Activities for a 15m old?

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I'm struggling to find activities with my 15 month old. He's pretty much walking time so we are able to go to the park, walks, etc. In the house, he has plenty of toys so we play with those, and we sing lots of nursery rhymes with YouTube etc.

Aside from that, I'm starting to struggle. Thing is, he is a very busy, active toddler that needs a lot of stimulation.
We try reading bit he just likes to turn the pages at super human speed for 5 minutes then gives up.
Aside from that, he just likes to play hide and seek with the remote controls, play with the washing machine buttons, emptying his drawers/making a mess and passing me his comforter

I just need some ideas on how to entertain him. We are trying some colouring tomorrow which we haven't done for a few weeks because he just likes to put the crayons in and out of the bowl and eat them

Any suggestions please?

mini ballpit in the front room?
an inflatable 2 ring paddling pool is best. tou can get a bag of balls for £5 in most supermarkets this time of year

I’d roll with the emptying the crayons. My LB loved emptying the crayons and lining them up and sorting them. More the better if you could get him to lift them one at a time from the hall to the living room .... he is now 3 and frankly ‘gifted’ at colouring in my completely non-biased opinion!

Also, we have a low kitchen cupboard filled with Tupperware. My LB did this for hours. Throw in some wooden spoons and a potato masher! Again sounds like what he wants to do.

RE the remote controls, do you have a couple of old ones (or is that just us?!). We removed the batteries and now my second LB has as much fun as my older boy did!

Assault course in living room; box of lentils, a spoon and two bowls; washing toys in a basin then drying them (we got hours out of this!).

Definitely sorting out the pots and pans like m33r says. Gives me time to get lunch/dinner.

Messy play with jelly (in garden as messy). Weirdly he doesn't try and eat it...don't know how long that'll last! A bowl of bubbles and plastic kitchen utensils.

I also get him to put clothes in the washing basket/washing machine. He 'helps' empty the dishwasher (the plastic stuff).

My DS is 16 months and crayons and playdoh just go straight in the mouth so don't tend to both with these.

Sounds identical to my 16mo right down to the remotes and the washing machine buttons

Do you have much outside space? With the warm weather we have been having I've been letting her play outside a lot, she has a little plastic bucket and spade and spends a lot of time digging up gravel and soil into the bucket and tipping it out again. She has also set about pulling all the moss off the wall into the bucket.

Other times I fill a washing up bowl with warm soapy water and she 'waters' the plants or just tips water around generally. I usually do it after lunch so it cleans stick hands at the same time and just before she is due a nappy change (she generally tips it down her front and the nappy gets soaked).

Inside things we do, if I get anything delivered in a largish box I put her in the box with her felt tips (she doesn't find them as tasty as crayons but a few have been sacrificed!) and let her scribble all over the inside of the box and herself.

I save the inside of loo rolls and kitchen rolls. She does all sorts with them, a well timed cardboard roll for her to make funny noises into nearly always buys me a few extra minutes cooking time etc.

She is going through a climbing phase at the moment so if the weather is bad and we can't get outside I take the cushions off the sofa and pile them up in various formations to make 'soft play'.

I let her play with playdough in her high chair but she is a bit bemused by it.

I've also go her a cheap shape sorter (ours is a bus so it doubles as a push around bus as well) and she really enjoys trying to get the shapes through the right holes even though she can only manage the simple ones at the moment. She enjoys putting the rest through the back door of the bus and tipping them out again.