. He takes it to bed and I have to fish it out of the cot when he's asleep so he doesn't take his eye out with it.

When DS1 was 2 he was obsessed with ladders. Bought a dolls house bunk bed furniture set to extract the ladder. Made his life that did. It came everywhere for about a year.

Now at the grand old age of 5, he thinks it's hilarious he was once so attached to a little wooden ladder.

Love the post its in the stocking idea! Ds1 would love that.

A 7 year old boy who adores buying a new cactus with his birthday money.

My dd1 (5 at the time) was learning about water in school and how it changes with the elements etc. This was during the winter and my dad had a frozen pipe which had split and he kindly gifted her the pipe to take into school. She was overjoyed and OBSESSED with that bloody rusty old pipe. Carried it everywhere, an excellent conversation starter with literally anyone who would listen. "Oh this, well this is my pipe. Did you know that when water freezes it expands"
Four years on, still on her windowsill

My 3 year old loves the purple syringes that come in call boxes. She has to take them to bed with her. There is one in every holiday picture of her. I found a secret stash of them under her pillow

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When my ds was around 6 months his favourite toy was "shakey bottle" an empty water bottle filled with pasta. He would literally sit for hours shaking this bottle!

If we tried to engage him with other toys he would just cry until he was reunited with shakey bottle. We used to joke that he needed to reach a daily shake quota.

Sadly shakey bottle just sits in a box unloved these days, its all about washing basket trains

We went to the pet shop today to stock up on last minute essentials for our new puppy arriving, while there the baby (18 months) saw one of those pigs that oink when you squeeze them, we already have one for the dog. She managed to grab it off the shelf and carried it round the shop, we ended up buying it and she’s just gone to bed with it never mind the 100’s of cuddly toys she’s had that get thrown out the cot!

Not my DCs but me... I asked for and got a black plastic dustbin - for my 15th birthday! DM was very bemused, but I loved it.

I remember when I was about 4/5 my favourite thing in the world was to sit down with a stack of mail order catalogues and a pair of scissors. I'd spend hours cutting out all the 'diamond' rings and bracelets from the jewellery section. I'd then cut the holes out of the middle and try and wear them!

DS is 12 and still loves a pristine block of blue tack or a large cardboard box to climb into.

This is the loveliest thread.

Both of mine adore Ikea we’ve been twice so far this summer holiday.

Once for meatballs and once for cheap hotdogs. Can really make a day of it pretending we live in all the fake houses, they like playing with the toys in the kids bit. And then for a “treat” (for me) they sit in the trolley and write on the location paper things while I get to browse the market hall bit.

I made tutus for them a while back (tulle knotted round some elastic, proper basic) and DD2 took a shine to a leftover bit of tulle.

This was at least two years ago and it’s still her most played with item that tarry bit of fabric can be anything in any game. Why do I even buy toys?!

His own calendar for his bedroom....he is 6 and he writes in for each day is school, oh and football training on Saturdays!

The Argos bloody catalogue, though i've made that into a treat for when she sees Nannie

Plugs, the electrical kind. DS(3) has a cupboard with completely random things that all have plugs on them. An old hairdryer, couple of travel adapters that kind of thing. He can play with them for hours on end. Needless to say they go nowhere near the actual sockets.

And also yes to trips the Curry’s to look at the washing machines and hoovers. He was VERY excited the day he discovered the other vacs like Henry but with other names!

Laughing my head off at octopuses bum hole and the little one with the bit of laminate!

Chortling at the lost bumhole episode .