What non-toys does your toddler love?

[NotQuiteCockney]

DS2 is (barely) a toddler, nearly 14 months. His favourite toys are:

• the bidet: a sink at his height!
• kitchen scrubbing up brushes
• any big kitchen utensils
• toothbrushes
• dustpan and brush
• mop

He took a scrubbing up brush on the school run the other day.

Which non-toys does your toddler love?

a celebrations tin lid for ds3
he goes around the house as if it was a steering wheel

I've mostly given up on buying new toys for DS2, while he's still too young to notice, IYSWIM. If he's not playing with a non-toy, it's a toy of DS1's (4 years). He loves C3PO more than a toddler should, I think.

tinned sardines

dd (aged 14 months):

remote controls and esp. the batteries
magazines esp. ones i haven't read
anything out of DH's wallet
multipacks of crisps esp. taking them out one
bag at a time and smashing aganst the floor

Harpic toilet cleaner(!)
Toilet brush
Wires of any description that he winds round his neck (!)
A fish slice that he crawls round with
The remote control

In fact Im not buying him anymore toys as he doesnt want to play with them.

Today's obsession is the computer. He must have the keyboard and the mouse. Thankfully, we have two mice, so I just use the other one, but it does make surfing a bit more tricky.

Sometimes he has to have two mice.

And he takes my hand off whatever he wants and flings it back at me. Unfortunately, we both think this is funny, so he won't be stopping any time soon.

All of these things plus:

Feeding the cat (then bellowing 'MIAOW' to call the cat for dinner - cue cats fleeing the house)
Twiddling a paint brush in an empty coke bottle for hours
washing her hands
opening and closing microwave door

ds 3yrs.loves a measuring tape,screwdriver and wheelbarrow

Oh, and DS2 really wants to stir tea. Now. With my utensils, or the one he's been dragging around the floor for five minutes.

Is it possible to let a baby stir safely? He'd rather I wasn't holding the spoon at the same time.

(I do let him stir my empty coffee cups. I should stick him in the bathtub with a pot, water, and some spoons and leave him to it, I guess.)

oh yes my ds loves stirring things,calls it spinning the tea

DD2, 15 months, has to have a remote control, a mobile phone (real), a credit/debit/AA style card or a sock with her at all times.
Each of these is referred to as "mama".

empty egg boxes, great for putting 'jewels' in aka bits of fluff/peas/corn off the floor
the cat ( of course!)
dh's wallet
the sticky bit from the pay and display ticket in the car park
the 'crunchy grass' this morning!

DS(12mths) is mad for the toilet at the moment. He loves it and wants to put everything down it, inc the loo roll which he can slide off the holder.
And yes, phones and remote controls. Although he loses interest in the remote control if you remove the battery.
Keys and glasses too.
Taking clothes out of drawers and putting them back in.
He has no interest whatsoever in plastic phones and keys bought from toyshops!

DS1 had his own drawer in the kitchen full of wooden spoons, tupperware, saucepan lids and other random unbreakable things and he went through a stage at about 18 months of emptying everything out, climbing in himself and sitting there proudly while he played with all the bits on the floor.

LOL. I just saw this. I'm going to write them all out and give it to anyone who asks for ds's christmas list!

egg box,
potatoes,
wooden spoon,
My mums handbag,
Coins,
My hair brush,
Tooth brush,
My slippers,
And anything else that does'nt belong to her.

Lol at toddlers taking non-toys out with them.

We had to take a tube of toothpaste with us into town last week. Luckily we managed to "lose" it at the first possible distraction.

my dd is 13 monthes she loves tins of cat food, and the remote

posting his socks into the loo
metal measuring cups
saucepan lids and wooden spoons
the nappy bucket
the kitchen bin (stainless steel - he can wave to the other baby and blow kisses to it)
his big sister's hair

Interesting kitchen utensils (whisk, potato masher, tongs etc), dry pasta, potatoes, tape measures, Oxo cubes, buttons, money.

remotes
mobiles
blusher brushes
bits of cardboard from hangers from dry cleaners
the cat
dustpan and brush
loo brush
my jewellry
a hook thing with elastic in the middle
baby wipes
adult books

yes, dd does the kitchen bin thing too - she's 14 months
also -
onions - leaves skin shredded ALL over the flat
our shoes
tissues - it snows regularly at our place
remote control
empty water bottles
Mummy's handbag
magazines

oh and of course the telephone, into which she shrills 'hellooooo' and laughs hysterically like a mad woman - dp claims she's imitating me of course.

My dd went to bed tonight with a pumice stone that she's named "puppy", 2 toothbrushes and a medicine syringe. Each had to be kissed goodnight too.

Ds is 7 months and loves looking through magazines, the glossier the better, only discovered when desperate in doctor's surgery and picked up Vogue for him to look at. He also loves looking at glasses of fizzy drinks, not managed to get his hands on one yet though!!

my ds is currently madly in love with a tiny bottle of olbas oil