Toys for 8mo?

[Kaloobear]

DD is bored of the (few) toys she's got, most of which she's had since birth but only really played with since 3 months ish-various Lamaze things, some soft blocks, soft books, a musical monkey and some other bits and pieces. I don't know whether she's bored because she's had them a while or because they're not stimulating enough. She's much more interested in playing with the tv remote, keys, a wallet etc.

What's good for her age+ that will last a while? I've looked at a walker in ELC and I think will get one of those soon.

stacking cups from ELC. Dead cheap and they play with them for years. My dc are 6 and 4 and play with them in the bath still most nights. An 8 month old will have great fun knocking them over if you stack them for her. Musical instruments from ELC are good fun too - ds had a clacker, a little tambourine and a plastic drum and loved them.

wanky basket

thread here

Do you mean a walker to push or to sit in? To push, fab. My 7mo loves his Please don't get a walker that you sit in, for many reasons that I can't detail now as I'm on my phone but basically they are not good for development and are the cause of lots of accidents. Maybe a Jumperoo at a push (not a fan of those either tbh).
Leapfrog learning tables are good. And sainsburys recently had some "fun cubes" ( not sure exactly what they are called). They're about a foot high with activities on each side and stuff inside. We have an old one that belonged to my DN.

Hide n Squeak eggs from Tomy.

I meant a walker to push. (What's a walker to sit in?! Seems a bit counter intuitive!)

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Wanky basket

I have tried to order Hide & Squeak eggs from both Amazon and eBay to no avail. Are they still sold?!

(Apologies for thread hijack)

9mo DS seems to enjoy stacking cups, my mobile phone, and whatever his big sister is playing with at that point in time!

What about a shape sorter? My 9mo dd can't put the shapes in the right holes yet but likes to take them out and put them back when the lid is off.

Empty plastic bottles filled with buttons, rice dyed with food colouring, pasta etc. are a hit too.

Mind you nothing keeps her amused for longer than my car keys though :)

Defo the Wanky basket! When I did one for my DD, it was the first time I got to clean the house, she loved all that crap heuristic wank stuff.

My DD is 7 1/2mos and is really into her blocks, stacking cups and wooden animals from a Noahs Ark I found in a charity shop. She loves gnawing on Sophie the Giraffe and her cardboard books.

We made a treasure basket a few months ago (not sure if this is the same as a 'wanky' basket??!!) but I filled it with household crap...cotton reels, clean bottle brush, wooden spoon, pedicure toe wedge thingys, Velcro hair rollers, comb, egg cup etc. Any 'safe' junk really. And she loves banging saucepans and Tupperware with my kitchen spoons. Things that make noise are always a hit here!!

We bought a big square bucket thing from IKEA for her toys and it sits in the corner of our living room. Then got 4 bags if plastic balls from Poundland and we empty out the toy bucket fill it with the balls and plonk DD in it. She loves it!!!

I have a 9mo and a wanky basket (which is the wicker basket we had from our wanky basket endeavours with dd 5yrs ago, so we've been wanky for years). Largely because ds plays with anything but toys ime.

His favourite toys are my keys, my purse, my phone, the dustpan, the broom, the hoover and the stairs. He can spend about 3 hours at a time climbing up the stairs with one of aforementioned items (hoover excepted) and depositing it in his sister's bed. He then climbs back down the stairs and repeats the game. He also likes touching things he shouldn't, eating things he shouldn't, standing in the middle of the room banging two items together and whooping with delight until he falls over, splashing in any water (whether it's a puddle or the bath, it doesn't matter), pushing cardboard boxes across the room and into a corner and piling things under the table like a demented magpie.

The only two things you can actually buy in shops and are loosely aimed at entertaining a child which seem to satisfy him are a helium balloon or a cheap pot of bubbles.

I saw some Hide and Squeak eggs in a toy shop this morning and got mine from Amazon a few months back, so keep trying. Although we're down to four eggs and five shells - must pull the furniture out and find the rest!

We also find great success with a cupboard full of tupperware and saucepans. He empties it, bangs on its contents with a wooden spoon and then I fill it again. Things which fit inside other things are of great interest and stuff which clangs when you throw it, ditto.

Oh he has some cymbals. Or had. I've "lost" them. He adored them. I don't know if I recommend them.

Ha Show! I've 'lost' my LOs tambourine too! And now you just need to get you LO to turn the Hoover on and you'll be a really lucky mummy!

9.5 month old DS loves his vtech baby walker - the activity bit on the front comes off, and DS currently plays with that on the floor.

He also likes his toy remote control, his rainmaker, his bead maze, banging wooden blocks together, and his wooden diggers, and his little wooden aeroplane

We got a lot of cheap toys (including all of the above except the remote control and the aeroplane) from NCT nearly new sales. They're well worth a look if there's any run near where you live.

Balls in a paddling pool (or very rapidly out of the pool) other balls, but really toys were irrelevant at 8 mo, she'd prod and explore whatever she could get near but it was irrelevant if it was a toy as opposed to anything else, it was really about what she would play with us.

Since she started walking at 10.5mo, doors became a fascination, and emptying cupboards, shoe racks, whatever. Toys aren't too important. She had a walker, but it lasted a week or so of actually being pushed before she wasn't interested in pushing it around and could walk alone - maybe that depends on how quickly they get walking without pushing though?

Otherwise it's just things of different shapes, and games - "where's doggy?" that keep DD entertained

DD is now 11mo, but has always liked paper bags, empty cardboard boxes, blocks (yes to knocking down towers!), balls, wooden spoons, empty bottles and egg boxes.

The ELC toddle truck has been a hit here - the little push along walker with blocks in the bottom - as when DD is fed up of walking she can simply sit down and empty all the blocks out. I started looking at a few books with her about 8 months (well, I looked, she ate) and she's now just about getting the hang of them.

Misslinnet - "hello puppy calling, do you want to play with me?"

DS is just 8mo and has a drum that he loves. He mainly likes emptying his toy crate, pulling books off shelves and moving things on wheels and rolling balls. Bricks are beginning to appeal but he spends most if his time trying to figure out how to crawl forwards!

Anything that's not a toy for my 10 month old DTs, current favourites are electrical cables, remote controls, keys and mobiles. Toy mobiles don't cut it unfortunatley!