To think it’s normal for kids to play with old loo roll cardboard?!

[UncleBunclesHouse]

My DH thinks is very unhygienic to handle the cardboard tube out of used loo rolls and for DC to play with them. I think this is completely mad and have always known little kids to use them for building and crafts etc. I really don’t get it. AIBU??

All I could think was ‘this is has been in one of these kids’ bathrooms’

You’re worried about the fact it’s been in a room.

Seriously? 😂

We used to do to sing & shout through ours, that was before making our Christmas presents out of them.

@Thesearmsofmine

YANBU they are often crafted with or used as pretend telescopes here.

Here, too. They're great for viewing the cat, who joins in with trying to kill reach the observer and making toys for him to hunt treats in or attack.

We're 43 and 48.

I say ‘we’ but it was the organisation I was working with at the time where we did quite a lot of junk modelling. At home my toddler plays with them without a problem!

@seven201

We once asked for them to be brought into school for an upcycling project. One member of staff said "You can't do that. What about aids?" and would not have her mind changed. Utterly ridiculous!

I got in trouble with my dh the other day as I'd asked him to stop leaving empty loo rolls by the toilet so I put one on his pillow the next day when he did it again. He was not a happy bunny!

Yep that is part of the tactics that led to this ‘discussion’ 😂

We had a supply teacher at school in the 1980s who was very strict about not bringing in toilet rolls for junk modelling. I dont think the other teachers gave it a thought.
My DC have (thankfully) grown out of junk modelling but I think we used them.

Well.after reading this thread, it's a wonder the human race has survived - deadly junk modelling!

I think it's disgusting, even though I grew up doing crafts using it. Loo roll is banned in schools around here. We all use kitchen roll instead.

seriously? I couldn't bring myself to give a fuck about this. He's definitely over thinking it IMO.

We're not allowed to use loo roll tubes or egg boxes at nursery. There are substitutes for the tubes but not the egg boxes!

@Embroideredstars

Well.after reading this thread, it's a wonder the human race has survived - deadly junk modelling!

I'd take my chances with the pile of 'deadly' junk modelling over the group of snotty, germ covered, nose picking, non hand washing toddlers making the models any day of the week.

We don’t use them at school. It is a bit disgusting to be honest! Kitchen roll tubes fine.

Ridiculous 🙄

I'm going to use mine for planting vegetable seeds.

Kitchen rolls tubes could be teaming with bacteria from raw meat on a kitchen worktop and from hands.

@TroysMammy

Kitchen rolls tubes could be teaming with bacteria from raw meat on a kitchen worktop and from hands.

Very true! Never thought about that.

Ridiculous

Just when you think the MN hygiene obsessive self couldn’t get any worse.

Up pops this thread. 🤣

Well given that the toothbrushes in the bathroom will be sat a few feet away from the loo roll holders and exposed to the same aerosolised matter, I really can't get too worked up about this.

He can detox them first if he’s that bothered?

God knows how those of us who went to school before the year 2000 survived really. I was at school in the 70s and 80s, made numerous thinks out of toilet rolls, kitchen rolls, egg boxes etc. I don't remember any of they schoolmates dropping dead or even becoming the slightest bit ill because they made a spaceship out of a toilet roll and a yogurt pot.

I worked in a small zoo, people donated cardboard tubes from kitchen paper and foil. Toilet tissue tubes where not allowed due to biohazard control rules. Having seen the studies of microscopic bacteria that could spread disease I found it strange that our local schoolchildren have not been prevented from crafting with toilet rolls.

Having seen the studies of microscopic bacteria that could spread disease I found it strange that our local schoolchildren have not been prevented from crafting with toilet rolls.

It’s never occurred to you that schoolchildren are teeming with microscopic bacteria themselves?

I’d love any evidence that loo roll art causes disease. Anything forthcoming from anyone?

Yes, it has occurred to me that school children are teeming with bacteria.

I meant in the training manual at the zoo, it expressly stated that this was an unacceptable dangerous practice and there was scientific evidence to prove it.

I therefore thought it’s probably not safe for children either.

I therefore thought it’s probably not safe for children either.

Any actual evidence to prove that?

A zoo and a typical primary school classroom are rather different environments, don’t you think?

I understand why animals out side of natural habitats shouldn’t be exposed to day to day bacteria, but kids? Given that there’s probably more bacteria under one child’s fingernails than they would be exposed to in a lifetime of loo roll art?

It’s ridiculous.

TooYoungToNotice

Well given that the toothbrushes in the bathroom will be sat a few feet away from the loo roll holders and exposed to the same aerosolised matter, I really can't get too worked up about this.“

🤣

Look, I appreciate that not everyone has the funds to buy a new one every day but you could at least boil them.

Or do like I do and rinse your teeth with gin